In Great Britain from the 13th century, Midsummer was celebrated on Midsummer Eve ( St. John's Eve, June 23 ) and St. Peter's Eve ( June 28 ) with the lighting of bonfires, feasting and merrymaking.

Whereas Guy Fawkes ' night in most parts of Great Britain is traditionally commemorated at large public fireworks displays or small family bonfires, towns in Sussex and Kent hold huge gala events with fires, parades and festivals.

Such mannerisms would be less worthy of remark, were it not that in Great Expectations, as in no other of Dickens' novels, hands serve as a leitmotif of plot and theme -- a kind of unifying symbol or natural metaphor for the book's complex of human interrelationships and the values and attitudes that motivate them.

Secretary-General Hammarskjold decided that it would be preferable if the U.N. troops sent into the Congo were to come from African, or at least nonwhite, nations -- certainly not from the U.S., Russia, Great Britain or France.

However Abdul is a common Arabic prefix meaning " Servant of the " and " Al " is Arabic for " the ", and if " hazra " means " he prohibited ", " he fenced in " or " Great Lord ", then the name would mean " Servant of the Prohibited ", " Servant of the Fenced in ", or " Servant of the Great Lord " which would make sense considering his role, even if it is not a proper Arabic name.

In a famous passage that is often considered the first specimen of alternative history, Livy speculates on what would have been the outcome of a military showdown between Alexander the Great and the Roman Republic.

Construction on what would in time become the world famous Great Mosque of Córdoba was started circa the year 786.

Immediately, Peel hoped that the repeal of the tariff on wheat ( the Corn Laws ) and the resultant influx of cheaper wheat into Britain would remedy the suffering caused by the Great Famine in Ireland due to the successive failure of potato crops.

Bede would also have been familiar with more recent accounts such as Eddius Stephanus's Life of Wilfrid, and anonymous Lives of Gregory the Great and Cuthbert.

Hogarth reported that Hussein " would not accept an independent Jewish State in Palestine, nor was I instructed to warn him that such a state was contemplated by Great Britain ".

At a War Cabinet meeting, held on 31 October 1917, Balfour suggested that a declaration favorable to Zionist aspirations would allow Great Britain " to carry on extremely useful propaganda both in Russia and America "

However, according to The Jewish Alchemists, Maria the Jewess was an ancient alchemist who lived in Alexandria, which would seem to contradict the tradition that she was Moses ' sister: Alexandria was founded by Alexander the Great in 334 BC, while Moses is thought to have lived around 1450-1200 BC.

The feature shown here as a bay would, in certain ( mainly southern ) parts of Great Britain | Britain, be called a cove.

He furthermore warned that " the transfer of Cuba to Great Britain would be an event unpropitious to the interest of this Union.

Early Christendom would close at the end of imperial persecution of Christians after the ascension of Constantine the Great and the Edict of Milan in AD 313 and the First Council of Nicaea in 325.

The controversy would surface in the Thomas Becket affair under Henry II of England, the Great Charter of 1217, the Statutes of Mortmain and the battles over Cestui que use of Henry VII of England, and finally come to a head under Henry VIII of England.

The Great Powers, defined in the 1815 Congress of Vienna as the United Kingdom, Habsburg Austria, Prussia, France, and Russia, would frequently coordinate interventions in other nations ' civil wars, nearly always on the side of the incumbent government.

Following this example, Quixote would suggest ' The Great Quijano ', a play on words that makes much sense in light of the character's delusions of grandeur.

Herodotus records that when heralds of the Persian king Darius the Great demanded " earth and water " ( i. e., symbols of submission ) of various Greek cities, the Athenians threw them into a pit and the Spartans threw them down a well for the purpose of suggesting they would find both earth and water at the bottom, these often being mentioned by the messenger as a threat of siege.

In the Orthodox Church, Great Lent begins on Clean Monday, rather than Wednesday, so the household's dairy products would be used up in the preceding week, called Cheesefare Week.

If written by James the Great, the location would have also been Jerusalem, sometime before 45AD.

The doctors would look at the immigrants as they climbed the stairs from the baggage area to the Great Hall.

