Sentences with phrase «day festival on»

The event attracts over 100,000 attendees and over 100 authors presented their books at the two day festival on the college campus.

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Just before the NBA All - Star Game is played in Los Angeles on February 18, Adidas will be hosting a two - day festival that King said has been a year in the making.

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd's total value of goods transacted during its Singles» Day shopping festival was 91.2 billion yuan ($ 14.32 billion), the Chinese e-commerce giant said in Beijing on Thursday.

Six inches of rain fell in parts of the grounds on the festival's first day, turning pavement into small oceans and grassy fields into mud pits.

«We like to flip assumptions,» Krieger told a crowd in New York on March 11 during the 7 Days of Genius festival.

At least 10 people tried to mail their taxes through the campground post office on the first day of the festival — a reckless choice considering the mail doesn't have a return address and, as Hampton says, the destination isn't always written out carefully considering the senders» level of sobriety.

Alibaba Group Executive Chairman Jack Ma looks back at a giant electronic screen showing real - time sales figures on the «Singles» Day» online shopping festival.

China's Xiaomi Technology Co Ltd, the world's third - largest smartphone maker, which also uses the Singles» Day festival to boost turnover, said on its official Weibo account its sales had so far surpassed 1.2 billion yuan, selling more than 853,000 phones.

A three - day music festival on Randall's Island in NYC filled with great bands, food, friends and sunshine.

Next year, Life Is Good expects to throw 23 pumpkin festivals on a single fall day, with the goal of raising more than $ 1 million.

The promoter, who insisted on speaking anonymously out of concern for his safety, said it was unfortunate that organized crime was hurting the 10 - day BPM festival.

It created All Saints» Day, a festival on November 1 that celebrates Christian martyrs.

The rest of my time is spent working on launching a beer school series in Toronto and preparing to speak at beer festivals — the latter of which involves coming up with fun ways to talk about beer to people who've been drinking it all day, which is challenging.

Booked for an extended gig at Walt Disney World following St. Patrick's Day, The Maguires — a family of young sibling musicians renowned on the Irish music festival circuit across the U.S. and Ireland — perform at Disney Springs» Raglan Road Irish pub, through April 2.

BEIJING (Reuters)- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd's total value of goods transacted during its Singles» Day shopping festival was 91.2 billion yuan ($ 14.32 billion), the Chinese e-commerce giant said in Beijing on Thursday.

This year's «festival» starts on May 8 and runs for three days in...

The 145 - year - old company also used the 8.8 festival to host a Super Brand Day promotion, which gives Sainsbury's top placement on Alibaba's e-commerce sites while driving traffic to its Tmall Global storefront.

Sadhus and Hindu pilgrims began to gather in Kolkata on their way to the annual Hindu holy festival Gangasagar Mela, where an expected hundred thousand Hindu pilgrims will gather at the Gangasagar to take a dip in the ocean at the confluence of the River Ganges and the Bay of Bengal, on the occasion of Makar Sankranti, a holy day of the Hindu calendar considered to be of great religious significance in Hindu mythology.

Bible prophecy buffs point out that the eclipses happening this year are particularly significant because they all fall exactly on Jewish festivals: the ones in April 2014 and 2015 occur on the first day of Passover and the two in September are both on the first day of The Feast of Tabernacles.

A harvest festival commemorating the booths in which the Israelites resided during their 40 years in the wilderness, lasting for either 8 or 9 days and beginning on the eve of the 15th of Tishri.

Those destructions left deep wounds and prompted the adoption of many customs of public mourning, such as memorial prayers on the major festivals (yizkor) and the commemoration of the anniversary of a death (yahrzeit), that are observed to this day.

In England we celebrate All Hallows and turn it into a festival of light where all the Saints (we are all Saints, that believe and follow Jesus) come together to thank Jesus for bringing The Light into the world as He did with his Dad and The Holy spirit on then first day.

One public school recently took kids on a field trip to a Christian festival and left all the other kids on campus in a day long study hall.

