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The Peach Drop is a New Year's Eve event held in Atlanta, Georgia.Traditionally held in Underground Atlanta, the event features the lowering of a large peach sculpture down a 138 feet (42 m) tower, symbolizing Georgia's identity as the "Peach State".
Eating 12 grapes at midnight to ring in the new year is a Spanish tradition that is hundreds of years old, according to Vogue. It is practiced across the Caribbean, South America and other ...
What traits are shared by those born in the Year of the Snake? If you were born in the Year of the Snake, (1929, 1941, 1953, 1965, 1977, 1989, 2001, and 2013), people may find you intelligent ...
On New Year's Eve, many localities in the United States and elsewhere mark the beginning of a new year through the raising or lowering of an object.Many of these events are patterned on festivities that have been held at New York City's Times Square since 1908, where a large crystal ball is lowered down a pole atop One Times Square (beginning its descent at 11:59:00 p.m. Eastern Time, and ...
lists of festivals by state or region (American Samoa; Florida; Guam; Hawaii; Louisiana; Michigan; New Jersey; Pennsylvania; Puerto Rico; United States Virgin Islands; Virginia) culture of Georgia; tourism in Georgia
A major New Year’s food tradition in the American South, Hoppin’ John is a dish of pork-flavored field peas or black-eyed peas (symbolizing coins) and rice, frequently served with collards or ...
Georgia leads the United States in timber production, and timber is its highest valued agricultural product. Georgia is second in the nation with more than 3,800 certified Tree Farms that total nearly eight million acres. Moreover, Georgia was the first state in the nation to license foresters and today the state has about 1,200 licensed foresters.
As the tradition goes, one grape represents each month in a calendar year and the idea is at the strike of midnight, to eat each before the clock hits 12:01.