Easter () or Pascha (, Paskha ; Pasḥa ; from Pesaḥ ) is a Christian festival and holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ on the third day after his crucifixion at Calvary as described in the New Testament.

The Shaw Festival, an annual theater festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada began as an eight week run of Don Juan in Hell ( as the long third act dream sequence of Man And Superman is called when staged alone ) and Candida in 1962, and has grown into an annual festival with over 800 performances a year, dedicated to producing the works of Shaw and his contemporaries.

MONA, the Museum of Old and New Art opened in 2011 to coincide with the third annual MONA FOMA festival.

In the third week of August each year a festival, Malmöfestivalen, fills the streets of Malmö with different kinds of cuisines and events.

Nijmegen is famous for the International Four Day March Nijmegen (, informally Nijmeegse Vierdaagse ), an annual event starting on the third Tuesday in July, comprising four days of walking ( distances ranging from 30 to 50 km a day ), and the accompanying festivities ( the Vierdaagsefeesten including the independent festival de-Affaire ), which have been drawing the largest crowds for any Dutch event in the past few years.

This was a festival of secret women-only rituals connected with marriage customs and commemorated the third of the year, in the month Pyanepsion, when Kore was abducted and Demeter abstained from her role as goddess of harvest and growth.

* Euripides ' play Medea wins third prize at the Dionysia, the famous Athenian dramatic festival.

Later in June, the Gay and Lesbian Service organization hosts the Lexington Pride Festival, currently into the planning phases of its third festival as of 2009, the event is popular among the diverse communities in Lexington.

There is even a festival, held every third year in honour of Bacchus, at which the natives fall into the Bacchic fury.

Emerson was the headliner of both the first and third Moogfest, a festival held in honour of Robert Moog at the B. B.

The central festival of Christianity is Easter, on which Christians celebrate their belief that Jesus Christ rose from the dead on the third day after his crucifixion.

They observe all the Hindu festivals of Dashain, Tihar and Sakrantis besides their own tribal festival Nwagi, which is performed on a Tuesday during third week of Bhadra ( some day in August and September ).

The third day, especially the evening and night that began the Greek day, was a meat feast in celebration of the Kalligeneia, a " goddess of beautiful birth " who appears in no other contexts and has no counterpart among the Olympian gods, further emphasizing the archaic, pre-Olympian nature of this festival that reinforced female solidarity.

The third day was named Chytroi (" feast of pots ", from χύτρος, " a pot "), a festival of the dead.

In his third volume of memoirs, Resident Alien, published in the same year, Crisp stated that he was close to the end of his life, but in June of that year, he was one of the guest entertainers at the second Pride Scotland festival in Glasgow.

It has evolved into a large festival held the third week of August, and is the oldest continuing patriotic celebration in the United States.

Established in 2001, the annual " Waverly Boogie " ( formerly " The Old 280 Boogie ") is typically held on the third Saturday in April and is a festival that passionately exhibits the culture of the eclectic south by exhibiting a wide variety of musicians as well as visual artists.

Started in 1929 ( coincidentally the year Wyatt Earp died ), the festival is held on the third weekend of every October, near the anniversary date of the Gunfight at the O. K.

Greenfield holds an annual harvest festival each third Sunday of October.

Cathedral City hosts an annual Mexican Independence Day festival on every third weekend of September, also has an " el Grito de Dolores " to commemorate the event at the city hall / movie theater complex.

* " 3rd Thursday Street Fests "-Every third Thursday from May to September, Willimantic Renaissance, Inc hosts on Main Street a festival of musical, theatrical, visual and olfactory delights.

The most popular of these events is " Country in the Park ", a festival held every year generally on the third Saturday of March, but always after the Florida State Fair and Florida Strawberry Festival.

The Brooklet Peanut Festival is an annual festival that occurs on the third Saturday of August.

Dixieland Fun Park, established in 1990, is the third largest amusement park in Georgia and has received awards for their annual Halloween festival.

A third, one of at least equal and perhaps even greater importance, is now being traversed: American immersion and involvement in world affairs.

Indeed, it is probable that this point is reached the moment the third level of change begins.

A third idea is that artistic literature serves to reduce emotional conflicts, giving a sense of serenity and calm to individuals.

That is, there was no trace of Anglo-Saxons in Britain as early as the late third century, to which time the archaeological evidence for the erection of the Saxon Shore forts was beginning to point.

The third Act of Faust 2, is a formal celebration of the union between the Germanic and the classic, between the spirit of Euripides and that of romantic drama.

Mr. Wagner might or might not be a `` new '' Mayor in this third term, now that he is free of the pressure of those party leaders whom he calls `` bosses ''.

In the third Push-Pull Super-Set the `` push '' exercise is the widegrip Pushup Between Bars, while the `` pull '' exercise is the Moon Bench Lateral Raise with bent arms.

This is the third time in 28 years of Junior Showmanship at Westminster that a lady Handler has judged the Class.

Called the Marmara Gazinosu, it is on the third floor, with signs pointing the way there, and has a terrace overlooking the Sea of Marmara.

The expectation is that first-level supervisors will be selected in approximately equal numbers from the second and third engineering level, with very few coming from the first level.

With detectors sensitive to three mass intervals and based on a few counts, the second and third Russian space probes indicate that the flux of the smallest particles detected is less than that of larger ones.

if a substantial fraction of the dust is orbiting about the Earth, only about one third the above-mentioned average velocity should be used in deriving the mass.

Bernard Heuvelmans also treats of the largest snakes, but on the third level, and is chiefly concerned with the anaconda.

In the third category the function is double-valued in this interval.

Failure confirms the threat, and the intensity of anxiety is increased as the required learning becomes more difficult, so that by the time the child reaches the third grade the decrement in performance is pronounced.

To want to change is the third step.

A third situation is possible.

The third need is for better theory.

A third explanation is suggested by Richardson's analysis of Sukuma tone.

A third aspect, and probably the one open to most controversy, is the results of the election.

) has amounted to about one third of those total revenue requirements which the carload freight business is supposed to be called upon to meet.

I come now to a third argument, which again is very simple.