The arrival of the yachts is celebrated as part of the Hobart Summer Festival, a food and wine festival beginning just after Christmas and ending in mid-January.

Although a vegetarian festival is celebrated each year by a portion of Thailand's population, and many restaurants in Thailand will offer vegetarian food during this festival period, pure vegetarian food is normally difficult to find in Thailand.

The most characteristic Yankee food was pie ; Yankee author Harriet Beecher Stowe in her novel Oldtown Folks celebrated the social traditions surrounding the Yankee pie.

Since during Holy Week Vespers is usually joined to either the Presanctified Liturgy or the Divine Liturgy, and since the faithful must observe a total fast from all food and drink before receiving Holy Communion, it is celebrated in the morning ( Vespers on Good Friday is an exception to this, usually being celebrated in the afternoon ).

The changing of the season was celebrated because of its effect on food supply.

In superimposing his secular vision of the holiday, Dickens influenced many aspects of Christmas that are celebrated today in Western culture, such as family gatherings, seasonal food and drink, dancing, games, and a festive generosity of spirit.

Herodian also relates that Elagabalus forced senators to watch while he danced around his deity's altar to the sound of drums and cymbals, and at each summer solstice celebrated a great festival, popular with the masses because of food distributions, during which he placed the holy stone on a chariot adorned with gold and jewels, which he paraded through the city:

Area rivers are celebrated with a festival of music, fine arts, food, entertainment, a 10K and 5K run & walk, riverside trail walks and river raft rides.

Mule Days has been celebrated on the first Saturday in June for over 50 years, featuring a Kiddie Parade, Main Parade, entertainment and games for kids at the park, three on three basketball in front of the high school, food and craft fair at the park, Community BBQ pork luncheon, Beer Garden, and Mule Days Dance.

Ital or I-tal ( pronounced " eye '- tall ") is food often celebrated by those in the Rastafari movement.

In some areas of the United States with large Polish communities, such as Chicago, Buffalo, and the Detroit suburb of Hamtramck, Michigan, Pączki Day is celebrated with pączki-eating contests, music and other Polish food.

The holiday is celebrated with food, families, lucky money ( usually in a red envelope ), and many other red things for good luck.

Purim is celebrated by giving mutual gifts of food and drink ( mishloach manot ), giving charity to the poor ( mattanot la-evyonim ), a celebratory meal ( se ' udat Purim ), and public recitation of the Scroll of Esther ( keriat ha-megillah ), additions to the prayers and the grace after meals ( al hannisim ).

At the San Cristobal church the patron saint is celebrated on 25 July with marimbas, food and fireworks.

Guardian spirits of places, such as the phi wat ( ຜ ີ ວ ັ ດ, ผ ี ว ั ด ) of temples and the lak mueang ( ຫລ ັ ກເມ ື ອງ, หล ั กเม ื อง, ) of towns are celebrated with communal gatherings and offerings of food.

Rural life is celebrated through typical clothing, food, and dance ( particularly square dancing, or quadrilha ).

Each spring since 1989, on the weekend nearest June 6, the city has celebrated the Pioneer Square Fire Festival with a parade and display of antique and modern fire apparatus, demonstrations of fire fighter skills, food and craft booths, and a party.

The famous snails of Bobbio that from survival food have become a much sought-after course for the Christmas Eve or the celebrated maccheroni hand made pasta done with the aid of the knitting needle and served with a tasty beef stew sauce.

Spam Jam is also celebrated annually in Honolulu, Hawaii during the last week of April where it is quickly becoming one of the most popular festivals in Hawaii because of its great food and entertainment in a family-friendly atmosphere.

The Eagles ' stadium was built on the site of an old food warehouse and celebrated its grand opening in August 2003.

Having celebrated its 125th anniversary in the summer of 2003 ( even though hampered by the 2003 blackout ), " The Ex "-as it is also popularly known — offers a wide variety of entertainment and events, midway rides, a working farm, parades, sports, international food and shopping, Kids ' World and a three-day air show, Canadian International Air Show.

Since the festival is celebrated in mid winter, food prepared for this festival is such that it keeps the body warm and gives high energy.

Born in Portugal, and called Saint Anthony of Lisbon there, the saint who is among the three June popular saints in the Catholic calendar ( the others being Saints John the Baptist and Peter ) is celebrated on June 13 with typical Junine countryside Brazilian food, prayers of the rosary, square dance, liquor, and bonfire.

