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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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...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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... 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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... (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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...: 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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... 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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...hrice-sodden ass, who suffered himself to be fired off into the air like a rocket on a rejoicing day. Had Mary had the hap to have wedded the noble Ea... ... re- fused all admittance, excepting to such as were guests invited to the festival, or persons who were to perform some part in the mirthful exhibiti... ... number of the common sort were stationed; when, all of a sudden, a single rocket was seen to shoot into the atmosphere, and, at the instant, far hear... ...c dance in the region of the Sylphs, the Countess felt at first as if each rocket shot close by her eyes, and discharged its sparks and flashes so nig... ...untry around, had been at once the scene of solemnizing some high national festival, carried the same oppressive thought still closer to her heart, wh... ...her civil or military, seemed always to be his proper sphere; and while in festivals and revels, although he well understood how to trick them up and ... ...f the morrow. The unfortunate Lord of the Castle, and founder of the proud festival, retired to far different thoughts. His direction to the valet who...

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...most beautiful of Polynesians. Fine dress is a passion, and makes a Samoan festival a thing of beauty. Song is almost ceaseless. The boat- man sings a... ...om Mulinuu, he would sit on his own poop and confound them with gratuitous rockets. He was at the pains to write a letter and address it to “the High ... ...e approach of the Trenton was gradual, and the time employed to advantage. Rockets and lines were thrown into the tops of the friendly wreck; the appr...

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...en do. There is no pleasanter sight than a French crowd on the alert for a festival, and nothing more catching than their good-humor. As for the notio... ...eard each, the audience gave a kind of “ahahah!” such as you hear when the rockets go up at Vauxhall. At last the real Procession came. Then the drums...

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...stmas; and at Christmas—that is, at the ap- proach of this great Christian festival, so properly substi- tuted in England for the Pagan festival of Ja... ...rnivals, together with another at- traction of great cities, the pomps and festivals of the Pagan worship, broke the monotony of domestic life, which,... ...e Christian was sternly excluded by his very profession of faith. From the festivals of the Pagan religion his exclusion was even more absolute; again... ...s a baffled visionary, whose favorite conceit had suddenly exploded like a rocket into smoke and stench, is more than we know. But, at all events, the... ...neral impression was, that The Masque would not have failed in attending a festival, which, by the very costume which it imposed, offered so favorable... ...llustrious incognitos. But this did not interfere with the progress of the festival; and at this moment nothing could be more impressive than the far-...

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... France,—if not al- ways 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 ... ...found reverie. The month 122 was August, in which lay my own birth-day; a festival to every thoughtful man suggesting solemn and often sigh-born thou... ...a girl adorned with a garland of white roses about her head for some great festival, running along the solitary strand with extremity of haste. Her ru...

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...icly on a stag, which was therefore always at hand in the ditch for such a festival, in case princes or knights interfered with the city’s right of ch... ...y at the appointed place. We children were particularly interested in this festival, be- cause we were not a little flattered to see our grandfather i... .... These venerable solemnities were followed, in the fine sea- son, by many festivals, delightful for us children, which took place in the open air, ou... ...ear; and the herdsmen, together with their sweethearts, celebrated a rural festival with dancing and singing, with all sorts of plea- sure and clownis... ...or conduct us to such places, even in our first years; so that these rural festivals belong to the earliest impressions that I can recall. Meanwhile, ... ...me, huzzas and shoutings are heard from every end and corner; and at night rockets and fire-balls, now here, now there, announce that the people, ever...

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... In Paris indeed it unfortunately got the length of turbulence. ’ Petards, rockets go off, in the Place Dauphine, more than enough. A ‘wicker Figure (... ...: 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... ...triot terror run frantic. Will Royalty fly off towards Austria; like a lit rocket, towards endless Conflagra- tion of Civil War? Stop it, ye Patriots,... ...bustible; being fired, they must needs fling fire: Senate of touchwood and rockets, in a world of smoke-storm, with sparks wind-driven continu- ally f... ...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... ... Court, not for conscience’ sake, contributing something; 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... ...t: 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 tim...

