On the evening before the start of Lent, Carnival officially comes to end with the symbolic burning of " King Momo.

These days it is seen as a symbolic start for the upcoming warm weather.

Today, the handing over of the key is mostly symbolic and marks the start and end of the carnival.

The act of floating away the candle raft is symbolic of letting go of all one's grudges, anger and defilements, so that one can start life afresh on a better foot.

10 October in Taiwan is a national holiday commemorating the establishment of the Republic of China in 1911, the symbolic start of the Chinese revolution with the Wuchang Uprising.

Apart from venerating the Buddha with light ( the candle on the raft ), the act of floating away the candle raft is symbolic of letting go of all one's grudges, anger and defilements, so that one can start life afresh on a better foot.

One suggestion was to completely rename those roads as " 1st Ring Road " to symbolize the new start in the era of reform, as well as to reflect the willingness of China to embrace modernness and globalization, but this suggestion was quickly turned down because most people favored the original names of the roads and believed in their historical meaning and cultural heritage, and more importantly, they felt that returning the original names also had more symbolic meaning of denouncing Cultural Revolution.

To kick start the fourth edition of NDTV's Greenathon, Chopra cleaned the Yamuna river in Agra in a symbolic gesture as part of an initiative to create awareness for environmental issues.

He traveled to an empty world and built an enormous basalt fortress, gathering armies from many different worlds to start his rebellion against the Kingdom of Heaven ( making him a symbolic Lucifer / Satan ).

While Panofsky's claim that the painting formed a kind of certificate of marriage is not accepted by all subsequent writers, his analysis of the symbolic function of the details is broadly agreed, and has been applied to many other Early Netherlandish paintings, especially a number of depictions of the Annunciation set in richly detailed interiors, a tradition for which the Arnolfini Portrait and the Mérode Altarpiece by Robert Campin represent the start ( in terms of surviving works at least ).

A central event was the lighting of a symbolic torch at the United Nations by Omar Khalifa, a champion Sudanese 1500m runner to signal the start the 10K races around the world.

The sound of the gavel strike, being abrupt to start and stop, and clearly audible by all present, serves to sharply define an action in time in a manner clearly perceivable by all, and to endow the action with practical as well as symbolic temporal finality ( what was not before striking, is after it ; or what was before striking, is no more after it ).

On October 16, 2006, a groundbreaking ceremony was held to mark the symbolic start of a $ 1. 7 billion expansion project.

Through talking with her patients and undergoing more NDEs, Lander realizes that the near-death experience is a mechanism that the brain uses to create a scenario symbolic of what the brain attempts to do when it is dying: find a suitable neural pathway by which to send a message that can " jump start " the rest of the body back into life.

The Edwardian castles also made strong symbolic statements about the nature of the new occupation.

At first the students ' plan to only make a symbolic occupation, release statements to the press and leave when government security forces came to restore order, was reflected in placards saying " Don't be afraid.

They issued a decree recognising Polish autonomy, more as a symbolic gesture in light of the German occupation of this territory.

The Government in Exile became largely symbolic of continued resistance to foreign occupation of Poland, while retaining some important archives from prewar Poland.

General Galtieri, acting president, agreed in his intention to mount a quick, symbolic occupation, followed rapidly by a withdrawal, leaving only a small garrison to support the new military governor and force the UK to begin talks on the long-delayed sovereignty claim.

Lockwood argued that the class position of any occupation can be most successfully located by distinguishing between the material rewards gained from the market and work situations, and those symbolic rewards deriving from its status situation.

These recommendations apply to both types of Homes Not Jails occupation: covert squats, and public takeovers of symbolic buildings and are not policed in any way with individual squats running themselves autonomously.

France conducted a symbolic occupation in 1975.

The symbolic beginning of the occupation: German soldiers raising the Reichskriegsflagge | German War Flag over the Acropolis of Athens.

* Revolution Day in Greece, celebrating the symbolic outbreak of the War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire in 1821.

On a visit to Greece for an Olympic conference in 1934, Diem and Lewald imagined a new symbolic pageant that would cloak the German games with the ancient Greek mantle: the transit of a lit Olympic flame from Greece to Berlin by a relay of torch-bearing runners.

Entities that include " None of the Above " on ballots as standard procedure include Greece ( λευκό, white, but unrelated to a political party of the similarly sounding name-however it is symbolic only ), the U. S. state of Nevada ( None of These Candidates ), Ukraine ( Проти всіх ), Spain ( voto en blanco ), Colombia ( voto en blanco ), the United States Libertarian Party and Green Party and the Florida affiliate of the American Patriot Party.

