*--- and Michael J. McGill, Introduction to modern information retrieval, 1983.

They include the Itapa festival for Obatala and Obameri, the Edi festival for Moremi Ajasoro and the Igare masqueraders, and the Olojo festival for Ogoun.

Our old one blew down in a storm at the time of the pokeneu festival fifteen moons ago.

And she wrote the libretto for an oratorio on the subject of Judas Maccabeus performed at the Hanukkah festival which came in December.

the world-renowned 500-mile auto race at Indianapolis, Indiana, plus a festival from May 27-30 ; ;

The angriest young man in Newport last night was at the Playhouse, where `` Epitaph For George Dillon '' opened as the jazz festival closed.

She glanced at the man nodding beside her, a man with weather cracks furrowed into his lean cheeks, with powdery pale eyes reflecting all the droughts he had seen, reflecting the sky and the drought which must follow now in August -- yes, with eyes predicting the drought and here it was only June, only festival time again and thoughts of Gratt Shafer would not leave her.

The most famous work of Algerian cinema is probably that of Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, Chronicle of the Years of Fire, which won the palme d ' Or at the Cannes film festival in the year 1975.

As he still continued obstinate, the court proceeded to violent measures: the officers of the household were commanded to prepare the Basilica and the Portian churches to celebrate divine service upon the arrival of the emperor and his mother at the ensuing festival of Easter.

Eliana Burki playing the alphorn at the Bardentreffen festival in Nuremberg 2009.

Alcaeus was a contemporary and a countryman of Sappho and, since both poets composed for the entertainment of Mytilenean friends, they had many opportunities to associate with each other on a quite regular basis, such as at the Kallisteia, an annual festival celebrating the island's federation under Mytilene, held at the ' Messon ' ( referred to as temenos in fr. s 129 and 130 ), where Sappho performed publicly with female choirs.

384 ), may owe its inspiration to her performances at the festival.

The Thai zodiac includes a Naga in place of the Dragon and begins, not at Chinese New Year, but at either on the first day of fifth month in Thai lunar calendar, or during the Songkran festival ( now celebrated every 13 – 15 April ), depending on the purpose of the use.

After the death of Cleomenes and the refusal of the Athenians to restore the hostages to Leotychides, the Aeginetans retaliated by seizing a number of Athenians at a festival at Sunium.

Acts that have performed at Aberdour festival have been Yard Of Ale, Percy & The Peanuts, Swings & Roundabouts, Capercaillie, Boys of the Lough, Eddi Reader and The Fence Collective's Three Craws

In modern Hinduism slaughter according to the rituals permitted in the Vedic scriptures has become less common, though, the world's largest animal sacrifice occurs at Gadhimai, a Hindu festival which takes place every 5 years.

Urban Dance Squad was a Dutch rap rock band formed after what was originally intended as a one-time jam-session at a festival in Utrecht on December 20, 1986.

The consumers ' organization PINT holds a bok festival every winter at the Beurs in Amsterdam.

Like the festival of Samhain, opposite Beltane on 31 October, Beltane was also a time when the Otherworld was seen as particularly close at hand.

Another common aspect of the festival in early 20th century Ireland was the hanging of May Boughs on the doors and windows of houses and the making of May Bushes in farmyards, which usually consisted either of a branch of rowan / caorthann ( mountain ash ) or more commonly whitethorn / sceach geal ( hawthorn ) which is in bloom at the time and is commonly called the ' May Bush ' or just ' May ' in both Ireland and Britain.

Pheidippides arrived during the festival of Carneia, a sacrosanct period of peace, and was informed that the Spartan army could not march to war until the full moon rose ; Athens could not expect reinforcement for at least ten days.

Similarly, after the victory the festival of the Agroteras Thysia (" sacrifice to the Agrotéra ") was held at Agrae near Athens, in honor of Artemis Agrotera (" Artemis the Huntress ").

They perform at both military and civilian airfields, and often perform directly over major cities such as San Francisco's " Fleet Week " maritime festival, Cleveland's annual Labor Day Air Show, the Chicago Air and Water Show, and Seattle's annual Seafair festival.

A great feud ensued between the two that is re-enacted every year in the Itapa festival in Ile Ife, Nigeria.

* Walsh, M. J., " The Edi festival at Ile Ife ", African affairs, 47 ( 1948 ), 231-8.

Important cultural events in the state include the ORI OKE and EGUNGUN festival in Iragbiji, OLOJO in Ife, OSUN Osogbo etc ...

Prokofiev persevered despite this trend of disappointment, and later in 1937 he performed the Fourth Symphony at a festival celebrating the 20th anniversary of the October Revolution.

The dance was created in 1937 for a festival to celebrate the discovery of water in the desert after a seven-year search.

