That ensemble will perform with her at Whitsun this year.
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One of Ms. Bartoli's most important mentors was Mr. von Karajan, the Whitsun founder.
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The Salzburg Whitsun Festival, founded in 1973, will be held this year from June 2 to 5.
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He invited her to audition for him when she was in her early 20s, and to perform at Whitsun.
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The "whit" part derives from "white," for the clothing many wore for baptisms held on Whitsun, another British name for Pentecost.
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Additionally, this year's Whitsun Festival, held May 18 to 21, will celebrate the composer Gioachino Rossini, who died 113 years ago.
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Since becoming the first female artistic director of the four-day Whitsun Festival in 203 (a contract that has been extended through 2021), she has made equally counterintuitive programming choices.
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Cecilia Bartoli will sing the title role in a production of Handel's "Alcina" that will first be presented in the spring at the Salzburg Whitsun Festival, where she is the artistic director.
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When "Ariodante" is restaged at the Salzburg Whitsun Festival in Austria later this week, it will have a female lead in the male role: the Italian mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli, who is the festival's artistic director.
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Following two performances at the Whitsun in May, where she sang the lead role of Isabella, she is bringing the production, and her part, to the Salzburg Festival for five performances from July 20 to Aug. 30.
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A typical Swedish dish that we would have on midsummer, Christmas, Whitsun, and Easter would definitely be meatballs, different kinds of herring, boiled eggs, caviar, lots of salad, and lots of bread, of course—rye bread usually.
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SALZBURG, AUSTRIA Aria Recital – Homage to Manuel García, Salzburg Whitsun Festival May 20 At the Pentecost Festival, the tenor Javier Camarena sings a recital in memory of the Spanish singer, composer, impresario and teacher Manuel del Pópulo Vicente Rodríguez García.
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Nevertheless, the Italian mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli, artistic director of the Salzburg Whitsun Festival, chose to take on this opera as her latest revival of Rossini, one of her favorite composers, to mark the 150th anniversary of his death this year.
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And the opera lineup would not be complete without the mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli, who appears as the title character of Handel's "Alcina" in a Damiano Michieletto production first seen in June at Salzburg's Whitsun Festival (where Ms. Bartoli is artistic director).
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"After the female characters I did [at Whitsun Festivals] in Salzburg, I wanted to bring a new aspect of my voice and of my personality, and do a travesty role," Ms. Bartoli said in a telephone interview, referring to roles played by the opposite sex.
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This summer it is mounting five new fully staged opera productions (plus the return of Handel's "Ariodante" starring Cecilia Bartoli, which premiered at Salzburg's Whitsun festival this spring), over the course of just six weeks — close to what many big opera houses do over an entire season.
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Looking back on her time at Whitsun, Ms. Bartoli recalled her surprise when she was asked, as a woman in her 40s, to take over an event founded in 1973 by the conductor Herbert von Karajan and subsequently led by a succession of other male conductors.
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" The city is also the birthplace of the Whitsun Festival founder Herbert von Karajan — the conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic for 35 years who is considered one of the most important conductors of the 20th century — and Joseph Mohr, who wrote the lyrics to the Christmas classic "Silent Night.
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Diva turns include Anna Netrebko in Puccini's "Tosca" (in a Michael Sturminger staging from the Salzburg Easter Festival) and Cecilia Bartoli in Donizetti's "Don Pasquale," in a production directed by Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier that will originate at the Salzburg Whitsun Festival, of which Ms. Bartoli is the artistic director, in the spring.
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Yearly, over Whitsun weekend, a great table tennis tournament, the Euregioturnier is held. At the outdoor swimming pool there is also an international swimming tournament at Whitsun. The VfL Weiße Elf Nordhorn stages every year, also over Whitsun weekend, the Pfingstturnier ("Whitsun Tournament"), a traditional C-youth soccer tournament. In 2007 they held their 25th yearly tournament.
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The yearly Whitsun kermis is the highlight of community life.
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Each year at Whitsun, a forest festival is held at the Matteshütte.
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Other customs, such as Morris dancing, were associated with Whitsun, although in most cases they have been transferred to the Spring bank holiday. Whaddon, Cambridgeshire has its own Whitsun tradition of singing a unique song around the village before and on Whit Sunday itself.
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Whitsun-Jones had two children by his first wife, Joyce Winifred Rankine, whom he married in 1949 and later divorced, and two from his second wife, Sylvia E. Horswell, including the actress Henrietta Whitsun-Jones. He died of appendicitis in London in 1974 aged 50.
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Sunday services also ceased, as did trains at Christmas, Easter, Whitsun and the August Bank Holiday.
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115 In France it was customary to blow trumpets during Divine service, to recall the sound of the mighty wind which accompanied the Descent of the Holy Spirit. In the north west of England, church and chapel parades called Whit Walks take place at Whitsun (sometimes on Whit Friday, the Friday after Whitsun). Typically, the parades contain brass bands and choirs; girls attending are dressed in white. Traditionally, Whit Fairs (sometimes called Whitsun Ales) took place.
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Whit was the occasion for varied forms of celebration. In the North West of England, church and chapel parades called whit walks still take place at this time (sometimes on Whit Friday, the Friday after Whitsun). Typically, the parades include brass bands and choirs; girls attending are dressed in white. Traditionally, Whit fairs (sometimes called Whitsun ales) took place.
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"Days" is a short poem (10 lines) by Philip Larkin, written in 1953 and included in his 1964 collection The Whitsun Weddings.
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"The Whitsun Weddings" is one of the best known poems by British poet Philip Larkin. It was written and rewritten and finally published in the 1964 collection of poems, also called The Whitsun Weddings. It is one of three poems that Larkin wrote about train journeys. The poem comprises eight stanzas of ten lines, making it one of his longest poems.
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There are two registered societies in the village the "Zeuchfelder Pfingsburschen e.V.", organising whitsun celebrations, and the "Heimat und Kulturverein Zeuchfeld e.V." organising socializing in the village.
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On the second weekend after Whitsun, a yearly kermis is held. On 30 April and 1 May, a “Dance into May” is held at the Gemünden fire station.
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In 2002, he debuted at the Whitsun Baroque Festival with Haydn's Nelson Mass, and at the Salzburg Summer Festival as Masetto in Don Giovanni, where he has performed every summer since.
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As the first holiday of the summer, Whitsun was one of the favourite times in the traditional calendar, and Whit Sunday, or the following week, was a time for celebration. This took the form of fêtes, fairs, pageants and parades, with Whitsun ales and Morris dancing in the south of England and Whit walks, Club Days and wakes in the north. A poster advertising the Whitsun festivities at Sunbury, Middlesex in 1778 listed the following attractions: > On Whit Monday, in the morning, will be a punting match...The first boat > that comes in to receive a guinea...In the afternoon a gold-laced hat, worth > 30s. to be cudgell'd for...On Whit Tuesday, in the morning, a fine Holland > smock and ribbons, to be run for by girls and young women.
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Egg trees are also sometimes decorated on May Day, Christmas, Whitsun, and the summer solstice. Other German Easter traditions include the dressing of public wells as Osterbrunnen, Osterhasen (Easter Hares) and Osterfeuer (Easter bonfires).
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The church's interior was updated and modernised in 2003. The practice in the village of the churches taking Whitsun outings together died out in the mid-20th Century, but Ainon remains an active and inclusive church.
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In 1930, it was rebuilt as a bigger chapel. To the elders in the Erškėtynas area, the vicinity is still sacred and religious believers often gather here during Whitsun as well as other important Christian celebrations.
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It says that a hedgehog kept Count Heinrich of Waldeck from coming a cropper when his horse shied before it. To this day, the Igelfest (Hedgehog Festival) is still celebrated in Fürstenberg on the Monday before Whitsun.
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At Whitsun the traditional Pfingstkirmes (Whitsun kermis) is held. On Whit Monday, an open-air church service is held if the weather is fair, and this is followed by a Corpus Christi procession, in turn followed by a Frühschoppen (a morning drink or brunch) with a concert in the square in the castle laneway under the old lindens of the Counts of Walderdorff. After prayers in the castle chapel, the kermis youth's parade begins. First at the Count's, then at the mayor's and finally in the lower village, the kermis youth dance.
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Stigand and his brother, Æthelmær, the Bishop of Elmham, were deposed from their bishoprics. Some of the native abbots were also deposed, both at the council held near Easter and at a further one near Whitsun. The Whitsun council saw the appointment of Lanfranc as the new Archbishop of Canterbury, and Thomas of Bayeux as the new Archbishop of York, to replace Ealdred, who had died in September 1069. William's half-brother Odo perhaps expected to be appointed to Canterbury, but William probably did not wish to give that much power to a family member.
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The replacement was Cosmo Falconer. After Young and Sellar's arrival in 1809 and their frequent advice to Lady Stafford, Falconer's position was being steadily undermined. Eventually, in August 1810 he tendered his resignation, with effect from Whitsun 1811.
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Jack Parker (1905 - 1989) was an international speedway rider who made his debut at the Whitsun meeting at High Beech in 1928. He won the British Riders' Championship in 1949 and finished second in the 1949 World Championship.
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Larkin's collection The Whitsun Weddings is one of the available poetry texts in the AQA English Literature A Level syllabus, while High Windows is offered by the OCR board. Buses in Hull displayed extracts from his poems in 2010.
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Every summer Geldern hosts a street painting contest, which attracts international artists. Geldern has the largest Whitsun(Pentecost) funfair of the lower Rhine, a street party in summer, and a Christmas Market. Several other events are organized in summer.
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Oxford University Press, December 2015. Web. 9 January 2016. Sense B2. > The temporale consists of the movable feasts, most of them keyed to Easter > (which falls on a different Sunday every year), including Ascension, > Pentecost (Whitsun), and so on.
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Until the renovation of 2002, the bell was also rung only once a year, at the start of the festival. Since then however, it has been rung on special occasions. It is rung at Christmas, Easter, Whitsun and the Lullus festival.
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Each year, between Ascension and Whitsun, a Western town is built here in which Western and Indian clubs recreate the atmosphere of the Wild West for a few days under authentic conditions. In early August each year, Hundsdorf holds its kermis.
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In November the last 16 head of cattle were confiscated. At Christmas 1634, Lauffen provided winter quarters for five transiting regiments. At Whitsun 1635, the Mühlheimische Kürassier-Regiment seized the entire winter crop, thus creating a famine which claimed 800 lives.
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On Walpurgis Night, the young lads raise a Maypole to music. The most important village festival is the kermis (church consecration festival, locally known as the Kerwe), which is held on the first weekend in August. Even now, on the first day of Whitsun, the village's children still parade through the village, observing the custom of the Pfingstquack (Whitsun is Pfingsten in German); the —quack part of the custom's name refers to a rhyme that the children recite as they go door to door begging for money with their gorse-decked wagon. The rhyme generally begins with the line “Quack, Quack, Quack”.
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Bartoli as Cleopatra at the Salzburg Festival, 2012 In 2012, Bartoli became the artistic director of the Salzburg Whitsun Festival, an extension of the traditional Salzburg Festival, which produces performances during Whitsun (Pentecost) weekend. Forgoing the academic programming of her predecessors, she reformulated the festival's programming--returning to "the old recipe of organizing beautiful programs and inviting great artists"--resulting in record ticket sales and placing the festival on the international opera calendar. In 2012, she sang Cleopatra in Handel's Giulio Cesare, in 2013 the title role in Vincenzo Bellini's Norma, and in 2014 Rossini's La Cenerentola.
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In Beverungen, a shooting festival is held every other year. Every year at Whitsun, the "Orange-Blossom-Special" – a music festival hosted by the local record label/mail order company, Glitterhouse Records – is held. Some 2000 visitors attend from all over Europe.
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One of his major trophies was the Challenge Cup. The cup contained of silver and was high. He won it outright at the 1904 Whitsun meeting in Bath, Somerset. He won more than 150 races including regional, national, British Empire and Olympic championships.
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Credits for Folk Roots, New Routes, AllMusic. Retrieved 19 November 2013 He then worked as a record producer, art director and songwriter on Collins' albums The Sweet Primeroses (1967), The Power of the True Love Knot (1968), Anthems in Eden (1969), and Love, Death and the Lady (1970), on some of which Collins sang with her sister Dolly. He also wrote lyrics for the song "Dancing At Whitsun", first published by Dallas and sung by Collins on Anthems in Eden "Whitsun Dance", Mainly Norfolk: English Folk and Other Good Music. Mainlynorfolk.info, Retrieved 19 November 2013 and later covered by Tim Hart on the 1971 album Summer Solstice.
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"We have tried to replicate what they were doing in appearance and taste so we hope that this will be very close to the product people loved." Superfluid relaunched Arcadia's Whitsun wheat ale in July 2020, with plans to release other Arcadia brands in the future.
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While the use of forests for pig fattening became less important, the wood harvest was one of the major economic factors. On Wäldchestag, the Tuesday following Whitsun, the majority of the citizens went to the forester's house in the city forest to celebrate Frankurt's biggest folk festival.
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The Artists' Way runs directly by the mill. The Schmilka Mill traditionally runs during the Mill Festival that takes place every year at Whitsun. Within the mill is a holiday home, the Mühlchen ("Little Mill"), which can be used as holiday accommodation.Schmilka Mill at wandern-saechsische-schweiz.
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Temporary in 1834 the king Frederick William III of Prussia interdicted this performance on Whitsun for religious reasons, but by the intercession of his nephew prince Frederick of Prussia, an art enthusiast and protector of the art societies of Düsseldorf, the festival regained permission with some restrictions.
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Hill would engage the same firm of architects in 1897 to design the nearby clock tower. The church opened on with a dedication and sacramental service commencing at 2:00pm. The schoolroom and coach house, of Elizabethan architecture, were erected before the new church, and opened on Whitsun, .
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Every year the event takes place in a different country, usually around the Whitsun weekend. The club's rules provide also that every 5 years since 1989 (counting from 1959), the event be celebrated in England, the birthplace of the Mini car. These conventions usually take place in August.
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And the same day Margaret Cheney, 'other wife to > Bulmer called', was drawn after them from the Tower of London into > Smithfield, and there burned according to her judgment, God pardon her soul, > being the Friday in Whitsun week; she was a very fair creature, and a > beautiful.
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116 In 1116 he is recorded in a similar context. Ranulf was, however, one of the king's military companions. When, soon after Whitsun 1101 Henry heard news of a planned invasion of England by his brother Robert Curthose, he sought promises from his subjects to defend the kingdom.Hollister, Henry I, p.
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At midnight, it is the turn of the original confraternity to carry their emblem to the shrine. This is known as the Almonte Rosary ceremony. At 10 a.m. on Whitsun Sunday, a Pontifical High Mass is said in El Real del Rocío (next to the Sanctuary), where the Virgin was crowned in 1919.
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Gerpinnes () is a Walloon municipality located in the Belgian province of Hainaut. On 1 January 2006 the municipality had 12,030 inhabitants. The total area is 47.10 km², giving a population density of 255 inhabitants per km². Every year at Whitsun, a large procession is organised in honour of Saint Rolendis (Sainte Rolende).
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One of the oldest clubs is the Schützenverein St. Hubertus 1910 Oberrod e.V. (shooting club). Each year at Whitsun the club stages a three-day shooting festival. A further highlight is the so-called Backes- und Brunnenfest (“Bakehouse and Well Festival”), which takes place from 18 to 20 August at the village well.
