* The Aluk religion in the Toraja society and the people of Tana Toraja, embrace religious rituals such as the funeral ceremony where a sacred cockfight, known as bulangan londong or saung, is an integral part of the ceremony and considered sacred because of the spilling of blood on the earth in spiritual appeasement.

Lake Tana ( also spelled T ' ana, Amharic: ጣና ሐይቅ Ṭānā Hāyḳ ," Lake Tana ," an older variant is Tsana, Ge ' ez ጻና Ṣānā ; sometimes called " Dembiya " after the region to the north of the lake ) is the source of the Blue Nile and is the largest lake in Ethiopia.

Lake Tana is fed by the Lesser Abay, Reb and Gumara Rivers and its surface area ranges from 3, 000 to 3, 500 km² depending on season and rainfall.

On the island of Tana Qirqos is a rock shown to Paul B. Henze, on which he was told the Virgin Mary had rested on her journey back from Egypt ; he was also told that Frumentius, who introduced Christianity to Ethiopia, is " allegedly buried on Tana Cherqos.

Eight of these are piscivorous and an important prey is the small Barbus tanapelagius, another endemic of the lake ( B. humilis and B. pleurogramma also occur in Lake Tana, but neither is endemic ).

Lake Tana supports a large fishing industry, mainly involving the Labeobarbus barbs ( formerly in genus Barbus ), Nile tilapia and sharptooth catfish ( a large catfish that is widespread in Africa ).

Numerous wetland birds, such as great white pelican and African darter, reside at Lake Tana, and it is an important resting ground for many Palearctic migrant waterbirds.

Cagayan Valley ( Lambak ng Cagayan in Filipino ; Tana ' nak Cagayan in the Ibanag language ; Tanap ti Cagayan in the Ilocano language ) is a region of the Philippines, also designated as Region II or Region 02.

Aluk or Aluk To Dolo a sect of Agama Hindu Dharma as a part of religion in Indonesia, within the Toraja society and the people of Tana Toraja, embrace religious rituals such as the funeral ceremony where a sacred cockfight is an integral part of the religious ceremony and considered sacred within that spiritual realm.

The Blue Nile (; transliterated: ʿAbbai, but pronounced Abbai, ) is a river originating at Lake Tana in Ethiopia.

Although there are several feeder streams that flow into Lake Tana, the sacred source of the river is generally considered to be a small spring at Gish Abbai at an altitude of approximately.

The municipality is situated along the upper river basin of the Deatnu / Tana river, and its tributaries Anárjohka and Kárášjohka, and includes large tracts of the high plateau of Finnmarksvidda.

Deatnu ( Northern Sami ) or Tana ( Norwegian ) is a municipality in Finnmark county, Norway.

The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Tana Bru.

Tana is a Norwegianized form of the Sami name Deatnu.

Deatnu-Tana is situated along the lower river basin of the Tana, which borders Finland along most of its course.

There, McCandless headed down the snow-covered trail to begin an odyssey with only 10 pounds of rice, a. 22 caliber rifle, several boxes of rifle rounds, a camera, and a small selection of reading material – including a field guide to the region's edible plants, Tana ' ina Plantlore.

The district surrounds the Namdalen valley and the river Namsen, one of the best salmon rivers in Europe ( only the Tana river in Finnmark yields a larger catch of salmon ).

Ahmad's invasion of Ethiopia is described in detail in the Futuh al-habaša (" The Conquest of Ethiopia "), written in Arabic by Ahmad's follower Sihab ad-Din Admad ibn ' Abd-al-Qadir, in its current version incomplete, covering the story only to 1537, narrating the Imam's raids on the islands of Lake Tana.

Dembiya was incorporated into the Begemder province ( which previously only included lands to the east of Lake Tana ) during the reign of Emperor Haile Selassie, and in 1996 became a woreda of the Amhara Region.

The Blue Nile, which originates at Lake Tana in Ethiopia, provides on average some 58 % of the Nile's Egyptian waters.

No 3: north from Addis Ababa across the Blue Nile at Dejen and again at Bahir Dar east around Lake Tana 979 km via Gondar and Aksum to Adwa.

Other important islands in Lake Tana include Dek, Mitraha, Gelila Zakarias, Halimun, and Briguida.

