2014: Ringing in the New Year in Baltimore and around the world

Swimmers in fancy dress participate in the New Year’s Day Looney Dook swim at South Queensferry, Scotland. (Russell Cheyne/Reuters photo)

Two women take part in the traditional sea bathing to mark the start of the new year in Scheveningen. (Robin Utrecht/Getty Images)

People in suits participate in the annual Coney Island Polar Bear Club dip, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. The Coney Island Polar Bear Club is the oldest winter bathing organization in the U.S. and every New Year’s Day holds the winter plunge which attracts thousands of participants. (Allison Joyce/Reuters photo)

A man jumps into a hole cut in the ice on the Ottawa River during the annual Great Canadian Chill polar bear dip in Ottawa. (Chris Wattie/Reuters photo)

The State Department of Natural Resources kicks off 2014 with First Day Hikes. Brendan Luck,8, of Eldersburg, walks along a fallen tree while on the hike. This one is in the Patapsco Valley State Park’s Daniels area. (Lloyd Fox/Baltimore Sun)

Earl Breyette, left, of Lewisberry,PA. gets some help from Max Buffington a volunteer ranger that was leading the hike through Patapsco Valley Park. . The State Department of Natural Resources kicks off 2014 with First Day Hikes. This one is in the Patapsco Valley State Park’s Daniels area. (Lloyd Fox/Baltimore Sun)

Max Buffington, right, a volunteer ranger with the Maryland Park Service leads the hike through Patapsco Park. His wife, Patty Buffington walks next to him. The State Department of Natural Resources kicks off 2014 with First Day Hikes. This one is in the Patapsco Valley State Park’s Daniels area. (Lloyd Fox/Baltimore Sun)

Fireworks go off at midnight on New Year’s Eve in Times Square in New York. (Carlo Allegri/Reuters photo)

Couples kiss after midnight in Times Square during the New Years Eve celebration in New York City. An estimated one million revelers from around the world endured long hours of cold weather to have a front seat to this year’s star studded celebration. (Christopher Gregory/Getty Images)

Confetti is dropped on revelers at midnight during New Year’s Eve celebrations in Times Square in New York. (Gary Hershorn/Reuters photo)

Police officers stand in confetti after it was dropped on revelers at midnight during New Year’s Eve celebrations in Times Square in New York. (Gary Hershorn/Reuters photo)

Miley Cyrus performs on stage ahead of midnight at The New Year’s Eve 2014 Celebration in Times Square in New York City. (Neilson Barnard/Getty Images)

Rapper Ben Haggerty, known by his stage name Macklemore, crowd surfs during New Year’s Eve celebrations in Times Square in New York. (Carlo Allegri/Reuters photo)

New Year’s Eve revelers gather hours ahead of midnight at The New Year’s Eve 2014 Celebration in Times Square in New York City. (Neilson Barnard/Getty Images)

Fireworks light up the sky in downtown Beirut close to the Mohammed al-Amin mosque as Lebanon rings in the New Year. (Getty Images)

Fireworks explode behind the Quadriga statue on top of the Brandenburg Gate shortly after midnight in Berlin, Germany. Tens of thousands of revelers gathered in the city center to celebrate New Year’s Eve. (Adam Berry/Getty Images)

Fireworks light up the London skyline and Big Ben just after midnight in London, England. Thousands of people lined the banks of the River Thames in central London to see in the New Year with a spectacular fireworks display. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

People react to the fireworks on the new year’s celebration at Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Yasuyoshi Chiba/Getty Images)

A reveler floats while watching fireworks explode minutes after midnight along Copacabana Beach during New Year’s celebrations in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. More than two million were expected to attend the celebrations at Copacabana to ring in 2014. Brazil is gearing up to host the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

A Buddhist devotee prays at a temple during New Year celebrations in Colombo. Sri Lankans start the new year by visiting temples to participate in religious ceremonies, praying for success in life and finance. (Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters photo)

