Traditional arrangements are generally based around vocal, percussive and dance music ; Dakota folk songs can be celebratory, martial or ceremonial.

* Flypast or flyby, a celebratory display or ceremonial flight, a ceremonial or honorific flight of one or more aircraft

The process of transferring the vessel to the water is known as launching and is normally a ceremonial and celebratory occasion.

Zulus wear a variety of attire, both traditional for ceremonial or culturally celebratory occasions, and modern westernised clothing for everyday use.

His forecast of the form of government suitable to the modern world may be seen as prophetic: the largely ceremonial offices of president in some modern parliamentary democracies in Europe and e. g. Israel can be perceived as elected or appointed versions of Hegel's constitutional monarch ; the Russian and French presidents, with their stronger powers, may also be regarded in Hegelian terms as wielding powers suitable to the embodiment of the national will.

Many ancient cultures used adorned daggers in ritual and ceremonial purposes, a trend which continues to the present time in the form of art knives.

He is a ceremonial figurehead under a form of constitutional monarchy and is head of the Japanese Imperial Family with functions as head of state.

Erroneously believing the coven to be a survival of the pre-Christian Witch-Cult discussed in the works of Margaret Murray, he decided to revive the faith, supplementing the coven's rituals with ideas borrowed from Freemasonry, ceremonial magic and the writings of Aleister Crowley to form the Gardnerian tradition of Wicca.

Where it exists, it now often takes the form of constitutional monarchy, in which the monarch retains a unique legal and ceremonial role, but exercises limited or no political power pursuant to a constitution or tradition which allocates governing authority elsewhere.

The ceremonial form of the uniform includes a white cross-strap, and white and blue sash, white epaulettes, and white decorated cuffs.

Since the independence, the West-Pakistan was a parliamentary republic ( even as of today, the parliamentary system is the official form of government of Pakistan ) with Prime minister as the head of the government and President as head of state, although Presidential office is ceremonial office.

As the sovereign is shared equally with 15 other independent countries in a form of personal union, as well as with the ten other jurisdictions of Canada, and resides predominantly in her oldest realm, the United Kingdom, she, on the advice of her Canadian prime minister only, appoints the governor general to carry out most of her constitutional and ceremonial duties for an unfixed period of time — known as serving at Her Majesty's pleasure — though five years is the normal convention.

The Mayor of London is also referred to as the London Mayor, a form which helps to avoid confusion with the Lord Mayor of the City of London, the ancient and now mainly ceremonial role in the geographically smaller central region of the ancient City of London.

A Western Zhou ceremonial bronze of cooking-vessel form inscribed to record that the King of Zhou gave a fiefdom to Shi You, ordering that he inherit the title as well as the land and people living there

The position of acting mayor is usually of considerably more importance in a mayor-council form of municipal government, where the mayor performs functions of day-to-day leadership, than it is in a council-manager form of government, where the city manager provides day-to-day leadership and the position of mayor is either a largely or entirely ceremonial one.

In 1974, following the Local Government Act 1972, the former area of Ripon borough was merged with Harrogate borough and several rural districts of the West Riding to form an enlarged Harrogate borough in the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire.

Today, puppetry continues as a popular form, often within a ceremonial context, and as part of a wide-range of folk forms including dance, storytelling, and masked performance.

During this period archery became a " voluntary " skill, practiced partly in the court in ceremonial form, partly as different kinds of competition.

To harmonize practice and ceremonial shooting ( sharei ) in 1953 the All Nippon Kyudo Federation ( ANKF ) formed an establishing committee from the main schools to take the best elements of each school and form the ANKF style that is used today throughout Japan and in most kyudo federations in the west.

These may be formal or semi-formal-' for some students, going to college is partly a sexual ritual, like the ceremonial dances of the whooping crane ' - or take the form of a more private induction: ' formal and artificial ... the impression that a long-established rite was to be enacted, among Staffordshire figurs and papier-mâché trays, with the compelling, detached formality of nightmare '.

Certain ceremonial duties in the form of honour guards are performed when state visits are made to the Paris museums or the Opera, as well as at the moment of the descent of the Academicians beneath the cupola of the French Academy.

Cowrie are used not only for traditional ornamental and ceremonial purposes ( as other West African communities do ), but also as an inflation proof form of internal savings and as a safe medium to trade across national ( and currency ) boundaries which may divide Dagaaba communities.

The University arms will still be used in its original form for ceremonial purposes only.

Service in a ceremonial form is termed “ grand serjeanty ” whilst that of a more functional or menial nature is termed “ petty sergeanty ”.

In addition to holding land in Lancashire, the Duchy of Lancaster also exerts some powers and ceremonial duties of The Crown in Lancashire and Greater Manchester, Merseyside and the Furness area of Cumbria, which together form the County Palatine of Lancashire.

A classical form called gar is very popular, and is distinguished by ornate, elegant and ceremonial music honoring dignitaries or other respected persons.

