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... for a woman and being "in love" as something more spectacular than bottle rockets and Roman candles lit from the bridges over the Chao Phraya River i... ..."Here have an early Songkran," it said. Songkran was the New Year's water festival in the hottest month of April. The month was really March of the... ... Styrofoam sailed onto the river for good fortune during each Loi krathong festival, or Buddhist rosaries and necklaces to old women during religious ... ...gift for her brother-in-law in celebration of the Songkran Thai New Year's festival --And what gift did he present to the man as they drank tea and co... ...re definitely a divergent species of animal. He thought about Songkran Festivals. All of his grandparents were deceased early into his boyhood. ... ...just being. He thought of the time that he and Noppawan were in a Songkran Festival water fight in Banglampool. Both were unlucky enough to have both... ... his head. For the most part, however, sexual acts like this one were his rocket fuel to Nirvana. It always brought him into a religious state that ...

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...Audrey Blankenhagen 36 Before leaving Fort William, the travellers enjoyed the spectacle of the festival of Durga Puja. Their Indian guide explaine... ...lected Helen, as she saw the people dancing and singing in the streets enjoying this joyous Hindu festival. Large effigies of the demon Ravana stuff... ...ll on her husband and his first wife: India kept intruding by its own varied culture. It was the festival of Bakr-Id which reminded her of Islam’s a... ...stival of Bakr-Id which reminded her of Islam’s affinity to Christianity and Judaism. During this festival the Moslem servants sacrificed rams and g... ...tate and there was much celebration of this Feast. But how different Bakr-Id was to the poignant festival of Muhurram celebrated in the following m... ...al, Helen bought some sugared sweets carved in the form of animals for the servants’ children and rockets and fireworks and the cook’s wife showed h...

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... overview of the culture of the villages. It contains material on the villagers' housing, rice farming and other means of livelihood, community life, festivals, weddings, funerals, sorcerers and healers, as well as village Buddhism. The author draws surprising parallels between the worldviews of peoples of Thailand and Finland, the past and future of local cultures. Matti...

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...us of life 136 Pictures 138-171 Inside the village community Annual festivals 172 Farmer's festival calendar 172 * Modern annual festivals ... ...5 Songkran 176 New Year of Thai culture 176 * Programme of the Water Festival 177 * Bodhi-tree festival 180 Dangers of life 182 Attraction ... ... ethics of fellow man - community morality - community tradition - village festivals (shared meals) - temple festivals - village weddings - village fu... ...ltural industry - occupational culture - media culture (TV) - mass events (festivals) - cultural services Meritocracy - organizational integration and... ...s lit by the cremator or a monk and these days it is done with an ignition rocket. A wire has been fixed from the corner of the chapel to the pyre, sh... ...ire has been fixed from the corner of the chapel to the pyre, shooting the rocket to the soul house roof and igniting a container of fuel. The coffin ... ...luxury of the decorations, size of cash gifts to the monks and shooting of rockets. Rocket-shooting at the cremation site became fashionable about 15 ... ... flame is extinguished. It reminded people of death. We never used to have rockets. You weren't allowed to look behind you when you left the corpse to... .... It is the day of Buddha's birth. Wednesday is always a bad day. Why are rockets let off at funerals? Is knowing the right day important in rice far...

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...nderstanding with the natives -- Hostile natives frightened by the firing of a rocket -- Snakes and crocodiles -- The return to France -- Bougainville... ... -- Consecration of the corpse -- Procuring the sacrifice -- The dead house -- Festivals at which numbers of humans are sacrificed -- Differences in d... ...He is curiously inconsistent, for while a ship named for a saint is lucky, the festival of the saint is an unlucky day, and if he can help himself he ... .... Peter is the patron of fishermen and sailors, and desires that they keep his festival as a holiday. He has a horror of the thirteenth; of each month... ... attended by forty of her ladies, she submitted to the rite, and another great festival was held. Never had the like been known, for besides adding th... ...nd showed a disposition to attack; but they were driven off by the firing of a rocket, which frightened them greatly. Several days later, however, and... ... succeeded so perfectly as to answer the end I had in view. Our water- and sky-rockets, in particular, pleased and astonished them beyond all concepti... ...the Natche at Tonge-taboo, I mentioned that, on the approaching sequel of that festival, we had been told that ten men were to be sacrificed. This may...

