...Celts called the time Samhain—pronounced "sow-when"—the "day between the years," the celebration of the end of the old year and the beginning of the new. The festival has been revived in modern times. into this space from twenty-first-century suburbia standing...

...event each year. The effigies are called ano viejos, and all will be burned at midnight to symbolize the end of the old year and the beginning of the new. 1 oo Michael is still awake, burrowed under the covers, happily reading the last few pages of The Comedians....

...school. Jim showed slides at the end of our watchnight service just before we closed in a time of prayer. The end of the old year and the beginning of the New Year of 1968 found us in prayer. Jim went hunting with Phil Anderson of the GMU on January 9, right...

...Litha (Almanac) for auspicious times. The astrologers determine the auspicious times for festivities, the end of the old year and the beginning of the new. The Sinhala Avurudu does not begin at midnight but at the time determined by astrologers. There is...

...drops. The expression itself got its start in New York's Times Square: when the ball dropped, it was the end of the old year, and the beginning of the new one. Many times throughout our lives we have similar epiphanies; something happens, and we figuratively...

...books, and ascertaining profit and loss — surely no Christian man should begrudge a part of his time at the end of the old year, and the beginning of the new, for the performance of similar duties in relation to the concerns of his immortal nature, and the progress...

...shadow at different times of the year, &c. ? 313. When does their year begin ? Have they any ceremonies at the end of the old year and the beginning of the new one 1 (Compare No. 182.) 314. If they recognise both the solar and the lunar year, how do they harmonize...

...of her sufferings, answered, " They who look upon God's face do not feel His hand." LOSS AND GAIN. AT the end of the old year and the beginning of the new, business men usually take au account of stock :>;ul square their books to seo how much they have lost...

...books, and ascertaining profit and loss — surely no Christian man should begrudge a part of his time at the end of the old year, and the beginning of the new, for the performance of similar duties in relation to the concerns of his immortal nature, and the....

...each instance came the call to the field below, " Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?" Until at the end of the old year and the beginning of the new he stands on a final mount of vision, looking over six thousand of the young of many nations gathered...