The steel and new media installation interrogates the symbolism of the national monument, questioning the balance of its symbolic message during the last two centuries, oscillating between war and peace.

Armageddon ( from Harmagedōn, Late Latin: ) is, according to the Bible, the site of a battle during the end times, variously interpreted as either a literal or symbolic location.

Enclosing the image inside static vignettes or masks of shapes other than circular also began to appear in films during the years 1914-1919, including symbolic shapes such as a cruciform cut-out in the Mary Pickford film Stella Maris ( Marshall Neilan, 1918 ), and Maurice Elvey in Britain put romantic scenes inside a heart-shaped mask in Nelson ; The Story of England's Immortal Naval Hero ( 1918 ) and The Rocks of Valpré ( 1919 ).

In Ancient Rome, during the Principate, the title (' divine ') was conferred ( notably posthumously ) on the emperor, a symbolic legitimating element in establishing a de facto dynasty.

Such arrangements are not to be confused with supranational entities which are not states and are not defined by a common monarchy but may ( or not ) have a symbolic, essentially protocollary, titled highest office, e. g. Head of the Commonwealth ( held by the British crown, but not legally reserved for it ) or ' Head of the Arab Union ' ( 14 February-14 July 1958, held by the Hashemite King of Iraq, during its short-lived Federation with Jordan, its Hashemite sister-realm ).

The material offerings made during the prayer are merely symbolic and are for the benefit of the offeror.

Meals begin with a blessing over two loaves of bread ( lechem mishneh ), usually a braided challah, which is symbolic of the double portion of manna which fell for the Jewish people during their 40 years in the desert after the Exodus from Egypt.

If a player runs out of army pieces during the game, another color may be used to substitute, or another symbolic token to help keep track of armies.

Curry's interest in mathematical logic started during this period when he was introduced to the Principia Mathematica, the attempt by Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell to ground mathematics in symbolic logic.

At the head of the table is a Seder Plate containing various symbolic foods that will be eaten or pointed out during the course of the Seder.

The Passover Seder Plate ( ke ' ara ) is a special plate containing six symbolic foods used during the Passover Seder.

The seventh symbolic item used during the meal — a stack of three matzot — is placed on its own plate on the Seder table.

Although internationally there was negativity surrounding the 1998 Russian financial crisis, the Dow would go on to surpass the 9, 000 level during the month of April in 1998, making its sentimental push towards the symbolic 10, 000 level.

Some animals ( such as the rhinoceros and the hippopotamus ) were unknown in western Europe during the Middle Ages so gargoyles of these species ( such as the ones at Laon Cathedral ) are modern gargoyles and therefore did not have symbolic meaning in Medieval times.

In 2010, symbolic remains of Bolívar's lover, Manuela Sáenz, were interred by his side during a national ceremony reuniting them and honoring her role in the liberations.

The development of the modern so-called " symbolic " or " mathematical " logic during this period is the most significant in the two-thousand-year history of logic, and is arguably one of the most important and remarkable events in human intellectual history.

This change is portrayed in the scene at Flint Castle during which the unity of the two bodies disintegrates and the king starts to use more poetic and symbolic language.

According to Pliny the Elder, human sacrifice was formally banned during the consulship of Publius Licinius Crassus and Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus in 97 BCE, although by this time it was so rare that the decree was largely symbolic.

Mika Virpiranta interprets Gwern's sacrifice as symbolic, i. e. that Efnisien threw Gwern over the fire, not into it, and therefore the sacrifice actually was a dedication of Gwern to a Sun cult, as Celts worshipped Sun by leaping over fires and driving cattle between bonfires during Beltain.

Nevertheless, the Doppers were symbolic of resistance to all things English in South Africa, and despite their small size and distinctiveness they were culturally sophisticated and disproportionately influential during and after the Great Trek.

The Yawara originated from the use of Kongou, a Buddhist symbolic object, by various monks during Feudal Japan.

Many concluded that the team had " gone on strike " as a symbolic protest during the game, although a red card for Richard Dunne after 15 minutes made the game difficult for City.

Every year since 1880, the organizations of the French left have held a demonstration in this symbolic place during the last week of May.

The U. S. presidential yacht Sequoia was auctioned at the La Coquille Club in Manalapan on 25 March 1977 during the Carter administration, for US $ 270, 000, as a symbolic cutback in Federal Government spending ( annual cost to the U. S. Navy was $ 800, 000 ) and to reduce signs of an " imperial presidency ".