*** The Classic of Poetry is made up of 305 poems divided into 160 folk songs, 74 minor festal songs, traditionally sung at court festivities, 31 major festal songs, sung at more solemn court ceremonies, and 40 hymns and eulogies, sung at sacrifices to gods and ancestral spirits of the royal house.

French kings were traditionally anointed in Reims, and Champagne wine was served as part of coronation festivities.

The festivities traditionally begin after the 12th of June, on the eve of St Anthony's day, and last until the 29th, which is Saint Peter's day.

The festivities traditionally begin after the 12th of June, on the eve of St Anthony's day, and last until the 29th, which is Saint Peter's day.

The festivities traditionally begin after the 12 June, on the eve of St Anthony's day, and last until the 29th, which is Saint Peter's day.

Ecclesiastical historians have claimed that in the last years of Emperor Philip the Arab ( reigned 244 – 249 ), during otherwise undocumented festivities to commemorate the millennium of the founding of Rome ( traditionally in 753 BC, putting the date about 248 ), the fury of the Alexandrian mob rose to a great height, and when one of their poets prophesied a calamity, they committed bloody outrages on the Christians, whom the authorities made no effort to protect.

The circular dance is traditionally performed in the spring around the festival of May Day, but in Sweden it is during the midsummer festivities.

During the season, various festivities are traditionally enjoyed and buildings decorated.

The festivities traditionally begin after the 12th of June, on the eve of St Anthony's day, and last until the 29th, which is Saint Peter's day.

Strong liquors include Jenever ( distilled malt wine and the precursor to Gin ) and Brandewijn ( brandy ), but also Kandeel ( made from white wine ), Kraamanijs ( a liquor made from aniseed ), Oranjebitter ( an orange-flavored brandy, which is traditionally served on festivities surrounding the royal family ), Advocaat, Boerenjongens ( raisins in brandy ), and Boerenmeisjes ( apricots in brandy ).

It is traditionally held on the Victoria Day long weekend, to allow for three days of festivities.

The caste also traditionally provides musicians to the Dhangar caste and even today play at weddings and other festivities.

Such garments have been traditionally used in festivities such as Holy Week, symbolizing the act of penance.

* Capirotada: a dessert traditionally made during Lent festivities made of fried slices of birote or bolillo bread, then soaked in melted ' piloncillo, garnished with coconut, peanuts, orange slices and nut bits, served warm or cold

The Relay traditionally begins at Buckingham Palace in London as a part of the city's Commonwealth Day festivities.

The pregame festivities honored the end of the Iran hostage crisis ( which was announced 5 days before the game ), which featured a performance by the Southern University band.

The Loures Carnival is a highlight of Lisbon's festivities which celebrates the country's folk traditions, including the " enterro do bacalhau " or burial of the cod, which symbolizes the end of Carnival and the festivities.

The Carnival festivities end on Ash Wednesday, when locals sit down for the " Batatada " or potato feast, in which the main dish is salted cod with potatoes, eggs, mint, bread and wine.

During the festivities the town elevator, located at the west end of town, burned.

The festivities end with a dance under the stars with music by the local band The Moonlighters.

Today, the “ Ducasse ” is a very popular celebration that includes various festivities and lasts several days spanning the end of August and beginning of September.

Every seven years, a religious procession takes place in the so-called ' septennial festivities ' in commemoration of the end of a drought in 1656.

Since then, every year at the end of July, Ciudad del Carmen turns into the very center of the regional social, cultural and religious festivities, on the fair that celebrates the island's protector virgin.

News of the invasion reached Hilarión Daza on February 20, but he postponed mention of it until the end of the carnival festivities.

By the beginning of the 21st century these countries began to pay more attention to the sensitivities of non-Christians during the festivities at the end of the calendar year.

By the end of 265, Postumus ' coins were proudly announcing his victory over Gallienus, and the festivities celebrating his quinquennalia continued into the following year.

On 22 August 1572, the day after the end of the wedding festivities, Coligny was shot in the street by a man called Maurevert from a house belonging to de Guise.

From 1420 to 1424 he served in France, apart from a brief return at the end of the first year to organise the festivities of celebrating the coronation of Catherine of France, the bride of Henry V.

* The outskirts of the stadium annually host the " Enterro da Gata ", a university festival that celebrates the end of the school year with multiple concerts and festivities, organized by the University of Minho.

Also, on each end of the bridge are two major parks: Major's Hill Park ( Ottawa ) and Jacques Cartier Park ( Gatineau ) two major venues of the Canadian Tulip Festival and the Canada Day festivities.

This fair, which occurs at the end of January, combines bullfighting festivities with a myriad of sport activities such as the Vuelta al Táchira, a bicycle race, artistic festivals, agricultural fairs, and many other spectacles.