Baltimore’s New Year’s Eve Spectacular fireworks show at the Inner Harbor to welcome in the year 2014. (Kenneth K. Lam/Baltimore Sun)

The National Aquarium in Baltimore shoots off small fireworks on the hours ahead of the New Year’s Eve Spectacular fireworks show at the Inner Harbor to welcome in the year 2014. (Kenneth K. Lam/Baltimore Sun)

Dani Dillon, center, of Gaithersburg, cheers to the music of Alter Ego as she and fiancee Tony Dillon, from left, and friends, Alex Sepesy, of D.C., and Kristina Sullivan, of Silver Springs, celebrate New Year’s eve at the Inner Harbor to welcome in 2014. (Kenneth K. Lam/Baltimore Sun)

Londyn Jones, 9, of Baltimore, and mother Danielle got their 2014 eye glasses ready as they celebrate New Year’s eve at the Inner Harbor to welcome in 2014. (Kenneth K. Lam/Baltimore Sun)

Baltimore band Alter Ego kicks off the New Year’s eve celebration at the Inner Harbor to welcome in 2014. (Kenneth K. Lam/Baltimore Sun)

Rose Ettlin and husband John Kelly, of Baltimore dance to the music of Alter Ego during New Year’s eve celebration at the Inner Harbor to welcome in 2014. (Kenneth K. Lam/Baltimore Sun)

Workers test the ball that will drop at midnight in Times Square, ahead of New Year’s Eve celebrations in New York, December 30, 2013. (REUTERS/Carlo Allegri)

People take part in a traditional sea bathing to mark new-year’s end on December 31, 2013 on a nudist beach in Le Cap d’Agde, southern France. (Pascal Guyot/AFP/Getty Images)

A man dressed as a Viking takes part in the torchlight procession as it makes its way through Edinburgh for the start of the Hogmanay celebrations on December 30, 2013 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Around 80,000 people are expected in the city for the traditional New Year celebrations, which run over three days. Tickets have been bought for the event by people from over sixty different countries. (Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Men dressed as Vikings take part in the torchlight procession as it makes its way through Edinburgh for the start of the Hogmanay celebrations on December 30, 2013 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Around 80,000 people are expected in the city for the traditional New Year celebrations, which run over three days. Tickets have been bought for the event by people from over sixty different countries. (Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

A person dressed as Spider-Man throws confetti during the 2014 New Year’s Eve Confetti Test at Hard Rock Cafe, Times Square on December 29, 2013 in New York City. (Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images)

New Years revelers watching the fireworks on the Princes Bridge during New Years Eve fireworks on December 31, 2013 in Melbourne, Australia. (Vince Caligiuri/Getty Images)

Indian school children light candles forming the date ‘2014’ at a school in Agartala on December 30, 2013, one day ahead of New Year’s celebrations. People across the world are preparing to welcome 2014. (Arindam Dey/AFP/Getty Images)

An Indian reveller poses on New Year’s Eve in Amritsar on December 31, 2013. Indians are preparing to welcome 2014, in contrast to last year which saw the country cancel most of its official New Year’s celebrations after the fatal gangrape of a student on a New Delhi bus on December 16, which sparked protests and a year of introspection about women’s rights. (Narinder Nanu/AFP/Getty Images)

People stand on the Independence Square prior a rally of the pro-EU oppositiong marking New Year coming on December 31, 2013 in Kiev. Opposition leaders vowed that protests outside the residence would become a regular feature of their campaign against the president over his rejection of a pact with the European Union which sparked mass protests in the capital Kiev. (Sergi Supinsky/AFP/Getty Images)

A man is silhouetted against the last sunset of 2013 in the sky above Yangon on December 31, 2013. (Ye Aung Thu/AFP/Getty Images)

Traders, wearing novelty 2014 glasses, trade at the closing bell on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on New Year’s Eve in New York, December 31, 2013. (REUTERS/Carlo Allegri)

Runners take part in the 89th Sao Silvestre New Year’s eve road race at the start, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on December 31, 2013. Twenty-seven thousand runners participated in the 15 km traditional New Year’s Eve event. (Nelson Almeida/AFP/Getty Images)