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...ely) With the applause of all the community was guardian among them. The Festival of Clement was his date of dying In years one thousand four hundre... ...rse of life, or have left a nobler memory. A few words we must give to the festivals. There was the yearly distribution of Christmas beef to all the l... ..., but more modern blacksmiths despise the custom. At Twyford, however, the festival is kept, and at the dinner a story is read that after the Temple w... ...ndsome pinnate leaf—lane at Brambridge, Standon, and in Hursley. Crucifera Rocket (Diplotaxis tenuifolia).—Seen at Brambridge. Charlock (Sinapis arven... ...times double in rich ground. Hairy Cardamine (C. hirsuta).—Hursley. Yellow Rocket (Barbarea vulgaris).—Road near Chandler’s Ford. Near bridge over Itc... ...gnonette (Reseda lutea).—Mignonette all but the perfume—chalk-pits. Dyer’s Rocket (R. luteola).—Slenderer and more spiked; more common. Rock Rose (Hel...

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...ed 165 Rabelais with purl, or embroidered according to the dignity of the festival days and times wherein they wore them. Their gowns, being still co... ...eased her not very well. Now you must note that the next day was the great festival of Corpus Christi, called the Sacre, wherein all women put on thei... ...e philoso- pher, when he ordained that to god T erminus, on the day of his festival called Terminales, nothing should be sacrificed that had died; tea... ...en, monks and canons; for they have little other occupation. Each day is a festival unto them, who diligently heed the claustral prov- erb, De missa a... ...rder being equally admitted to the benefit of those funerary and obsequial festivals with the aged rectors and professed fathers. This is the surest o... ... of anchovy), and salads wholly made up of venereous herbs and fruits, as— Rocket, Parsley, Hop-buds, Nose-smart, Rampions, Figs, Taragon, Poppy, 765...

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...ing from a thousand candles. It was a banker’s ball,—one of those insolent festivals by means of which the world of solid gold endeavored to sneer at ... ...s to a certain extent; wit, coquetry, and pleasure sparkle and go out like rockets. The next day all present have forgotten their wit, their coquetry,...

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...llowing one another in regular succession formed long parabolas like star- rockets on the azure-coloured earth. The gloomy bushes ex- haled warm and h... ...ant torches across the motionless lake. No one in the army could tell what festival was being celebrated. On the following day the Barbarian’s passed ... ... in the direction of the Barbarians. They were waiting for the thrice holy festival when, from the summit of a funeral pile, an eagle flew heavenwards...

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...s, our object being to have large farms and large crops merely. We have no festival, nor procession, nor ceremony, not excepting our cattle shows and ... ...ne, far in the night, threw the burning brands high into the air like sky rockets, which, coming down into the pond, were quenched with a loud hissin...

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... each began to look out with some anxiety for the preconcerted signal, the rocket from Sir Hussey Vivian’s quar- ters, which was to announce the recom... ...i- ties. It came just as the moon rose in her silver splendor, and ere the rocket-stick fell quivering to the earth at the feet of General Picton and ... ...e?), and the gallant Potztausend, with his Hanoverian veterans. The second rocket flew up. “Forward, Onety-oneth!” cried I, in a voice of thunder. “Ki... ...garnish the hotel, and all the Irish in Paris were invited to the national festival. I and Prince Talleyrand danced a double hornpipe with Pauline Bon... ...ds his gentle and virtu- ous lady. For the three first days of that famous festival, the redoubted Baron of Barbazure had kept the field against all t... ...gobbleschroy, and, indeed, all the ladies in the can- tonment, to a little festival in honor of the recovery of my health, of the commencement of the ... ...nter-ing fleurettes to this sweet young creature, when, all of a sudden, a rocket was seen whizzing through the air, and a strong light was visible in... ...hdrawing chamber. When there, mark Hildebrandt and Otto!” CHAPTER III. THE FESTIVAL. THE FESTIV AL WA S INDEED BEGUN. Coming on horseback, or in their... ...ones, kettles, bootjacks, chests of drawers, crockery, umbrellas, congreve-rockets, bombshells, bolts and arrows and other missiles which the desperat...

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...and shipmasters at sea never know when Thanksgiving comes, so Jack has no festival at all. About noon, a man aloft called out ‘‘Sail ho!’’ and... ... so that our backs touched the thwarts, we sent her through the water like a rocket. A few minutes of such pulling opened the islands, one after anoth...

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... own surprise and the admi- ration of his adversary. All natural talk is a festival of osten- tation; and by the laws of the game each accepts and fan... ...evaded by the brilliant woman, under a shower of irrelevant conversational rockets; it is bridged by the discreet woman with a rustle of silk, as she ...