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...here can be no doubt about it. The penis explodes its sperm out. The sperm-rocket explodes off the planet. Inside: are astronauts. Hermetically... ...al cords attached to them for life support; just like babies. Once the sperm-rocket leaves the earth: its 3 stage-rockets fire and fire… like trees ... ...ica. Leaving it weightless in space, but still on its guided trajectory. The rockets are the main propulsion system of the sperm rocket. Once they... ...of the sperm rocket. Once they have done their job: the tail falls off of the rocket. Once the propulsion system of human male sperm, the tail-end ... ... penis: it exists in a state of weightlessness in a liquid medium. The Apollo rocket once it leaves the planet: is also in a state of weightlessness... ...o know. Dylan first sang his fucking mocking death song at the Newport Jazz festival: it didn’t sell up north, so they tried it down South on a TV...

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...ng because I love life and time is dead. Yes, time is dead at our spring festival and the flowers never spill from our hair. Girls bared their bre... ...entimental, to talk of Alcaeus and miss him, to remember our fun at other festivals. Crickets bubbled like little pots. Frogs burped. A bat fluttere... ...ing her from Charaxos. It was Mallia who served as wine boy at the spring festival. Curiously, it is Rhodopis who has sided with them in opposing an... ...age will become stale. Perhaps I can think of something for the religious festivals next year. Theatre means meeting people I seldom see anywhere e... ...the wind, remembering the boat’s passage to Limnos, my friends there, the festival in the vineyard, flute and drum, carom of bodies, laughter: Was i... ... “Dixie” and “Yankee Doodle,” Irish tunes, Fos- ter’s songs. Fireworks and rockets explode over the Potomac. Cannon boom. Horsemen, carriages, wagons...

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... (plucked in a garden) is considered by itself a poem! - the course of a rocket in the sky! - the sound of a bagpipe too! Then a poem can be: an... ... with some additions; the volume was launched to The International Poetry Festival from Bergerac (France, June 1992). It is the most spectacular vo... ...Santa Catarina”, Brazil, June 12, 1993. Stanica, Ion, Le paradoxisme au festival international de poesie de Bergerac, interview with Florentin Sma... ...c”, Bucuresti, November 6, 1994. Craciun, Gheorghe, At the International Festival..., in “Timpul”, Melbourne, November, 1994, 3rd year, no.32, p.2.... ...lbourne, July, 4th year, no.40, p.7. Tolea, Irina, At the International Festival of S.F. Theater, Romania will be presented with “The Country of A... ...lish NonPoems, improved and enlarged; volum launched at the International Festival of Poetry, France, Bergerac, June, 1992). Smarandache, Florentin...

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...e and company to pour into her vapid life, the wish to launch herself like a rocket, the trail of fire and heat from burning fuel roaring from her vag... ...rnal shapes of the ice sculptures that she and Kato had made during the snow festivals of Sapporo. With her fingers she traced these suds-sculptures ...

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...order on Christmas Day; and while she wondered why she could not enjoy the festival as formerly, with thoughts fitted to the day, she did not examine ... ...ong the intended diversions fireworks were mentioned, and from that moment rockets, wheels, and serpents, com- menced a wild career through Maurice’s ... ...id Maurice, ‘the slightest vi- bration causes an explosion of that sort of rocket, and of course it was your bouncing into the room! You have had a le... ...r next time. Don’t cry, Phyl, I will ex- plain to you all about the patent rocket.’ ‘But do you really think that I blew up Ada?’ ‘Blew up Ada! caused... ...l. Did I not read to you in the Year Book of Facts about the patent signal rockets, which explode with the least vibration, even when a carriage goes ... ....’ ‘Then what was it that blew up?’ asked Jane. ‘What I had put out for my rocket, about two ounces. If this half-pound had gone there is no saying wh...

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...: why came these two to Saint-Cloud, where his Majesty was hunting, on the festival of St. Peter and St. Paul; and waited there, in antechambers, a wo... ...iot terror run frantic. Will Royalty fly off towards Aus- tria; like a lit rocket, towards endless Conflagration of Civil War? Stop it, ye Patriots, i... ...bustible; being fired, they must needs fling fire: Senate of touchwood and rockets, in a world of smoke- storm, with sparks wind-driven continually fl... ...rest Gallies? And then, Whether, being liberated, they shall have a public Festival, or only private ones? Theroigne, as we saw, spoke; and Collot too... ...ourt, not for conscience’ sake, contributing some- thing; and their Public Festival shall be next Sunday. Next Sunday accordingly it is. (Newspapers o... ...rty which loves Liberty yet not more than Monarchy, will likewise have its Festival: Festival of Simonneau, unfortunate Mayor of Etampes, who died for... ...; being trampled down with his Red Flag in the riot about grains. At which Festival the Public again assists, unapplausive: not we. On the whole, Fest...

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... you never seen any good fireworks?” “Miss Hatchard always sends up lovely rockets on the Fourth,” she answered doubtfully. “Oh——” his contempt was un... ...ther. Didn’t you notice that big raft we passed? It’s wonderful to see the rockets completing their orbits down under one’s feet.” She said nothing, a... ...on, pale Roman candles shot up singly through the trees, and a fire-haired rocket swept the horizon like a portent. Between these intermittent flashes... ...view; and whenever she leaned back to follow the curve of some dishevelled rocket she could feel Harney’s knees against her head. After a while the sc... ...ad the grave persuasive accent that had moved his hearers at the Home Week festival; she had a sense of depths of mournful tolerance under that easy t...

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...and after reaching about the same elevation, expired side by side. “Them’s rockets, sir—ain’t they?” said one of the men in a muffled voice. “Aye, roc... ...?” shouted Lingard in English and Malay. “This way, come here! Put it on a rocket stick—can’t you? Hold over the side—thus! Stand by with the lines fo... ...ews to me as she thought. I can put two and two together, sometimes. Those rockets, last night, eh? I wished I had bitten my tongue out before I told ... ...her Lingard’s attention to the lagoon. In the language of the sea a single rocket is properly a signal of distress, but, in the circum- stances, a gro... ... simultaneously would convey a warning. He gave his orders and watched the rockets go up finely with a trail of red sparks, a bursting of white stars ... ... Joseph Conrad Jorgenson turned to Jaffir. “Death amongst friends is but a festival,” he quoted, mumbling in his moustache. “It is, by Allah,” assente...

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...like that of heart, *“The same thing”:—Thus, in the calendar of the Church Festivals, the discovery of the true cross (by Helen, the mother of Constan... ...everie. The month was August; in the middle of which lay my own birthday—a festival to every thoughtful man suggesting solemn and often sigh-born* tho... ... girl, adorned with a garland of white roses about her head for some great festival, running along the solitary strand in extremity of haste. Her runn... ...ies, rose again to the voice of perfect joy, did ye indeed mingle with the festivals of Death? Lo! as I looked back for seventy leagues through the mi... ...s “France”—if not always free from flightiness, if now and then off like a rocket for an airy wheel in the clouds, M. Michelet, with natural politenes... ..., saw the pomp of forests in which her childhood had wandered. That Easter festival which man had denied to her languishing heart— that resurrection o...

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... corn—that must be summer; but, above all, the very name of Palm Sunday (a festival in the English church) troubled me like an anthem. “Sunday!” what ... ...lo! we—I thy servant, and this dark phantom, whom for one hour on this thy festival of Pentecost I make my servant—render thee united worship in this ... ...ve God ac- ceptably. Yet still it occurs to you, that perhaps on this high festival of the Christian church he may have been overruled 36 Thomas de Q... ...vember,) irritated his martial propensities. Some of these being religious festivals, seemed to require of us an extra hom- age, for which we knew not... ...through fleshly torments. Mine, in the present case, rose suddenly, like a rocket, into their meridian altitude, by means of a hint furnished to my br... ...hed,—might, if a man happened to know enough, be interpreted as a glorious festival. The sis- ters were seen no more upon staircases or in bed rooms, ... ...ecks, I believe, was made almost the first effectual trial of the Congreve rockets. Soon after the Danish capital had fallen, and whilst the Prometheu...