The old " Republics " ( autonomous students ' residences ) remain, as well as some traditional festivities, most notably the " Queima das Fitas " ( a celebration of graduation's end, symbolized by the burning of the ribbons with the colors of each of the eight faculties ), the " Festa das Latas " ( a homecoming ), the frequent use of traditional attire, the " Fado de Coimbra " ( Coimbra's fado, now sung in organized shows rather than the traditional street serenades ), and the academic ceremonies ( namely the conferring of doctorate degrees ).

Celebrating the end of graduation courses, symbolized by the ritual burning of the ribbons representing each faculty, it takes place at the second semester ( around May ), being among the biggest student festivities in Europe.

Despite the usual tradition of prominent prisoners in triumphs ' being strangled when the festivities were at an end, Caesar was pressured to spare Arsinoe and granted her sanctuary at the temple of Artemis in Ephesus.

This week-long celebration of the end of the shearing season combines serious horse-racing with other festivities.

The 1589 intermedi were performed in the recently completed theatre in the Uffizi Palace before an audience of about three thousand, and three further performances were given some days after the end of the wedding festivities.

The festivities that were planned for the implosion of this end of the stadium were cancelled in the wake of the July 7th terror attacks in the centre of London.

Celebrating the end of graduation courses, symbolized by the ritual burning of the ribbons representing each faculty of the University of Coimbra ( UC ), it takes place at the second semester ( starts on the first Friday of May at 00: 00 ), being among the biggest student festivities in Europe.

He opens his discourse, however, with a review of the Eisenhower inaugural festivities at which a sympathetic press had assembled its massive talents, all primed to catch some revelation of the emerging new age.

But she does indicate festivities will start early, that a jazz combo will `` give with the Basin Street beat '' during the cocktail and dinner hours and that Lester Lanin's orchestra will take over during the dancing.

Munch arrived in Paris during the festivities of the Exposition Universelle ( 1889 ) and roomed with two fellow Norwegian artists.

In Ghent it opens with the OdeGand City festivities that takes place on the second Saturday of September.

Many battles were prearranged, with the clan warriors meeting at an assigned place and time, while women and children of the clan watched the festivities from some distance away.

Jadwiga's father Louis had, in 1364 in Kraków, during festivities known as the Days of Kraków, also made an arrangement with his former father-in-law Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV to inter-marry their future children:

In Brazil, in recent years the term Kwanzaa has been applied by a few institutions as a synonym for the festivities of the Black Awareness Day, commemorated on November 20 in honor of Zumbi dos Palmares, having little to do with the celebration as it was originally conceived.

It had been literally degraded since the 1st century, when in 44 BC the consul Mark Antony did not scruple to run with the Luperci ; now the upper classes left the festivities to the rabble.

* Manipuri New Year or CHeirouba is celebrated on 14 April in the Indian State of Manipur with much festivities and feasting.

On Sunday, August 8, 2010, NBC announced the televised opening festivities of the evening would begin with Taylor Swift and Dave Matthews Band.

By the early 15th century at the latest, Robin Hood had become associated with May Day celebrations, with revellers dressing as Robin or as members of his band for the festivities.

Both Robin and Marian were certainly associated with May Day festivities in England ( as was Friar Tuck ), but these may have been originally two distinct types of performance – Alexander Barclay in his Ship of Fools, writing in c. 1500, refers to " some merry fytte of Maid Marian or else of Robin Hood " – but the characters were brought together.

The event, known as Spam Jam, is a carnival-type celebration that coincides with local Fourth of July festivities, featuring parades and fireworks that often relate to the popular luncheon meat.

Despite inaugural game festivities at the new ballpark, the Dodgers would spoil the 2000 season opener, with a three HR performance by little-known Kevin Elster.

The performance event group Up with People performed during both the pregame festivities and the halftime show titled " 200 Years and Just a Baby: A Tribute to America's Bicentennial ".

The pregame festivities featured the Southern University Band along with the cheerleaders of both teams.

During the All-Star festivities at Yankee Stadium, Hamilton crushed a first round home run record in the 2008 Home Run Derby with 28.

This tradition of flavoring is also prevalent in the Nordic countries, where vodka seasoned with herbs, fruits and spices is the appropriate strong drink for midsummer seasonal festivities.

Herrick claimed that the fire used to burn the log was always started with a remnant from the log that had been burned in the previous year's festivities.

The wedding is celebrated with Roman festivities and magnificent gifts from the Gothic booty.

It was a time for confessing sins ( shriving ) with fewer festivities than the Continental Carnivals.

The Carnival week begins on the Thursday before Ash Wednesday with parades being held during the weekend and finishes on Ash Wednesday, with the main festivities occurring around Rosenmontag ( Rose Monday ).

In the beginning of the twentieth century these festivities ended with the death of its main promoters only to reappear again in the sixties to become one of the many important Carnival festivals in Portugal.