Fibonacci created the math Jeanne created the colors
My ball is changing
through time-energy converts
human to divine!
The first Times Square Ball was made of wood and iron, weighed 700 pounds, and was lit by a hundred 25-watt bulbs.
Now, it’s made of Waterford crystal, weighs almost six tons, and is lit by more than 32,000 LED lights. The party in Times Square is attended by up to a million people every year.
Other cities have developed their own ball-dropping traditions.
Atlanta, Georgia, drops a giant peach.
Eastport, Maine, drops a sardine.
Ocean City, Maryland, drops a beach ball, and
Mobile, Alabama, drops a 600-pound electric Moon Pie.
In Tempe, Arizona, a giant tortilla chip descends into a massive bowl of salsa.
Brasstown, North Carolina, drops a Plexiglas pyramid containing a live possum; and
Key West, Florida, drops an enormous ruby slipper with a drag queen inside it.
To greet with joy the glorious morn,
Which angels welcomed long ago,
When our redeeming Lord was born,
To bring the light of Heaven below;
The Powers of Darkness to dispel,
And rescue Earth from Death and Hell.
Sir Isaac Newton said, “If I have seen further than others, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”
Ebenezer Scrooge, whom Dickens described as “a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner. Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire.