Greater London is an administrative area, ceremonial county and the London region of England.

Hertfordshire (, or ; abbreviated Herts ) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

In continental France ( metropolitan France, excluding Corsica ), the median land area of a department is, which is two-and-a-half times the median land area of a ceremonial county of England & Wales and slightly more than three-and-half times the median land area of a county of the United States.

At the 2001 census, the median population of a department in continental France was 511, 012 inhabitants, which is 21 times the median population of a U. S. county, but less than two-thirds of the median population of a ceremonial county of England & Wales.

Bath ( or ) is a city in the ceremonial county of Somerset in the south west of England.

Slough is a borough and unitary authority within the ceremonial county of Royal Berkshire, England.

The City of London ( which is not, and never has been, the seat of government ) has a unique status in British local government ; it is part of Greater London for most administrative purposes, but remains a separate ceremonial county, and retains many independent local government powers and civic identity, most notably its own police force and Lord Mayor.

The appellation Sussex remained in use as a ceremonial county until 1974, when the Lord-Lieutenant of Sussex was replaced with one each for East and West Sussex.

Formerly part of the non-metropolitan county of East Sussex, it remains part of the ceremonial county of East Sussex, within the historic county of Sussex.

In the states of Connecticut, Rhode Island, and much of Massachusetts, county government has been abolished and the municipalities ( known as New England towns ) are the only governing tier below the state government, though the former counties still exist in the ceremonial sense.

* County Durham, a ceremonial county and unitary district

It remains part of the county of Kent for ceremonial purposes.

Swindon () is a large town within the Borough of Swindon and ceremonial county of Wiltshire, in South West England.

It is within the County Durham local government district, and is the county town of the larger ceremonial county.

Sandwich is a historic town and civil parish on the River Stour in the Non-metropolitan district of Dover, within the ceremonial county of Kent, south-east England.

The High Sheriff of an English or Welsh county is an unpaid, partly ceremonial post appointed by The Crown through a Warrant from the Privy Council.

As a ceremonial county, South Yorkshire has a Lord Lieutenant and a High Sheriff.

It forms part of the ceremonial county of Greater London.

Thurrock () is a unitary authority with borough status in the English ceremonial county of Essex.

This may even lead to an institutional variability, as in North Korea, where, after the presidency of party leader Kim Il-Sung, the office was vacant for years, the late president being granted the posthumous title ( akin to some ancient Far Eastern traditions to give posthumous names and titles to royalty ) of " Eternal President " ( while all substantive power, as party leader, itself not formally created for four years, was inherited by his son Kim Jong Il, initially without any formal office ) until it was formally replaced on 5 September 1998, for ceremonial purposes, by the office of Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, while the party leader's post as Chairman of the National Defense Commission was simultaneously declared " the highest post of the state ", not unlike Deng Xiaoping earlier in the People's Republic of China.

The ceremonial post of Deputy President pro tempore was created for Hubert Humphrey, a former vice president, in 1977 following his losing bid to become the Senate majority leader.

The first people were created by Iosheka, a beneficent god who healed disease, defeated demons, and gave many of the Iroquois magical and ceremonial rituals.

Drawing by Sam Ahkeak of sandpainting of Dinétah, the Navajo Homeland created by ceremonial leaders near Shiprock around 1930.

In 1834, a clearing was created for ceremonial purposes and was called McGwinn Village.

The post was created by Fiorello La Guardia ( who appointed Grover Whalen as deputy mayor ) to handle ceremonial events that the mayor was too busy to attend.

The Mall was created as a ceremonial route in the early 20th century, matching the creation of similar ceremonial routes in other cities such as Berlin, Mexico City, Oslo, Paris, Saint Petersburg, Vienna and Washington, D. C.

The Wee feel that the bush spirits can communicate with humans through dreams, often demanding ceremonial masks be created in their honor in either male or female forms.

He created over one thousand drawings and paintings using Western art media to describe Kiowa daily and ceremonial life at the turn of the 20th century.

The arrangement of the mounds, platforms, complexes, and monumental artifacts at La Venta created a unique civil and ceremonial center that, in the words of Rebecca Gonzalez-Lauck, constitutes " one of the earliest examples of large-scale ideological communications through the interaction of architecture and sculpture ".

The Local Government ( Wales ) Act 1994 abolished the eight ceremonial counties created by the Local Government Act 1972.

A well known example is the " Electric Dress ", a ceremonial wedding kimono-like costume consisting mostly of variously colored electrified and painted light bulbs, enmeshed in a tangle of wires, created in 1956 by the Japanese Gutai artist Atsuko Tanaka.

One of the most modern Household units in the Commonwealth of Nations, the AFG was created in 2000, solely to perform ceremonial functions domestically and abroad.

* Keeper of the Welsh Seal: An office created by the Government of Wales Act 2006 to grant the First Minister of Wales an official position for purposes of the Order of Precedence as well as other ceremonial matters.

The Oberst-Gruppenführer rank was only ever worn on the field-grey Waffen-SS tunic or the grey SS service tunic ( or, in Daluege's case, police uniform ), and there are no photographic records of the insignia ever being worn on the black ceremonial uniform, which had largely fallen into disuse by the time the rank was created.

The ceremonial first feed, or pitch, was thrown at 6 p. m. on 31 July by Lauri Pihkala, who had created the sport.

