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New Year's Eve Celebrations

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Patty Pique, of Jackson, Tenn., comes to Peach Drop 2012 to celebrate their New Year's Eve at Underground Atlanta Saturday.

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Dallas Stars fans, from left, Chad Hill, Lainie, 8, Casi and Jayce, 5, cheer in the third period while wearing New Year's Eve hats during an NHL hockey game against the Boston Bruins.

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Filipinos watch a fireworks and water fountain display as they welcome the New Year at Manila's Rizal Park, Philippines.

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Fireworks illuminate the sky over newly-built cable-stayed Ada Bridge over the Sava river in Belgrade, Serbia.

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Egyptians light candles during New Year's eve in Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt.

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Thousands gathered at Underground Atlanta for Peach Drop 2012, the annual New Years Eve celebration in Atlanta. The main stage features an 800 pound Peach that begins its decent just before the clock strikes midnight.

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Alba Massas, left, of Alpharetta, Ga., and Medalit Dean of Marietta, Ga., dance to live music at Underground Atlanta during the Peach Drop 2012.

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Duval Street in Key West, Fla., is packed with New Year's Eve revelers just before midnight as female impersonator Gary Marion, as "Sushi," is lowered at the Bourbon Street Pub complex late Saturday. The Red Shoe Drop is a Key West tradition that celebrated the dawn of 2012.

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A police officer walks through a frozen zone in Times Square as revelers wave balloons in anticipation of midnight on New Year's Eve.

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Lady Gaga and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg appear on stage to start the ball drop during the New Year's Eve celebration.

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Lady Gaga performs onstage during the New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square in New York City.

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Lady Gaga appears on stage to start the ball drop in Times Square.

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Samantha Mulhaul, left, and her cousin Stephanie Pignataro, center, and friend Haley Meltcher, all of New York state, take a picture of themselves shortly before midnight Times Square.

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Revelers cheer at midnight in Times Square on New Years Eve in New York as confetti rains down upon them.

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Confetti flies over New York's Times Square as the clock strikes midnight.

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Lady Gaga performs onstage during the New Year's Eve celebration as seen from the balcony of the Marriott Marquis hotel in New York's Times Square.

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Fireworks explode over Lake Michigan in Chicago.

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A medical evacuation helicopter, flying from Tyler to Fairfield, Texas, is seen streaking though a firework display.

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Fireworks explode over Jackson, Wyo., as the town celebrates at the base of the Snow King Mountain ski area.

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Crested Butte Mountain lit up with new year's eve fireworks as a spotlight shows off the mountain peak in the night sky on Saturday.

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Fireworks light up the sky over the Las Vegas Strip.

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A New Year's hat is seen among other debris in Times Square after 2012 New Year's Eve celebrations in New York.

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Garbage from the New Year's Eve celebration litters Times Square in New York after revelers and party goers have left.

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