Maund festival celebrated with fervour in Aglar Valley

MUSSOORIE/AGLAR, 28 June: The shouts of Macchi! Macchi!(fish! fish!) heralded the fishing festival popularly called “Maund” in the Aglar Valley, 30 kms from Mussoorie as thousands gathered for the...

Burung Manguni

Burung Manguni, Burung Tootosik ada juga sebutan di lainnya tergantung daerah Minahasa mana. Namun tetap menjadi umum disebut Burung Manguni (mauni : mengamati) yang memang di tugaskan oleh Opo Empung Wangko untuk selalu memberi petunjuk kepada bangsa Minahasa dan di anggap...

Top 5 Media Talking Heads Closest to the Truth

Top 5 Media Talking Heads Closest to the Truth #5 Keith Olbermann Reminds me of a tattletale #4 Anderson...

Slide show on Beatles creates waves in Paul, Ringo concert

Rishikesh, 5 Apr: The two surviving Beatles, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, enthralled music lovers at a charity concert in Radio City Music Hall, New York on Saturday night. The 'Cosmicall Conscious' song by...

Hidden human tragedy

" Joseph is now 30. He lived in an African country where his family was politically active and vigorously pursued by the regime in power. Although he was educated and once played soccer for the national team, he...

Fat Tuesday Parties and Parades a Match for Rio's Carnival

Fat Tuesday means parties and parades in New Orleans, with thousands of people braving the cold to march or watch in a parade with hundreds of floats. Parties go on until the early morning, and police have made...

Pączki Day Recipes, History, and the Dreaded Calorie Count

A pączek is a traditional Polish doughnut traditionally eaten on Fat Thursday, the Thursday which falls before Lent.  Pączki are deep-fried and shaped like a sphere, often filled with a sweet filling and...

Carnival Kicks off Worldwide as Tourists Robbed in Brazil

Carnival celebrations are starting up across the globe, but vacationers in Brazil got more of a bang than they were expecting when they were held up by thieves with hand grenades. The tourists were left tied up...

Fat Tuesday Freebie: IHOP Marks Mardi Gras with Free Pancake Day

On Tuesday, February 24, 2009, IHOP (International House of Pancakes) in the United States will be giving away free pancakes between 7am and 10am local time nationwide to mark National Pancake Day.  The date is...

Carnival Celebrations and Mardis Gras Parties Kick off WorldWide

Mardi Gras and Carnival celebrations took place in cities all over the world on the weekend, with big parties and parades in New Orleans ahead of the state holiday called Fat Tuesday. Arrests were made in Greece...

Mardi Gras debut with Krewe du Vieux 'Stimulus package'

Expect to see pigs and lots of pigs' ears. "For a stock-market crash course in freakonomics, head downtown Saturday when Krewe du Vieux presents its Stimulus Package. The raunchy and satirical parade hits the...

Venice thinks of ways to prevent flooding in their streets

As Venice readies for the Carnival next month, they now have something else to contend with; the possibility of more floods. One of the most famous architecural sites in the world is slowly slipping away beneath...

Transgendered Model Closes Fashion Week in Rio de Janeiro

In a city that delights in shocking the prudish with each year's Carnival celebration, Rio De Janeiro's invitation only main fashion event of the year closed Friday with transgendered model Patricia Araujo. Beto...

Elderly Couple Missing from Carnival Cruise Ship

An elderly couple is missing from a Carnival Cruise ship that sails out of California and are "presumed to have gone overboard." "A statement released overnight by Carnival says the 90-year-old man and his...

English Carnivals on Show

"Carnival season comes early to London this week with the opening of English Carnival, a new photographic exhibition at the Barbican Library. If pictures of drunken grannies in bumble bee costumes find...

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