The Court of Ecclesiastical Causes Reserved was created in 1963 with appellate jurisdiction in matters of doctrine, ritual or ceremonial.

Artificial mounds have been created for a variety of reasons throughout history, including ceremonial ( platform mound ), burial ( tumulus ), and commemorative purposes ( e. g. Kościuszko Mound ).

The created the ceremonial gatherings called which met every 2 – 4 years or on emergency basis.

The parish falls within the unitary authority of Bath and North East Somerset which was created in 1996 ; Bath and North East Somerset's area covers part of the ceremonial county of Somerset but it is administered independently of the non-metropolitan county.

The main buildings at Pueblo Bonito, for example, are arranged according to this direction and probably served as central places for ceremonial journeys across the landscape.

The city centre is laid out on two perpendicular axes: a water axis stretching along Lake Burley Griffin, and a ceremonial land axis stretching from Parliament House on Capital Hill north-eastward along ANZAC Parade to the Australian War Memorial at the foot of Mount Ainslie.

No actual body-armour, except such as was ceremonial and buried with the dead, like the gold breastplates in the circle-graves at Mycenae or the full length body armour from Dendra.

Their major objections ( exceptions ) were: firstly, that it was improper for the lay congregation to take any vocal part in prayer ( as in the Litany or Lord's Prayer ), other than to say " Amen "; secondly, that no set prayer should exclude the option of an extempore alternative from the Minister ; thirdly, that the Minister should have the option to omit part of the set liturgy at his discretion ; fourthly, that short Collects should be replaced by longer prayers and exhortations ; and fifthly, that all surviving " Catholic " ceremonial should be removed.

There exist at least two different types of constitutional monarchies in the modern world-executive and ceremonial.

The Jewish religion still retains the Torah scroll, at least for ceremonial use.

He had certain ceremonial duties in the conclave that have effectively ceased because he would generally have already reached age 80, at which cardinals are barred from the conclave.

Excepting a few ineffective attempts to revive scythed chariots, and continuing far eastern use, the use of chariots in battle was obsolete in civilized nations by the time of the Persian defeat at the hands of Alexander the Great, but chariots remained in use for ceremonial purposes such as carrying the victorious general in a Roman triumph, or for racing.

Unfortunately, Schramm did not live to see his ceremonial induction at the Cowboys-Eagles game that fall.

Horses are used for ceremonial purposes only, most often when the dragoons take part in the changing of the guards at The Royal Castle in Stockholm.

Parliament is the " first institution " of the EU ( mentioned first in the treaties, having ceremonial precedence over all authority at European level ), and shares equal legislative and budgetary powers with the Council ( except in a few areas where the special legislative procedures apply ).

Of his cult at Eridu, which goes back to the oldest period of Mesopotamian history, nothing definite is known except that his temple was also associated with Ninhursag's temple which was called Esaggila, " the lofty head house " ( E, house, sag, head, ila, high ; or Akkadian goddess = Ila ), a name shared with Marduk's temple in Babylon, pointing to a staged tower or ziggurat ( as with the temple of Enlil at Nippur, which was known as E-kur ( kur, hill )), and that incantations, involving ceremonial rites in which water as a sacred element played a prominent part, formed a feature of his worship.

Until recently, the Preclassic was regarded as a formative period, consisting of small villages of farmers who lived in huts and few permanent buildings, but this notion has been challenged by recent discoveries of monumental architecture from that period, such as an altar in La Blanca, San Marcos, from 1000 BC ; ceremonial sites at Miraflores and El Naranjo from 801 BC ; the earliest monumental masks ; and the Mirador Basin cities of Nakbé, Xulnal, El Tintal, Wakná and El Mirador.

In addition to the formal constitutional role, the Governor-General has a ceremonial role, though the extent and nature of that role has depended on the expectations of the time, the individual in office at the time, the wishes of the incumbent government, and the individual's reputation in the wider community.

For the most part, however, the powers of the Crown are exercised on a day-to-day basis by elected and appointed individuals, leaving the governor to perform the various ceremonial duties the sovereign otherwise carries out when in the country ; at such a moment, the governor removes him or herself from public, though the presence of the monarch does not affect the governor's ability to perform governmental roles.

The Governor performs the same constitutional and ceremonial functions at the state level as does the Governor-General of Australia at the national level.

He hosted a gala fundraiser at the Playboy Mansion and personally contributed $ 27, 000 ( or 1 / 9 of the total restoration costs ) by purchasing the letter Y in a ceremonial auction.

There are a number of specialist units within the Compagnie des Carabiniers du Prince, which include a motorcycle section ( for rapid-response and motorcycle outriding ); a bodyguard and protection unit ; a diving unit with military, rescue, and scientific capabilities ; a military first-aid unit which provides first-aid and ambulance cover at public and sporting events ; and a military band, which includes state trumpeters, a brass ensemble, and a small orchestra, as well as being a marching band for ceremonial purposes.

The ceremonial " changing of the guard " at 11. 55am each day, attracts large numbers of tourists.

A few days later, they awaken at midnight to find Totoro and his two miniature colleagues engaged in a ceremonial dance around the planted nuts and seeds.

Among these are Wicca, Neoshamanism, Neo-Druidism, and other pagan belief systems, the rituals of which were at least initially partially based upon those of ceremonial magic.

In 1551, Oda Nobuhide died unexpectedly and, during his funeral, Nobunaga was said to have acted outrageously, throwing the ceremonial incense at the altar.