This is an anglicised form of the Creek Asi-yahola ( pronounced ); the combination of asi, the ceremonial black drink made from the yaupon holly, and yahola, meaning shout or shouter.

He dropped event tickets, flew city engineers to produce aerial maps of Venice, and showered other promotional or ceremonial objects for events, such as masses of flowers over the ocean as tributes to war heroes.

More than 1, 300 basic cadets salute during the ceremonial Oath of Office formation on 26 June 2009.

As the ceremonial cannon on Lycabettus Hill fired the Royal salute, huge crowds gathered outside the Palace shouting what they thought should rightfully be the newborn prince's name: " Constantine ".

Johnson ordered that the highest-ranking Marine officer, the Commandant of the Marine Corps, be deleted from the official roll of chiefs of service branches authorized a driver and limousine, and for whom a special gun salute was prescribed on ceremonial occasions.

Many of these early features remain a part of Waitangi Day ceremonies, including a naval salute, the Māori cultural performance ( now usually a ceremonial welcome ), and speeches from a range of Māori and Pākehā dignitaries.

In 1893 he refused to grant the state Democrats permission to use the state's ceremonial cannon to fire a salute in celebration of Grover Cleveland's inauguration as President.

In accordance with the ceremonial SOP ( Standard Operating Procedure ) of the 3rd US Infantry ( The Old Guard ) the various gun salutes are assigned as follows: each round in a given salute is fired one at a time.

The formal opening took place on 9 November 1831, with ceremonial processions of boats from Congleton and Marple proceeding towards Macclesfield, meticulously timed such that boats would arrive at Macclesfield from both directions at the same time, upon arrival, a salute was fired, and the Band of the Macclesfield Cavalry played God Save the King, before the proprietors and dignitaries retired to the Town Hall for dinner.

A president is frequently besieged to serve in non-academic civic and governmental capacities, to make speeches to lay groups, and to make numerous ceremonial appearances on and off campus.

Assuming the weather is halfway decent that day, hundreds of thousands of persons will mass along this thoroughfare as President John F. Kennedy and retiring President Dwight D. Eisenhower leave Capitol Hill following the oath-taking ceremonies and ride down this historic ceremonial route.

Astronomy certainly played an important role in Chaco culture, as it is visible in the north-south axis alignment of many ceremonial structures.

The city centre is laid out on two perpendicular axes: a water axis stretching along Lake Burley Griffin, and a ceremonial land axis stretching from Parliament House on Capital Hill north-eastward along ANZAC Parade to the Australian War Memorial at the foot of Mount Ainslie.

This rank is generally reserved for wartime and ceremonial purposes ; there are no regular appointments to the rank.

Admiralty Arch is linked to the Old Admiralty Building by a bridge and is part of the ceremonial route from Trafalgar Square to Buckingham Palace.

Also mistakenly called " gbedu " ( gbedu is the name of a large ceremonial drum ).

Their authority within their sui juris church is equal to that of a patriarch, but they receive fewer ceremonial honors.

Years after Wallace's death, Robert the Bruce, now Scotland's king, leads a Scottish army before a ceremonial line of English troops on the fields of Bannockburn where he is to formally accept English rule.

Today, the role is by convention effectively ceremonial.

Cambodia has a ceremonial monarchy, yet its political system is not democratic.

52 rifle is used as ceremonial weapon by Prague Castle Guard.

The " Batizado " ( baptism, in English ) is a ceremonial roda where new students will get recognized as capoeiristas and earn their first graduation.

The current crest, featuring a ceremonial lion rampant regardant holding a staff, is a modification of the one introduced in the early 1950s.

Electrum coins were not standardized in weight and are considered by opponents as badges, medals or ceremonial objects issued by priests, rather than coins ( actually the oldest of them have been discovered not in Lydia, but in an ancient Greek temple of Ephesos, a city colony built by the ancient Greeks in what is now Turkey ).

Dance is performed for various purposes like ceremonial dance, erotic dance, performance dance, social dance etc.

The ceremonial playing of the Russian national anthem before the game is an important tradition.

Some of the symbolism within the coronation ceremony for British monarchs, in which they are anointed with holy oils by the Archbishop of Canterbury, thereby ordaining them to monarchy, perpetuates the ancient Roman Catholic monarchical ideas and ceremonial ( although few Protestants realize this, the ceremony is nearly entirely based upon that of the Coronation of the Holy Roman Emperor ).

The king or queen of the United Kingdom is one of the last monarchs still to be crowned in the traditional Christian ceremonial, which in most other countries has been replaced by an inauguration or other declaration.

Linda sneaks in through the backdoor and attacks Ash with a ceremonial dagger, but Ash is able to take the dagger from her and impale her through her torso, seemingly killing her.

Parliament is the " first institution " of the EU ( mentioned first in the treaties, having ceremonial precedence over all authority at European level ), and shares equal legislative and budgetary powers with the Council ( except in a few areas where the special legislative procedures apply ).

Church authority is often represented by ceremonial headdress, such as a mitre.