Alcaeus was a contemporary and a countryman of Sappho and, since both poets composed for the entertainment of Mytilenean friends, they had many opportunities to associate with each other on a quite regular basis, such as at the Kallisteia, an annual festival celebrating the island's federation under Mytilene, held at the ' Messon ' ( referred to as temenos in fr. s 129 and 130 ), where Sappho performed publicly with female choirs.

Van Mahotsav is an annual pan-Indian tree planting festival, occupying a week in the month of July. During this event millions of trees are planted.

The perseverance of the Pilgrims is celebrated during the annual Thanksgiving festival.

Alexandria is also known as " Small Town USA " and holds an annual festival to honor this heritage.

The city is home to the Atlanta Dogwood Festival, an annual arts and crafts festival held one weekend during early April, when the native dogwoods are in bloom.

They perform at both military and civilian airfields, and often perform directly over major cities such as San Francisco's " Fleet Week " maritime festival, Cleveland's annual Labor Day Air Show, the Chicago Air and Water Show, and Seattle's annual Seafair festival.

The park also hosts the annual Taste of Chicago festival.

The annual summer festival, the Taste of Chicago in Grant Park, highlights food in the city with many local restaurants taking part.

Begun by Spencer in 1814, the annual gathering of the Big August Quarterly still draws people together in a religious and cultural festival, the oldest such cultural festival in the nation.

Another regular Delphi festival was the " Theophania " ( Θεοφάνεια ), an annual festival in spring celebrating the return of Apollo from his winter quarters in Hyperborea.

Taking in Europe and North America, the tour opened at London's annual Meltdown festival, for which Bowie was that year appointed artistic director.

Evidence for another kind of annual Christian festival, the commemoration of martyrs, begins to appear at about the same time as evidence for the celebration of Easter.

* Ellensburg hosts the annual Jazz in the Valley music festival on the last weekend in July.

Chinese dragon kite more than one hundred feet long which flew in the annual Berkeley, California, kite festival in 2000.

The Shaw Festival, an annual theater festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada began as an eight week run of Don Juan in Hell ( as the long third act dream sequence of Man And Superman is called when staged alone ) and Candida in 1962, and has grown into an annual festival with over 800 performances a year, dedicated to producing the works of Shaw and his contemporaries.

Brian Ritchie curates the annual international arts festival MONA FOMA, held in Hobart.

MONA, the Museum of Old and New Art opened in 2011 to coincide with the third annual MONA FOMA festival.

Though the number of people flowing in and out of our metropolitan areas each day has increased tremendously since World War 2,, total annual rail commutation dropped 124 million for 1947 to 1957.

The annual spring meeting has given an impetus in three main directions: more, deeper, and more timely political consultation within the alliance, the use of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development ( when ratified ) as a method of coordinating aid to the underdeveloped countries, and the need for strengthening conventional forces as well as the maintenance of the nuclear deterrent.

Martin, who has been in office in Washington, D. C., for 13 months spoke at the council's annual meeting at the Multnomah Hotel.

The committee for the annual Central City fashion show has been announced by Mrs. D. W. Moore, chairman.

For 10 years Sponsor has issued an annual survey of the size and characteristics of the Negro market and of successful techniques for reaching this market through radio.

At present the region is home to 14 million people and has 120 million annual visitors.

His successor President Barack Obama has expressed his desire to recognize the Armenian Genocide during the electoral campaigns, but after being elected, has not used the word genocide in his first annual April 24 speech in 2009.

Another Indian annual, A. hypochondriacus ( prince's feather ), has deeply veined lance-shaped leaves, purple on the under face, and deep crimson flowers densely packed on erect spikes.

Founded in 1920 by Crystal Eastman, Roger Baldwin and Walter Nelles, the ACLU has over 500, 000 members and has an annual budget over $ 100 million.

Argentine annual consumption of beef has averaged 100 kg ( 220 lbs ) per capita, approaching 180 kg ( 396 lbs ) per capita during the 19th century ; consumption averaged 67. 7 kg ( 149 lbs ) in 2007.

It is developing as an annual autumn event in his native town of Legnago where a theater has been renamed in his honor.

Due to the blocking presence of successive mountain ranges, the Interior of the province has a semi-arid climate with certain locations receiving less than 250 mm ( 10 ") in annual precipitation.

