Definition #81 Drop the Ball

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.