Very soon after his arrival in Little Rock, Pike had joined one of the most influential organizations in town, the Little Rock Debating Society, and it was with this group that he made his debut as an orator, being invited to deliver the annual Fourth of July address the club sponsored every year.

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

The town of Al-Joura was a place of annual festivities ( 4 days in all ) when people of many faiths gathered and bathed in a natural spring.

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.

At the first Town Meeting following the annual town election he is to appoint, subject to Town Meeting's confirmation, a Deputy Moderator from the elected Members.

The town hosts the annual Common Riding, which combines the annual riding of the boundaries of the town's common land with the commemoration of a victory of local youths over an English raiding party in 1514.

The Keystone Kops re-emerge every year in the town of Cedar Springs, Michigan during their Red Flannel Festival, and also in Sitka, Alaska during the annual Alaska Day festival.

Keszthely is the site of the Festetics Palace and Balatonfüred is a historical bathing town which hosts the annual Anna Ball.

Whitstable, Kent, hosts a good example of more traditional May Day festivities, where the Jack in the Green festival was revived in 1976 and continues to lead an annual procession of morris dancers through the town on the May Bank Holiday.

The interest in the first Boat Race and subsequent matches led the town of Henley-on-Thames to begin hosting an annual regatta in 1839.

The small town of Shady Cove, Oregon is home to the annual Spam Parade and Festival, with the city allocating $ 1500 for it.

Fairs have been held by royal charter since 1330 and an annual horse fair is still held on the edge of the town.

He has been instrumental in establishing the annual Umbria Film Festival, held in the nearby hill town of Montone.

There, the Lutheran majority barred the Catholic residents of the Swabian town from holding an annual Markus procession, which provoked a riot.

* 2009: In September 2009, the American Institute for Economic Research ranked Corvallis as the 7th best college town under 250, 000 people in their annual College Destinations Index.

In December 2001, the town responded to complaints from anonymous citizens by banning Santa Claus from the annual holiday parade.

The town hosts the annual Samba festival every summer, where Samba bands from around the world converge on the town for a week of drumming and parades.

The town has also created space-themed murals and signs, and hosts an annual community-wide Star Trek convention known as VulCON: Spock Days / Galaxyfest.

* The Grand Place is the centre of the historic town and the stage for the annual mock-battle of the Lumeçon.

The town has its own arts centre and plays host to the annual Bridgwater Guy Fawkes Carnival.

Each town is governed by a board of selectmen elected by town voters, along with annual and periodic town meetings.

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.

The annual butchery of 40,000 American men, women and children to satiate its blood-lust is excessive ; ;

One indication of the merits of the new management is found in the fact that during the period 1951-1956, while total annual mileage put on the vehicles increased 35%, the total maintenance cost increased only 11%.

Armed Forces Day is the annual report on this investment, a public presentation designed to give our own people, and the people of other lands who stand with us for peace with freedom and justice, the best possible opportunity to see and understand what we have and why we have it.

The Algol, the college annual, is published in the fall of each year.

If your pool is located on or near sloping ground, it may have natural drainage which is certainly more desirable than to be faced with the annual expense and labor of first pumping out the water and then scooping out all the debris.

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.

If you have an annual or regular physical examination program, is it worth what it is costing you??

The average annual rate of 1,083,000 in the second half of the Sixties is still considerably below the annual rate of 1,525,000 in the three-year period from April 1947 to March 1950.

He is credited with setting up an annual co-operative fire prevention program in co-operation with the Red Cross and State Department of Education.

The cost of a license now is $2, with an annual renewal fee of $1.

The gala is the Thrift Shop's annual bundle party and, as all Thrift Shop friends know, that means the admission is a bundle of used clothing in good condition, contributions of household equipment, bric-a-brac and such to stock the shelves at the shop's headquarters at 1213 Walnut St..

`` Meet the Artist '' is the invitation issued by members of the Greater Philadelphia Section of the National Council of Jewish Women as they arrange for an annual exhibit and sale of paintings and sculpture at the Philmont Country Club on April 8 and 9.

The event is the sixth on the annual calendar of the local members of the National Council of Jewish Women.

And this is true in the case of some turnpikes on which revenues have risen close to, or beyond, the point at which the roads start to pay all operating costs plus annual interest on the bonds.

Although there are seven other types of annual awards presented by the Academy ( the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, the Gordon E. Sawyer Award, the Scientific and Engineering Award, the Technical Achievement Award, the John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation, and the Student Academy Award ) plus two awards that are not presented annually ( the Special Achievement Award in the form of an Oscar statuette and the Honorary Award that may or may not be in the form of an Oscar statuette ), the best known one is the Academy Award of Merit more popularly known as the Oscar statuette.

The lawn weed crabgrass is a summer annual.

To avoid confusion, the annual scientific research conference dedicated to the study of MND is called the International ALS / MND Symposium.

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

Investment in the construction and industrial sectors is expected to continue in 2006 and will help to ensure annual average real GDP growth of about 13. 9 %.

The average annual temperature is highest in the southwest along the coast, and lowest in the northeast among the highlands.

Thus at Mobile the annual mean is 67 ° F ( 19 ° C ), the mean for the summer 81 ° F ( 27 ° C ), and for the winter 52 ° F ( 11 ° C ); and at Valley Head, in De Kalb county, the annual mean is 59 ° F ( 15 ° C ), the mean for the summer 75 ° F ( 24 ° C ), and for the winter 41 ° F ( 5 ° C ).