at 12 midnight we celebrate a new calendar year ... an Alfred S. Mole 1915 photograph
of school students and faculty
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a year is a long time to wait ... a Don Martin cartoon for MAD
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1936 was a 'leap year'
(a calendar year that contains an additional day)
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cartoonist Robert Crumb paused to reflect in 2016 ...
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Wiener Werkstätte click twice
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noisemakers and confetti are ready in 1926 ... who will be the sober designated driver?
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illustration, 1940 click twice
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1923 store window displays are being dismantled ... click twice
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it's time now for the adults to party ...
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there are costume parties in 1890 ... "Devil & Clownesse"
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an 1891 Festival costume "Sorceress"
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Julius Diez, 1903 art
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Will Bradley graphic art
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there are house parties ... architect
Wolfgang Feierbach's 1968 'Kunststoffhaus' click twice
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there are bar parties ... Walter Schnackenberg art
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there are wine parties ... a 1966 decanter designed by Olaf Skoogfors
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there are life-long parties ...
a Thomas Landseer cartoon click twice
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there are apartment parties ... Guy Billout art click twice
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there are formal parties ...
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but the hour grows close ... Alfred Kubin art
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until ... it is midnight in 1848 Paris!
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1721 fireworks click twice
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it takes a few more
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a ride home for some in a 1969 Dodge taxi click twice
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recuperating the next day ...
a William Makepeace Thackeray cartoon click twice
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return to the grinding life on
Monday ... Hans Tegner click twice & look closely