This fact, together with annual GDP growth of above 5 %, has brought the government indebtedness to 22. 8 % of GDP in 2006 from 67. 3 % five years earlier.

At the same time annual inflation in the economy was variable and during the last five years ( 2003 – 2007 ) has seen a low of 2. 3 % and high of 7. 3 %.

Also in the Twin Cities area, the local chapter of the Alliance Française has hosted an annual event for years at varying locations with a competition for the " Best Baguette of the Twin Cities.

:* St. Louis has annual festivals in both the Soulard neighborhood and the former French village of Carondelet, Missouri which include reenactments of the beheading of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI, as well as reconstructed French fur trading posts.

* 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.

Since 2011 the town has also been host to the annual Charlie Chaplin Comedy Film Festival, which was founded to celebrate Chaplin's legacy and to showcase new comic talent.

Cameroon, has an average annual rainfall of.

The government has set targets of annual 5 % growth and 25 % inflation for 2000-2001.

A microthermal climate is one of low annual mean temperatures, generally between and which experiences short summers and has a potential evaporation between and.

The parish council, which has 15 members who are elected for four years, is responsible for local issues, including setting an annual precept ( local rate ) to cover the council ’ s operating costs and producing annual accounts for public scrutiny.

Every taxpayer is well aware of the vast size of our annual defense budget and most of our readers also realize that a large portion of these expenditures go for military electronics.

Present conservation practices regard wildlife, not as an expendable natural resource, but as an annual harvest to be sown and also reaped.

But the really controversial aspect of customer-cost imputation arises because of the cost analyst's frequent practice of including, not just those costs that can be definitely earmarked as incurred for the benefit of specific customers but also a substantial fraction of the annual maintenance and capital costs of the secondary ( low-voltage ) distribution system -- a fraction equal to the estimated annual costs of a hypothetical system of minimum capacity.

The genus also contains several well-known ornamental plants, such as Amaranthus caudatus ( love-lies-bleeding ), a native of India and a vigorous, hardy annual with dark purplish flowers crowded in handsome drooping spikes.

Agricultural needs were also met by increasing knowledge of constellations, whose appearances change with the seasons, allowing the rising of particular star-groups to herald annual floods or seasonal activities.

Pushkar is also famous for its annual Pushkar Fair.

Most of the special interest groups also have an annual conference.

Athanasius did, however, remain in contact with his people through his annual Festal Letters, in which he also announced on which date Easter would be celebrated that year.

However, many " free " BBSes also maintained close knit communities, and some even had annual or bi-annual events where users would travel great distances to meet face-to-face with their on-line friends.

However, Bethlehem is affected also by annual waves of hot, dry, sandy and dust Khamaseen winds from the Arabian Desert, during April, May and mid-June.

Tiffany & Co., for example, pays directors an annual retainer of $ 46, 500, an additional annual retainer of $ 2, 500 if the director is also a chairperson of a committee, a per-meeting-attended fee of $ 2, 000 for meetings attended in person, a $ 500 fee for each meeting attended via telephone, in addition to stock options and retirement benefits.

It is also possible that he agreed to pay an annual tribute in return for the Goths ' promise to respect Roman territory.

It also gave support to the Cornish language, and commemorated Thomas Flamank, a leader of the Cornish Rebellion in 1497, at an annual ceremony at Bodmin on 27 June each year.

The Campaign also organises an annual Great British Beer Festival in August, in London.

Cairo, like many other mega-cities, suffers from high levels of pollution and traffic, but its metro – one of only two metros on the African continent ( the other one being the Algiers Metro ) – also ranks among the fifteen busiest in the world, with over 1, 000 million annual passenger rides.

Most of the plants in this family are annual vines but there are also woody lianas, thorny shrubs, and trees ( Dendrosicyos ).

Branch churches also sponsor annual public talks ( called lectures ) given by speakers selected annually by the Board of Lectureship in Boston.

There are also clubs in many Universities and Colleges, with an annual Varsity match being played between Oxford and Cambridge.

The Indians also have a rivalry with the Pittsburgh Pirates, as the two teams play an annual three game series during interleague play in June, playing in Cleveland during even numbered years, and in Pittsburgh in odd number seasons.

Earnhardt also became the first repeat winner of the annual all-star race, The Winston.