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But he continued to keep a watchful eye over the Baltic, and in 1170 destroyed another pirate stronghold, farther eastward, at Dziwnów on the isle of Wolin. Absalon's last military exploit came in 1184, off Stralsund at Whitsun, when he soundly defeated a Pomeranian fleet that had attacked Denmark's vassal, Jaromar of Rügen.
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The writ for the by- election was moved on 8 May, and the date for the election was set as 28 May. The delay was due to allow for the week-long Whitsun holiday enjoyed by Manchester workers.Parliament, The Times, 9 May 1913, p.11Altrincham Polling Day, The Times, 10 May 1913, p.
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First verse of Veni Creator Spiritus, on which many later hymns are based Hymns for Pentecost are hymns dedicated to the Christian feast of Pentecost, or Whitsun. Along with Christmas and Easter, it is a high holiday, dedicated to the Holy Spirit, or Holy Ghost. Hymns have been written from the 9th century to contemporary.
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With his literary figure of the Good-for-Nothing Eichendorff created the paradigm of the wanderer. The motif itself had been central to romanticism since Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder and Ludwig Tieck undertook their famous Pfingstwanderung (Whitsun excursion) in the Fichtelgebirge in 1793, an event that began the Romantic movement.Cf. Günther Schiwy: Eichendorf. Der Dichter in seiner Zeit.
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The intended replacement was Frances Suther as factor, but he was not immediately available, so Sellar remained in post until Whitsun 1817. The winter of 1816/17 was severely affected by famine (as was much of Western Europe). As factor, Sellar was responsible for buying relief supplies for the tenantry. Rent collections fell as the famine struck.
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In Stan Smith. The Cambridge Companion to W.H. Auden. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 1–14. . New poets starting their careers in the 1950s and 1960s include Philip Larkin (1922–1985) (The Whitsun Weddings, 1964), Ted Hughes (1930–1998) (The Hawk in the Rain, 1957) and Irishman (born Northern Ireland) Seamus Heaney (1939–2013) (Death of a Naturalist, 1966).
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The first segment, "Avarice", is written by John Esmonde and Bob Larbey. In this segment, a 50p coin falls down a drain and a rich man (Whitsun-Jones) orders his chauffeur (Forsyth) to retrieve it. A fisherman (Hudd) attempts to fish it out. The chauffeur's efforts result only in the coin dropping farther down into the sewer.
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Important works by Cosmas Damian Asam (ceiling paintings in the dome), Joseph Ruffini, Andreas Faistenberger, Johann Baptist Straub and Johann Georg Baader can be admired inside. The spire which lost its steepletop in World War II is situated further north next to the former convent. The patronal feast is All Saints Holy Trinity (the Sunday after Whitsun).
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That was to come later when the Hares of Stow Bardolph took possession of the lands to the south and west of the old Priory in the era after its Dissolution by Henry VIII's commissioners in 1537. After the bridge was built, the place was renamed Stowbridge. A livestock fair was held annually on the first Saturday after Whitsun.
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They met at Whitsun 1934. Jones, who had a car, drove the two of them to Laugharne; and Thomas later described Jones to his girlfriend, Pamela Hansford Johnson, as "a nice, handsome young man with no vices".Ferris (1989), p. 107. Later that year, the two men met again, this time to visit fellow poet Caradoc Evans.
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After months of festivities and celebrations, the couple left France for Scotland in May 1537. By this time, Madeleine's health had deteriorated even further, and she was very sick when the royal pair landed in Scotland. They arrived at Leith at 10 o'clock on Whitsun-eve, 19 May.State Papers Henry VIII, vol. 5 part 4 cont.
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Dancers at Copenhagen Carnival 2009 Copenhagen Carnival is an annual carnival event taking place in Fælledparken and on the streets of Copenhagen, Denmark for three days (Friday-Sunday) during the Whitsun Holiday. Over the years it has developed into the largest Danish festival for World music with 120 bands, 2000 dancers and more than 100,000 spectators participating.
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The couple married on Whitsun, 18 May 1152, eight weeks after the annulment of Eleanor's first marriage, in Poitiers Cathedral. Over the next 13 years, she bore eight children: five sons, three of whom became kings; and three daughters. However, Henry and Eleanor eventually became estranged. Henry imprisoned her in 1173 for supporting their son Henry's revolt against him.
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On 24 June 2009, the forbidden substance fluphenazine was found in the A-sample from Werth's horse Whisper at a Whitsun tournament at Wiesbaden. She was suspended from all tournaments by the International Federation for Equestrian Sports (FEI). On 2 September 2009, the suspension was set by the FEI to six months from 23 June.Schock für Olympiasiegerin Werth Süddeutsche.
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The name "chain cactus" is common in New Zealand, and may also refer to Hatiora species. The Easter cactus or Whitsun cactus is now placed in the genus Hatiora, but was at one time included in Schlumbergera (or one of its synonyms). The name "holiday cactus" has been used to include both Schlumbergera and Hatiora cultivars.
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The word "ale", in the sense of an ale-drinking party, was part of many compound terms for types of party or festivity based on the consumption of ale or beer. Thus there was the leet-ale (held on "leet", the manorial court day); the lamb-ale (held at lamb-shearing); the Whitsun-ale (held at Whitsun), the clerk-ale, the church-ale etc. The word "bridal" originally derives from bride-ale, the wedding feast organised to raise money for the couple. The bid-ale, once very common throughout England, was a benefit feast to which a general invitation was given, and all those attending were expected to make some contribution to help the object of the benefit, usually a poor person or family or some other charitable cause.
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Candlemas originally fell on 2 February, the day of the feast of the Purification, or the Presentation of Christ. This was celebrated in pre- Reformation times by candlelit processions. The tradition was started in the 5th century during the Roman celebration of Februa, and carried over into Scotland, where mothers of children born the previous year would march with candles, hoping to be purified by the Virgin Mary. Whitsun was originally the feast of Pentecost, around which a great many christenings would occur, so it became associated with the colour white. Because the date of Pentecost moves each year, the legal Term Day of Whitsun was fixed in Scotland as 26 May in the Julian Calendar, which became 15 May under the Gregorian Calendar, adopted in Scotland in 1599.
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Another original composition of Pieter Brueghel the Younger is the Whitsun Bride, which is known in at least five autograph versions. One of the copies was formerly held by the Metropolitan Museum. The picture depicts a Flemish springtime custom of choosing and crowning a queen at Whitsuntide. The festival is focused around a flower gathered in the fields by children.
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In 1939, he was severely injured in the car crash that killed Worcestershire opening batsman Charlie Bull, on the Sunday evening of the Whitsun match with Essex, and missed the next two months of cricket. He made his debut as a first-class umpire in 1951. He umpired in 33 Tests between 1956 and 1969. He was awarded the MBE in 1965.
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Worth seeing in Gustavsburg are the two churches, the Main Sluice, the Mainspitze and the Cramer-Klett-Platz workers' neighbourhood, which now stands under protection as a monument. Every year, a Christmas Market is held there. The greatest yearly festival is the Burgfest ("Castle Festival"), held at Whitsun. There is also a new park built where King Gustav Adolf's fort once was.
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Whit Friday is the name given to the first Friday after Whitsun in areas of northeast Cheshire, southeast Lancashire and the western fringes of Yorkshire. The day has a cultural significance in Stalybridge as the date on which the annual Whit Walks were traditionally held. It is also the day on which the traditional annual Whit Friday brass band contests are held.
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Schlumbergera gaertneri, formerly Hatiora gaertneri, is a species of epiphytic cactus which belongs to the tribe Rhipsalideae within the subfamily Cactoideae of the Cactaceae. Together with the hybrid with S. rosea, Schlumbergera × graeseri, it is known as Easter cactus or Whitsun cactus and is a widely cultivated ornamental plant. It has received the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
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Whit Tuesday (syn. Whittuesday, Whitsun Tuesday) is the Christian holiday celebrated the day after Pentecost Monday, the third day of the week beginning on Pentecost. Lucchese, Kathryn M. and Rylander ,Cathy "Folk like me: The read-aloud book of saints," Morehouse Publishing, 2008, , page 43. Pentecost is a movable feast in the Christian calendar dependent upon the date of Easter.
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At the close of the Exposition, Collins purchased the ride for Pleasure Beach and it was dismantled, shipped to England and erected in the park. The ride opened on 14 May 1932Eastern Daily Press; Whitsun Attractions. Published 14 May 1932. Like other scenic railways of the time, the structure was clad in plaster and concrete in a style to represent mountainous terrain.
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The Sutherland family were sent anonymous threatening letters to their house in London. The Transatlantic Emigration Society provided a focus for resistance to the clearances planned in 1820, holding large meetings and conducting extensive correspondence with newspapers about the situation of Sutherland tenants. This publicity caused great concern to Loch, and the comment in the press increased as Whitsun 1820 increased.
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German forces quickly overran much of the country. The Allies sent troops to Norway, but they met with little success, and on 26 April the War Cabinet ordered a withdrawal. The Prime Minister's opponents decided to turn the adjournment debate for the Whitsun recess into a challenge to Chamberlain, who soon heard about the plan. After initial anger, Chamberlain determined to fight.
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The production team had hoped that Paul Whitsun-Jones would be able to reprise the part; he was unavailable and Brian Worth was cast instead. Michael Ripper appeared as an army sergeant; he had been in Hammer Film Productions' adaptation of the second Quatermass serial, Quatermass 2, the previous year. The drama also featured future Dad's Army actress Nan Braunton as Miss Dobson.
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69Hollister "Anglo-Norman Civil War" English Historical Review pp. 323–324 King Henry dispossessed Ranulf of his lands at Whitsun in 1101, and the new Archbishop of York Gerard deposed him from his bishopric.Hollister Henry I p. 136 The Archbishop of Canterbury, Anselm arranged for Flambard's trial in a papal court for simony, and a papal decree was issued against Ranulf.
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When her father dies during a stock car race, Katie Glebe (Rona Anderson) takes over the running of his garage, helped by American driver Larry Duke (Paul Carpenter). Katie struggles to fend off creditors, including the unscrupulous Turk McNeil (Paul Whitsun-Jones), who seeks to repossess her property. Further dramas ensue when Turk's girlfriend Gina (Susan Shaw) shows an interest in Larry.
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During the activity of museum-preserve the holiday culture became its integral part. The largest holidays are Christmas, Shrovetide, Easter, Whitsun and Ivan Kupala Day (Feast of St. John the Baptist). In March 2006 the holiday "Chyl-Pazhi" took place in the territory of museum for the first time. This is the New Year of the Sayan-Altai region peoples.
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The dish measures across; it also has a depiction of the Last Supper, below which is the coat of arms of co-regents William III and Mary II. The flagon stands tall. Both pieces are still used in the chapel on Easter, Whitsun and Christmas, and they were first displayed at a coronation in 1821.Dixon-Smith, et al., p. 64.
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According to these same sources, Zeno was buried on Mount Gerizim. Later, in 484, the Samaritans revolted. The rebels attacked Sichem, burnt five churches built on Samaritan holy places and cut off the fingers of bishop Terebinthus, who was officiating the ceremony of Whitsun. They elected Justa (or Justasa/Justasus) as their king and moved to Caesarea, where a significant Samaritan community lived.
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The feast was usually held in a barn near the church or in the churchyard. In Tudor times church-ales were held on Sundays; gradually the parish-ales were limited to the Whitsun season, and these still have local survivals. The colleges of the universities used to brew their own ales and hold festivals known as college-ales; some of these ales are still brewed and famous, like "chancellor" at Queen's College, and "archdeacon" at Merton College, Oxford, and "audit ale" at Trinity, Cambridge. A short piece printed in the Manchester Times in 1870 quoted from Jefferson's Book about the Clergy: > Of the Church-ale, often called the Whitsun-ale, from being generally held > at Whitsuntide, it is necessary to speak at greater length, for it is a far > more important institution than the bid-ale or clerk-ale.
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The rhyming scheme is a,b,a,b,c,d,e,c,d,e (a rhyme scheme similar to that used in various of Keats' odes). Larkin describes a stopping-train journey southwards from Paragon station in Kingston upon Hull, where he was a librarian at the university, on a hot Whitsun Saturday afternoon. It has always been supposed the poem was based on an actual train journey Larkin made in 1955 on Whitsun Saturday, a day which was popular for weddings at that time though since there was a rail strike on that weekend Larkin scholar John Osborne now thinks the journey an unlikely one to have taken place. Larkin's letters mention two journeys, one to Grantham (not at Whit, some weddings), and one to London (not at Whit, no weddings), that may have been conflated in the poem.
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Collected Poems is the title of a posthumous collection of Philip Larkin's poetry edited by Anthony Thwaite and published by Faber and Faber. He released two notably different editions in 1988 and 2003, the first of which also includes previously unpublished work. Both editions include the contents of Larkin's collections The North Ship, The Less Deceived, The Whitsun Weddings and High Windows, plus other material.
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However, they were not discovered. The third tunnel ran west from the western barrack block under a sentry tower on the south-western corner of the camp. This was completed in the spring of 1941, and was used by 17 British officers (mainly RAF) in June 1941. The exact date of the escape is not known, but many sources quote it as occurring during the Whitsun weekend.
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After a Whitsun public display in May 1919, Vickers began pulling out for Brooklands in earnest. Following the Armistice with Germany Joyce Green was declared surplus to requirements in October 1919 and was restored to agricultural use by Dec. All of the hangars had been dismantled by 1939. The Long Reach Tavern would eventually close in 1957, and was demolished in the late 1950s.
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In 789 came the Boxheimerhof's first documentary mention. This was a Lorsch monastic estate, and it appeared under the name Villa wizzilin or Wizzelai. By 1275, it already bore the name Boxheim. In late April 873, at Whitsun, King Louis the German held his Imperial Assembly (placitum) in Bürstadt. There were negotiations with Danish King Siegfried's legation and a reception for Great Moravian Prince Svatopluk’s envoy.
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Stangenpyramide Dreieichenhain is above all known for the kermis at Whitsun, and it hosts a Christmas market, which thanks to Dreieichenhain’s lovely Old Town is famous countrywide. The is Southern Hesse’s biggest kermis and yearly draws 80,000 visitors. The highlights are the fireworks on Saturday evening and the traditional on the Monday. Furthermore there are the yearly castle festival games and (“Jazz at the Castle”).
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This was complemented by other scenic features constructed around the ride, such as castlesEastern Daily Press; Whitsun Attractions. Published 14 May 1932. The plaster and concrete cladding was lost over time, and throughout the 1960's what remained was replaced with steel sheets, which is the same method used today. When the steel cladding was first installed, it was painted to represent a mountainous terrain.
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Bower (1912). Maid Marion wears a Tyrolean hat and carries a hunting horn. Maid Marian (or Marion) is never mentioned in any of the earliest extant ballads of Robin Hood. She appears to have originally been a character in May Games festivities (held during May and early June, most commonly around Whitsun) and is sometimes associated with the Queen or Lady of May or May Day.
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Eastercon is the common name for the British national science fiction convention. From 1948 until the 1960s, the convention was held over the three- day Whitsun bank holiday at the end of May. It has taken place over the four- day Easter holiday weekend ever since then. The pre-1960s conventions are generally considered to have been "Eastercons" even though they were not held over Easter.
