The Yokaichi Giant Kite Festival

Yokaichi is famous for the Giant Kite Festival held on the fourth Sunday every May.

In the Yokaichi and Gokoku districts is a street of merchant houses, which have solemn white or cream coloured plaster walls, lattices, decorative walls and old-style Japanese desks.

At that time the Yokaichi and Gokoku districts became industrialised and their historical houses still retain some vestige of Uchiko ’ s former glory.

File: yokaichi01. jpg | Yōkaichi Giant Kite Festival held in May

)" Together they produced the films Apache ( 1954 ), Vera Cruz ( 1954 ), Marty ( 1955 ) ( which won both the Academy Award for Best Picture and the Palme d ' Or award at the Cannes Film Festival ), The Kentuckian ( 1955 ), Trapeze ( 1956 ), The Bachelor Party ( 1956 ), Sweet Smell of Success ( 1957 ), Run Silent, Run Deep ( 1958 ), Separate Tables ( 1958 ), ( 1959 ), Take a Giant Step ( 1959 ), Summer of the Seventeenth Doll ( 1960 ), and ( 1960 ).

She had small roles in Eva, a Romanian drama film that premiered at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival as well as in Julian Schnabel's Palestinian drama, Miral that was screened at the 67th Venice International Film Festival and played the role of Winnie the Giant Tortoise in the 2010 environmental animated film Animals United.

The most notable event in Elk Grove is the annual Giant Pumpkin Festival that is held the first weekend of October at the Elk Grove Regional Park.

The Giant Pumpkin Festival attracts many thousands of guests each year.

* A stage play by Brian Mitchell and Joseph Nixon, Big Daddy vs Giant Haystacks premiered at the Brighton Festival Fringe in East Sussex, England between 26 – 28 May 2011 and subsequently toured Great Britain.

* Giant Lantern Festival

* A play by Brian Mitchell and Joseph Nixon, Big Daddy vs Giant Haystacks was performed at the Brighton Festival Fringe in East Sussex, England between 26 – 28 May 2011.

Friends of the Earth also ran a hugely successful and well organised Charity Busking Stage at Wilderness Festival, ( 10th-12th August 2012 ), with a line-up of several headline acts from the main stage including Stornoway, Cloud Control, Sheppard, Giant Giant Sand, 1000 Mile Highway, To Kill A King, and many more.

The Giant Lantern Festival is an annual festival held in December ( Saturday before Christmas Eve ) in the City of San Fernando in the Philippines.

", which premiered in the summer of 2004 at the Minnesota Fringe Festival ; and " Giant Killer Shark: The Musical ", which premiered in the summer of 2006 at the Toronto Fringe Festival.

" Andre the Giant has a Posse " was screened worldwide and in the 1997 Sundance Film Festival.

" The annual Giant Lantern Festival is hosted by the city every December.

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The colorful Giant Lantern Festival held annual in December in San Fernando, Pampanga.

The Giant Lantern Festival is an annual festival held in December ( Saturday before Christmas Eve ) in the City of San Fernando in the Philippines.

The San Fernando lantern industry evolved from the Giant Lantern Festival of San Fernando.

This predecessor of the modern day Giant Lantern Festival was actually a religious activity which we know today as “ lubenas .” The lanterns measured just two feet in diameter, a far cry from the fifteen feet that we see today.

It was in 1931 that electricity was introduced to the San Fernando lantern, thus sparking the birth of the first Giant Lantern Festival.

The largest amphibian is the Chinese Giant Salamander, Andrias davidianus.

* Nepeta grandiflora ( Giant Catmint or Caucasus Catmint ) is lusher than true catnip and has dark green leaves and dark blue, almost purple flowers.

Slalom is an alpine skiing discipline, involving skiing between poles ( gates ) spaced much closer together than in Giant Slalom, Super-G or Downhill, thereby causing quicker and shorter turns.

Among the SDF weapons in this script that made it to the big screen were the Water Beetle ( an underwater mech ) and the Giant Basu ( which is equipped with a giant arm to capture submarines ).

The species is also known as Giant Protea, Honeypot or King Sugar Bush.

A minigame version of Nights into Dreams ... is playable utilizing the Nintendo GameCube-to-Game Boy Advance connectivity with Phantasy Star Online Episode I & II and Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg.

* 1869 – The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is " discovered ".

It is thought that the Earth itself coalesced from material in orbit around the Sun roughly 4500 Ma ( 4. 5 Ga ) and may have been struck by a very large ( Mars-sized ) planetesimal shortly after it formed, splitting off material that came together to form the Moon ( see Giant impact hypothesis ).

The " Single-O " is a single attraction, for example a single curiosity like the " Bonnie and Clyde Death Car " or Hitler's staff car, a " Giant Rat " ( actually usually a nutria ) or other unusual animal, a " What Is It?

The basketball team at Wabash is coached by Antoine Carpenter, a 2000 Little Giant graduate.

* 803: Construction on the Leshan Giant Buddha in Tang Dynasty China is complete, after 90 years of rock-carving on a massive cliff-side.

* The height of the Giant Wild Goose Pagoda in Xian, China is extended by 5 stories.

* February 2 – It is revealed that the famed Cardiff Giant is just carved gypsum and not the petrified remains of a human.

* Construction of the Giant Wild Goose Pagoda in Chang ' an ( modern Xi ' an ), Tang Dynasty China, is completed in this year during the reign of Emperor Gaozong of Tang.

* Giant Wild Goose Pagoda at Ci ' en Temple, Xi ' an, Shanxi, is first erected.

The Giant slalom event is also considered a technical event with medium sized turns and the Super-giant slalom considered a speed event, as similar speeds are reached as in the downhill discipline though jumps are provided.

A large physically connected radio telescope array is the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope, located in Pune, India.

The overhand grip is used in giant swings, and the dorsal grip in German Giant Swings.

In the mathematical field of group theory, the Monster group M or F < sub > 1 </ sub > ( also known as the Fischer-Griess Monster, or the Friendly Giant ) is a group of finite order:

It is nicknamed the " Giant of Provence ", or " The Bald Mountain ".

The Merced then flows down to the end of its canyon ( Little Yosemite Valley ), where it begins what is often called the Giant Staircase.

Giant sequoia is a very popular ornamental tree in many areas.

Giant sequoia cultivation is very successful in the Pacific Northwest from western Oregon north to southwest British Columbia, with fast growth rates.