Her conclusion was that the evidence testified to an ancient Celtic festival on 1 August that involved the following: solemn cutting of the first of the corn of which an offering would be made to the deity by bringing it up to a high place and burying it ; a meal of the new food and of bilberries of which everyone must partake ; a sacrifice of a sacred bull, a feast of its flesh, with some ceremony involving its hide, and its replacement by a young bull ; a ritual dance-play perhaps telling of a struggle for a goddess and a ritual fight ; an installation of a head on top of the hill and a triumphing over it by an actor impersonating Lugh ; another play representing the confinement by Lugh of the monster blight or famine ; a three-day celebration presided over by the brilliant young god or his human representative.

The names of the days of the week ( aste ) in Guipuscoan Basque point to an earlier three-day week.

The world economy was in turmoil, Britain was on a three-day week and on the edge of hyper-inflation.

At the beginning of the year, Britain plunged into the three-day working week, as a consequence of the miners ' strike that had been called to topple the Heath Government.

In addition to the early -' 70s oil crisis and the three-day week, there were other factors that had caused the collapse of the group of companies that included Court Line and Clarksons.

During the week of June 9, 2008, a three-day Ping Pong Diplomacy event was held at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, California.

Since 1969, the holiday has been observed on the third Monday in April, providing a three-day long weekend, as well as being the first day of public school vacation week in Maine and Massachusetts.

Warrnambool has a horse racing club, the Warrnambool Racing Club, which schedules around twenty race meetings a year including the Warrnambool Cup and Grand Annual Steeple three-day meeting in the first week of May.

A three-day conference in Atlanta organized by the Southern Methodist Church released a statement that similarly condemned the anarchic week in Rosewood, but concluded saying, " No family and no race rises higher than womanhood.

The sequel had what was, at the time, the biggest three-day opening weekend gross in history, a record that was broken one week later by Batman ($ 40, 505, 884 ).

Company CEO Alan Klapmeier announced in October 2008 that due to the economic situation and the resulting lack of demand for Cirrus aircraft, that the company was moving to a three-day work week.

Prinz only agreed to stay on the show for a short time ( as she had with All My Children several years earlier ), and earned top billing, a three-day work week, and supposedly $ 1, 000 a week, which was a big salary for a soap actress to earn in the 1970s.

During the 1970s global events such as the 1973 oil crisis put pressure on the Post-war consensus, this pressure was intensified by domestic problems such as high inflation, the three-day week and industrial unrest ( particularly in the coal-mining industry ).

Because Groucho, Chico, Perrin, and Sheekman were living and working in Hollywood, they had to make a three-day train journey from Pasadena each week, and then another three-day trip back.

With a three-day continuous exposure to boric acid, the number of ghost ant workers was reduced by 97 % and by the 8th week all ghost ant queens were eliminated.

For at least part of the series, the country is on a three-day working week, presumably to conserve energy or to promote full employment through job sharing.

Teaming with his daughter, Christina Engelbart, in 1988 he founded the Bootstrap Institute to coalesce his ideas into a series of three-day and half-day management seminars offered at Stanford University 1989 – 2000.

* 1967 – Cold War: U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin in Glassboro, New Jersey for the three-day Glassboro Summit Conference.

This dissension climaxed with a riot which led to a three-day massacre and to the rare intervention of Emperor Valentinian I to uphold public order.

It has been estimated that the standard fee paid to the USEE was £ 100 for a three-day match with £ 5 each going to the nine professionals in the team and the other £ 45 to W. G.

* September – The Protestant reformer John Knox has a three-day debate in Maybole, Ayrshire, Scotland with Quintin Kennedy, commendator of Crossraguel Abbey, on transubstantiation.

How much of that was given to the Annings is not known, but it seems to have placed the family on a steadier financial footing, and with buyers arriving from Paris and Vienna, the three-day event raised the family's profile within the geological community.

