"VANOC CEO John Furlong watches Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson lower the Olympic Flame in a miners lantern to touch Canadian soil after he disembarks a Canadian Forces CC 150 Polaris (Airbus A-310) aircraft...
The magnificent St. Paul's Cathedral in London opened its new South Churchyard to the public today. This new peaceful space in the grounds took three years to complete at a cost of 3.8 million pounds." The...
created by Amy Judd | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 1528 views | 12 recommendations | 30 comments
In the neverending battle to strike that delicate balance between tradition and trying to save the environmental, critics of the Taiwan lantern festival, which also holds celebrations in Japan, Vietnam, and...
created by Amy Judd | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 3209 views | 10 recommendations | 2 comments
I found this article about the history of a day called "Thanksgiving "from around the world. Although the celebrations may be different days and came about for different reasons, it is basically a day to...
created by ifindtrends | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 1574 views | 7 recommendations | 2 comments
This Boston event got very little press, but I came across some gorgeous photographs of a beautiful and haunting memorial ceremony set in one of Boston's historic cemeteries."This breathtaking, Buddhist-inspired...
created by Jordan Yerman | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 1024 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
A masterful addition to the Nelson-Atkins Museum by Steven Holl
Architects brightens the landscape of midtown Kansas City and pushes
the limits for daylighting exhibition spaces.A series of translucent glass...
created by innes | 2 years ago 708 views | 5 recommendations | 1 comment
North and South Taiwan celebrates the full moon with an annual lantern festival and this year was bigger than ever. Colourful lanterns in all sorts of shapes and sizes light up the night sky, the most...
" BOSTON (Reuters) - Bathed in the orange glow of illuminated "Jack-o'-lanterns," Boston smashed a world record on Saturday when thousands of volunteers lit the largest number of Halloween pumpkins ever assembled in one place. "We have just busted past 29,000 lit pumpkins,...
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Celebrating the 2548th year of Sakyamuni Buddha's (the founder of Buddhism) enlightenment, the annual Lotus Lantern Festival was observed this weekend. Buddha's Birthday is celebrated worldwide and is a very...
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