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Christmas: New Year's Day

Christmas is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ observed on December 25. It is a religious and cultural celebration among billions around the world. Christmas initiates the Christmas season, which lasts twelve days and culminates on Twelfth Night. New Year's Day is observed on January 1 and marks the first day of the year on the Gregorian and Julian calendars. As a Christian holy day, it was originally the Feast of the Circumcision of Christ. Today, New Year's Day is celebrated with fireworks as the new year begins in each time zone and is one of the most celebrated public holidays.

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Christmas: New Year's Day

Christmas is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ observed on December 25. It is a religious and cultural celebration among billions around the world. Christmas initiates the Christmas season, which lasts twelve days and culminates on Twelfth Night. New Year's Day is observed on January 1 and marks the first day of the year on the Gregorian and Julian calendars. As a Christian holy day, it was originally the Feast of the Circumcision of Christ. Today, New Year's Day is celebrated with fireworks as the new year begins in each time zone and is one of the most celebrated public holidays.

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Christmas
Christmas or Christmas Day (Old English: Crstesmsse, meaning "Christ's Mass") is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, observed most commonly on December 25 as a religious and cultural celebration among billions of people around the world. A feast central to the Christian liturgical year, it is prepared for by the season of Advent or
the Nativity Fast and initiates the season ofChristmastide, which historically in the West lasts twelve days and culminates on Twelfth Night; in some traditions, Christmastide includes an Octave. Christmas Day is a public holiday in many of the world's nations, is celebrated culturally by a large number of non-Christian people, and is an integral
part of the holiday season.

New Year's Day


New Year's Day is observed on January 1, the first day of the year on the modern Gregorian calendar as well as theJulian calendar. As a date in the Gregorian calendar of Christendom, New Year's Day liturgically marked the Feast of the Circumcision of Christ, and is still observed as such in the Anglican Church and Lutheran Church.[1][2] In present day, with most
countries now using the Gregorian calendar as their de facto calendar, New Year's Day is probably the most celebrated public holiday, often observed with fireworks at the stroke of midnight as the new year starts in each time zone.

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