Kenian male runner Edwin Rotich after crossing the finish line to win the 89th Sao Silvestre New Year’s eve road race timing 43:48, on December 31, 2013 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Twenty-seven thousand runners participated in the 15 km traditional New Year’s Eve event. (Nelson Almeida/AFP/Getty Images)

New Year’s Eve fireworks erupt over Sydney’s iconic Harbour Bridge (R) and the Opera House on January 1, 2014. Tonnes of explosives lit up Australia’s biggest city, with fireworks shooting off the Opera House for the first time in more than 10 years as part of the extravaganza, focused on the Harbour Bridge. (Greg Wood/AFP/Getty Images)

Fireworks explode off the Sydney Opera House at midnight, ushering in the new year, in Sydney January 1, 2014. (REUTERS/Jason Reed)

The group “Collectif of 34 United Associations” gather to ask for new housing policy for homeless people as they wish a happy new year to the French president and to the nation during a news conference at the Canal Saint Martin in Paris, December 31, 2013. Seven years ago, at the same place the French association “Les Enfants de Don Quichotte” (Children of Don Quichotte) was setting up tents for the homeless. (REUTERS/Benoit Tessier)

A man offers a butter lamp during evening prayers on the eve of New Year at Hanumandhoka Durbar Square in Kathmandu December 31, 2013. (REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar)

A man leads his horse as he walks past a message left by a visitor on New Year’s Eve, along Karachi’s Clifton Beach December 31, 2013. (REUTERS/Athar Hussain)

A Shaman holds bunches of coca leaves, a cash crop native to western South America, while performing a ceremony of predicting the upcoming year at Agua Dulce Beach in Lima December 30, 2013. (REUTERS/Enrique Castro-Mendivil)

A professional diver holds a “Welcome 2014” banner while swimming next to a stingray during New Year celebrations inside a large aquarium at a ocean park in Manila December 31, 2013. Neither an earthquake nor a super typhoon have dampened the country’s optimism as 94 percent are entering the New Year with hope instead of fear, according to a new survey by pollster Social Weather Stations reported on Tuesday. (REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco)

A professional diver holds a “Welcome 2014” banner while swimming during New Year celebrations inside a large aquarium at a ocean park in Manila December 31, 2013. Neither an earthquake nor a super typhoon have dampened the country’s optimism as 94 percent are entering the New Year with hope instead of fear, according to a new survey by pollster Social Weather Stations reported on Tuesday. (REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco)

Men walk past decorations in preparation for New Year in the Square of Fallen Fighters in Volgograd December 31, 2013. Police detained dozens of people on Tuesday in sweeps through the Russian city of Volgograd after two deadly attacks in less than 24 hours that raised security fears ahead of the Winter Olympics. (REUTERS/Sergei Karpov)

A worker takes a break while arranging “wishing spheres” along Marina Bay in Singapore, December 30, 2013. People penned their wishes for the new year onto the spheres before placing them into the river. (REUTERS/Low Youjin)

People watch as workers test the ball that will drop at midnight in Times Square, ahead of New Year’s Eve celebrations in New York December 30, 2013. (REUTERS/Carlo Allegri)

French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian (C) poses with French soldiers in front of the first A 400M Atlas French military transport aircraft on December 31, 2013, in Gao where he celebrates the New Year, some hours earlier. His visit to Mali is part of a three-day tour focusing on security which also takes in Niger and Chad. France launched Operation Serval in January 2013 to drive out Al-Qaeda-linked extremists who had occupied Mali’s north in 2012 and imposed a brutal interpretation of Islamic sharia on the inhabitants of Timbuktu and the other main desert settlements. (Joel Saget/AFP/Getty Images)

A Japanese Shinto maiden (R) greets worshippers as they enter the Kanda shrine to celebrate the New Year in Tokyo on January 1, 2014. Million of Japanese people visit shrines and temples to pray for the well-being of their families at the New Year. (Yoshikazu Tsuno/AFP/Getty Images)

