日期:2007-10-07 The Munich Oktoberfest 20th September - 5th October 2003 The Munich Oktoberfest is the biggest public festival in the world and will be held in 2003 for the 170th time. Each year, the Oktoberfest is attended by around 6 million visitors, who drink a... 阅读全文>> 日期:2007-10-07 Accordion Fiddle Festival a hectic four-day period in mid-October(Scotland) The annual Accordion Fiddle Festival mainly concentrates on music provided by Shetland's two most popular instruments - the accordion and the fiddle. The festival, currently... 阅读全文>> 日期:2007-10-07 Labor Day (U.S.A) First Monday in September Many immigrants settled in New York City in the nineteenth century. They found that living conditions were not as wonderful as they had dreamed. Often there were six families crowded into a house made for... 阅读全文>> 日期:2007-10-07 International Day of Peace September 21st In 1981 the United Nations General Assembly passed resolution 36/67 declaring an International Day of Peace. In 2001, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a new resolution 55/282 declaring 21 Septembe... 阅读全文>> 日期:2007-10-07 Chusok September 24 ( Korea) Chusok (fall evening) is a Korean Harvest Moon (Han-gawi) festival set on the 15th day of the eighth lunar moon. Chusok (韩国中秋节), also known as the Korean Thanksgiving or Mid-Autumn Festival, is one of the most celeb... 阅读全文>> 日期:2007-10-07 Hungry Ghost Festival The 14th and 15th of the seventh lunar month Much like Western culture's Halloween, some Eastern cultures celebrate a Fall festival where they believe the gates of hell are thrown open, releasing hungry ghosts to wander the ear... 阅读全文>> 日期:2007-10-07 August 7-11, 2002 The Annual ATT San Jose Jazz Festival is Silicon Valley's favorite annual event. It is the largest free jazz festival in the country! The Festival, held in August in downtown San Jose, draws over 140,000 music lovers and features a... 阅读全文>> 日期:2007-10-07 August 10 - 30, 2003 The Edinburgh International Festival is over fifty years old and has earned its reputation as one of the world's greatest celebrations of the arts. The founders of the Festival believed that the Festival programmes should be of... 阅读全文>> 日期:2007-10-07 August 15th (Catholic) The Feast of the Assumption is an important day in the Catholic religion. It is the principal feast of the Blessed Virgin, the mother of Jesus Christ. This feast commemorates two events: the departure of Mary from the soul lif... 阅读全文>> 日期:2007-10-07 August 26 (London, British) A dancer makes her way along the route of the annual Children's Day Parade of the Notting Hill Carnival in London August 26, 2001. An estimated 2 million revellers are expected to descend on Notting Hill for the 37th annu... 阅读全文>> 日期:2007-10-07 August 3 to August 5 (Newport, Rhode Island, the US) Since the inaugural(创立之初的, 首次的) 1958 festival, the Newport Folk Festival is renowned for presenting the very best in traditional and up-and-coming (日渐重要的) folk artists. And, of course... 阅读全文>> 日期:2007-10-07 August 13 (Universally) What do tennis player Goran Ivanisevic and songwriter Paul McCartney have in common with (与有共同之处) Fidel Castro ? Along with (与一起)10 percent of the world's population they are left-handed, according to Lauren Milsom,... 阅读全文>> 日期:2007-10-07 8月12日为世界青年日,是全世界青年聚集到一起的盛大节日。此外,今天也是一个把年轻人的自信和力量带回教会的很好的方法。世界青年日不仅仅是世界青年的一次简单的集会, 而且也是一次向世界青年传播真理的机会。 Background of International Youth Day Celebrate YOU... 阅读全文>> 日期:2007-10-07 Raise your head on August 19 and gaze at the stars, you will find something romantic going on in the sky. VALENTINE'S Day in China, the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, falls on August19 this year. That is, on Sunday evening, Niu Lang and Zhi... 阅读全文>> 日期:2007-10-07 The 15th day of the 8th lunar month The joyous Mid-Autumn Festival was celebrated on the fifteenth day of the eighth moon, around the time of the autumn equinox(秋分). Many referred to it simply as the Fifteenth of the Eighth Moon. This day was al... 阅读全文>> 日期:2007-10-07 Oregon Brewers Festival July 28 - 30 Hailed by many as the finest craft beer festival of America, the Oregon Brewers Festival celebrates the growth of North American microbrewing while showcasing(展示) some of the finest beers in the industry. Hel... 阅读全文>> 日期:2007-10-07 Kyoto Gion Festival July 1-31 (Japan) The ancient capital of Japan, Kyoto (京都) is taken back in time during the Gion festival (祗园祭) by Yasaka shrine (八阪神社, gion was the old name of this shrine.) Gion festival is one of the biggest festi... 阅读全文>> 日期:2007-10-07 World Population Day July 11, 2004 2004 marks the 10th anniversary of the groundbreaking International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo, Egypt, in 1994. Ten years ago, on the eve of World Population Day, a new campaign was la... 阅读全文>> 日期:2007-10-07 International Co-operative Day The first Saturday in July In 1921, at the International Co-operative Congress of World Co-op Leaders wanted to identify and define the growing co-operative movement's common values and ideals to help unite co-ops arou... 阅读全文>> 日期:2007-10-07 Pamplola Bull-running Fiesta July 6 to July 14 (Pamplona, Spain) Every year from July 6 through 14, hundreds of thousands of revelers, dancing to traditional pipe bands, pack into the center of Pamplona to kick off Spain's most famous bull-running f... 阅读全文>> |
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