It’s almost the end of the year: time to make resolutions, start fresh, send New Year HD images & wishes to friends, and get ready for 2020. But do you know why we celebrate the New Year on January 1? It turns out that the New Year was not always on this day, and still is not in some societies. The Greeks celebrated in the winter solstice on December 20, while the primitive Mesopotamians rejoiced their 12-day-long festival of Akitu for New Year on the vernal equinox. In the mean time, the Roman historian Censorius reported that the Egyptians rejoiced…