Saint Thomas Aquinas's aesthetic is probably the most famous and influential theory among medieval authors, having been the subject of much scrutiny in the wake of the neo-Scholastic revival of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and even having received the approbation of the celebrated Modernist writer, James Joyce.

The Christian writer Justin Martyr identified him as Lupercus (" he who wards off the wolf "), the protector of cattle, following Livy, who named his aspect of Inuus as the god who was originally worshiped at the Lupercalia, celebrated on the anniversary of the founding of his temple, February 15, when his priests ( Luperci ) wore goat-skins and hit onlookers with goat-skin belts.

Agnes Marshall was a celebrated cookery writer of her day and helped to popularise ice cream.

Geraldine Maillet, the celebrated French writer and former model, relates with humour and cynicism the rise and decline of the supermodels in her book Presque Top Model.

The first century Roman historian Pliny the Elder discounted Sirens as pure fable, " although Dinon, the father of Clearchus, a celebrated writer, asserts that they exist in India, and that they charm men by their song, and, having first lulled them to sleep, tear them to pieces.

In 1986, the Tribune announced that celebrated film critic Gene Siskel, the Tribunes best-known writer, was no longer the paper's film critic, and that his position with the paper had shifted from being that of a full-time film critic to that of a free-lance contract writer who was to write about the film industry for the Sunday paper and also provide capsule film reviews for the paper's entertainment sections.

:" Garner is indisputably the great originator, the most important British writer of fantasy since Tolkien, and in many respects better than Tolkien, because deeper and more truthful ... Any country except Britain would have long ago recognised his importance, and celebrated it with postage stamps and statues and street-names.

Eudoxus, the astronomer, Ctesias, the writer on Persian history, and Sostratus, the builder of the celebrated Pharos at Alexandria, are the most remarkable of the Knidians mentioned in history.

Florence Nightingale OM, RRC (; 12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910 ) was a celebrated English nurse, writer and statistician.

Montague Rhodes James, celebrated ghost story writer and mediaevalist, spent much of his life at King's as student, fellow and Provost.

Despite his position as the most celebrated Australian writer of the time, Lawson was deeply depressed and perpetually poor.

* Gholam-Hussein Yusufi, professor in the Department of Persian Language and Literature at FUM, celebrated contemporary writer and literary critic

He also collaborated with the celebrated writer Ramón Gómez de la Serna on the script for what he hoped would be his first film, " a story in six scenes " called Los caprichos.

Buton Rinchen Drub ( 1290 – 1364 ) was an important scholar and writer and one of Tibet's most celebrated historians.

While in Dublin he made friends with the celebrated writer Jonathan Swift.

French physician and writer Rabelais celebrated " rabelaisian " freedom as well as good feasting and drinking ( an expression and a symbol of freedom of the mind ) in defiance of the hypocrisies of conformist orthodoxy in his utopian Thelema Abbey ( from θέλημα: free " will "), the devise of which was Do What Thou Wilt:

Festivus was conceived by writer Dan O ' Keefe and was celebrated by his family as early as 1966.

According to PRI's press release, WireTap is a weekly program of intimate and often hilarious telephone conversations between celebrated writer Jonathan Goldstein, and people with real or imagined stories to tell.

Héctor Germán Oesterheld ( born July 23, 1919 ; disappeared and presumed dead 1977 ), also known as his common abbreviation HGO, was an Argentine journalist and writer of graphic novels and comics who has come to be celebrated as a master in his field.

He celebrated his home region in his prose poem about a writer and his donkey called Platero y Yo ( 1914 ).

* Cassius Severus, a celebrated orator and satirical writer, in the time of Augustus and Tiberius.

* October 10, birthday of the National writer Aleksis Kivi ; the occasion is also celebrated as the Day of Finnish literature

If so, it has remained far more secret and " esoteric " than in any of the other great spiritual traditions of the world, so much so that its existence is highly doubtful ..." The Welsh writer Norman Lewis, in his celebrated account of life in Naples in 1944, claimed that San Rocco was the patron saint of coitus reservatus: " I recommended him to drink -- as the locals did -- marsala with the yolk of eggs stirred into it, and to wear a medal of San Rocco, patron of coitus reservatus, which could be had in any religious-supplies shop ".

Ralph Lambton, the celebrated hunting man, had his headquarters at Sedgefield: the humorous writer, Robert Smith Surtees, who lived at Hamsterley Hall, was a friend of his.