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...on! Sixty-eight pounders to demolish huts of cocoanut boughs, and Congreve rockets to set on fire a few canoe sheds! At Nukuheva, there were about one... ...- ber of large packages enveloped in coarse tappa; some of which contained festival dresses, and various other matters of the wardrobe, held in high e... ...d have thought that all the train of Flora had gathered together to keep a festival in honour of their mistress. With the young men there seemed almos... ... engagement? After all, I was much inclined to believe that these shocking festivals must occur very rarely among the islanders, if, indeed, they ever... ... of a similar description comprising the ‘morais’, or burying grounds, and festival-places, in nearly all the valleys of the island. Some of these pil... ...riod of one sun; and was dedicated to the immortal wooden idols by a grand festival, which lasted ten days and nights. Among the smaller pi-pis, upon ...

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...r of an equal, but that of a superior, come to grace with her presence the festival of her dependants. The old man and woman attended, with looks as s... ...he heavens which she pointed out, I distinctly observed two successive sky-rockets arise and burst in the sky. ‘These meteors,’ said Mr. Geddes, in an... ...rs upon earth.’ As he spoke, I looked to another quarter of the sky, and a rocket, as if a signal in answer to those which had already appeared, rose ... ...anner, with much point and pleasantry; and nothing is more usual at public festivals, than that the air played to accompany a particular health or toa... ...ity became extreme, for I was sat- isfied, at length, that it must be some festival of the highest order which called forth these incessant sounds. ‘M... ...ion. In this di- lemma, the Scots people assembled in numbers by signal of rocket lights, and, rudely armed with fowling-pieces, fish- spears, and suc...

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...ling-house very lonely, but isolating suites of rooms and calling them chambers, but you cannot make the true kind of loneliness. In dwelling- houses,... ...en, at the blank hour of two in the morning, a vague movement of relief from a long strain expresses itself in all hands; the third officer’s lantern ... ... in the light, but none takes place. ‘Give them two more rock- ets, Mr. Vigilant.’ Two more, and a blue-light burnt. All eyes watch the light again. A... ... a mo- ment ago, bursts into a crop of heads of seamen, stewards, and engineers. The light begins to be gained upon, begins to be along- side, begins ...

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... The five odd days we 164 The French Revolution - V olume Three will make Festivals, and name the five Sansculottides, or Days without Breeches. Fest... ...ame the five Sansculottides, or Days without Breeches. Festival of Genius; Festival of Labour; of Actions; of Rewards; of Opinion: these are the five ... ..., whilom called Leap-year, we introduce a sixth Sansculottide; and name it Festival of the Revolu- tion. Now as to the day of commencement, which offe... ...st: not yet can they be changed to ashes, or to Sea-Nymphs; not yet to sky-rockets, O Ship l’Orient, nor became the prey of England,—before their time... ...rst communion-service of the New Religion of Chaumette. ‘The corresponding Festival in the Church of Saint- Eustache,’ says Mercier, ‘offered the spec...

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...dog-cheap for the multitude. They always repair to the vari- ous religious festivals, which gather great crowds. When these are concluded, and the pla... ..., and archery. In all these they greatly excelled; and, for some, splendid festivals were instituted. Among their everyday amusements were dancing, to... ... the ancient cos- tume of Tahiti—the “Roora.” This garment, once worn as a festival dress, is now seldom met with; but Captain Bob had often shown us ... ...e of tappa—lay out a public park in the middle of the village, and found a festival in honour of Captain Cook!” “But, surely, not without stopping to ... ...himself fifty or sixty feet from the water, rushing through the air like a rocket. I doubt whether any of our rope-dancers would attempt the feat. For...

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...go down for a while before they rise again; it’s an affair of undulations; rocket mines are not so healthy. The stories are false, for the time. I had... ...on-carriage was one voice of eulogy, to raise Armandine high as the finale rockets bursting over Wrensham Station at the start Londonward. How had she... ...ur grief !’ said Lady Grace; and Skepsey made way for his master. Victor’s festival-lights were kindled, beholding her; cressets on the window-sill, l... ...the earldom, which was to dazzle the gossips, crack on the sky in a futile rocket-bouquet. She was distressed; she moaned: ‘My girl! my girl: I should...