** In the Dominican Republic, Pope John Paul II celebrates the 500th anniversary of the meeting of 2 cultures.

Zazie dans le métro ( Zazie in the Metro ) ( 1959 ) by Raymond Queneau is a popular French novel that humorously celebrates the innocence and precocity of Zazie, who ventures off on her own to explore Paris, escaping from her uncle ( a professional female impersonator ) and her mother ( who is preoccupied by a meeting with her lover ).

For and entire week the town celebrates the arrival of hundreds of local deities on elaborately decorated palanquins.

Marina also celebrates its 1975 incorporation every five years with numerous city wide events, including a Diversity Dinner celebrating the variety of cultures represented in the city.

This settlement represented a real success for the Empire – a poem by Rutilius Namatianus celebrates his voyage back to Gaul in 417 and his confidence in a restoration of prosperity.

* Independence Day, celebrates the day on which Pakistan was made an independent country based on border lines created by the British during the end of their rule of India in 1947.

The People's Republic of China celebrates Arbor Day on March 12, a day founded by Lin Daoyang, continue to use following the date of Arbor Day of Republic of China.

Arabic literature had contributions by thousands of figures, many of them are not only poets but are celebrates in other fields such as politicians, scientists and scholars among others.

It is blessed by the bishop of the diocese at the Chrism Mass he celebrates on Holy Thursday or on a day close to it.

Little is known of the family with certainty ; the Chambers Biographical Dictionary records that they arrived in Spain in the 8th century but the name is familiar from the romance by Ginés Perez de Hita, Guerras civiles de Granada, which celebrates the feuds of the Abencerrages and the rival family of the Zegris, and the cruel treatment to which the former were subjected.

Kiernan's reasoning has in part to do with the much-discussed political context of the poem: it has been held by most scholars, until recently, that the poem was composed in the 8th century on the assumption that a poem eliciting sympathy for the Danes could not have been composed by Anglo-Saxons during the Viking Ages of the 9th and 10th centuries, and that the poem celebrates the namesakes of 8th Century Mercian Kings.

:* Liège celebrates the Bastille Day each year since the end of the First World War, as Liège was decorated by the Légion d ' Honneur for its unexpected resistance during the Battle of Liège.

In 1994, the prayers announced " allowed " by the 1982 Bishops Council of the Anglican Church of Korea was published in a second version of the Book of Common Prayers In 2004, the National Anglican Council published the third and the current Book of Common Prayers known as " seoung-gong-hwe gi-do-seo " or the " Anglican Prayers ", including the Daily Masses, Special Masses, Baptism, Confirmation, Funeral Mass, Wedding Mass, Rite of Ordination Mass, and all of the other events the Anglican Church of Korea celebrates.

* 1777 – The United States celebrates its first Thanksgiving, marking the recent victory by the Americans over General John Burgoyne in the Battle of Saratoga in October.

Founded on 14 June 1848 by the orders of the democratically elected Frankfurt Parliament the Reichsflottes brief existence ended with the failure of the revolution and was disbanded on 2 April 1852 ; thus, the modern Marine celebrates its birthday on 14 June.

At this time Israel was apparently engaged in a three-way contest with Damascus and Tyre for control of the Jezreel Valley and Galilee in the north, and with Moab, Ammon and Damascus in the east for control of Gilead ; the Mesha stele ( c. 830 ), left by a king of Moab, celebrates his success in throwing off the oppression of the " House of Omri " ( i. e. Israel ).

* Independence Day, celebrates the liberation of Minsk from Nazi occupation by Soviet troops in 1944.

* Independence Day, celebrates the declaration of independence of the United Provinces of South America by the Congress of Tucumán in 1816.

Bujold devised for this planet a history which allowed for “ swords ‘ n ’ spaceships .” Barrayar in the lifetime of Miles Vorkosigan commands spaceships, computers, and other high technology, but its culture remembers dueling, examines newborns for defects and practices infanticide if any are found, celebrates the Emperor ’ s birthday by handing him bags of gold, and provides liveried life-sworn servants to carry love-letters sealed with the writer's blood.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. wins the event and celebrates by driving around the track with an American flag out the window.

* January 4 – England celebrates its first ever win over the All Blacks in Rugby Union, in particular the 2 famous tries by " The Prince " HH Alexander Obolensky.

* October 1, 2007: Epcot celebrates its 25th Anniversary with a rededication ceremony, special fireworks display, a gallery exhibition showcasing EPCOT Center memorabilia, and exclusive presentations by Disney Legend Marty Sklar.

This rustic town celebrates Carnival by burning colorful effigies and dressing in carefully crafted, home-made costumes.

The popular Welsh folk song Yma o Hyd, recorded by Dafydd Iwan in 1981, recalls Macsen Wledig and celebrates the continued survival of the Welsh people since his days.

Every fourth Sunday in July, the Portuguese community in Benicia celebrates the feast of the Holy Ghost, commemorating the Queen Saint Isabel of Portugal, with a parade to Saint Dominic's Church followed by mass, an auction and a dance.