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He is regarded as a saint and is honoured with a Breton feast day on 28 June and a Cornish feast day on the Thursday of Whitsun. According to tradition, Austol died within a week after the death of Méen. Before the Reformation, the parishes of St Austell and St Mewan celebrated together because of the friendship between the two saints.Ellis, P. B. (1992) The Cornish Saints.
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Her first works contained a social and economic bent, such as Schopenhauer on Lake Pepin: A Study, but she soon turned to short stories. Iowa and Arkansas gave her opportunities for exploiting regions hitherto little attempted in fiction. Her stories The Bishop's Vagabond, The Hay of the Cyclone, and Whitsun Harp, Regulator were popular. These initially appeared in the Atlantic Monthly and Scribner's Magazine.
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The people evicted resented this change as a loss of status from farmer to crofter, but this was not understood by the estate when they started implementing their plans in Strathnaver in 1814. The first clearances in Strathnaver involved only 28 families (an estimated 140 people). Eviction notices were given in December 1813 by Patrick Sellar, the estate factor. The notices took effect on Whitsun 1814.
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Hatiora is a small genus of epiphytic cacti which belongs to the tribe Rhipsalideae within the subfamily Cactoideae of the Cactaceae. Recent taxonomic studies have led to the three species formerly placed in subgenus Rhipsalidopsis being removed from the genus, including the well known and widely cultivated ornamental plants known as Easter cactus or Whitsun cactus (cultivars or hybrids of the former Hatiora gaertneri).
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Holst's a cappella carol, "This Have I Done For My True Love", was dedicated to Noel in recognition of his interest in the ancient origins of religion (the composer always referred to the work as "The Dancing Day"). It received its first performance during the Third Whitsun Festival at Thaxted in May 1918. During that festival, Noel, a staunch supporter of Russia's October Revolution, demanded in a Saturday message during the service that there should be a greater political commitment from those who participated in the church activities; his claim that several of Holst's pupils (implicitly those from St Paul's Girls' School) were merely "camp followers" caused offence.; and Holst, anxious to protect his students from being embroiled in ecclesiastical conflict, moved the Whitsun Festival to Dulwich, though he himself continued to help with the Thaxted choir and to play the church organ on occasion.
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The general rule was that the conventual Mass should correspond to the office with which it forms a whole. It was not allowed to sing two high Masses both conformed to the office on the same day. On the other hand, there were cases in which two different conventual Masses were celebrated. The cases in which the Mass did not correspond to the office were these: on Saturdays in Advent (except Ember Saturday and a vigil), if the office was ferial the Mass is of the Blessed Virgin; on Vigils in Advent that were not also Ember days, if the office was ferial the Mass was of the Vigil commemorating the feria; on Maundy Thursday and Holy Saturday; on Rogation Tuesday, if the office was ferial the Mass was of Rogation; on Whitsun Eve the office was of the Ascension, but the Mass a Whitsun Mass.
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Dudsday, also Duds' day, or Dud's day was a hiring fair, a holiday, held at Kilmarnock in East Ayrshire, Scotland. Originally held at Martinmas that falls on November 11 it was later also held at Whitsun. At this fair farm servants etc would be hired. The name comes from the custom of farm Labourers purchasing new clothes or 'Duds' having been paid their wages for the previous half-year.
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Kilmarnock Cross in 1840. The term 'Dudsday' will be used for consistency. Later the name was applied to the spring hiring fair at Whitsun in KilmarnockKellie, Page 141 also and to other similar fairs held in other parts of Ayrshire for the same purpose.Crofton The Kilmarnock Dudsday ceased to be held after 1939, the name previously becoming also attached to hiring markets set at other dates than the traditional Dudsday.
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The second palace fire in 1884 spared the church, as the fire was stopped in the buildings linking it to the palace. However, fate finally caught up with the church on 7 June 1992. The church burned to the ground, probably set ablaze by fireworks set off during the Whitsun carnival. During the 1992 church fire, the roof, dome and dividing floor were burned down and the inventory severely damaged.
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Instant Marriage is a musical with music by Laurie Holloway and words by Bob Grant. It premiered at the Piccadilly Theatre in London on 1 August 1964, playing for 366 performances. The cast featured Joan Sims, Paul Whitsun-Jones, Bob Grant, Stephanie Voss, Rex Garner, Harold Goodwin and Wallas Eaton. There was an Australian production in 1965, playing at the Tivoli Theatre in each of Melbourne and Sydney.
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In 1794 began French rule, under which the Duke's and the convent's holdings were seized and sold off in 1804 and 1805. In 1814 or 1815, Kerpen was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna. Later in the 19th century, in 1850, came the beginnings of a regulated postal system. In 1858, the Kerpen dealers’ and livestock market, once held every year before Whitsun, was abolished.
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During the eleventh it was a common melody for liturgical texts for the feast of the Holy Innocents (28 December); during the twelfth century it was a common setting for Whitsun sequences in southern France and northern Spain. Its melody differs in important ways from Gregorian chant and shares some characteristics with the lai. It is remarkably similar to another sequence, the Berta vetula of the Winchester Troper.
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The state of Saxony made 1.7 million euros available for the project. The lift opened Easter 2006. Between 1991 and 2010, a total of about 46 million euros was invested by the Free State of Saxony on the renovation and upgrade of Königstein Fortress.Besuchermagnet und Bauplatz, Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten dated 11 January 2011 The museum welcomed its 25 millionth visitor on 14 October 2005 since it opened Whitsun 1955.
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Aytoun had the same name as his grandfather. His father was called John and his mother was Isobel and his maternal grandfather was Robert Rollo. Aytoun took part in a race on Kersal Moor which traditionally was done with the competitors running without clothes. The race was run each Whitsun and the spectacle attracted large crowds and entertainers who transformed part of the moor into a giant fair.
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In March 1067, William took Ealdred with him when William returned to Normandy, along with the other English leaders Earl Edwin of Mercia, Earl Morcar, Edgar the Ætheling, and Archbishop Stigand.Walker Harold pp. 185–187 Ealdred at Whitsun 1068 performed the coronation of Matilda, William's wife. The Laudes Regiae, or song commending a ruler, that was performed at Matilda's coronation may have been composed by Ealdred himself for the occasion.
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The St Davids Cathedral Festival runs through the Whitsun school holiday each year and showcases some of the world's best performers. The week sees performers, both professional and young, play in front of thousands. The cathedral choir serve as a highlight each year, being a very popular concert, as well as the Festival Chorus and Orchestra who perform a major work on the final night of the festival.
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Thus, he thought the root of the word was "wit" (formerly spelt "wyt" or "wytte") and Pentecost was so-called to signify the outpouring of the wisdom of the Holy Ghost on Christ's disciples. The following day is Whit Monday, a name coined to supersede the form Monday in Whitsun-week used by John Wycliffe and others. The week following Whit Sunday is known as "Whitsuntide" or "Whit week".
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Whitsun-Jones' Cast Notes in a programme for Oliver! (1960) His early television appearances included Street Scene, The Last Tycoon, Love from Italy, Berkeley Square and Swedish Match King. He played the role of Mr. Bumble in the original West End production of the musical Oliver! (1960). He appeared in two Doctor Who stories: as Squire Edwards in The Smugglers (1966) and the Marshal of Solos in The Mutants (1972).
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In 1907, the first telephone line reached Dickesbach, with the first telephone being installed at Julius Jakobi's house. That same year, a compulsory fire brigade was established (as of 1953, this became a volunteer fire brigade). In politics, the Bürgermeisterei (“Mayoralty”) of Sien was dissolved on 1 December and Dickesbach was grouped with Weierbach. In 1910, at Whitsun, the road to Weierbach was opened. It had cost 34,500 marks to build.
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Keay, pp. 18–20. At his death in 1087, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle reported: "[William] kept great state … He wore his crown three times a year as often as he was in England … He was so stern and relentless … we must not forget the good order he kept in the land".Nicholas, p. 220. Those crown-wearings were held on the religious festivals of Easter, Whitsun and Christmas.
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The traditions established in the medieval period continued later. By the middle of the 15th century, a crown was formally worn on six religious feasts every year: Christmas, Epiphany, Easter, Whitsun, All Saints' Day, and one or both feasts of St Edward.Keay, pp. 27–28. A crown was displayed and worn at the annual State Opening of Parliament,David Dean in Hoak, "Image and ritual in the Tudor parliaments", p. 243.
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"MCMXIV" (1914) is a poem written by English poet Philip Larkin. It was first published in the book The Whitsun Weddings in 1964. The poem, a single sentence spread over four stanzas, begins by describing what is seemingly a photograph of volunteers lining up to enlist, and goes on to reflect on the momentous changes in England that would result from the First World War, ending, 'Never such innocence again'.
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Towards the end of the 1990s, a trade surplus of 30 billion kroner (US$4.9 billion) turned into a deficit. To combat this, the government increased taxes, limiting private consumption. The 1998 initiative, dubbed the Whitsun Packet (Danish: Pinsepakken) from the season it was issued, was not universally popular with the electorate which may have been a factor in the Social Democrats' defeat in the 2001 Danish general election.
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Earl Robert's endowment to the priory in 1137 included permission to hold an annual fair. From 1238 an annual fair held over fifteen days, was held here. Later charters show the original date of the fair to be Whitsun Day, but the inconvenience of the festival changing date each year soon changed the fair day to 25 July, the feast day of St James. It was later changed to the first fortnight in September.
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Until 1978, the outlying centre of Kremmeldorf partly belonged to the parish of Peulendorf. Within the municipal area there is also the Catholic parish of Kreuzerhöhung (“Triumph of the Cross”) Merkendorf, within whose area is found the outlying centre of Laubend. Lichteneiche originally belonged to the Memmelsdorf parish, but is now a Memmelsdorf branch parish. At Whitsun 2006, the Catholic Seelsorgeeinheit (“parish cluster”) Pfarreiengemeinschaft Memmelsdorf mit Lichteneiche, Gundelsheim und Merkendorf was founded.
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Słownik polszczyzny Jana Kochanowskiego. 1994 s. 560 ognie świętojańskie"In the south of Poland, from the Silesian frontier as far as the bend of the San river including the districts of mountains and foothills, Whitsun and Saint John's fires were customary. In the low country both kinds of annual fires were called sobótki; in the mountains term like ognie, fakty, składanie watry, and palenie watry were usedes sobótki." in: Zeitschrift für Ostforschung, t.
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The monument in Chichester Cathedral "An Arundel Tomb" is a poem by Philip Larkin, written and published in 1956, and subsequently included in his 1964 collection The Whitsun Weddings. It describes the poet's response to seeing a pair of recumbent medieval tomb effigies with their hands joined, in Chichester Cathedral. It is described by James Booth as "one of [Larkin's] greatest poems". It comprises 7 verses of 6 lines each, each with rhyme scheme ABBCAC.
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Thomas Becket (1118–70) was consecrated Archbishop of Canterbury on the Sunday after Pentecost (Whitsun), and his first act was to ordain that the day of his consecration should be held as a new festival in honour of the Holy Trinity. This observance spread from Canterbury throughout the whole of western Christendom. Anglican parishes with an Anglo-Catholic churchmanship observe Corpus Christi on the following Thursday, or in some cases the following Sunday.
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According to legend, the text was written in the 17th century by a pupil who was confined for misconduct during the Whitsun holidays.The Gentleman's Magazine, 1796, vol. 66, pp. 208–210. (In one account, he was tied to a pillar.) It is said that he carved the words on the bark of a tree, which was thereafter called "Domum Tree", and cast himself into Logie (the river running through the school grounds).
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The old surviving vaulting was blown up to make way for a church built in the new style. A pillared portico and a flat interior ceiling and simple classical lines are very different from the medieval church. The cornerstone was laid in 1817 and the work completed by Whitsun Day 1829. Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770–1844) was commissioned to decorate the interior with statues of Jesus Christ and the apostles; Judas Iscariot replaced by St. Paul.
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Riccardo Muti, (; born 28 July 1941) is an Italian conductor. He currently holds two music directorships, at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and at the Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini. He has previously held posts at the Maggio Musicale in Florence, the Philharmonia Orchestra in London, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, and the Salzburg Whitsun Festival. Muti has been a prolific recording artist, and has received dozens of honours, titles, awards and prizes.
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In Stan Smith. The Cambridge Companion to W. H. Auden. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 1–14. . Stephen Spender (1909 – 1995)), whose career began in the 1930s, was another important poet. New poets starting their careers in the 1950s and 1960s include Philip Larkin (1922–85) (The Whitsun Weddings, 1964), Ted Hughes (1930–98) (The Hawk in the Rain, 1957) and Irishman (Northern Ireland) Seamus Heaney (1939–2013) (Death of a Naturalist, 1966).
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A south chapel commemorating the First World War was added in 1920. A mission church, now St John's Horbury Bridge, was started in a room in what is now the Post Office in 1864. The curate, Sabine Baring-Gould wrote the hymn "Onward Christian Soldiers" in 1865 for the Whitsun procession to Horbury Church. Another mission was set up at Horbury Junction in 1887 and replaced by St Mary's Church in 1893.
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On Whitsun 1166, Becket excommunicated a number of Henry's advisers and clerical servants, including John of Oxford, Richard of Ilchester, Richard de Lucy, and Jocelin de Balliol, among others.Barlow Thomas Becket pp. 144–148 A bishop was also excommunicated, Josceline de Bohon, the Bishop of Salisbury.Barlow Thomas Becket pp. 149–151 The king and Foliot responded to these actions with the summoning of a council that was held at London around 24 June 1166.
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The voyagers sail in the vicinities of Aurora Island, Lepers Island and Whitsun Island. After seeing the volcano on Ambrym, they turn to Mallicollo, where they engage with the natives. Forster reports their language as different from all South Sea dialects they encountered especially in its use of consonants. The natives are described as intelligent and perceptive, and an account is given of their body modifications and clothing, their food and their drums.
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Robert raided into Lothian and forced Malcolm to agree to terms, building a fortification at Newcastle-on-Tyne while returning to England.Douglas William the Conqueror pp. 240–241 The king was at Gloucester for Christmas 1080 and at Winchester for Whitsun in 1081, ceremonially wearing his crown on both occasions. A papal embassy arrived in England during this period, asking that William do fealty for England to the papacy, a request that he rejected.
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King Edward the Confessor wearing a crown in the first scene of the Bayeux Tapestry Edward the Confessor wore his crown at Easter, Whitsun, and Christmas. In 1161, he was made a saint, and objects connected with his reign became holy relics. The monks at his burial place of Westminster Abbey claimed that Edward had asked them to look after his regalia in perpetuity for the coronations of all future English kings.Keay, pp. 18–20.
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They moved to a bungalow in Hints, between Sutton Coldfield and Tamworth, in 1954, setting up Hints Zoological Society in the acre plot. Their collection of animals grew, and in 1962 they bought Norton Grange, a large Victorian rectory with of land, plus farm buildings and stables. They opened to visitors as Twycross Zoo on Whitsun bank holiday, 26 May 1963. Over time, the zoo expanded onto adjoining fields to cover over .
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The general chapter, at which the provincial ministers are always bound to convene, is to be held every three years, or at a longer or shorter interval, where the general so wishes. After the Whitsun chapter, provincial chapters may be convoked by the ministers (c. viii). A special chapter on preachers follows next. The brothers are forbidden to preach in any diocese against the will of the bishop, and unless they are approved by the minister general.