The primary goal of these Great Synods was to verify and confirm the fundamental beliefs of the Church as truth, and to remove as heresy any false teachings that would threaten the Church.

* 1913 – Confederate veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913 reenact Pickett's Charge ; upon reaching the high-water mark of the Confederacy they are met by the outstretched hands of friendship from Union survivors.

Although Abu Ma ' shar al-Balkhi | Abu Ma ' shar believed Ptolemy to be one of the Ptolemaic dynasty | Ptolemies who ruled Egypt after the conquest of Alexander the Great | Alexander the title ‘ King Ptolemy ’ is generally viewed as a mark of respect for Ptolemy's elevated standing in science.

This honour was bestowed on him after his resignation from the Savilian chair in Oxford, by which time he had already begun to make his mark as an architect, both in services to the Crown and in playing an important part in rebuilding London after the Great Fire.

In popular imagery, the crash has come to mark the beginning of the Great Depression.

The Treaty of Nanking ( or Nanjing ) was signed on 29 August 1842 to mark the end of the First Opium War ( 1839 – 42 ) between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Qing Dynasty of China.

His meeting with Pope Paul VI in 1964 in Jerusalem led to rescinding the excommunications of 1054 which historically mark the Great Schism, the schism between the churches of the East and West.

The council would mark the end of the Great Schism.

Along Chesapeake's segment of the Intracoastal Waterway, where the Great Bridge locks mark the transition between the Southern Branch of the Elizabeth River and the Chesapeake and Albemarle Canal, lies the site of the Battle of Great Bridge.

Generally, these are referred to as city walls or town walls, although there were also walls, such as the Great Wall of China, Hadrian's Wall, and the metaphorical Atlantic Wall, which extended far beyond the borders of a city and were used to enclose regions or mark territorial boundaries.

Emperor Ashoka the Great erected the capital to mark the spot where Gautama Buddha first taught the Dharma and where the Buddhist Sangha was founded.

Alfred the Great gradually shifted the settlement into the old Roman town of Londinium from around 886 AD onwards, leaving no mark of the old town, and the site returned to fields.

The Professional Golfers ' Association of Great Britain and Ireland also mark the achievements of their own members in the Open.

In October / November 2008, Rowan Tree Theatre Co. in the Scottish Borders, mounted a production of the play to mark the 90th anniversary of the end of the Great War and in celebration of the company's twenty first birthday.

In A tour thro ' the Whole Island of Great Britain, written between 1724 and 1726, Daniel Defoe described the area as barren and sterile ; " a mark of the just resentment shew ’ d by Heaven upon the Englishmen ’ s pride ... horrid and frightful to look on, not only good for little, but good for nothing ".

Alfred the Great gradually moved the settlement into the old Roman town of Londinium from around 886 AD onwards, leaving no mark of the old town, and the area returned to fields.

The Pacific Great Eastern Railway used the reporting mark PGE.

The other notable structure is the Ivan the Great Bell Tower on the north-east corner of the square, which is said to mark the exact centre of Moscow and resemble a burning candle.

On top of this, the Great Mogul reveals, “ God has set his seal upon me, and all his creatures respect this fatal mark ”.

This refers to the burning cross on his forehead, a mark of God that gives the Great Mogul his power to destroy evil spirits, such as the Bleeding Nun.

The two arches mark the two entrances to Great Celebrations square and the parade-ground constructed to commemorate then Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's false, self proclaimed declaration of victory over Iran in the Iran-Iraq war.

Whenever ships of the Royal Navy visited the area, they always lowered their flags as they passed his house, a mark of respect accorded to him because — according to local rumour — d ' Esterre had been involved in secret service activities during the Great War.

These and the poems Bas-Bleu and Florio ( 1786 ) mark her gradual transition to more serious views of life, which were fully expressed in prose, in her Thoughts on the Importance of the Manners of the Great to General Society ( 1788 ), and An Estimate of the Religion of the Fashionable World ( 1790 ).

When an addition was built for the Great Northern's Seattle commissary in 1914, a Railway Age reporter wrote, " A large trade mark, in the shape of a baked potato, 40 ft. long and 18 ft. in diameter, surmounts the roof.