Fireworks burst over the Singapore skyline during New Year celebrations on January 1, 2014. An eight-minute firework display was launched in a five-pronged formation that illuminate the skyline to welcome 2014. (Roslan Rahman/AFP/Getty Images)

People release balloons to celebrate the New Year during an annual countdown ceremony in Tokyo on January 1, 2014. Some 2,000 balloons were released in the air, carrying with the visitors’ wishes. (Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP/Getty Images)

Naked men in loinclothes pound steamed rice into a mochi, rice cake to celebrate the New Year at the Kanda shrine in Tokyo on January 1, 2014. Million of Japanese people visit shrines and temples to pray for the well-being of their families at the New Year. (Yoshikazu Tsuno/AFP/Getty Images)

Fireworks explode near Malaysia’s landmark Petronas Twin Towers during New Year celebrations in Kuala Lumpur January 1, 2014. (REUTERS/Samsul Said)

The U.S. flag is reflected in the window of a police car as a police man stands guard in Times Square ahead of New Year’s Eve celebrations in New York, December 31, 2013. Security has been stepped up in the area around where the celebrations will take place. (REUTERS/Carlo Allegri)

Fireworks explode in the sky during New Year celebrations in Moscow’s Red Square January 1, 2014. (REUTERS/Tatyana Makeyeva)

Revellers enjoy the countdown to New Year celebrations in Moscow’s Red Square December 31, 2013. (REUTERS/Tatyana Makeyeva)

Revelers enjoy the countdown to the New Year celebrations in Moscow’s Red Square December 31, 2013. (REUTERS/Tatyana Makeyeva)

People celebrate with champagne on the Trocadero square, in front the Eiffel Tower in Paris, on December 31, 2013, during the New Year celebrations. (Pierre Andrieu/AFP/Getty Images)

Fireworks explode over Palm Jumeirah in Dubai on January 1, 2014 to celebrate the new year. Dubai kicked off New Year with a dazzling bid for a new world record to cap those the Gulf city state already holds for its mammoth property developments. The glittering fireworks display that lasted around six minutes spanned over 100 kilometres (60 miles) of the Dubai coast, which boasts an archipelago of man-made islands and Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest tower. (Karim Sahib/AFP/Getty Images)

Pakistani youth gather to celebrate the New Year’s on a street in Lahore on January 1, 2014. (Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images)

Pakistani youth gather to celebrate the New Year’s on a street in Lahore on January 1, 2014. Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images)

This picture provided by the Florida Keys News Bureau shows costumed canines being pushed in Key West, Florida, on December 31, 2013 during the annual Key West Dachshund Walk. About 200 dogs participated in the New Year’s Eve procession that is a prelude to four quirky “drops” in Key West inspired by the ball drop in New York City’s Times Square. (Andy Newman/Florida Keys News Bureau)

Indonesian Cosplay Community perform on the street to celebrate 2014 New Years on December 31, 2013 in Surabaya, Indonesia. A wave of pyrotechnic displays kicked off New Years celebrations in major cities around the world. (Robertus Pudyanto/Getty Images)

Confetti falls on the crowd at noon at the Port Discovery Children’s Museum, where 2014 was celebrated 12 hours early during a “Royal Masquerade” party and New Year’s countdown. (Barbara Haddock Taylor/Baltimore Sun)

Mia Saraceno, 6, left of Parkville and Ellie Conradi, 5, right of Towson, play with confetti at the Port Discovery Children's Museum, where 2014 was celebrated 12 hours early during a "Royal Masquerade" party and New Year's countdown. (Barbara Haddock Taylor/Baltimore Sun)

Mia Saraceno, 6 of Parkville, makes a confetti angel at the Port Discovery Children’s Museum, where 2014 was celebrated 12 hours early during a “Royal Masquerade” party and New Year’s countdown. (Barbara Haddock Taylor/Baltimore Sun)

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