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Churchill Methodist Church, in the village of Churchill, North Somerset, is a Grade II listed Methodist church on the Somerset Mendip Methodist Circuit. Designed by Foster & Wood, Bristol, of Perpendicular Gothic style, the church opened on 2 May 1881. The schoolroom and coach house, of Elizabethan architecture, were erected before the new church, and opened on 1 June 1879 (Whitsun). Sidney Hill, a wealthy local businessman and benefactor, erected the church and schoolroom as a memorial to his wife.
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Earlier there were no school holidays, in 1820 there were four weeks in August, one week at Christmas and Easter, and a week at Whitsun was added in 1824. The front door opens into a full-height hall, originally a chapel, which has stained glass windows at the far end. The master's rooms were at the back with rooms in each wing to house the children. In the 1830s the single storey wings were made double storey.
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Jettenbach's church's patronal festival (Kermis) is known locally as the Kerwe, and is held on the third Sunday in August, and is, by extension, a celebration for the whole community. In former times, a market was held on the Monday after Laetare Sunday, with a fair at Whitsun. The timing used for the current feast-day was set in 1890. Toward the end of the 19th century, Fasching (Shrovetide Carnival) began to be celebrated in Jettenbach.
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In Zurich, the two directors worked closely and productively with Cecilia Bartoli. In 2012 Bartoli and Pereira - both now in management positions in Salzburg - brought the two directors to the Salzburg Whitsun Festival. A few months later the Bregenz Festival followed, and in 2013 the Theater an der Wien and then the Vienna State Opera. Leiser/Caurier work with the same production team, the stage designer Christian Fenouillat, the costume designer Agostino Cavalca and the lighting designer Christophe Forey.
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Since 1973, there has existed a partnership between Ebernhahn and the French community of Marolles-les-Braults in the department of Sarthe. The official partnership meetings take place each year on Whitsun weekend, in Ebernhahn in even-numbered years and in Marolles- les-Braults in odd-numbered years. On 22 April 2007, the square outside the multi-purpose hall in Ebernhahn, after a thorough remodelling, was given the name Place Marolles as an expression of the partnership.
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Regularly held in Burgen are a Shrovetide (Fastnacht) parade, a Maypole festival, Deutscher Mühlentag (“German Mill Day”, at Whitsun), the music club’s Lindenfest and the obligatory Saint Martin’s Day parade. The Burgener Bühnchen (“little stage”), a department of the Burgen local history club, stages theatrical productions. In nearby Bernkastel-Kues, with the onset of late summer each year comes the Großes Weinfest der Mittelmosel (“Great Wine Festival of the Middle Moselle”), one of the Moselle’s biggest wine festivals.
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This has been held each year on the Saturday of the Spring Bank Holiday (traditionally Whitsun), moving from the garden of Prospect Cottage to the garden of the White Horse Inn in 2015. It still features a programme of live music and the 'Red Gun bar', despite being in the pub garden. Royal wedding 'carriage procession' at Whitfun 2018 In 2018, Whitfun moved to 19 May to celebrate the royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
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Thanks to Władysław, Silesia was saved during the wars of 1133–1135 with Bohemia: he stopped the destruction of the major areas of his district after the Bohemian forces crossed the Oder river. In 1137, during the whitsun meeting with Duke Soběslav I of Bohemia at Niemcza (other sources mention Kłodzko), in which several disputed matters were decided, Władysław stood as godfather in the baptism of the youngest son of Soběslav, the future Duke Wenceslaus II.
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This was the last great crusade, although the ideal remained a major concern of late medieval kings, including Robert I and James IV.A. Macquarrie, "Crusades", in M. Lynch, ed., The Oxford Companion to Scottish History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), , pp. 115–16. The Christian calendar incorporated elements of existing practice and dominated the social life of communities. Fairs were held at Whitsun and Martinmas, at which people traded, married, moved house and conducted other public business.
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And on the 25 day of May, > being the Friday in Whitsun week, Sir John Bulmer, Sir Stephen Hamerton, > knights, were hanged and headed; Nicholas Tempest, esquire; Doctor > Cockerell, priest;James Cockerell, Prior of Guisborough. Abbot quondam of > Fountains;William Thirsk. and Doctor Pickering, friar,John Pickering of > Bridlington. were drawn from the Tower of London to Tyburn, and there > hanged, bowelled and quartered, and their heads set on London Bridge and > divers gates in London.
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138, quoted in Evidently Bethlem was a popular attraction, yet there is no credible basis to calculate the annual number of visitors. The claim, still sometimes made, that Bethlem received 96,000 visitors annually is speculative in the extreme. Nevertheless, it has been established that the pattern of visiting was highly seasonal and concentrated around holiday periods. As Sunday visiting was severely curtailed in 1650 and banned seven years later, the peak periods became Christmas, Easter and Whitsun.
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They were accompanied by the Lichfield Morris dancers with drum and tabor and by people from the churches carrying figures of saints garlanded with flowers. Whitsun being as important festival of the Church: these garlanded figures were known as “posies”. After the Reformation, the figures of saints were replaced by the tableaux representing different trades, but the term “posie” was still used to describe them. The introduction of gunpowder led to musketeers being included in the procession.
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In Austria, the summer holidays are usually between early July and early September. There is, with the exception of Vorarlberg and Salzburg, no Autumn break but there is a Christmas break (from December 24 until January 6) and an Easter break (lasts for 10 days). The mid-term break in February lasts for a week and the Whitsun break lasts for 4 days including the weekend. There are also days off during religious holidays (Assumption, Ascension, Corpus Christi etc.).
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Duporth Holiday Village was built on the site of the old Duporth estate and manor which was owned by Charles Rashleigh, who developed Charlestown. The site was sold in 1933 to Seaside Holiday Camps Ltd and the camp opened by the Whitsun of 1934. During the second world war the camp was requisitioned by the War Office and the Indian Army and American Army were stationed there. After the war it returned to being a holiday camp.
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The timing was then moved to the more clement weather of Whitsun Tuesday and the festival became biennial. In 1778, the frequency was reduced further so that Montem was only celebrated once every three years. As time passed, the event seems to have become bigger, becoming eventually a semi-military muster of the whole school. Crowds and royalty (including at various times Queen Charlotte, George IV, William IV, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert) flocked to see the event.
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The Whitsun bride He was one of the many Antwerp artists who were invited to work on the decorations for the Joyous Entry into Antwerp of the new governor of the Habsburg Netherlands Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand in 1635. Rubens was in overall charge of this project. Ryckaert was tasked to paint together with Antwerp painter Jan van Eyck the final triumphal arch for the event. The painting was an allegorical representation of the glorification of Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand.
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The fair (Volksfest) in Olching takes place annually during the second holiday week of Whitsun (Pfingsten). The fair consists of rides, stalls, food and entertainment, and a large beer tent, which are set up on the Volksfestplatz (fairground). There are various themed events in the beer tent, including a regional boxing fight night. The community organises a broad range of events during the festival, including a popular large firework display, usually on the first Monday of the fair.
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It was known as Saint Luke's fair for many years as it was held on the feast day of Saint Luke. Traders selling goods at the fair were required to pay tolls which were originally paid at a toll booth at the entrance of the fair. In 1790 the booth moved to the Market or Manor Rooms in Newtown Square. Until 1883 there was also a three-day fair at Whitsun which was held at the manor.
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Later, Ralph's relations with Normandy improved and he sent his son Simon to be brought up at William's court. After the Norman conquest of England in 1066, King William returned to Normandy with captives and booty. He held an Easter court at Fécamp on 8 April 1067 to display his spoils and Ralph was in attendance. Ralph then attended the Whitsun court of King Philip I of France in Paris, witnessing a royal charter on 27 May.
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Gumstool Hill The Tetbury Woolsack Races are held on the Whitsun Bank Holiday Monday. Hundreds of people line up along Gumstool Hill (an extremely steep street) in the centre of Tetbury, Gloucestershire to watch the teams. Each competitor must carry a full woolsack on his / her back and race either up, down or up and down the hill. The races take place between two public houses, the Royal Oak (the bottom of the hill) and the former Crown (at the top).
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Norris may have been her betrothed, but Weston naively insinuated that he was in the Queen's Chambers to see her and not her servant.a conversation on Whitsun Monday, 24 April 1536, Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII; Weir, The Lady, p.151 Because there is still some speculation as to when Mary was born, it is believed that she could have been as young as fifteen when she began her affair with King Henry VIII.
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There were other departures from tradition. At least initially, there was no music because it would take time to replace the church's body of Latin music. Most of the liturgical year was simply "bulldozed away" with only the major feasts of Christmas, Easter and Whitsun along with a few biblical saints' days (Apostles, Evangelists, John the Baptist and Mary Magdalene) and only two Marian feast days (the Purification and the Annunciation). The Assumption, Corpus Christi and other festivals were gone.
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A report from Dunthorne was made at the Bedford Level Corporation's general Whitsun meeting, 1771(Library of Congress: (Bedford Level Corporation), Eighteenth Century, reel 10978, no.02; Eighteenth century collections: Thomson Gale, 2003, Farmington Hills, Mich.) In this role, Dunthorne was concerned in a survey of the fens in Cambridgeshire, and he also supervised construction of locks near Chesterton on the River Cam. Dunthorne's association with Long remained lifelong, and in the end Dunthorne acted as executor of Long's will.
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Motion 1993, p. 437. In 1964, in the wake of the publication of The Whitsun Weddings, Larkin was the subject of an episode of the arts programme Monitor, directed by Patrick Garland.Down Cemetery Road, closing credits. The programme, which shows him being interviewed by fellow poet John Betjeman in a series of locations in and around Hull, allowed Larkin to play a significant part in the creation of his own public persona; one he would prefer his readers to imagine.Bradford 2005, p. 203.
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He disparaged poems that relied on "shared classical and literary allusions – what he called the myth- kitty, and the poems are never cluttered with elaborate imagery."Jean Sprackland, speaking on The Whitsun Weddings BBC Radio Four, 1 December 2013 Larkin's mature poetic persona is notable for its "plainness and scepticism". Other recurrent features of his mature work are sudden openings and "highly- structured but flexible verse forms". alt=A black and white photograph of Hardy from his late middle age.
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According to Ware, a medieval annalist, a battle took place at Balbriggan on Whitsun-eve, 1329, between the combined forces of John de Bermingham, Earl of Louth (who had been elevated to the 'palatine dignity' of the county) and Richard, Lord of Malahide, and several of their kinsmen, and the forces of local rival families, the Verduns, Gernons and Savages, who were opposed to the elevation of the earl. In this event, the former, with 60 of their English followers, were killed.
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Riding his bicycle from his lodgings in Crooms Hill in South London to visit his uncle in Surrey on a Whitsun holiday, the narrator,Robert Phillips determines that the narrator is called "Maurice" (1974, p. 108), Welch's own first name, and one which he never used. However Phillips disregards the fact that the narrator doesn't use it either. The otherwise un-named narrator —clearly Welch himself— describes his "shock" at hearing the hospital staff call him by this name (p. 23).
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In January, in honour of the community’s patron saint, Anthony, whose feast day is 17 January, two concerts are held by the community’s music club on two consecutive weekends. On the Burgberg (“Castle Mountain”), the yearly music festival Rock am Turm is held at Whitsun. At Christmas, a lit, real fir tree (Tannenbaum in German) up to 8 m tall is put up on top of the castle tower. The kermis in Hartenfels is usually held on the first weekend in July.
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Two scenes from the Iwein frescoes at Schloss Rodenegg: The stone on the spring is watered (left), and the Woodsman (right). The novel begins with a Whitsun celebration at the court of Arthur, the epitome of courtly festivities. While there, Iwein hears the story of the Knight Kalogrenant, which is structured by Hartmann as a sort of novel in the novel. The misbegotten adventure of the Arthurian knight Kalogrenant gives the court of Arthur a legitimate challenge - that of avenging the dishonour.
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This updated the setting to the 1960s and altered the ending so that Ginevra departs the celebration, heartbroken. The English Concert gave semi- staged performances in 2017 in the U.S. and Europe, including at Carnegie Hall, where the event was filmed, and at the Barbican Centre.Handel's Ariodante , Barbican Centre performance details, The English Concert The Salzburg Whitsun Festival presented a new production by Christof Loy on 2 June 2017 featuring Cecilia Bartoli as Ariodante and Nathan Berg as the King.
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Paul Whitsun-Jones (25 April 1923 – 14 January 1974) was a Welsh character actor. Born in Newport in Monmouthshire, he was educated at Merchant Taylors' School in Northwood in Middlesex. He started his acting career in 1948 with two years at York Repertory Theatre. In the West End he appeared in The Moonraker at the Saville Theatre (1952), Dangerous Curves at the Garrick Theatre (1953), and played the Wazir in Kismet at the Stoll Theatre for two years from 1955 to 1957.
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Toddington Services partially opened at Whitsun in the spring of 1964; the rest of the main 800-seat restaurant opened in early 1965. The section of M1 it is on opened in November 1959. When opened, it was the first service area on the journey north from London on the M1, and the UK's largest. It was the UK's eighth motorway service station, and the M1's third service area; the M1 had the UK's first two motorway service areas.
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On Ascension Day, a folk festival with church service by the minister from Datterode and the traditional giving of bread by the Lords of Boyneburg take place at the Boyneburg (castle, now in ruins). In Datterode at Whitsun, an outdoor team handball tournament has been held since 1992 by SG Datterode/Röhrda, in which more than 100 teams from across the country, of both sexes and all age groups, take part. In all other constituent communities, a yearly tent kermis is staged.
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John was one of the bishops that sided with King William against Anselm of Canterbury at the king's Whitsun council in 1097,Vaughn Anselm of Bec and Rober of Meulan p. 201 one of early councils called during the Investiture Controversy in England. During the reign of King Henry I, who succeeded his brother King William in 1100, John along with Robert Bloet, the Bishop of Lincoln, consecrated abbots who had been invested in office by the king.Vaughn Anselm of Bec and Robert of Meulan pp.
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The group soon grew; it admitted four initiates in 1925, six in 1926, and ten in 1927. In November 1926, a second degree was established into which these initiates could progress. In 1924, the group also obtained an old orchard at the foot of Glastonbury Tor, there erecting a hut and eventually a veranda and series of chalets. At Whitsun 1926, Fortune and several other members of her group were on Glastonbury Tor when they underwent a spiritual experience that produced a feeling of ecstasy among them.
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Recent high-profile performances of the Mozart setting include one in the 2006 Salzburg Festival under the baton of Christoph Poppen, as part of the M22 series, masterminded by Bernhard Fleischer to perform all Mozart's operas (and the only oratorio) in 2006 Salzburg Festival. The performance was recorded and subsequently released as DVD. (See Recordings section below.) In 2010 both the Mozart and the Jommelli settings were performed side by side at the Salzburg Whitsun and Ravenna festivals under the leadership of Riccardo Muti.
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The Geißbockversteigerung (literally “Billygoat Auction”) is a folk festival in the form of a historical game that is celebrated each year on the Tuesday after Whitsun. The festival began with an old agreement with the neighbouring municipality of Lambrecht under which each year to pay off debts for woodland and meadow rights within Deidesheim's limits, a billygoat had to be delivered by Lambrecht, which was then auctioned, with the proceeds going to Deidesheim's benefit. This historical situation grew over time into a folk festival.