We have continually to remember that the spring festivals celebrating the return of the vegetation god on the third day were still being celebrated in the contemporary non-Jewish cultures of the Ancient Near East.

On great festivals, like Christmas, Easter, Whitsunday, and the so - called «saints»» or «holy» days, the eucharist is offered with simplicity but with the beauty of vestments and always — as at the daily evensongs — with the singing of great music by a magnificent choir of men and boys.

Out of that came Jesus's birthday on Dec. 25th which was originally the pagan festival day for Sol Invictus (the Victorious Sun) and the rest of the great fantasy story (see Pope Leo X's quote in the early 1600's... paraphrased: «It has served us well, this myth of Christ» — out of the mouth of a Pope no less).

4 ««These are the Lord's appointed festivals, the sacred assemblies you are to proclaim at their appointed times: 5The Lord's Passover begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.

More interesting and distinctive, Pilgrims put on an annual two - day festival shortly before Thanksgiving.

On the second day of the festival Agrippa appeared in the theater erected by his grandfather.

Id al - Fitr — the little festival, held at the end of the Ramadan fast on the first day of the month Shawwal.

Days before the festival, a brand new giant pepper pod erected on main street announced the big fifteenth.

We use to make this milk Payasam in great days like festivals, birthday parties, wedding functions, Poojas and so on.

Over the three days of Weekend 2, we ate from every taco stand on the festival grounds.

What is Santa Lucia, you ask — a pre-Christian feature of modern day Catholicism; a mid-winter festival of light on one of the longest nights of the year.

If you would like to see the balloon glow, plan on arriving earlier in the day to enjoy the festival and then make your way to the wine stage area to enjoy the show at dusk.

NOLA On Tap (September 24)-- The largest beer festival in the region, this one - day - only event welcomes more than 25,000 brew - lovers and their dogs to New Orleans City Park to kick off Oktoberfest in New Orleans and benefit the Louisiana SPCA.

Each day, Chefs focus on different flavors which makes each day of the festival unique.

Our meaty encounters continued the next day during a festival on the beach celebrating the anniversary of the Schoenberg pier.

Tickets for Rock On The Range have sold out in advance for three years in a row, with a monumental 120,000 in attendance over the three days of the 2015 festival.

ARIA's Director of Wine Kim Wood and Mixologist Craig Schoettler provided diverse cocktail and wine pairings with each course, starting off day two of the festival on an indulgently delicious note.

Mo Rocca visits Guelda during Mount Ayr's annual town festival, «Ayr Days», which has a parade, fun activities for kids and fried meat on sticks.

The festival, organized by Palm Springs Life, will gather the brightest and most inspired chefs from across the country for three extraordinary days of culinary and wine tasting under The Big White Tent on Larkspur between El Paseo and Shadow Mountain in Palm Desert, CA.

Weekend & Day tickets for the amazing Lovebox festival at London's Victoria Park London are now on sale

a good friend asks when I run into him on a sunny, warm day at a fall festival.

It is the feature race on the Saturday of York's fantastic four - day festival and the Channel 4 cameras are in town to beam the entertainment to the masses that unfortunately can't make it to Yorkshire.

Lake Chabot Regional Park in Castro Valley will celebrate its 50th anniversary on Saturday, June 4, with an all - day festival of fun and free activities.

I have decided to re-invest a little of my Cheltenham profit from the first two days of the festival on the second favourite, 2 - 1 to the Arsenal, at 15/2.

Not only that they are offering money back if the favourite wins the first race on every day of the festival plus, if you place a bet up to the qualifying stake with the online bookmaker, you can watch the action live on your PC.

The Chicago Park District on Wednesday approved a five - year agreement to continue hosting the Lollapallooza music festival in Grant Park, while promising to address concerns about the noise generated by the three - day rock festival.

On Saturday the Boston Book festival presents Hubbub, a day of «creative commotion» for kids in Copley Square.