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Lunar New Year celebrated around the world

Millions around the world headed home to celebrate the year of the goat (or sheep or ram depending on how you translate it) with their families, as lunar New Year starts Feb. 19, 2015.

Trains in China were jammed as people returned to their family homes. Apartments were cleaned to sweep away ill fortune. Traditional red envelopes, called hongbao or ang pow are offered for good luck and prosperity in the New Year.

Factories in parts of Asia shut down but the holiday is celebrated globally. In Sydney, Australia processions, lion dances, and dragon races welcomed the New Year. New York welcomed the holiday with a fireworks display on Tuesday over the Hudson River. (Yahoo News)

(Photos by Chaiwat Subprasom/REUTERS, Edgar Su/REUTERS, Kim Kyung-Hoon/REUTERS, Edgar Su/REUTERS, Erik De Castro/Reuters)

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Nikki 10th grade Charleston, SC

Nikki comes to computer science class every day with 5 questions, 3 things to show her teacher, 2 articles on cool technology and about 15 features she wants to add to her year’s project — a site that teaches American citizens about their civil rights. Check...

In just over a week I will be embarking on my most ambitious project since visiting Mount Everest and the fabled Himalayas. Until March I will be exploring the mountains, deserts, seas and cities of the United Arab Emirates. 

It will be a return to photographing the globe and a focus on the geography and culture that resides on the shores of the Persian Gulf. I will be regularly blogging about the country and at the end will have select pieces going into a very exciting exhibition in London that I am apart of. 

Stay tuned for all the Arabian peninsula has to offer, I can’t wait to be back in a desert! 

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