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A "Domum Dinner" is held at the end of the summer term for leavers. It was formerly restricted to those former scholars of Winchester who were also scholars of New College, and distinguished guests. Until the reforms of the 19th century, there were three successive Election Dinners held during Election Week, culminating in a Domum Ball. Originally these festivities occurred around Whitsun, as suggested by references in the song to early summer such as "See the year, the meadow, smiling" and "Now the swallow seeks her dwelling".
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Dublin, Gill and McMillan (1997 and 2005) Easter and Whitsun were their principal holidays, Monday being the excursion for men and Tuesday for women. The original Waxies' Dargle was said to be part of Donnybrook Fair, but because of riotous behaviour this fair closed in 1855. In any case, the waxies' excursions did not go all the way to Bray, but only went as far as Irishtown which is located between Ringsend and Sandymount. In imitation of the gentry, they called their outing the Waxies' Dargle.
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With a mercenary at his back, he had marched from Dover over Whitsun. In London, Walter was reinstalled as Chancellor in a 'resumption of royal power', having been briefly challenged by the baronial movement. Walter provided legal arguments for the collection of tallage, rejection of the baronial constitution, appointment of royal Sheriffs, and a renewed attempt to justify the collection of Customs. Now only a cussed Philip Basset, among the barons, remained aloof from the fray, when the King's new ministrations emerged against the Provisions of Oxford.
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"Chyl-Pazhi" is the national holiday of the peoples of the Sayan-Altai (which include Shors and Teleuts, native residents of the Kuzbass), in Russian translation it is "the head of year". The first rays of "new sun" fall on this head in the days of the vernal equinox. In the past this holiday opened new life cycle and it was particularly significant for the peoples of the Sayan-Altai. Traditional Festival of bell ringers "Rings over Tom" takes place in the day of Whitsun.
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Despite his ability and character, William Burnes was consistently unfortunate, and migrated with his large family from farm to farm without ever being able to improve his circumstances. At Whitsun, 1777, he removed his large family from the unfavourable conditions of Mount Oliphant to the farm at Lochlea, near Tarbolton, where they stayed until William Burnes's death in 1784. Subsequently, the family became integrated into the community of Tarbolton. To his father's disapproval, Robert joined a country dancing school in 1779 and, with Gilbert, formed the Tarbolton Bachelors' Club the following year.
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The following chapter treats of penance to be inflicted on brothers who have sinned. In some cases they must recur to their ministers, who "should beware lest they be angry or troubled on account of the sins of others, because anger and trouble impede charity in themselves and in others" (c. vii). Chapter viii charges all the brothers "always to have one of the brothers of this religion (order) as Minister General and servant of the whole brotherhood." At his death the provincial ministers and custodes must elect a successor in the Whitsun chapter.
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In September Bräck took pole position and won the RAC Tourist Trophy race at the Goodwood Revival in a Shelby Daytona Coupé 1964 together with 9-time 24 Hours of Le Mans winner Tom Kristensen. In September 2013 Bräck won The Whitsun Trophy race at the Goodwood Revival in a Ford GT40 together with Red Bull Racing's Adrian Newey. In May 2017 Kenny set the lap record for road legal cars at the Nurburgring Nordschleife with a lap time of 6,43.22, in a McLaren P1 LM, a project he helped develop with Team Lanzante.
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One sweep used to wash down his boys in the Serpentine. Another Nottingham sweep insisted they washed three times a year, for Christmas, Whitsun and the Goose Fair. Sometimes, a boy would need to be persuaded to climb faster or higher up the chimney, and the master sweep would light either a small fire of straw or a brimstone candle, to encourage him to try harder. Another method to stop him from "going off" (asphyxiating) was to send another boy up behind him to prick pins into his buttocks or the soles of his feet.
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By March 1846 the line between Exeter and Teignmouth was substantially complete except for the laying of the pipe for the atmospheric traction. In order to generate some income the directors decided to open this section using locomotives. Two 2-2-2 locomotives were hired in from the GWR at a hire charge of 1s 4d per train mile; the locomotives were named Exe and Teign. The passenger service started on the Saturday of Whitsun weekend, 30 May 1846,MacDermot, volume II, page 208Sekon says 3 May 1846.
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At first the volume attracted little attention, but in December it was included in The Times' list of Books of the Year.Motion 1993, p. 269. From this point the book's reputation spread and sales blossomed throughout 1956 and 1957. During his first five years in Hull the pressures of work slowed Larkin's output to an average of just two-and-a-half poems a year, but this period saw the writing of some of his best-known poems, such as "An Arundel Tomb", "The Whitsun Weddings" and "Here".
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Most markets in town are held on Linggplatz. The weekly market is held twice a week and a flea market takes place from April to October on the first Saturday of each month. Other, yearly, markets are the Easter Market on Wednesday before Good Friday, the Whitsun Market on Wednesday before Whitsunday, the Große Lulluskrammarkt ("Great Lullus Traders’ Market") on Wednesday during Lullusfest and the Autumn Market on Penance Day, the Wednesday before 23 November (this day is known in Germany as Buß- und Bettag, an Evangelical observance).
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The Twenty20 competition was abandoned without a match played or a ball bowled in 2007 due to adverse weather conditions during the Whitsun weekend on which it was scheduled. In the main competition, the Rubies became the first team to win all their matches during the tournament to finish as winners. Both the leading batsman and bowler were drawn from the Rubies' side; Lydia Greenway's 233 runs led the competition, while the 19 wickets taken by Holly Colvin, at an average of 4.05, was 10 more than any other bowler managed.
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The most prominent event in club history was the building of the former gymnasium, which is now the community centre. The imposing timber-frame building, originally a casino for French officers in Landau and acquired from that town, was dedicated at Whitsun in 1932. Worth mentioning is the Rötelsbusch sporting ground facility laid out in 1961-1968, which nowadays has a spacious clubhouse. Looking back on an even longer history than the gymnastic club, albeit not a continuous one, is the public Evangelical library at the village’s old rectory.
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Both Ortsteile together hold their kermis (church consecration festival) on the second weekend in October. It was done in this way even before the amalgamation. On 1 May, the Maypole is decorated. Henschtal is among those places that still observe the peculiar Western Palatine custom known as the Pfingstquack, observed at Whitsun (Pfingsten in German); the —quack part of the custom’s name refers to a rhyme that the children recite as they go door to door begging for money with their gorse-decked wagon. The rhyme generally begins with the line “Quack, Quack, Quack”.
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Frederick then invaded Saxony with an Imperial army to bring his cousin to his knees. Henry's allies deserted him, and he finally had to submit in November 1181 at an Imperial Diet in Erfurt. He was exiled from Germany in 1182 for three years, and stayed with his father-in-law in Normandy before being allowed back into Germany in 1185. At Whitsun 1184 he visited the Diet of Pentecost in Mainz, probably as a mediator for his father-in-law Henry II. He was exiled again in 1188.
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In this Whitsun custom, children and youths go through the village in a group with a bundle of flowers, calling at houses and demanding donations. Also still alive is the custom of raising the Maypole on the eve of May Day, which is also, of course, Walpurgis Night, and “witchcraft” is keenly practised. Another custom that has been revived is the Gemarkungsumgang (“walking round the municipal area”) in which a great number of the local population takes part. At a midday rest along the walk, a field kitchen serves meals.
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The letters included explanations of the fundamentals of astronomy and discussions of astrology in the modern world, with reference to such topics as nutation, precession of the equinoxes, comets, solar eclipses and lunar eclipses and the meaning of the Christian holidays such as Easter and Whitsun. The Letters in English translation were published in 2007 with the title Astronomy and Spiritual Science.Publisher, 2007 On 9 and 11 July 1930 she held two lectures in Stuttgart with the title The Bodhisattva Question in the History of the Anthroposophical Society, published in English translation in 1993.
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Admiral Wise, CSO(T) to CinC Home Fleet, came on board for the acceptance inspection and pronounced the ship operational, despite problems with the gunnery system. Work-up at Portland followed, although this was interrupted to act as a range safety ship for the bombing of the stranded Torrey Canyon. The ship visited Cherbourg at Whitsun (mid May 1967), and leave was granted in June and July while the ship was prepared for a deployment East of Suez. The ship sailed from Plymouth for the East on 17 July 1967.
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Marcoll's piece "Adhan" for Carillon and Tape, written in 2015 but not premiered in its original form, attracted some attention. It combined the singing of a muezzin with the bells of a carillon and the tone of a Shofar. The concerts planned for Whitsun 2015 on the Carillon in Berlin's Tiergarten were cancelled after the carillonist refused to perform the piece, which had been commissioned for this occasion. Marcoll said in interviews that the reason why he wrote the piece would now become the reason why it would not be performed.
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Ultimately, the army was called out and the estate made concessions such as paying very favourable prices for the cattle of those being cleared. This was assisted by landlords in surrounding districts taking in some of those displaced and an organised party emigrating to Canada. The whole process was a severe shock to Lady Sutherland and her advisers, who were, in the words of historian Eric Richards, "genuinely astonished at this response to plans which they regarded as wise and benevolent". Further clearances were scheduled in Strathnaver starting at Whitsun, 1814.
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Coutances was one of the negotiators sent by King Henry to secure a settlement, but they had to settle for a temporary truce.Warren Henry II p. 610 In January 1188 Coutances took the cross when he pledged to go on Crusade along with King Henry and King Philip of France. At Whitsun in 1189, Coutances was a member of a commission appointed by the papal legate John of Anagni to arbitrate the dispute between King Henry II of England and his son, Richard, who was supported by King Philip II of France.
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The name Bledington is well known by Morris dancers, even though the dances are seldom seen in the village today. The area is rich in Morris history, with performances recorded in Sherborne in 1711 and Churchill when a Morris team were paid six shillings for dancing at a Whitsun Ale in 1721.Recorded by William 'Strata' Smith; see his Genealogical papers, Oxford University Museum of Natural History (shelf-mark WS/A/2/2). There is also evidence that sides were active in Rissington, Icomb and Milton all close Bledington, in the late 1700s.
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When the station opened, the surrounding area was almost entirely rural, and would remain so throughout the station's existence. Indeed, in 1902, John L Dunk wrote in The Railway Magazine that he could not think why trains ran only to an inn and a few cottages. The area did however see some development, as the Avonmouth Hotel was built adjacent to the station, as well as of pleasure gardens. The gardens boasted a concert hall, as well as an ornamental lake, and hosted fêtes at Easter and Whitsun.
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At Whitsun 1860 Smith purchased Sellar's lands and immediately renamed the whole estate "Ardtornish",Gaskell (1996) p. 71 the name meaning "The headland of Thorir's (or Thora's) promontory". The clearances had by this time affected Morvern – over 3,200 left the parish in the 19th century, 750 of them forcibly evicted – and the bitter memories of the actions of Sellar and his neighbours lived long in the area.Gaskell (1996) p. 27 Ardtornish, however, seemed to strike a favourable chord with those fortunate enough to be entertained by the estate.
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Born in Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, Pratt lived near to Mike Broadbank from whom he bought his first speedway bike at the age of nineteen, and practiced at the nearby Rye House track.Oakes, Peter (1963) "A Peter Oakes Speedtale on Colin Pratt: Saints Must Regret Their Decision", Speedway Star, 27 July 1963, p. 16 After his National Service, he returned to the Rye House training track in 1960 and had his first competitive rides, reaching the final of the Whitsun Trophy. He was signed by the Southampton Saints, where he made his National League debut against Oxford.
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Although privately disdainful of Wilson's motives, after discussions with Hollis the prime minister was sufficiently concerned about Ward's general activities to ask the Lord Chancellor, Lord Dilhorne, to inquire into possible security breaches. On 31 May 1963 at the start of the parliamentary Whitsun recess, Profumo and his wife flew to Venice for a short holiday. At their hotel they received a message asking Profumo to return as soon as possible. Believing that his bluff had been called, Profumo then told his wife the truth, and they decided to return immediately.
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As well as taking portraits Thomas also photographed the events, such as country fairs, that were the fabric of country life, street scenes with notable buildings and new developments, including chapels that had been built recently. Aspects of social progress like banks, post offices and particularly the railways are common features in Thomas' photographs. In 1863, he arranged for a group of Welsh ministers to visit Liverpool and have their portraits taken during Whitsun. These portraits were well received when they were advertised for sale in Welsh newspapers and periodical.
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Ultimately, the army was called out and the estate made concessions such as paying very favourable prices for the cattle of those being cleared. This was assisted by landlords in surrounding districts taking in some of those displaced and an organised party emigrating to Canada. The whole process was a severe shock to Lady Sutherland and her advisers, who were, in the words of historian Eric Richards, "genuinely astonished at this response to plans which they regarded as wise and benevolent". Further clearances were scheduled in Strathnaver starting at Whitsun, 1814.
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9 January 2016. > The temporale consists of the movable feasts, most of them keyed to Easter > (which falls on a different Sunday every year), including Ascension, > Pentecost (Whitsun), and so on. The sanctorale consists of the fixed feasts, > celebrated on the very same date each year (no matter what the day of the > week), including Christmas and all the saints' days.Michael Lapidge, 'The > Saintly Life in Anglo-Saxon England', in The Cambridge Companion to Old > English Literature, ed. by Malcolm Godden and Michael Lapidge, 2nd edn > (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), pp.
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"Mr Bleaney" is a poem by British poet Philip Larkin, written in May 1955. It was first published in The Listener on 8 September 1955 and later included in Larkin's 1964 anthology The Whitsun Weddings. The speaker in the poem is renting a room and compares his situation to that of its previous occupant, a Mr Bleaney. Larkin had previously used the surname Bleaney in his first novel Jill in 1946, where Bleaney is named as a classmate of the hero, John Kemp, at "Huddlesford Grammar School", somewhere in Lancashire.
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The Brackley Morris Men are one of only seven 'traditional Cotswold' sides remaining in England, and the only one to survive in Northamptonshire. Their history dates back to the 1600s when a solid silver communion plate was given to the parish. The plate which is still in the possession of St Peter's Church is dated 1623, and is inscribed with the names of seven men, whom local folklore believes to have been the morris dancers. In 1725 the men were paid half a guinea to dance at the Whitsun Ale at Aynho House.
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The town takes its name from the Whitsunday Passage which was named on 4 June 1770 by Lieutenant James Cook of HMS Endeavour because it was religious festival of Whitsun. On 31 January 1987 the town was created to encompass the whole of the urbanised area around the Whitsunday Coast, replacing the separate towns of Airlie (within the locality of Airlie Beach), Cannonvale (within the locality of the same name) and Shutehaven (within the locality of Shute Harbour) in addition to the locality of Jubilee (now Jubilee Pocket).
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This was assisted by landlords in surrounding districts taking in some of those displaced and an organised party emigrating to Canada. The whole process was a severe shock to Lady Stafford and her advisers, who were, in the words of historian Eric Richards, "genuinely astonished at this response to plans which they regarded as wise and benevolent". Further clearances were scheduled in Strathnaver taking effect at Whitsun, 1814. These were complicated by Sellar having successfully bid, in December 1813, for the lease of one of the new sheep farms on land that it was now his responsibility, as factor, to clear.
