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- 3. The two-faced Roman god for whom January is named, as he symbolically looked backwards into the previous year and ahead into the future.
- 6. The great satirist Jonathan Swift made a resolution in 1669 to not become too fond of this.
- 7. Actress Gloria Jean resolved to study this as hard as music.
- 9. The woman this day is named for vowed in 46 B.C. to convince Julius Caesar to lengthen the calendar by one day every four years.
- 11. In 1995 Paul McCartney vowed to form a successful one of these.
- 12. Smokers and alcoholics often resolve to do this
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- 1. In the 1930s, Cambridge mathematician Godfrey Hardy made a resolution to murder this leader.
- 2. Dropping a hint that she wanted this led to Queen Elizabeth I getting this as a New Year’s gift every year.
- 4. The top resolution is usually to lose this.
- 5. and Peace In 1954 J.R.R. Tolkien vowed to write this as a New Year’s resolution (three words).
- 6. In 1972, Susan Sontag prayed for this as a New Year’s resolution.
- 8. Leonard Bernstein, a composer, resolved to stop doing this.
- 10. Deep Blue, the famous chess-playing IBM computer vowed to do 100 of this exercise by the end of the year and failed.