Diwali also coincides with British Bonfire Night traditions on November the 5th.

* Bonfire Night, several traditions of bonfire celebrations

Such traditions involve university sponsored events such as Silver Taps honoring students who have died, to student run events, which include the Student Bonfire.

Starting in the 1970s, the students of Texas A & M at Galveston created their own Aggie Bonfire, mirroring the traditions of the College Station student body.

In the early 1990s, Willis's career suffered a moderate slump starring in flops such as The Bonfire of the Vanities, Striking Distance, and a film he co-wrote titled Hudson Hawk, among others.

) The recordings featured session players associated with Fowley projects such as guitarist Mars Bonfire, formerly of an early version of Steppenwolf and keyboardist Billy Bizeau, formerly of The Quick, as well as members of the band itself.

* 1666 – Second Anglo-Dutch War: Rear Admiral Robert Holmes leads a raid on the Dutch island of Terschelling, destroying 150 merchant ships, an act later known as " Holmes's Bonfire ".

The town was burnt to the ground by the English on this occasion which would become known as " Holmes's Bonfire " after the English admiral Holmes, the Great Fire of London in the very same year was considered by some to have been God's retribution.

After this, the hobbits cleared a long strip of land on the outside of the Hedge and created a large bonfire in an area that later became known as The Bonfire Glade.

Guy Fawkes Night, also known as Guy Fawkes Day, Bonfire Night and Firework Night, is an annual commemoration observed on 5 November, primarily in England.

Released eleven years after Wolfe's bestselling novel The Bonfire of the Vanities, A Man in Full was widely anticipated ; Wolfe was known to be working on the research for this follow-up effort for several years.

Both he and his brother Dennis, also known as Mars Bonfire, changed their surnames to Edmonton during the 1960s, when they performed in a group called The Sparrows.

Bonfire ( originally Cacumen ) is a German heavy metal band, founded in Ingolstadt, Germany in 1972.

The song was also recorded by German heavy metal band Bonfire for a Wes Craven movie Shocker.

Ballycraigy Bonfire Entrance to the Loyalist Ballycraigy housing estate in Antrim with the annual 11th of July bonfire ready to be lit.

A burning torch, discarded on the road in the wake of the Lewes Bonfire Night celebrations.

Image: Lewes Bonfire, Lewes Borough Bonfire Society. jpg | Bonfire Night celebrations in Lewes, Sussex on the 5th November

* August 9 – Rear Admiral Robert Holmes leads a raid on the Dutch island of Terschelling, destroying 150 merchant ships in the Vlie estuary, and pillaging the town of West-Terschelling, an act later referred to as Holmes's Bonfire.

* Many events of Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities center on Wall Street and its culture.

His letter of 9 July 1606 to congratulate James I on his accession to the throne was three years late and seemed to English eyes merely a preamble to what followed, and his reference to the Gunpowder Plot, made against the life of the monarch and all the members of Parliament the previous November, was unfortunate for the papal cause, for papal agents were considered by the English to have been involved ( the effigy of Pope Paul V is still burnt every year during the Lewes Bonfire

Bonfire Night Fireworks display in Banbury, UK on November 5 2011.

Not only is the site of historical and cultural interest throughout the year, the station hosts a spectacular fireworks display on the Bonfire weekend.

The mood in the Republic now turned very belligerent, also because in August English vice-admiral Robert Holmes during his raid on the Vlie estuary in August 1666, destroyed about 130 merchantmen ( Holmes's Bonfire ) and sacked the island of Terschelling, setting the town of West-Terschelling aflame.

Arguably the town's most important annual event is Lewes Bonfire, or Bonfire Night-Guy Fawkes Night celebrations on the 5th of November.

Others like an entrenchments on Broad Bank hill at Burwains farm, and Bonfire hill, a possible camp on Shelfield hill around the site of the Victorian Walton Spire, and dykes at Saxifield, Thieveley, Ree Lees, and Broadclough near Bacup, he felt indicated military activity during the period.

