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16 weird things we drop to ring in the new year

16 weird things we drop to ring in the new year:

More than 100 years ago, on December 31, 1907, the New York Times threw a party in Times Square. Instead of the traditional fireworks — the city had banned them — it decided to try something a little different: lower a 700-lb ball, made of wood and iron and decorated with 100 light bulbs.

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Nice Image from page 34 of “Engravings of the arteries : illustrating the second volume of the Anatomy of the human body, by J. Bell ; and serving as an introduction to the surgery of the arteries” (1801) photo

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