Posted in Festivals in November, Global Festivals, Thai festivals on 31. Jan, 2010
Thailand a land rich in culture, colors and exotic festivals has some amazing ideas about celebrations. The Thais show there reverence to everything which is useful to them. In Central Thailand, they thank the monkeys in the Lopburi region by throwing a lavish feast for them. In the northeast province of Surin, the elephants are [...]
Posted in Buddhist festivals, Religious Festivals on 31. Jan, 2010
The Sangha Day is also known as the Magha Puja Day and is the second most important event of the Buddhist calendar. The Sangha Day is celebrated to commemorate the unplanned gathering of around 1250 monks on a full moon night in Veluvana Vihara. Here the Buddha delivered a sermon in which he outlined a [...]
Posted in Festivals in November, Spanish Festivals on 31. Jan, 2010
Ottery St. Mary is a unique carnival in which barrels coated with coal tar are burned and carried up and down the streets. What started this tradition and why; nobody knows for sure. All that is known is that the centuries old tradition either started as a way of warning the approach of Spanish Ships, [...]
Posted in American Festivals, General Info about Festivals on 31. Jan, 2010
New York Marathon is one of the major sports events of the world. Every year 37,000 participants both professionals and amateurs participate in this 26.2 mile long event. The New York Marathon first started in 1970 and involved running around the Central Park until the 26.2 mile target was achieved; but now the course runs [...]
Posted in General Info about Festivals, Thai festivals on 31. Jan, 2010
Thailand formerly known as Siam is a home to some amazing festivals. The country respects not only its citizens but also the animals living there. Lopburi in Central Thailand is one such place where a grand banquet is thrown on the last weekend of November for their famous citizens “the monkeys”.
It is a common belief [...]
Posted in Festivals in September on 31. Jan, 2010
The London to Brighton car rally is an amazing festival celebrated to mark an equally interesting event the1896 Emancipation Run. According to the Emancipation Run, the drivers could increase the speed of their vehicles from 4mph to 14mph and no longer required the services of a man who ran ahead of the car with a [...]
Posted in Festivals in December, Global Festivals on 31. Jan, 2010
God created us equal but we have erected barriers in the name of caste, color, creed, gender and religion. This discrimination harbors intolerance and injustice.
10th December was proclaimed to be The Human Rights Day by the United Nations General in 1948. According to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the General Assembly, all [...]
Posted in Islamic Festivals, Religious Festivals on 31. Jan, 2010
Eid ul Fitr is the most awaited festival of the country. It is celebrated on the 1st of Shawal the 10th month of the Islamic lunar calendar. Eid ul Fitr is celebrated to commemorate the end of Ramadan. Ramadan the 9th Islamic month is the month of fasting. Muslims are directed not only to abstain [...]
Posted in Buddhist festivals, Festivals in July, Religious Festivals on 31. Jan, 2010
Kathina Day is an important and auspicious day in the Buddhist calendar. On this day, the Buddhist people assemble in the temples and offer robes and other gifts to the monks.
Kathina is a Pali word used for the wooden frame on which the monks used to sew the scraps of clothes to make their robes. [...]
Posted in Festivals in November on 30. Jan, 2010
The Guy Fawkes Day also called the Bonfire Night is mostly celebrated in the U.K and other countries which had been under the British rule. The Guy Fawkes has an interesting story; it so happened that the Catholics faced many persecutions during the reign of Queen Elizabeth 1. With her death in 1603, James 1 [...]
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