Werrington has held a Summer Carnival and Bonfire and Fireworks display every year since the 1970s, in this colorful display they would set two people ( made out of clay ) on fire, which are made by volunteers from the local Scout and Guide Association in conjunction with Werrington Primary School.

Written by Dennis Edmonton, who had begun using the pen name Mars Bonfire, the song had already reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in August 1968.

Schenker has been on the covers of many guitar magazines and has influenced many notable guitar players, including Kirk Hammett and James Hetfield ( Metallica ), Dave Mustaine ( Megadeth ), Adrian Smith ( Iron Maiden ), Randy Rhoads ( Ozzy Osbourne, Quiet Riot ), Michael Amott ( Arch Enemy-Spiritual Beggars ), Chris Caffery ( Savatage ), Gus G ( Ozzy-Firewind ), Vinny Burns ( Dare, ex-Ten ), George Lynch ( Dokken-Lynch Mob ), Doug Aldrich ( Whitesnake-Dio ), Warren DeMartini ( Ratt ), Frank Hannon ( Tesla ), Slash ( Guns N ' Roses-Velvet Revolver ), Michael Wilton ( Queensrÿche ), Paul Gilbert ( Racer X-Mr. Big ), Roland Grapow ( Masterplan-ex-Helloween ), Aaron Aedy ( Paradise Lost ), Alex Skolnick and Eric Peterson ( Testament ), Andy LaRocque ( King Diamond ), Gary Holt ( Exodus ), Erik Turner ( Warrant ), Arjen Lucassen ( Ayreon ), Andy DiGelsomina ( Lyraka ), Hans Ziller ( Bonfire ), Jim Matheos ( Fates Warning ), Michael Denner and Hank Shermann ( Mercyful Fate ), Tak Matsumoto ( B ' z-TMG ), Marty Friedman ( Megadeth-Cacophony ) among many others.

Bonfire at Almadrava beach on Saint John's night.

His flag-draped coffin was borne on a gun carriage and the mourners – who included Sir Arthur Currie and many of McCrae's friends and staff – were preceded by McCrae's charger, " Bonfire ", with McCrae's boots reversed in the stirrups.

Savonarola rode to power on a widespread backlash over the secularism and indulgence of the Renaissance – his brief rule saw many works of art destroyed in the " Bonfire of the Vanities " in the centre of Florence.

The village fete is held in May each year on Gosden Common and the village Bonfire in November is a huge local event.

Besides " That's What I Love About Sunday ," six more of his singles have reached that chart's Top Ten: " Almost Home ," " Redneck Yacht Club ," " Little Bit of Life ," " International Harvester ", " Love Remembers " and " Bonfire.

The following is a chronology of the various band members of Bonfire from 1978 to the present.

Traditionally, the Wednesday before the Homecoming dance is when the Homecoming Coronation and Bonfire take place.

Soon after, she landed a small part in The Bonfire of the Vanities ( 1990 ), as Tom Hanks's daughter.

During his rule, un-Christian books, statues, poetry, and other items were burned ( in the Bonfire of the Vanities ), sodomy was made a capital offense, and other Christian practices became law.

Hanks then suffered a pile of box-office failures: The ' Burbs ( 1989 ), Joe Versus the Volcano ( 1990 ), and The Bonfire of the Vanities ( 1990 ), as a greedy Wall Street type who gets enmeshed in a hit-and-run accident.

* Salamon, Julie, ( 1991 ), The Devil's Candy: The Bonfire of the Vanities Goes to Hollywood, Boston, ISBN 978-0385308243

The Croatian Minute Movie Cup — an international festival featuring one minute long movies — and the national dog show are held in May The events in June are St. John's Bonfire ( 21 June ), Kulenijada — a special event dedicated to presentation and tasting of the very best kulen ( Slavonian paprika-flavoured sausages ), served with quality local wines.

* The Best ( VHS ), a 1993 video by Bonfire