* Shavuot (" Pentecost " or " Feast of Weeks ") celebrates the revelation of the Torah to the Israelites on Mount Sinai.

In Israel, Passover is the seven-day holiday of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, with the first and last days observed as legal holidays and as holy days involving abstention from work, special prayer services, and holiday meals ; the intervening days are known as Chol HaMoed (" Weekdays of the Festival ").

On January 1, A. D. 400, Asterius, bishop of Amasea in Pontus ( Amasya, Turkey ) preached a sermon against the Feast of Calends (" this foolish and harmful delight ") that describes the role of the Lord of Misrule in Late Antiquity.

While in the beginning some Shabbat, frequently during Chanukah or Passover, was selected for confirmation, it became increasingly customary, following the example of Egers, to perform the ceremony during the biblical festival of Shavuot (" Feast of Weeks ").

Two sets, DSA-Professional — Schwertmeister Set I (" TDE Professional — Sword Master Set I ") and DSA-Professional II — das Fest der Schwertmeister (" TDE Professional II — The Sword Master Feast "), were published in 1988 and 1989.

Marius punches Thénardier, the newlyweds leave, and the Thénardiers enjoy the party and celebrate their survival (" Beggars at the Feast ").

There have also been purely instrumental settings, one of the earliest of which was Charles Valentin Alkan ’ s Le festin d ' Ésope (" Aesop ’ s Feast ", 1857 ), a set of piano variations in which each variation is said to depict a different animal or scene from Aesop ’ s fables.

Moreover, the Feast of San Gennaro, dedicated to Saint Januarius (" pope of Naples "), is held in the neighborhood every year following Labor Day, on Mulberry Street between Houston and Grand Streets.

Vivid descriptions of the Western capital are given in Fled Bricrenn (" Bricriu's Feast "), and this one in Táin Bó Fraích: " Of pine the house was made ; it is a covering of shingle it had externally.

39 is a set of variations Le festin d ' Ésope (" Aesop's Feast ").

# Sukkah: ( סוכה ) (" Booth "); deals with the festival of Sukkot ( the Feast of Tabernacles ) and the Sukkah itself.

* French: Hardcover: Pygmalion ( 2006 -...): " Le chaos ", " Les sables de Dorne ", " Un Festin pour les Corbeaux " (" Chaos ", " The Sands of Dorne ", " A Feast For Crows ").

* Russian: " Пир стервятников " (" Vulture's Feast ").

* Chinese ( Simplified ): 重庆出版社 ( 2008 ): " 群鸦的盛宴 " (" Feast for Crows ").

* Chinese ( Traditional ): 高寶國際 ( 2006 ): " 群鴉盛宴 " (" Feast for Crows ").

* German: Single volume, Fantasy Productions ( 2006 ): " Krähenfest " (" Crow's Feast ", to be released ).

* Spanish: Gigamesh ( 2007 ): " Festín de Cuervos " (" Feast for Crows ").

Josephus refers to it as the Feast of Xylophory (" Wood-bearing ").

Denha is celebrated on January 6 by the Syro-Malabar Church, the largest Church of the Thomas Christians, in two ways-Pindiperunnal (" Plantain trunk feast ") and Rakkuliperunal (" Feast with a night bath ").

The story of Fled Bricrenn (" The Feast of Bricriu ") tells how he once held a lavish feast for Conchobar mac Nessa and the heroes of Ulster in his house at Dún Rudraige ( modern Dundrum, County Down ), but knowing his reputation the Ulstermen had to be threatened to attend.

* Fled Bricrenn (" Bricriu's Feast ", incomplete, contains passages interpolated by H )

In " A Feast of Scraps " ( 1994 – 1998 ), he inserted pornographic and stereotypical photographs of black men, complete with invented captions (" mother knew ," " I fell out " " It's a process ") into albums of family snapshots including graduation photographs, vacation snapshots, pictures of baby showers, birthday celebrations, and baptisms, some of which include the artist's own family.

On December 9, 1812 ( the " Feast Day of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin "), a series of massive earthquakes shook Southern California.

The Schwarzenau Brethren groups ( the largest being the Church of the Brethren ) regularly practice Agape feasts ( called " Love Feast "), which include feetwashing, a supper, and communion, with hymns and brief scriptural meditations interspersed throughout the worship service.

Noting that the clumsy " created " nature of the young Hemingway in A Moveable Feast is well-established as fraudulent ( e. g., Hemingway had access to large sums of money during the time he was in Paris, yet portrayed himself as " starving "), Kennedy points out that Hemingway writes as if he were the only person in his literary circle in Paris who was sexually stable and healthy, in contrast to F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein.

Eid al-Adha (,, " feast of sacrifice "), or Feast of the Sacrifice or Greater Eid, is an important religious holiday celebrated by Muslims worldwide to commemorate the willingness of Abraham to sacrifice his son Ishmael as an act of obedience to God, before God intervened to provide him with a sheep to sacrifice instead.