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However, as part of a war in which skirmishing was the usual form of encounter, Fréteval was no different, and, it has been said, it 'does not deserve the label of a battle.' In what was most likely an ambush by the English, Philip appears to have abandoned his baggage train in a wood as Richard approached, and escaped to a Saint-Hilaire chapel on Whitsun Eve. Philip's 'sudden departure', wrote historian John Gillingham, was 'the last straw for his troops, already demoralized by the threat to their supplies.' Richard proceeded to harry the retreating French soldiers, before entering Verneuil in triumph.
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A tessellated floor and the 11th-century tympanum over a doorway in the north transept are evidence of construction of the Minster after this time. The Domesday Book (1086) has much detail of an Archbishop's manor in Southwell. A custom known as the "Gate to Southwell" originated after 1109, when the Archbishop of York, Thomas I, wrote to each Nottinghamshire parish for contributions to building of a new mother church. Annually at Whitsuntide, the resulting "Southwell Pence" were taken to the Minster in a procession from Nottingham, headed by the Mayor and followed by clergy and lay people bound for Southwell's Whitsun Fair.
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In 2003, almost two decades after his death, Larkin was chosen as "the nation's best-loved poet" in a survey by the Poetry Book Society,"Larkin is nation's top poet" BBC News 15 October 2003 and in 2008 The Times named Larkin as the greatest British post-war writer."The 50 greatest postwar writers" The Times, 5 January 2008. Three of his poems, "This Be The Verse", "The Whitsun Weddings" and "An Arundel Tomb", featured in the Nation's Top 100 Poems as voted for by viewers of the BBC's Bookworm in 1995. Media interest in Larkin has increased in the twenty-first century.
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Woodlawn Cemetery Du Chaillu was a friend of Edward Clodd and was present at one of Clodd's Whitsun gatherings at Strafford House, Aldeburgh, Suffolk, in company with John Rhys, Grant Allen, York Powell and Joseph Thomson. He was a member along with a variety of mostly literary figures in author J. M. Barrie's amateur cricket team, the "Allahakbarries". He died following a stroke of paralysis at St. Petersburg, while on a scholarly visit to Russia as part of his research on the Scandinavian peoples. He is interred at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, New York City.
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This was assisted by landlords in surrounding districts taking in some of those displaced and an organised party emigrating to Canada. The whole process was a severe shock to Lady Sutherland and her advisers, who were, in the words of historian Eric Richards, "genuinely astonished at this response to plans which they regarded as wise and benevolent". Further clearances were scheduled in Strathnaver starting at Whitsun, 1814. These were complicated by Sellar having successfully bid for the lease of one of the new sheep farms on land that it was now his responsibility, as factor, to clear.
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This publicity caused great concern to Loch, and the comment in the press increased as Whitsun 1820 approached. Lady Sutherland felt that her family was being particularly targeted by critics of the clearances, so she asked Loch to find out what neighbouring estates had done. The answer was that Lord Moray in Ross-shire had, on occasion, bought the cattle owned by evicted tenants, but otherwise had made no provision for them: they had simply been evicted with no compensation or alternative tenancies offered. The tenants of Munro of Novar were also simply evicted, with many of them emigrating.
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Notable nightclubs include Bakken Kbh, ARCH (previously ZEN), Jolene, The Jane, Chateau Motel, KB3, At Dolores (previously Sunday Club), Rust, Vega Nightclub, Culture Box and Gefährlich, which also serves as a bar, café, restaurant, and art gallery. Copenhagen has several recurring community festivals, mainly in the summer. Copenhagen Carnival has taken place every year since 1982 during the Whitsun Holiday in Fælledparken and around the city with the participation of 120 bands, 2,000 dancers and 100,000 spectators. Since 2010, the old B&W; Shipyard at Refshaleøen in the harbour has been the location for Copenhell, a heavy metal rock music festival.
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The carols Bring us in good ale (dedicated to Conrad Noel), Lullay my liking, Of one that is so fair and bright and Terly, terlow were specifically written for Thaxted. His most outstanding achievement was This have I done for my true love (also dedicated to Noel), "an evocation of the medieval notion of dancing and religious worship being closely intertwined". Holst's daughter, Imogen Holst, a composer in her own right, also maintained links with the town. Although the Whitsun Festival was discontinued in 1918, the idea was revived in 1980 and flourishes as the Thaxted Festival.
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John Spalding became a lawyer, and resided in the 'Old town, Aberdeen'. For many years he acted as clerk to the consistorial court for the diocese; and his office, the records of which were burnt in 1721, was within the precincts of the old cathedral of St. Machar. The latest trace of him occurs in a notarial document in his own handwriting, dated 30 Jan. 1663, whereby David, bishop of Aberdeen, acknowledges to have received from Robert Forbes of Glastermuir 25l. 7s. 4d. as feu duty for these lands from Martinmas to Whitsun 1661 and 1662.
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Until a few years ago, Schellweiler still had the peculiar Western Palatine custom known as the Pfingstquack, observed at Whitsun (Pfingsten in German; see the Henschtal article under Regular events for more about this). A Saint Martin’s Day parade is still held on 11 November. Among folk festivals, Schellweiler still has its kermis (church consecration festival). This was formerly held on the second Sunday after Michaelmas (29 September). When a hall was no longer available for it at that time of year, it was moved to the fourth Sunday in July, and has been celebrated since then as a Zeltkerwe (“tent kermis”).
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Nothing much is left of old customs in this former quarrying village. Now bygone are the days when, at Whitsun, young Rammelsbach lads would go from house to house to ask for eggs and bacon while observing the old custom of the Pfingstquack (this is still practised, with variations, in some of the district’s villages; see Henschtal for more). The Carnival (Fastnacht) custom that likewise saw children going door to door reciting their Shrovetide saying, has been forsaken. On the other hand, other customs for children have sprung up: the Star boys’ singing, the Saint Martin's Day Parade and even Halloween.
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Harding, p. 17 As it relied on the tourist trade for business, it closed at the end of September. Throughout the 1937, 1938, and 1939 seasons the railway operated between Whitsun and the end of September each year, closing for the autumn and winter.Harding, p. 18 The railway never had a timetable, and operated according to demand. Whenever one station had a sufficient number of passengers the driver signalled to the other station that he was about to depart, and the trains from both stations would set off simultaneously, passing at the halfway crossing loop. The journey took approximately five minutes.
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In 2012, Whitwell held a traditional street party in celebration of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. The Kemming Road was closed to traffic for the day between the High Street and Bannock Road. It was a great success with over 100 children at the street party which was followed by games in the grounds of the Old Rectory and a party, with a hog roast, live music and the 'Red Gun bar', at Prospect Cottage. It was agreed to hold a similar event the following year - as a village party called Whitfun ( it was in Whitwell and held on the Whitsun Bank Holiday weekend).
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Marker had refitted Old Mother Gun with a much larger, 6½-litre engine, greatly increasing its performance. With it, Allan took second place at the opening Brooklands meeting that year, but won the Second Whitsun Long Handicap race a few weeks later. In this race her average speed was over 115 mph, but her best racing lap had been timed at 122.37 mph. This achievement earned Allan an official 120 mph badge, one of only four (or five, sources disagree) women to do so over the existence of the Brooklands track as an active motorsport venue.
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An Ymber Day Tart, cooked by following a medieval English recipe from the book Forme of Cury, a Middle English cook book stored in John Rylands Library. The recipe was originally made for King Richard II Ember Days are quarterly periods () of prayer and fasting in the liturgical calendar of Western Christian churches. These fasts traditionally take place on the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday following St Lucy's Day (13 December), the first Sunday in Lent, Pentecost (Whitsun), and Holy Cross Day (14 September), though some areas follow a different pattern. Ordination ceremonies are often held on Ember Saturdays or the following Sunday.
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Hull has attracted the attention of poets to the extent that the Australian author Peter Porter has described it as "the most poetic city in England". Philip Larkin set many of his poems in Hull; these include "The Whitsun Weddings", "Toads", and "Here". Scottish-born Douglas Dunn's Terry Street, a portrait of working-class Hull life, is one of the outstanding poetry collections of the 1970s. Dunn forged close associations with such Hull poets as Peter Didsbury and Sean O'Brien; the works of some of these writers appear in the 1982 Bloodaxe anthology A Rumoured City, a work that Dunn edited.
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The preceding few days had seen members of the promoting clubs labouring in torrential rain to prepare the track and facilities and as race day dawned there was no let-up in the weather. Despite this the expected crowd of 800 had been surpassed when 3,000 arrived. It has been a truly appalling day weather-wise but everyone enjoyed themselves. If Davidstow had one clear advantage over other circuits it was that there was a distinct absence of complaining populace. Two meetings were planned for 1953, on the Whitsun Bank Holiday Monday and on 1 August.
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Rufus offered to recognise Urban as pope rather than the antipope Clement III in return for Anselm's deposition and the delivery of Anselm's pallium into Rufus' custody, to dispose of as he saw fit. The mission departed for Rome in February 1095 and returned by Whitsun with a papal legate, Walter the Cardinal Bishop of Albano, who had Anselm's pallium. The legate secured Rufus' recognition of Urban, but subsequently refused to consider Anselm's deposition. Rufus resigned himself to Anselm's position as archbishop, and at the king's court at Windsor he consented to Anselm being given the pallium.
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On June 26 of 1893, the brotherhood converted to the Corps Franconia. On Jule 11 later that year, the Corps was approved by the Darmstädter Senioren-Convent, the community of all Corps in Darmstadt and on Whitsun 1895 it was admitted by the Weinheimer Senioren-Convent, the community of all technical Corps in Germany. In comparison to other university cities, the relationship between the Corps in Darmstadt and the students was regarded as "convenient" in the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. In many cases, members of the Corps led the students committee of the university.
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Margaretta M. Salinger, The Whitsun Bride by Pieter Brueghel the Younger, in: Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, XXXIV (1939), p. 88-90 Another original composition by Pieter Brueghel the Younger are four small tondos representing the Four Stages of the River (all at the National Gallery in Prague). As his style never evolved from the manner of his early career it is difficult to date his work. Winter landscape with a bird trap In several cases, it is not clear whether a composition is an original composition by Pieter Brueghel the Younger or a copy after a lost work by his father.
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CH Firth and RS Rait (London, 1911), p 954. which formally abolished Christmas in its entirety, along with the other traditional church festivals of Easter and Whitsun. It was in this context that Royalist pamphleteers linked the old traditions of Christmas with the cause of King and Church, while radical puritans argued for the suppression of Christmas both in its religious and its secular aspects. In the hands of Royalist pamphlet writers, Old Father Christmas served as the symbol and spokesman of 'the good old days' of feasting and good cheer, and it became popular for Christmastide's defenders to present him as lamenting past times.
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They appeared before Justice Walters, who sent them to the New Prison in Clerkenwell, but they escaped from their cell, known as the Newgate Ward, within a matter of days. By 25 May, Whitsun Monday, Sheppard and Lyon had filed through their manacles; they removed a bar from the window and used their knotted bed-clothes to descend to ground level. Finding themselves in the yard of the neighbouring Bridewell, they clambered over the 22-foot-high (6.7 m) prison gate to freedom. This feat was widely publicised, not least because Sheppard was only a small man, and Lyon was a large, buxom woman.
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In 1959, the Marvell Press published Listen presents Philip Larkin reading The Less Deceived (Listen LPV1), an LP record on which Larkin recites all the poems from The Less Deceived in the order they appear in the printed volume.Bloomfield 2002, p. 140. This was followed, in 1965, by Philip Larkin reads and comments on The Whitsun Weddings (Listen LPV6), again on the Marvell Press's record label (though the printed volume was published by Faber and Faber). Once again the poems are read in the order in which they appear in the printed volume, but with Larkin including introductory remarks to many of the poems.
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Normally, Byrd includes the Introit, the Gradual, the Alleluia (or Tract in Lent if needed), the Offertory and Communion. The feasts covered include the major feasts of the Virgin Mary (including the votive masses for the Virgin for the four seasons of the church year), All Saints and Corpus Christi (1605) followed by the feasts of the Temporale (Christmas, Epiphany, Easter, Ascension, Whitsun, and Feast of Saints Peter and Paul (with additional items for St Peter's Chains and the Votive Mass of the Blessed Sacrament) in 1607. The verse of the Introit is normally set as a semichoir section, returning to full choir scoring for the Gloria Patri.
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Dancing around the maypole, in Åmmeberg, Sweden A maypole is a tall wooden pole erected as a part of various European folk festivals, around which a maypole dance often takes place. The festivals may occur on May Day (May 1) or Pentecost (Whitsun), although in some countries it is instead erected at Midsummer. In some cases the maypole is a permanent feature that is only utilised during the festival, although in other cases it is erected specifically for the purpose before being taken down again. Primarily found within the nations of Germanic Europe and the neighbouring areas which they have influenced, its origins remain unknown.
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Maypole in Weingarten (Baden) Rhenish maypole for a girl in Königswinter In Germany and Austria the maypole (or Maibaum) is a tradition going back to the 16th century. It is a decorated tree or tree trunk that is usually erected either on 1 May – in Baden and Swabia – or on the evening before, for example, in East Frisia. In most areas, especially in Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria and Austria, it is usual to have a ceremony to erect the maypole on the village green. The custom of combining it with a village or town fete, that usually takes place on 30 April, 1 May or at Pentecost (Whitsun), is widespread.
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Kenneth A. Strand, "Sunday Easter and Quartodecimanism in the Early Christian Church" in Andrews University Seminary Studies, Summer 1990, vol 28, No. 2, pp. 127-136Roger T. Beckwith, Calendar and Chronology, Jewish and Christian (Brill 2001 ), chapter 3: "Easter and Whitsun: The Origin of the Church's Earliest Annual Festivals" Latin adopted the Greek term for the feast, and in most European languages, notable exceptions being English, German and the Slavic languages, the feast is today called Pascha or words derived from it.Lisa D. Maugans Driver, Christ at the Center (Westminster John Knox Press 2009 ), p. 151 Everett Ferguson, Baptism in the Early Church (Eerdmans 2009 ), p.
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The idea of sending a “Message of Goodwill” was first suggested by the Rev. Gwilym Davies MA at the 'Adolescent Conference of the Welsh School of Social Service' which was held in Llandrindod Wells at Whitsun 1922. Davies was an Honorary Director of the League of Nations in Wales and he suggested that the message should be created by school pupils “in all 13 counties of Wales and Monmouthshire” (there was ambiguity at the time whether Monmouthshire was a constitutional part of Wales), it is said that “the suggestions was adopted with enthusiasm”. The work of receiving suggestions from schools began and Davies was to organise the broadcast.
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The main altar was produced in Antwerp in 1520 and is composed of a shrine with painted wings. On a total of 12 painted panels on the front and reverse sides of the retable, the viewer is presented with the story of Christ through to his resurrection and the Outpouring of the Holy Spirit on Whitsun. The carved central section of the main altar portrays the Annunciation, the Visitation, the birth, the Adoration, the Circumcision and the presentation in the Temple on six small alcoves. In three discourses the Passion of Jesus is thereby presented: the bearing of the cross, the crucifixion and the Descent from the Cross.
