Renderosity Holiday Animation Entry Title: "A NEW YEAR." -- File Format: Windows Media 9x .wmv, 640 x 480, 1000 K Bitrate. -- Duration & File Size: 60 seconds, 7.6 Mb. All video & musical composition, creation and production © 2006 Philip Steven Knight, Los Angeles, California, USA. A 2D creation using ParticleIllusion 3, Corel Photopaint 12 and Celestia 1.4 software. _________________________ FYI -- Holiday(s) Addressed and General Entry Concept: The New Year in the context of one similar essence found in Christianity, Judaism and Islam which all have major holidays during this holiday period: Christmas, Hannukah and The Hajj Pilgrimage. This entry focuses on the Middle East since that is where all three traditions originated -- and where most of the tensions between them are the most extreme, i.e. Israel/Palestine, etc. The meaning of the one Arabic and one Hebrew word depicted are translated by what visually follows them in English.