This houses a collection of his works and celebrates his literary, artistic and cultural legacy by providing a public gallery as well as performance and workshop spaces for artists, musicians, students, and writers.

Tommy asks what he means by this, but Fiona shushes him and leads him away as Charlie celebrates the end of his bachelorhood (" Go Home with Bonnie Jean ").

A festival or gala is an event, usually and ordinarily staged by a local community, which centers on and celebrates some unique aspect of that community and the Festival.

* 1949: The Chelsea School celebrates its fiftieth anniversary by moving to Eastbourne.

The Orgasmatron celebrates a wide variety of live acts and musical genres picked by Chambers himself, to present the music he knows including big names, rising stars, DJs and dancers.

Pineville still celebrates Jesse James Days annually in homage to the film and the movie stars who descended on the small town to make it.

* In Costa Rica the town of San José de Trojas ( Valverde Vega Canton ) celebrates a tomatine during the local Tomato Fair in February.

During the first week of December, Vega Alta celebrates its patron, The Immaculate Conception.

The country of Georgia celebrates the feast St. George on 23 April and, more prominently, 10 November ( Julian Calendar ), which currently falls on 6 May and 23 November ( Gregorian Calendar ), respectively.

Dil celebrates both Jewish and Christian holidays ( Hanukkah and Christmas for example ), this is due to his Father and Mother being Christian and Jewish, respectively.

Each year, the Eastern Orthodox Church celebrates the anniversary of the consecration of the Church of the Resurrection ( Holy Sepulchre ) on September 13 ( for those churches which follow the traditional Julian calendar, September 13 currently falls on September 26 of the modern Gregorian calendar ).

* May 24 is when Eritrea celebrates its Independence Day ( Independence from Ethiopia ).

He suggested that in the wake of the collapse of modern metanarratives, people are developing a new " language game " -- one that does not make claims to absolute truth but rather celebrates a world of ever-changing relationships ( among people and between people and the world ).

Koolhaas celebrates the " chance-like " nature of city life: " The City is an addictive machine from which there is no escape " " Rem Koolhaas ... defined the city as a collection of “ red hot spots .” ( Anna Klingmann ).

East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall, allowing its citizens to travel freely to West Germany for the first time in decades ( November 17 celebrates Germans began tearing the wall down ).

* Eutropius, Roman general ( magister militum ), celebrates his victory over the Huns (" the wolves of the North ") in a parade through Constantinople ( see 395 ).

* Emperor Probus returns to Rome, where he celebrates his triumph over the Vandals and the usurpers ( Bonosus, Julius Saturninus and Proculus ).

If a bishop or abbot celebrates, he wears a plain mitre ( mitra simplex ).

The city celebrates the feast day of Sant Patllari ( Palladius of Embrun ), and the church of Santa Maria de Camprodon claims his relics, which lie in a 14th century reliquary ( arqueta de Sant Patllari ).

In general, when a bishop celebrates any service other than the Divine Liturgy ( or when he is attending, but not celebrating Liturgy ), he will wear the mantle with Epitrachelion, Cuffs and Omophorion ( the latter being worn outside the mantle ).

A metropolitan archbishop may wear his pallium as a mark of his jurisdiction not only in his own archdiocese but anywhere in his ecclesiastical province whenever he celebrates Mass ( Canon 437, Code of Canon Law, 1983 ).

Every year, on the first week-end of July, the city celebrates the Europafeesten ( feast of Europe ).

On this day also the city of Żejtun celebrates the day, known as Jum iż-Żejtun ( Zejtun's Day ).

The Orthodox Church celebrates the Synaxis of the Archangel Michael and the Other Bodiless Powers on November 8 of Stencyl the Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar ( for those churches which follow the Julian Calendar, November 8 falls on November 21 of the modern Gregorian Calendar ).

The Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria celebrates the feast day of Saint Basil on the 6th of Tobi ( 6th of Terr on the Ethiopian calendar of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church ).

* When a Japanese girl has her first period, the family celebrates by eating red-colored rice and beans ( sekihan ).

Mexico celebrates Independence Day on the 16th of September, commemorating the beginning of the war of Independence ( September 16, 1810, Grito de Dolores ).

In Italy, there's no such holiday around the solstice, except some local one, while the whole country celebrates Ferragosto in August ( one of the most important national public holidays ).

Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix ( 1830 ), which celebrates the July Revolution ( Louvre Museum ).

Poststructuralists in particular saw a poem ’ s resistance and warped language as competing with its harmony and balance that Brooks celebrates ( Leitch 2001 ).

The Marina de Guerra del Perú celebrates on October 8 the anniversary of its creation ( 1821 ) and of the Battle of Angamos ( 1879 ).

The Church normally celebrates this feast on the Sunday after Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord ( 6 January ).

And the third god of the triad this theology too celebrates as Protogonos ( First-Born ) Phanes, and it calls him Zeus the order of all and of the whole world, wherefore he is also called Pan ( παν: all ).