Africa in April is a three-day festival with vendor's markets, fashion showcases, blues showcases, and an international diversity parade.

The competition may be run as a one-day event ( ODE ), where all three events are completed in one day ( dressage, followed by show jumping and then cross country ) or a three-day event ( 3DE ), which is more commonly now run over four days, with dressage on the first two days followed by cross country the next day and then show jumping in reverse order on the final day.

During the three-day period, families usually clean and decorate graves ; most visit the cemeteries where their loved ones are buried and decorate their graves with ofrendas ( offerings ), which often include orange Mexican marigolds ( Tagetes erecta ) called cempasúchil ( originally named cempoaxochitl, Nahuatl for " twenty flowers ").

Welles liked Weaver as Chester on TV's Gunsmoke and worked closely with him on his part, which was shot on a three-day hiatus from the TV show.

Zidane stayed with Septèmes until the age of fourteen, at which time he was selected to attend a three-day training camp at the CREPS ( Regional Centre for Sports and Physical Education ) in Aix-en-Provence, one of several such footballing institutes run by the French Football Federation.

A three-day battle was fought in which the pro-Córdoba faction routed their enemies and killed Velasco, along with García López, kinsman of Alfonso II of Asturias, Sancho " warrior / knight of Pamplona ", and pagan warrior " Ṣaltān ".

Finally, he fights a gruelling three-day duel with his best friend and foster-brother, Ferdiad, at a ford that was named Áth Fhir Diadh ( Ardee, County Louth ) after him.

Their three-day mission called for them to rendezvous with two different Agena Target Vehicles, undertake two EVAs, and perform fifteen different experiments.

* The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions calls a three-day general strike protesting police interference with union meetings, harassment of trade unionists, and general lawlessness following the general elections, which has led to slow-downs in business.

The town recently celebrated its 150th anniversary with a three-day festival on June 7, 8, and 9, 2008.

Campgrounds packed with tents surround a large stage, and the three-day concert attracts around 50, 000 music-lovers each summer.

It is a three-day event with out-of-town bands playing on the Saturday and local bands & up and coming TCR bands playing on the Sunday and Monday.

) under a producer's agreement with SAG, and the performer has been paid at the appropriate SAG daily, three-day, or weekly rate is then considered " SAG-Eligible.

Every Labor Day weekend the town has an annual three-day celebration honoring Campbell with a car show, food and live music.

Logan hosts the annual " Cache Valley Cruise-In ", Utah's largest automotive event, with a three-day exhibit of special cars and vehicles, concerts, and other activities.

Although other nationalities helped found the town, under colonizer Brigham Young, Icelanders kept their identity and celebrate it with their culture every year during the three-day event.

His manager, Connie Mack, offered Waddell a three-day fishing vacation if he agreed to pitch the second game ( which had been shortened to 5 innings ).

Bahá ' í pilgrimage consists of visiting the holy places in Haifa, Acre, and Bahjí at the Bahá ' í World Centre in northwest Israel, and Bahá ' ís can apply to join an organized nine-day pilgrimage where they are taken to visit the various holy sites, or attend a shorter three-day pilgrimage.

From Cartago a barge-like vessel, the Bessie Brady, was launched in 1872, which cut the three-day freight journey around the lake down to three hours.

After 19½ hours of deliberation over a three-day period, the jury could not reach a unanimous decision on the death penalty.

On that day, Nixon ordered the reseeding of North Vietnamese ports with air-dropped naval mines and that the Joint Chiefs of Staff direct the Air Force to begin planning for a bombing campaign ( a three-day " maximum effort ") which was to begin within 72 hours.

Montana's bar examination also occurs over a three-day period, with a total of 18 hours of testing.

In addition to freight, passengers could go from Washington to Lynchburg in eight hours instead of the three-day travel by stagecoach before the railroad ’ s completion.

* Garth Brooks-The fastest gross income for any event when 51, 000 tickets were sold in less than three hours for his 1997 three-day appearance.