Forgoing New Year’s Resolutions in favor of embracing personal flaws

Spanish Admiral Pedro Menedez de Aviles was sent to exterminate the Protestant French Huguenot colony in the New World, and after massacring all those he could find was named Governor and sent Juan Pardo on both of Pardo’s explorations into western North Carolina.

The month of January was named after the Roman god “Janus.” New year resolutions came about from his followers, who honored him by making resolutions for the coming year.