According to some scholars, All Hallows ' Eve initially incorporated traditions from pagan harvest festivals and festivals honoring the dead, particularly the Celtic Samhain ; other scholars maintain that the feast originated entirely independently of Samhain.

Tenkara originated in the mountains of Japan as a way for professional fishermen and inn-keepers to harvest the local fish, Ayu, trout, char for selling and providing a meal to their guests.

' Pinamungahan ", which originated from the Visayan word ' Pinamuhuan ', meaning a worker share for his effort during a farm harvest.

Beating the bounds had a religious side in the practice which originated the term Rogation, the accompanying clergy being supposed to beseech ( rogare ) the divine blessing upon the parish lands for the ensuing harvest.

The name Van Mahotsava ( the festival of trees ) originated in July 1947 after a successful tree-planting drive was undertaken in Delhi, in which national leaders like Jawaharlal Nehru, Dr Rajendra Prasad and Abdul Kalam Azad participated.

The Love Parade () was a popular electronic dance music festival and parade that originated in 1989 in West Berlin, Germany.

The theme of Spamarama is gentle parody of Spam, rather than straightforward celebration: the event at the heart of the festival is a Spam cook-off that originated as a challenge to produce an appetizing recipe for the meat.

The most popular style of music in Nicaragua is palo de Mayo, which is both a type of dance music and a festival where the dance ( and music ) originated.

Clermont-Ferrand also hosts world's first international short film festival which originated in 1979.

The 2009 Eyo carnival ( a yearly festival originated from Iperu Remo, Ogun State ) which took place on April 25, was a step toward world city status.

Pausanias noted that for about half a century the only event at the ancient Greek Olympic festival was the race that comprised one length of the stade at Olympia, where the word " stadium " originated.

Having originated in the late 1960s and early 1970s in the form of the free festival movement, mutating through protest camps ( thus incorporating elements of earlier radical tendencies such as the beat and peace movements ) and into punk through bands such as Crass, DIY culture became something of a recognised movement in the 1990s in the UK, where the protest ( the direct action ) and party ( the festival ) converged.

Typically served with thousand island dressing as an appetizer or snack, they originated at Mader's, a German restaurant in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where chef Dennis Wegner created them for a summer festival in about 1990.

The festival is held to drive away evil spirits from Mizusawa ; this originated after a great fire which destroyed most of the city.

Since Yosakoi dance originated in Kōchi Prefecture, many cities around the prefecture hold smaller-scale festivals in relation to the main three-day Yosakoi festival in Kōchi, which draws groups of performers from all over Japan.

The festival originated from Hanshi Day (, literally, Day with cold food only ), a memorial day for Jie Zitui ().

Palo de Mayo is the name given to the dance as well as the music genre that originated in the festival of the same name that is celebrated every day of May annually in Nicaragua.

The Muixeranga, a street festival, is an important tradition that originated in Valencia.

There is also a Makguksu festival ; a cold noodle dish that originated in Chuncheon.

It originated as a small folk festival started on the campus of Southwestern College in 1967.

*" Las Tradicionales " Hatillo Mask Festival (" Día de las Máscaras ")-The Mask Festival began in 1823, and was imported by the immigrants from the Canary Islands, where the traditional festival originated.

According to the festival's co-founder, John Pinder, the idea of holding an international comedy festival originated in the early 1980s.

The festival originated as a way of supporting Mumia Abu-Jamal, who has been convicted of murdering a policeman but is considered by some on the Left to be a political prisoner.

According to the ancient historical record known as the Nihon Shoki, the festival originated during the reign of Emperor Kinmei ( reigned CE 539-571 ).

Festival was a touring summer rock music festival originated by the musical group Blues Traveler in 1992.

The Bonfires festival was originated in 1928.

The Celtic festival of Samhain, known as Halloween, originated in Ireland and is now celebrated all over the world.

Brie is a soft cow's cheese named after Brie, the French region from which it originated ( roughly corresponding to the modern département of Seine-et-Marne ).