He also captained a non-representative England XI in a festival game against the New Zealanders in 1937, batting at number ten in the batting order and scoring 61.

The festival, Kentucky's largest single annual event, first ran from 1935 – 1937, and re-started in 1956 and includes:

After the floods of 1937, the festival was discontinued and it was not until 1956 when the modern-day Kentucky Derby Festival was reborn.

Outside the realm of English music, Sumsion helped sustain a festival connection with Kodály by inviting him back to Gloucester in 1937 and programming his works at six Gloucester festivals.

The archive features performances that have taken place at the festival from 1937 to 2010, including footage rarely seen.

" In " Pygmoelian ", during the Duff Days festival, Duffman introduces the trick-pouring contest by saying that it counts as course credit at Dartmouth College.

Arabic also uses the term,, meaning " festival of the resurrection ", but this term is less common.

The reference to the Jewish " boast ", and, indeed, the strident anti-Jewish tone of the whole passage, suggests another issue: some Christians thought that it was undignified for Christians to depend on Jews to set the date of a Christian festival.

The annual cultural festival ( or culfest ) of Jadavpur University is called " Sanskriti ", which in Bengali or Hindi means Culture.

The annual " Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival ", which attracts top jazz stars nationwide and large out-of-town audiences, has been rated Kansas City's " best festival.

The name Lupercalia was believed in antiquity to evince some connection with the Ancient Greek festival of the Arcadian Lykaia ( from Ancient Greek: λύκος — lukos, " wolf ", Latin lupus ) and the worship of Lycaean Pan, assumed to be a Greek equivalent to Faunus, as instituted by Evander.

The Saxons offered cakes to their gods in February ( Solmonath ) and there was a religious festival associated with the harvest, Halegmonath (" holy month " or month of offerings ", September ).

The Saxon calendar began on 25 December, and the months of December and January were called Yule ( or Giuli ) and contained a Modra niht or " night of the mothers ", another religious festival of unknown content.

The city hosts, among others events, the international theatre festival, " Kontakt ", annually in May

Founded by Count Giuseppe Volpi in 1932 as the " Esposizione Internazionale d ' Arte Cinematografica ", the festival has since taken place every year in late August or early September on the island of the Lido, Venice, Italy.

The earliest attested terms referring to wine are the Mycenaean Greek me-tu-wo ne-wo (), meaning " the month of new wine " or " festival of the new wine ", and wo-no-wa-ti-si, meaning " wine garden ", written in Linear B inscriptions.

Yule is the modern English representative of the Old English words ġéol or ġéohol and ġéola or ġéoli, with the former indicating "( the 12-day festival of ) Yule " ( later: " Christmastide ") and the latter indicating "( the month of ) Yule ", whereby ǽrra ġéola referred to the period before the Yule festival ( December ) and æftera ġéola referred to the period after Yule ( January ).

The word carne may also be translated as flesh, so suggesting carne vale as " a farewell to the flesh ", a phrase actually embraced by certain Carnival celebrants who encourage letting go of your former ( or everyday ) self and embracing the carefree nature of the festival.

The word masopust translates literally from old Czech to mean " meat fast ", and the festival often includes a pork feast in preparation for Lent.

Called " One of the biggest shows of the Earth ", the festival attracts millions of tourists, both Brazilians and foreigners who come from everywhere to participate and enjoy the great show.

Cannes Film Festival selector Gilles Jacob described Amélie as " uninteresting ", and therefore it was not screened at the festival, although the version he viewed was an early cut without music.

Bloemfontein is popularly and poetically known as " the city of roses ", owing to the abundance of these flowers and the annual rose festival held there.

* Averroes is also the title of a play called " The Gladius and The Rose ", written by Tunisian writer Mohamed Ghozzi, and which had the first price in the theater festival in Charjah in 1999.

Holst's view was that Noel's philosophy was a " gospel of comic hate ", but he ceased to hold the music festival at Thaxted after three seasons, moving it to Dulwich.

Starting in the mid-1970s and continuing into the 1980s Rouse shifted focus to what he ended up calling the " festival marketplace ", of which the Faneuil Hall Marketplace was the first and most successful example.

It had long been celebrated in a local festival called " Jindo Sea Parting Festival ", but was largely unknown to the world until 1975, when the French ambassador Pierre Randi described the phenomenon in a French newspaper.

The commercial success of " Lucky Man ", combined with a strong performance at the Isle of Wight festival ( released on CD in 1997 as Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970 ), brought ELP rapidly to prominence.

It may also be seen in the expansion of festival life and respected theatre magazines, e. g., " Dialog ", which has, for decades, presented the latest achievements in world dramaturgy.