Liquor was a bad idea: 1940s-era revelers recover from New Year's Eve celebrations in New York's Grand Central station
Whatever your reasons celebration, loneliness, attempting to figure out what "Auld Lang Syne" actually means if you drank too much on Dec. 31, you probably rang in the New Year with a pounding headache and regular trips to the bathroom. If so, don't worry; you wouldn't be the first person to endure a hangover, and although it may feel like it, you won't be the last.
When the ancient Assyrians felt the painful aftereffects of excess merriment, they consumed a mixture of ground birds' beaks and myrrh. In the Middle Ages, bleary Europeans munched on raw eel and bitter...
