" The Abyssinians possess also the Ark of the Covenant ", he wrote, and, after a description of the object, describes how the liturgy is celebrated upon the Ark four times a year, " on the feast of the great nativity, on the feast of the glorious Baptism, on the feast of the holy Resurrection, and on the feast of the illuminating Cross.

In large churches where they were celebrated the services were usually grouped ; e. g. Matins and Lauds ( about 7. 30 A. M .); Prime, Terce ( High Mass ), Sext, and None ( about 10 A. M .); Vespers and Compline ( 4 P. M .); and from four to eight hours ( depending on the amount of music and the number of high masses ) are thus spent in choir.

In a memorable NLCS, with four of the five games going into extra innings, they fell behind 2 – 1 but battled back to squeeze past the Houston Astros on a tenth-inning, game-winning hit by center fielder Garry Maddox, and the city celebrated its first pennant in 30 years.

At the midpoints between these four solar events, cross-quarter days are celebrated.

Performed by four of the most celebrated singers of the day, it was an immediate success.

His most celebrated work, the Thesaurus linguae graecae, or Greek thesaurus, which served up to the nineteenth century as the basis of Greek lexicography, appeared in four volumes in 1572, with a supplement in two volumes.

In 2006 the plant celebrated its four millionth car produced.

This day is celebrated with the Procession of Boats, in which the top rowing crews from the top four years row past in vintage wooden rowing boats.

The Sed festival celebrated the thirtieth year of a pharaoh's rule and then every three ( or four in one case ) years after that.

The annual Manchester Chicken Broil serves approximately 12, 000 broiled chicken meals over a four hour span ; it celebrated its 57th anniversary in 2010.

* In November 2006, four celebrated paintings by Gustav Klimt were sold for a total of $ 192 million, after being restituted by Austria to Jewish heirs after a lengthy legal battle.

The Presidency of the European Union adopted a declaration on the occasion stating that " This battle was also the grounds on which the international community of States has developed and adopted instruments of International Humanitarian Law, the international law rules relevant in times of armed conflict, in particular the four Geneva Conventions of 1949, the 60th anniversary of which will be celebrated this year.

This time Ernest Daudet ( a brother of Alphonse Daudet ) made the accusation, claiming that four years earlier, he and Gilbert-Augustin Thierry had written a play, Saint Aubin, which takes place in Paris on the day after the Battle of Marengo ( roughly the same time-setting as La Tosca ) and whose heroine ( like Tosca ) is a celebrated opera singer.

Kamban, in his celebrated Ramayana, makes an explicit reference to the Thiru Vengadam Hills ; he says the truth enshrined in the four Vedas stands out as the eternal satya on the Vengada Hills.

The author tells us that this Office took place at the tenth hour ( four o ' clock in the evening ); it is really the Office des lumières, i. e. of the lights ; it was celebrated in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre ; all the lamps and torches of the church were lighted, making, as the author says, " an infinite light ".

More recent longevity claims are subcategorized by many editions of Guinness World Records into four groups: " In late life, very old people often tend to advance their ages at the rate of about 17 years per decade .... Several celebrated super-centenarians ( over 110 years ) are believed to have been double lives ( father and son, relations with the same names or successive bearers of a title ) .... A number of instances have been commercially sponsored, while a fourth category of recent claims are those made for political ends ...." The estimate of 17 years per decade was corroborated by the 1901 and 1911 British censuses.

This was the turning point for Barry, and he went on to become one of the most celebrated film composers, winning five Academy Awards and four Grammy Awards, with scores for, among others, The Lion in Winter, Midnight Cowboy, Born Free, and Somewhere in Time.

Only four volumes of these Négotiations were published ( 1835 – 1842 ), and they do not go further than the Peace of Nijmwegen ; however, the introduction is celebrated, and Mignet reprinted it in his Mélanges historiques.

His edition of the celebrated Codex Vaticanus Graecus 1209, completed in 1838, but not published ( ostensibly the ground of inaccuracies ) till four years after his death ( 1858 ), is the least satisfactory of his labours and was superseded by the edition of Vercellone and Cozza ( 1868 ), which itself leaves much to be desired.

The trophy has been broken on four other occasions: in 1978, when it was dropped by celebrating Edmonton Eskimos players ; in 1987, when an Eskimos ' player sat on it ; in 1993, when Edmonton's Blake Dermott head-butted it ; and finally in 2006, when the trophy broke away from its base as the BC Lions celebrated their victory.