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Customs practised in the village are the usual ones for the Western Palatinate, for instance the Neujahrsschießen ("New Year’s Shooting") and the children's Spendenheischen ("Donation Begging"). Loved by the village's youth is Witches’ Night (Hexennacht, actually Walpurgis Night) with its raising of the Maypole and its springtime merrymaking on the eve of May Day. The children also enjoy a Western Palatine custom known as the Pfingstquack, observed at Whitsun (Pfingsten in German); the —quack part of the custom's name refers to a rhyme that the children recite as they go door to door begging for money with their gorse-decked wagon. The rhyme generally begins with the line "Quack, Quack, Quack".
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The Roman amphitheater at Arles being fitted for a corrida A bullfight in Arles in 1898. Since the 19th century, Spanish-style corridas have been increasingly popular in Southern France where they enjoy legal protection in areas where there is an uninterrupted tradition of such bull fights, particularly during holidays such as Whitsun or Easter. Among France's most important venues for bullfighting are the ancient Roman arenas of Nîmes and Arles, although there are bull rings across the South from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic coasts. Bullfights of this kind follow the Spanish tradition and even Spanish words are used for all Bullfighting related terms.
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New warden's house and North Haven beach Boats sail to Skomer from Martin's Haven on the mainland, a sheltered 15-minute trip every day (weather dependent) except Monday (Whitsun Bank Holiday Monday excepted) from April to September between 10am and noon (actual times may vary). Return sailings are from 3pm but the boatman will advise on the day. There are limits on the number of people allowed to visit the island (250 per day). Advance booking is not permitted and reservations are strictly on a first come, first served basis at Lockley Lodge in Martin's Haven and long queues can develop early each morning in peak season.
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Raymond West takes his turn in telling a story. It took place two years earlier when Raymond spent Whitsun in Cornwall with a recent acquaintance called John Newman. He was something of an authority on the Spanish Armada and had bought the salvage rights to a shipwreck from the Armada which sank off the coast and eluded many attempts at recovery over the years. Travelling by train to Newman's house in the village of Polperran, Raymond shared a carriage with Police Inspector Badgworth who knew of the Spanish treasure trove but was specifically interested in the more recent wreck of a ship called the RMS Otranto.
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By 1317, there was already a chapel in Dickenschied when the village was raised to a parishlike status called Pfarrvikarie with its own priest. Today’s church was consecrated in 1844 as a simultaneous church. The simultaneum ended in 1912, although the Evangelical congregation enjoyed “guest rights” at the Catholic church until 1916, whereafter they held their services at the Evangelical schoolhouse. Work on the Evangelical church began at Whitsun in 1914, and Evangelical services have now been held there since 22 December 1918 Dickenschied, which belongs to the Evangelical church district of Simmern-Trarbach, was where from 1934 to 1937 Paul Schneider worked as an Evangelical clergyman.
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Whit Friday, meaning "white Friday", is the name given to the first Friday after Pentecost or Whitsun (White Sunday). The day has a cultural significance in North West England, as the date on which the annual Whit Walks are traditionally held. By convention, the Whit Walks coincide with brass band contests, held in Saddleworth, Oldham, Tameside and other outlying areas of Greater Manchester. Traditionally, children and their supporters from Anglican Sunday Schools 'walked' on Whit Monday, those from RC Sunday Schools on Whit Friday, C. Bevan, The Edited Diaries Winchester, Piccowinch, 2004) and there was an element of competition in general display, dresses and banners.
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In the late 1950s, Erik Flagstad Rasmussen and Knud Thomsen won the competition which had been specifically directed to attract responses from the city's architects. The church itself is a square-shaped building of yellow brick crowned with a low octagonal spire. There are four triangular gables of glass and concrete, all with pointed tops. Completed in 1967, the stained-glass gable windows were designed by Jens Urup Jensen with themes representing Christmas (north) with a red Star of Bethlehem, Easter (east, above the altar) with a cross, Whitsun (south) with 12 red tongues symbolising the Apostles and a blue-toned Water of Life frame (west) above the organ gallery.
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Miles Coope, born at Gildersome, Yorkshire, on 18 November 1916 and died also at Gildersome on 5 July 1974, played first-class cricket for three seasons after the Second World War for Somerset. A right-handed middle-order batsman sometimes used as an opener and an occasional leg-break bowler, Coope played for Yorkshire's second eleven in Minor Counties cricket before the war. He was also prominent in Bradford League cricket, and he followed another leading Bradford League cricketer, Johnny Lawrence, to Somerset after the war, arriving for the 1947 season. Coope made 20 and 58 in his first match, the Whitsun 1947 County Championship game against Gloucestershire.
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These two had lapped the rest of the field twice, third place going to the Jo Siffert/Bruce McLaren Porsche 910. The year saw many firsts; in July, Tetsu Ikuzawa became the first Japanese ever to win a race in Britain, the first Mini Festival was run at Whitsun and the Mini-Seven Club ran the first ever all-saloon car meeting in February. But the biggest ‘first ‘was the arrival of Formula Ford which was to become the providing ground and starting place for so many drivers. The first Formula Ford race was run on 7 July and was won by Roy Allan in a Lotus 51.
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In 1893 he was concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic under Hans von Bülow. In 1894, after von Bülow's death, he became concertmaster of the Meiningen Court Orchestra, of which he was a member until 1899. At the invitation of the industrialist family Weyermann, he took part with other members of the orchestra in an intimate chamber music festival at near Bad Honnef at Whitsun 1896 and took part in the performance of Robert Schumann's String Quartet in A major and Johannes Brahms's Piano quintet F-minor - with Brahms at the piano. In 1899 he was appointed as a docent at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam.
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' (At the end of Mass, the priest, having turned to the people, in lieu of saying the 'Ite missa est', will bray thrice; the people instead of replying 'Deo Gratias' say, 'Hinham, hinham, hinham.') This is the sole instance of a service of this nature in connection with the Feast of Ass. The Festum Asinorum gradually lost its identity, and became incorporated in the ceremonies of the Deposuit or united in the general merry- making on the Feast of Fools. The Processus Prophetarum, whence it drew its origin, survives in the Corpus Christi and Whitsun Cycles, that stand at the head of the modern English drama.
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For example, in 1808 he booked the Young Roscius (Master Betty) to appear at Huntingdon, Peterborough and Wisbech shortly before he retired from the stage for the first time. Robertson took his company to the Whittlesey theatre for Whitsun Week in 1811, following their season in Wisbech. While he was in Lincoln Castle Gaol for debt in 1816 supporters aided him and his wife by putting on amateur productions and benefits, purchasing the theatrical travelling property sold by auction on 1 August, and appointing him their manager. In August 1816 amateur performances took place in Wisbech, Grantham and Lincoln to raise funds to re-establish Robertson's company.
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The usage of term days is now virtually obsolete, and any reference to them tends to be historical or ceremonial. The College of Justice (supreme courts of Scotland) no longer uses the term or quarter days to determine the terms of the Court of Session or High Court, instead dividing the legal year into winter (late September to last Friday before Christmas), spring (early January to late March) and summer (late April to early July) terms. In the ancient universities, the academic terms were named after Martinmas, Candlemas and Whitsun, and at the University of St Andrews the two semesters continue to be named Martinmas and Candlemas.
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One of the earliest references to the rhyme in English is in the comedy The London Chaunticleres, printed in 1657, but probably written about 1636,W. Carew Hazlitt, A Manual for the Collector and Amateur of Old English Plays (London: Ayer Publishing, 1966), , p. 131. in which the dairy woman Curds states that she had "danced the building of London-Bridge" at the Whitsun Ales in her youth, although no words or actions are mentioned. Widespread familiarity with the rhyme is suggested by its use by Henry Carey in his satire Namby Pamby (1725), as: > Namby Pamby is no Clown, London Bridge is broken down: Now he courts the gay > Ladee Dancing o'er The Lady-Lee.
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Philip Arthur Larkin (9 August 1922 – 2 December 1985) was an English poet, novelist, and librarian. His first book of poetry, The North Ship, was published in 1945, followed by two novels, Jill (1946) and A Girl in Winter (1947), and he came to prominence in 1955 with the publication of his second collection of poems, The Less Deceived, followed by The Whitsun Weddings (1964) and High Windows (1974). He contributed to The Daily Telegraph as its jazz critic from 1961 to 1971, articles gathered in All What Jazz: A Record Diary 1961–71 (1985), and he edited The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse (1973).Philip Arthur Larkin , Encyclopædia Britannica.
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In 1963 Faber and Faber reissued Jill, with the addition of a long introduction by Larkin that included much information about his time at Oxford University and his friendship with Kingsley Amis. This acted as a prelude to the release the following year of The Whitsun Weddings, the volume which cemented his reputation; almost immediately after its publication he was granted a Fellowship of the Royal Society of Literature. In the years that followed Larkin wrote several of his most famous poems, followed in the 1970s by a series of longer and more sober poems, including "The Building" and "The Old Fools". All of these appeared in Larkin's final collection, High Windows, which was published in June 1974.
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Robert Aske, gentleman, that was captain in the > insurrection of the Northern men; and one Hamerton, esquire, all which > persons were indicted of high treason against the King, and that day > condemned by a jury of knights and esquires for the same, whereupon they had > sentence to be drawn, hanged and quartered, but Ralph Bulmer, the son of > John Bulmer, was reprieved and had no sentence. > And on the 25 day of May, being the Friday in Whitsun week, Sir John Bulmer, > Sir Stephen Hamerton, knights, were hanged and headed; Nicholas Tempest, > esquire; Doctor Cockerell, priest;James Cockerell, Prior of Guisborough. > Abbot quondam of Fountains;William Thirsk. and Doctor Pickering, friar,John > Pickering of Bridlington.
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There was a major anti-enclosure riot at Great Haseley in July 1549: part of widespread discontent across southern England prompted by enclosures, a growing rural economic crisis and new Protestant church liturgy introduced at Whitsun that year. Many of the enclosure rioters had been misled by proclamations issued by the Lord Somerset, Lord Protector, to believe they were acting lawfully in breaking illegal enclosures. The ringleader of the rioters seems to have been Thomas Bouldry, a prosperous farmer who was the lessee of the demesne farm at Great Haseley. A group of men attacked the recently enclosed deer park of Sir John Williams at Rycote before breaking into the house and refreshing themselves with his wine and beer.
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It was originally issued in consultation with Thomas Morton, bishop of Chester, to resolve a dispute in Lancashire between the Puritans and the gentry (many of whom were Roman Catholics). The initial declaration was just for Lancashire, but in 1618, James made the declaration national. The 1618 declaration has largely the same main text as the 1617 version, but with an additional paragraph at the beginning explaining that the king has decided to make the declaration applicable to the whole of England. The declaration listed archery, dancing, "leaping, vaulting, or any other such harmless recreation" as permissible sports, together with "May-games, Whitsun-ales and Morris- dances, and the setting up of May-poles".
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The brine was brought up from a deposit under the town. The breaking of the salt monopoly in the wake of annexation by Prussia in 1866 led to a fall in price, which in turn led to the industry’s end. The last salt was produced in 1906. Along with the downfall of the saltworks, however, came the discovery of the brine’s healing properties, and thus began the spa industry, with a bathhouse opening on 1 June 1881. Still today, the time of saltmaking is remembered with the Brunnenfest (“Well Festival”) held yearly at Whitsun, when salt is extracted from brine by boiling in an historically authentic process to demonstrate how salt was produced.
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Holst drawn by William Rothenstein, 1920 During and after the composition of The Planets, Holst wrote or arranged numerous vocal and choral works, many of them for the wartime Thaxted Whitsun Festivals, 1916–18. They include the Six Choral Folksongs of 1916, based on West Country tunes, of which "Swansea Town", with its "sophisticated tone", is deemed by Dickinson to be the most memorable. Holst downplayed such music as "a limited form of art" in which "mannerisms are almost inevitable"; the composer Alan Gibbs, however, believes Holst's set at least equal to Vaughan Williams's Five English Folk Songs of 1913. Holst's first major work after The Planets was the Hymn of Jesus, completed in 1917.
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Whitsun (also Whitsunday or Whit Sunday) is the name used in Britain and Ireland, and throughout the world among Catholic, Anglicans and Methodists, for the Christian festival of Pentecost. It is the seventh Sunday after Easter, which commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon Christ's disciples (Acts 2). In England it took on some characteristics of Beltane, which originated from the pagan celebration of Summer's Day, the beginning of the summer half-year, in Europe. Whitsuntide, the week following Whitsunday, was one of three vacation weeks for the medieval villein;The others being Yuletide, the week following Christmas, and Easter Week, the week following Easter that ended at Hocktide (Homans 1991).
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The name is a contraction of "White Sunday", attested in "the Holy Ghost, whom thou didst send on Whit-sunday" in the Old English homilies, and parallel to the mention of hwitmonedei in the early 13th-century Ancrene Riwle.Both noted in Walter William Skeat, An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, s.v. "Whitsun". Walter William Skeat noted that the Anglo-Saxon word also appears in Icelandic hvitasunnu-dagr, but that in English the feast was called Pentecoste until after the Norman Conquest, when white (hwitte) began to be confused with wit or understanding.Skeat. According to one interpretation, the name derives from the white garments worn by catechumens, those expecting to be baptised on that Sunday.
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Henry of Huntingdon mentions the royal couple in his Historia Anglorum, stating that the new queen accompanied Henry to London at Whitsun (that is, 29 May 1121). Adeliza appears to have travelled extensively with Henry, probably to increase the chances of her conception.Huneycutt (2003), 36 Despite their close contact, however, Adeliza and Henry never produced a child. There is a possibility, despite what the biography produced by Laura Wertheimer states, that Adeliza prayed to St. Romanus to aid her in conceiving a child; St. Romanus, according to legend, was 'born to parents miraculously cured of infertility', and in 1124, there was a double viewing of the relics of St. Romanus at Rouen Cathedral.
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The Mutants is the fourth serial of the ninth season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in six weekly parts on BBC1 from 8 April to 13 May 1972. The serial is set on and high above the Earth colony world Solos in the 30th century. In the serial, the Marshal of Solos (Paul Whitsun-Jones) plots to change Solos' atmosphere to make it breathable for humans but not for the native Solonians. At the same time, the alien time traveller the Third Doctor (Jon Pertwee) delivers a set of tablets containing lost information about the Solonians' life cycle to the Solonian Ky (Garrick Hagon).
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Each year at Whitsun, all the local clubs together stage the village festival at the village square “Unter den Linden” in the middle of the village. In early July, the sport festival staged by the TuS Königsau-Kellenbach is held at the sporting ground. Following in mid-August is the Kellebacher Kerb, the kermis (church consecration festival), and in September, the volunteer fire brigade holds the fire brigade festival, both of which are held in or at the municipal hall. Moreover, a decades-long tradition is enjoyed by the Rosenmontagszug (Shrove Monday parade) in which the fools from Kellenbach and neighbouring Königsau go door to door in both villages reciting a speech asking for gifts (Hahnappeln).
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Carroon, gravely ill, is cared for by the Rocket Group's doctor, Briscoe (John Glen), who has been having a secret affair with Carroon's wife, Judith (Isabel Dean). It is not just Quatermass who is interested in what happened to Carroon and his crewmates; journalists such as James Fullalove (Paul Whitsun-Jones) and Scotland Yard's Inspector Lomax (Ian Colin) are also keen to hear his story. Carroon is abducted by a group of foreign agents whose government wants the information they believe obtained while travelling in space. It is clear that there is something critically wrong: he appears to have absorbed the consciousness of the other two crew members, and is slowly mutating into a plant-like alien organism.