Previous winners include Dan Smith and Steve McDonagh ( Party Line with The Hearty Boys ), Guy Fieri ( Guy's Big Bite, Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, " Guy Off the Hook ," " Ultimate Recipe Showdown ," " Guy's Big Night ," " Guy's Family Feast "), Amy Finley ( The Gourmet Next Door ), Aaron McCargo, Jr. ( Big Daddy's House ), Melissa d ' Arabian ( Ten Dollar Dinners ) and Aarti Sequeira ( Aarti Party ).

Usually called the Feast of Theophany ( Greek:, " God shining forth " or " divine manifestation "), it is one of the Great Feasts of the liturgical year, being third in rank, behind only Paskha ( Easter ) and Pentecost in importance.

Visitors may participate in a luau, such as the Alii Luau (" Royal Feast "), which offers traditional Polynesian fare, including pork cooked in an imu ( an underground oven ).

Caminha's letter is dated May 1 and signed from the location of " deste Porto Seguro da vossa ilha da Vera Cruz " (" this Safe Harbor of your island of the True Cross "), the name Cabral bestowed in honor of Feast of the Cross ( May 3 in the liturgical calendar ).

Now begins the wild and coloured Feast of Fools, presided over by Gringoire (" La Fete des Fous "), the climax of which is the choosing of the King of Fools from among the group of people who can make the ugliest face ; the King will be crowned by Esmeralda.

Stan and Hilda Ogden were often at the centre of overtly funny storylines, with other comic characters including Eddie Yeats ( Geoffrey Hughes ), Fred Gee ( Fred Feast ) and Jack Duckworth ( William Tarmey ) all making their first appearances during the decade.

His feast day is on June 28 in the Roman Catholic calendar of saints, where it was inserted for the first time in 1920 ; in 1960 it was transferred to July 3, leaving June 28 for the Vigil of the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul, but in 1969 it was returned to June 28, the day of his death.

* Feast of Núr, the first day of the fifth month of the Bahá ' í calendar.

* Feast of Kalimát, first day of the seventh month of the Bahá ' í calendar.

* Feast of Sultán ( Sovereignty ), first day of the 17th month of the Bahá ' í calendar ( Bahá ' í Faith )

* Feast of ' Alá ( Loftiness ), First day of the 19th month of the Bahá ' í calendar ( Bahá ' í Faith ) and first day of the Baha ' i Nineteen Day Fast

* Feast of Qawl ( Speech ) – The first day of the 14th month of the Bahá ' í calendar.

* May 20 ( Feast of the Ascension ) – Ascension Island is first definitely sighted, by Portuguese admiral Afonso de Albuquerque.

To commemorate this, on the first Sunday in Lent the Feast of Orthodoxy is celebrated every year since then.

When his feast day was inserted into the General Roman Calendar in 1738, it was assigned at first to 24 November, since his date of death was impeded by the then existing octave of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception.

He then made an orchestral version of this work for its first performance, sharing the programme with the London premiere of Walton's Belshazzar's Feast.

The first portion extends from the day following the Feast of the Baptism of Christ until the day before Ash Wednesday ( the beginning of Lent ).

Tragedy struck the settlement when on the morning of December 8, 1812, the " Feast Day of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin ", a series of large earthquakes shook Southern California during the first Sunday service.

Feast first came into usage as a noun circa 1200, and feast was used as a verb circa 1300.

Setting out to become an artist, Miller received his first published work at Western Publishing's Gold Key Comics imprint, on the licensed TV-series comic book The Twilight Zone drawing the story " Royal Feast " in issue No. 84 ( June 1978 ), and " Endless Cloud " in No. 85 ( July 1978 ).

In 1578 Henry created the Order of the Holy Spirit to commemorate his becoming first King of Poland and later King of France on the Feast of Pentecost and gave it precedence over the earlier Order of St. Michael, which had lost much of its original prestige through its having been awarded too frequently and too readily.

These paintings were completed in 1482, and on 15 August 1483, Sixtus IV celebrated the first mass in the Sistine Chapel for the Feast of the Assumption, at which ceremony the chapel was consecrated and dedicated to the Virgin Mary.

The first mass in the Sistine Chapel was celebrated on 9 August 1483, the Feast of the Assumption, at which ceremony the chapel was consecrated and dedicated to the Virgin Mary.

The Feast of Neyrouz marks the first day of the Coptic year.

Urban had planned the departure of the first crusade for 15 August 1096, the Feast of the Assumption, but months before this, a number of unexpected armies of peasants and petty nobles set off for Jerusalem on their own, led by a charismatic priest called Peter the Hermit.

Ad Beatissimi Apostolorum is an encyclical of Benedict XV given at St. Peter's, Rome, on the Feast of All Saints on 1 November 1914, in the first year of his Pontificate.

The society made its earliest recordings in 1943 ; the first was Walton's Belshazzar's Feast, and the second was Bliss ' Piano Concerto, with Solomon as soloist, and conducted by Adrian Boult.

In special formal meals such as Matriculation Dinner or Scholars ' Feast the Master usually raises a toast, first to The Queen and then to “ Sir Winston ".