Curiously, the murder had been predicted to the king four years earlier, when he paid an anonymous visit to the celebrated medium of the Gustavian era, Ulrica Arfvidsson.

Harriette Wilson ( February 22, 1786-March 10, 1845 ) was a celebrated British Regency courtesan, whose clients included the Prince of Wales, the Lord Chancellor and four future Prime Ministers.

In 1977, the University of Houston celebrated its 50th anniversary as the Texas Legislature established the University of Houston System — a state system of higher education that includes and governs four universities.

Geometry as a demonstration of the ordered universe was celebrated throughout Persian gardens from the surface design features to the basic ground plane and its fourfold chahar bagh format, representing the four corners of the world in the ancient vernacular, and the four rivers of paradise more predominately associated with the Islamic period.

However, while usually Greek festivals were celebrated at the full moon, all the feasts of Apollo were celebrated at the seventh day of the month, and the emphasis given to that day ( sibutu ) indicates a Babylonian origin.

Alpine festivals vary from country to country and often include the display of local costumes such as dirndl and trachten, the playing of Alpenhorns, wrestling matches, some pagan traditions such as Walpurgis Night, and in many areas Carnival is celebrated before Lent.

Other festivals celebrated here include Carnival, the feast of San Isidro Labrador on 15 May and a crafts and livestock fair called the Nao de China in November.

* New Year festivals in South and Southeast Asian cultures, celebrated on the sidereal vernal equinox:

* Narragansett Brewing Co. ( Providence, Rhode Island ) has been making a bock beer since the repeal of Prohibition in the 1930s, and celebrated the start of spring with annual Bock Beer festivals at the brewery until 1977.

Christmas and other Christian festivals have no religious significance in Judaism and are not celebrated.

The first Christians, Jewish and Gentile, were certainly aware of the Hebrew calendar (; ; ; ; ), but there is no direct evidence that they celebrated any specifically Christian annual festivals.

Like the rest of the Canaries, Carnival is traditionally one of the biggest festivals celebrated on the island.

Though greatest and earliest free-standing temple to Hera was the Heraion of Samos, in the Greek mainland Hera was especially worshipped as " Argive Hera " ( Hera Argeia ) at her sanctuary that stood between the former Mycenaean city-states of Argos and Mycenae, where the festivals in her honor called Heraia were celebrated.

Throughout the country, two minutes of silence are observed at 8 p. m. On May 5th, the liberation is celebrated and festivals are held at most places in the Netherlands, with a parade of veterans and day-long musical festival in Wageningen, the latter with an estimated attendance of 100, 000.

** Isidore the Laborer, celebrated with festivals in various countries, the beginning of bullfighting season in Madrid.

The timing of festivals, and the rites celebrated, may vary from climate to climate, and will also vary ( sometimes widely ) depending upon which particular pagan religion the adherent subscribes to ( see Wheel of the Year ).

These festivals were almost always celebrated at the autunn showing, and at full-moon according to the Greek tradition.

During the Middle Ages, festivals called Round Tables were celebrated throughout Europe in imitation of Arthur's court.

For the vernal ( spring ) equinox, several spring-time festivals are celebrated, such as the Persian Nowruz, the observance in Judaism of Passover and in most Christian churches of Easter.

Outside Israel, the first two days are celebrated as full festivals.

The traditional festivals were now celebrated again, including those related to the Apis Bull, Horemakhet, and Opet.

Two festivals, called Faunalia, were celebrated in his honour — one on the 13th of February, in the temple of Faunus on the island in the Tiber, the other on the 5th of December, when the peasants brought him rustic offerings and amused themselves with dancing ( Peck 1898 ).

The dates of his festivals support the same conclusion: they fall on January 1, March 7 and May 21, the first date being the recurrence of the Agonalia ( dedicated to Janus and celebrated by the king with the sacrifice of a ram ).

Often celebrated religious festivals, weddings, alliances and the whims of her majesty.

Besides being a multilingual country, Singapore also acknowledges festivals celebrated by these three ethnic communities.

The extent to which feasts and festivals are celebrated also varies between churches ; in general, Protestant churches observe far fewer than Catholic and Orthodox, in particular with regard to feasts of the Virgin Mary and the other Saints.

Religious festivals are commonly celebrated on recurring cycles in a calendar year or lunar calendar.