Having originated from Persis, roughly corresponding to the modern Iranian province of Fars, Cyrus has played a crucial role in defining the national identity of modern Iran.

* This article originated as a translation of the corresponding article in the Spanish-language Wikipedia.

This article originated as a translation of the corresponding article in the German-language Wikipedia.

The descriptor " Finite-difference time-domain " and its corresponding " FDTD " acronym were originated by Allen Taflove in a 1980 paper in IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility.

The part that describes the aim, foundation, and methods of the science of history is valuable ; but what is most distinctive in Buchez's theory is the division of historical development into four great epochs originated by four universal revelations, of each epoch into three periods corresponding to desire, reasoning, and performance — and of each of these periods into a theoretical and practical ageis merely ingenious ( see Flint's Philosophy of History in Europe, i. 242-252 ).

It originated as an extension of the 8086 instruction set in the form of optional floating point coprocessors that worked in tandem with corresponding x86 CPUs.

According to scholar Alan Dundes, who wrote extensively on the topic, the custom originated among Romani Gypsies in Wales ( Welsh Kale Gypsies ) and England ( English Romanichal Gypsies ).

Sullivan III, however, argued that the custom originated among the Welsh people themselves, since the custom was known in Wales prior to the 1700s when he believed Gypsies arrived there.

The name Mercia is Old English for " boundary folk " ( see Welsh Marches ), and the traditional interpretation is that the kingdom originated along the frontier between the native Welsh and the Anglo-Saxon invaders.

Ebensburg originated in November 1796, when Congregational Minister Rhees Lloyd led a small party of 20 Welsh from Philadelphia to the lands Morgan John Rhees had chosen for his Welsh colony.

Glynis Johns ( born 5 October 1923 ) is a South African-born Welsh stage and film actress, dancer, pianist and singer ( notably of " Send in the Clowns ", which she originated in Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music, and " Sister Suffragette " which was written for her for Walt Disney's musical motion picture, Mary Poppins written by the Sherman Brothers ).

The suburb of Prendergast seems to have originated as an extramural Welsh dormitory, dating from the times when all agricultural trade had to pass through the borough, and the fearful Normans before the destruction of Anglo-Norman power in 1136 tried to prevent Welshmen bearing arms from entering within the castle walls after nightfall.

The Welsh corgi () is a small type of herding dog that originated in Wales.

There are two breeds of Welsh corgis, the Cardigan and the Pembroke, each named for the counties in Wales where they originated.

Pembroke Welsh Corgis ( counter parts of the Cardigan Welsh Corgi ) originated in Pembroke.

The name " Mercia " comes from the Old English for " boundary folk ", and the traditional interpretation was that the kingdom originated along the frontier between the Welsh and the Anglo-Saxon invaders, although P. Hunter Blair has argued an alternative interpretation that they emerged along the frontier between the Saxon Kingdom of Northumbria and the inhabitants of the River Trent valley.

The Pembroke Welsh Corgi () is a herding dog breed, which originated in Pembrokeshire, Wales.

The Sealyham Terrier is a rare Welsh breed of small to medium-sized terrier that originated in Wales as a working dog.

A number of legal terms have been shown to have originated in the period before the Celtic Languages split up because they are preserved in both Old Irish and in the Welsh legal texts.

The triad form probably originated amongst the Welsh bards or poets as a mnemonic aid in composing their poems and stories, and later became a rhetorical device of Welsh literature.

Alternatively, however, the term may have originated from " Dafydd " ( David ) which is a popular Welsh first name.

Much attention was paid to the controversial casting choices of Al Pacino and Michelle Pfeiffer, two actors perceived as " beautiful movie stars " with Hollywood glamour, cast to play " lonely little people struggling to find love ," originated by supposed " ordinary " actors Kenneth Welsh and Kathy Bates.

However, the American Heritage Dictionary suggests the word " penguin ," which may be derived from the Welsh pen gwyn meaning " white head ," originated with the name of the island and subsequently become an synonym for " Great Auk.

It has been given the nickname of ' the Rah ' by its locals, the name originated from indigenous language, or from the Welsh word for pit pony.