The monasteries are believed to rest on earlier religious sites and include the fourteenth century Debre Maryam, the eighteenth century Narga Selassie, Tana Qirqos ( said to have housed the Ark of the Covenant before it was moved to Axum ), and Ura Kidane Mehret, known for its regalia.

Based on drawings and models from ancient Egypt, the first boat, named Ra ( after the Egyptian Sun god ), was constructed by boat builders from Lake Chad using papyrus reed obtained from Lake Tana in Ethiopia and launched into the Atlantic Ocean from the coast of Morocco.

* The Portuguese defeat the Muslims near Lake Tana.

A number of rivers cross the plateau — notably the Blue Nile rising from Lake Tana.

* In the Marquesas Islands, the equivalent deities are Tana ' oa or Taka ' oa.

, members of the Garfield City Council are Mayor Frank J. Calandriello, Louis G. Aloia, Joseph Delaney and Tana M. Raymond, with one seat vacant.

On Fridays, the day when many Persians relax with poetry, talk, and a samovar, people do not, it is true, stream into Chehel Sotun -- a pavilion and garden built by Shah Abbas 2, in the seventeenth century -- but they do retire into hundreds of pavilions throughout the city and up the river valley, which are smaller, more humble copies of the former.

Here, on the hottest day, it is cool beneath the stone and fresh from the water flowing in the sluices at the bottom of the vaults.

Nostalgic Yankee readers of Erskine Caldwell are today informed by proud Georgians that Tobacco Road is buried beneath a four-lane super highway, over which travel each day suburbanite businessmen more concerned with the Dow-Jones average than with the cotton crop.

It is much less difficult now than in Lincoln's day to see that on both sides sovereign Americans had given their lives in the Civil War to maintain the balance between the powers they had delegated to the States and to their Union.

In fact the accumulation of the hardware of destruction is day by day increasing our fear of each other.

He terms this early enthusiasm `` Romantic Christianity '' and concludes that its similarity to democratic beliefs of that day is so great that `` the doctrine of liberty seems but a secular version of its counterpart in evangelical Protestantism ''.

Here, on a desk, is a stack of pamphlets representing the efforts of some of the best men of the day to penetrate these questions.

It is really the funeral day of scholastic science.

F.S.C. Northrop, in his discussion of The `` Functions And Future Of Poetry '', suggests this: `` One of the things which makes our lives drab and empty and which leaves us, at the end of the day, fatigued and deflated spiritually is the pressure of the taxing, practical, utilitarian concern of common-sense objects.

I suppose the day will inevitably come when the area will be encrusted with developments, but at present it is deserted and seductive.

`` The reason for this '', the orders said, `` is that the enemy may think to take advantage of the celebration of this day.

Krim's main attack is upon the aesthetic and the publishing apparatus of American literary culture in our day.

Around that statue in the green park where children play and lovers walk in twos and there is a glowing view of the whole city, in that park are the rows of marble busts of Garibaldi's fallen men, the ones who one day rushed out of the Porta San Pancrazio and, under fire all the way, up the long, straight narrow lane to take, then lose the high ground of the Villa Doria Pamphili.

Across the way from the apartment building is a ruined house, shot to hell that day in 1849, and left that way as a memorial.

Prince Sihanouk's powers of prognostication some day may be confirmed but history is not likely to praise the courage of his convictions.

It is indeed true, as stated in the famous novel of our day, `` For Whom The Bell Tolls '', that `` no man is an island, entirely of itself ; ;

Our only obligation for this day is to vote, free of persuasion, for the person we feel is capable in directing the public.

Marlene ( surname: Adamo ), 25, a Brazilian divorcee who learned the dance from Arabic friends in Paris, now lives on Manhattan's West Side, is about the best belly dancer working the Casbah, loves it so much that she dances on her day off.

`` Our objective '', the colonel had said that day of the briefing, `` is Papa-san ''.

One day, Ching had told him ( smiling, patting him on the back ) as they walked to the weekly conference of squad leaders, `` Keep it up, your squad is good, one of the best, keep it up, keep up the good work ''.

`` This is moving day '', Winston reminded her, `` and I bet you left things every which way upstairs, your clothes all over the floor and the bed not made.

The day is now appropriately set aside to honor the American men and women who have contributed to the success of our merchant marine fleet in peace and war.