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BBC Radio 4, John Osborne, speaking on The Whitsun Weddings, programme presented by Jean Sprackland, 1 December 2012 The poem's narrator describes the scenery and smells of the countryside and towns through which the largely empty train passes. The train's windows are open because of the heat, and he gradually becomes aware of bustle on the platforms at each station, eventually realising that this is the noise and actions of wedding parties that are seeing off couples who are boarding the train. He notes the different classes of people involved, each with their own responses to the occasion – the fathers, the uncles, the children, the unmarried female relatives. He imagines the venues where the wedding receptions have been held.
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Much of Larkin's writing was heavily influenced by his relationship with Brennan, including his collection The Whitsun Weddings, which he once described as Brennan's book. Brennan and Larkin's relationship is detailed extensively by Brennan herself in The Philip Larkin I Knew, which was published in 2002. Brennan's book speaks of both the friendship and romantic relationship that existed between her and Larkin, as well as recalling the poet's 30 year tenure of office as librarian of the University of Hull. Brennan aimed for the book to show Larkin in a new light: namely, that the poet was "considerably more compassionate, generous and warmhearted than autobiographical, biographical and critical works published since his death have revealed".
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He attended the King's Whitsun court in May 1068, and then visited Normandy, where he fell ill for some months. In February or March 1069 FitzOsbern was asked by William to oversee the peace in York, where Gilbert de Ghent was made castellan of the new castle, but FitzOsbern returned south in time to attend the King's Easter court in April 1069 before returning to York. Eadric the Wild launched a campaign of Anglo-Saxon resistance in the West Midlands, with the assistance of a number of Welsh princes (who had lately been allies of the Anglo-Saxon kings). In 1069 the revolt was crushed, and it is likely FitzOsbern played a major part in this, although the details are not certain.
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Essex could have surrounded the castle by occupying the west bank with a detachment, but chose otherwise for fear his men would be unable to make it back to fend off any attack. In the afternoon, there was free traffic in and out of the castle, and he ordered a detachment of 300 to seize the orchard garden on the southside, which had been plashed on its outer edges: this was readily achieved with the loss of only a few men, although the English had been especially vulnerable as they crossed the river. Late in the day, the rearguard arrived with the artillery. After a night of preparation, the guns were in place on the east bank on Whitsun Sunday, the 27th, and opened fire.
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A religious periodical, the Christian Amusement, reported in 1740 how, two years earlier at Easter, one Frances Wright, of ‘Skellingthorp, three miles from the city of Lincoln’, had fallen into a 48-hour trance during which she experienced a vision of both paradise and Hell, culminating in her transcendence to Heaven’s gates where she met ‘an old grave man’ with a bunch of keys and a book in his hand. Frances experienced another vision at Christmas 1738, in which she went to her niece’s house in Saxilby before taking her also to Heaven’s gates. The child is reported to have died ‘about this time’. In 1740, following a third vision over Whitsun, Frances took herself to Lincoln to receive the holy sacrament.
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During its construction the west abutment and the adjacent pier slipped badly, delaying the opening.Vic Mitchell and Keith Smith, Branch Line to Lyme Regis, Middleton Press, Midhurst, 1987, Derek Phillips, From Salisbury to Exeter – the Branch Lines, Oxford Publishing Company, Shepperton, Other difficulties during construction resulted in delay and an extension of twelve months was authorised, and an application had to be made to the Board of Trade for an additional £10,000 in share capital and £3,000 in loans. A special train was run on 22 January 1903 with VIP passengers to inspect the nearly-complete line, but difficulties with the Cannington Viaduct prevented the planned opening at Whitsun. The LSWR arranged a horse bus connection from Axminster to Lyme Regis in the intervening period.
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Locomotive 52 4867 of the Historic Railway, FrankfurtHistoric train at Eiserne Steglink line The Historic Railway, Frankfurt (Historische Eisenbahn Frankfurt) or HEF is a German museum railway in Frankfurt am Main. The society was founded in 1978 and its aim is the preservation of historic, valuable railway materiel in working order, especially steam locomotives, as technical and cultural monuments. Since 1979 there has been a regular museum service several weekends a year on the tracks of the Frankfurt Harbour Railway (Frankfurter Hafenbahn) between the halts of Mainkur, Eiserner Steg and Frankfurt-Griesheim. Since 1981 the society has organised the Königstein railway festival (Bahnhofsfest Königstein) every year at Whitsun, when the Königsteiner Bahn between Frankfurt-Höchst and Königstein im Taunus is operated.
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Due to the company lacking the necessary finances, subscriptions were advertised to pay for publication expenses. Hartley went on to publish volumes on the works of Anthony Thwaite, Donald Davie and W. D. Snodgrass, and ventured into sound recording with the publication of The Less Deceived in 1959 and The Whitsun Weddings six years later (the book appeared under the imprint label Faber and Faber in 1964). In 1965, Hartley was impatient over how Larkin's poems were read by over-elocuted actors on the BBC Third Programme that she and her husband formed the record company Listen Records. The marriage between her and her husband so strained that by mid-1968, they separated, taking the two children with her; they were divorced in 1974.
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Rose at Western Holiday Lodge garden In the 1960s several local artists held exhibitions in the old Apple House on the North Fork Drive. Some of these artists included Adrian Green, Gene Gray, Caroll Barnes, Frank Treuting, Jean Caulfeild and Pauline Whitsun. Present day artists open their studios every other year for the Three Rivers Artists' Biennial Studio Tour, which was started in 1994 by Elsah Cort (then associated with the Cort Gallery.) More than thirty artists are living and working in Three Rivers, including Mona Fox Selph, James Entz, and Aranga Firstman, who all taught at College of the Sequoias in Visalia, California. Other well-known artists are Martha Widmann, Rick Badgley, Jana Botkin, Nikki Crain, Tina St. John, Nadi Spencer and Martin Pugh.
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Among other teaching activities, he built up a strong tradition of performance at Morley College, where he served as musical director from 1907 until 1924 and pioneered music education for women at St Paul's Girls' School, where he taught from 1905 until his death in 1934. He was the founder of a series of Whitsun music festivals, which ran from 1916 for the remainder of his life. Holst's works were played frequently in the early years of the 20th century, but it was not until the international success of The Planets in the years immediately after the First World War that he became a well-known figure. A shy man, he did not welcome this fame and preferred to be left in peace to compose and teach.
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The outer ring also contains information about the current name day according to the calendar of 1923, but also local medieval name days, which Wåhlin extracted from several medieval sources tied to Lund Cathedral, such as the illuminated manuscript '. The date according to the Roman calendar is also decipherable from the information on the outer ring of the calendar. The inner ring contains the data needed to compute which day of the week the current date is, but also information which makes it possible to determine on which date Quinquagesima, Easter Day (computus) and Whitsun is for any given year within the time span of the calendar. It is also possible to determine the phase of the Moon for any given date.
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The site was visited, not only on account of the reputed medicinal properties of the water, but also for the 40 days' remittance of penance granted by the Pope to those who on the three holy days of Pentecost (Whitsun and the following two days) made their confession and offered prayers at St Blaise's Chapel. After the Reformation, the oratory fell into ruin and the well into disuse – during the course of time becoming buried and forgotten. However it was rediscovered in 1754, by a Mr. Harwood, the Bishop's chaplain, who noticed a "yellow ochrey sediment, remaining in the tract of a small current, leading from the spring to the corner of the moat, with the waters of which it used to mix".Thomas Reynolds.
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After a short term as Warden of the Scottish Marches, he returned to the continent, where he fought in a number of campaigns, and was appointed joint lieutenant of Aquitaine in 1340. The successful conclusion of the Flanders campaign, in which Arundel saw little fighting encouraged the setting up of the Knights of the Round Table attended every Whitsun by 300 great knights. A former guardian of the Prince of Wales, Arundel was also a close friend of Edward III, and one of the four great earls - Derby, Salisbury, Warwick and himself. With Huntingdon and Sir Ralph Neville he was a Keeper of the Tower and guardian to the prince with a garrison of 20 men-at-arms and 50 archers.
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Major Laurence P. Openshaw MA was killed after a mid- air collision on 6 June 1927 while racing the Widgeon I at the Whitsun Air Meeting at Bournemouth He gained his A-licence which allowed him to fly as a private pilot and he flew Widgeons at weekend air displays, eventually becoming responsible for all Widgeon testing. In 1928 he was appointed manager for civil aircraft and the managing director's (Robert Bruce) principal assistant at a salary of £400 per annum. While his main duty was the production of civil aircraft such as the Wessex he was later involved in test flying experimental Wapitis. In 1931 he was sent to Argentina to demonstrate the Wapiti float plane but failed to secure any sales.
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Thirty years before, Henry III had deposed three claimants to the papacy, and thereby rendered an acknowledged service to the Church. When Henry IV tried to copy this procedure he was less successful, as he lacked the support of the people. In Germany there was a rapid and general feeling in favor of Gregory, and the princes took the opportunity to carry out their anti-regal policy under the cloak of respect for the papal decision. When at Whitsun the king proposed to discuss the measures to be taken against Gregory VII in a council of his nobles, only a few made their appearance; the Saxons snatched at the golden opportunity for renewing their rebellion, and the anti-royalist party grew in strength from month to month.
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Electronic music facilitates the use of any kind of microtonal tuning, and sidesteps the need to develop new notational systems . In 1954, Karlheinz Stockhausen built his electronic Studie II on an 81-step scale starting from 100 Hz with the interval of 51/25 between steps , and in Gesang der Jünglinge (1955–56) he used various scales, ranging from seven up to sixty equal divisions of the octave . In 1955, Ernst Krenek used 13 equal-tempered intervals per octave in his Whitsun oratorio, Spiritus intelligentiae, sanctus . In 1979–80 Easley Blackwood composed a set of Twelve Microtonal Etudes for Electronic Music Media, a cycle that explores all of the equal temperaments from 13 notes to the octave through 24 notes to the octave, including 15-ET and 19-ET .
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Ensbury Park takes its name from the Saxon hamlet of Ensbury, a separate area altogether which lay a mile or so to the north. This hamlet, just east of Kinson, has now been more or less subsumed into the postwar suburb of Northbourne but in the first half of the twentieth century, Ensbury Manor and Ensbury Farm constituted the borders of what later became the Ensbury Park district.S. J. Lands, Old Kinson (Bournemouth Local Studies Publications, 1972). In the 1920s Ensbury Park boasted a racecourse, which also served as an aerodrome. For several years it was known as “Bournemouth Aerodrome” and was the venue for Air Race Meetings, though a series of fatal crashes at the Whitsun meet in 1927 led to its decline and eventual sale for housing development.
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Gustav Holst lived in Thaxted from 1917 to 1925 In the twentieth century, Thaxted developed a musical tradition that can be traced back to the influence of the composer, Gustav Holst, and Conrad Noel, the vicar of Thaxted. In 1913, while on a walking holiday, Holst discovered the town and remained associated with it for the rest of his life. Encouraged by the vicar, Conrad Noel, a medievalist and folk-dancing and church music enthusiast, Holst had the idea of organizing a Whitsun festival there, bringing singers and players from St Paul’s Girls’ School and Morley College in London to join with local people in a weekend of musical festivities. In 1916, once he had finished The Planets, he devoted time to writing and arranging music especially for Thaxted.
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In 1900, New Brighton Tower athletic grounds boasted the UK's first visit from a group known as The Ashanti Village, in which 100 West African men, women and children re-created an Ashanti village, produced and sold their wares and performed "war tournaments, songs [and] fetish dances". Although they had arrived, delays meant that they were not set up in time for Whitsun the traditional start of the summer season. As was common at fairgrounds of the time, there was a Bioscope exhibition showing the latest wartime pictures to audiences of up to 2,000. In the summer of 1907 there was a Hale's Tours of the World exhibition in the tower's grounds, consisting of short films shown in a stylised railway carriage with sound effects and movements at the appropriate times.
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The Christian holiday of Pentecost, which is celebrated the 50th day (the seventh Sunday) after Easter Sunday, commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles and other followers of Jesus Christ while they were in Jerusalem celebrating the Feast of Weeks, as described in the Acts of the Apostles (). The holiday is also called "White Sunday" or "Whitsunday" or "Whitsun", especially in the United Kingdom, where traditionally the next day, Whit Monday, was also a public holiday (since 1971 fixed by statute on the last Monday in May). The Monday after Pentecost is a legal holiday in many European countries. In Eastern Christianity, Pentecost can also refer to the entire fifty days of Easter through Pentecost inclusive; hence the book containing the liturgical texts is called the "Pentecostarion".
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Gerald Oscar Boundy, born at Great Torrington, Devon, on 17 July 1895 and died at the Royal Masonic Hospital, Hammersmith, London on 8 February 1964, played two first-class matches as a cricketer for Somerset in 1926 and 1930. A right- handed batsman, Boundy batted in the middle order in both of his first-class games, the first being the Whitsun game against Gloucestershire at the County Ground, Taunton in 1926, and the other the away fixture with Cambridge University at Fenner's in 1930. In none of his four first-class innings did he make much impact and his top score of 10 not out was made against occasional bowlers in his last first-class innings. Boundy was an accountant by profession and a long-standing member of Somerset County Cricket Club committees.
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Pews, galleries, partitions, and other impediments were swept away and sold, and contracts entered into, not only for necessary repairs, but also for the restoration of the interior. The Church was closed, and public worship held in the County Hall. An ecclesiastical census was carried out throughout England on 30 March 1851 to record the attendance at all places of worship. The returns issued by St Mary's at this time was that on the Sunday morning 700 people were in the congregation with 180 in Sunday school giving a total of 880. On Sunday evening it records 800 people were in the congregation with 180 in Sunday school giving a total of 980. On Whitsun 1851, the congregation again met in the Church for public worship, but the restoration was far from being complete.
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Downham had made representations against the performance but it proceeded under the authority of the Earl of Derby: David Mills, Recycling the Cycle: The City of Chester and its Whitsun Plays, University of Toronto Press, 1988, p. 148; Cox, pp. 355-356. Struggles for influence within the commission undermined its effectiveness as an instrument of governance but, from its inception, Downham was as assiduous in attending its sessions as he was regular in his presence at proceedings of his consistory court.Cox, Reformation Responses, pp. 304-305. In 1564 he compiled a perceptive and candid assessment of the magistracy on whom the enforcement of law was dependent within his diocese, concluding that, of twenty-five justices of the peace in Lancashire, only six could be trusted in religion and of these two were doubtful.
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These 19th century variants are likely derived from a substantially longer 18th century slip- ballad, The Maiden's Complaint for the Loss of her Shepherd, which was printed in about 1790, though the original text could be older.Palmer, R. Bushes and Briars: Folk Songs Collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Llanerch, 1999, p.178 The very different, and textually corrupt version of the song found in southern England is usually known by the title Through the Groves. The song retained enormous popularity in Holmfirth well into the 20th century, partly through being sung en masse at the end of yearly town concerts - the "Holmfirth Feast Sing", held in Victoria Park a week before Whitsun between 1882 and 1990"The Sing and Whit walks in Holmfirth", Huddersfield Daily Examiner, May 19, 2007 \- leading to it becoming known as the "Holmfirth Anthem".
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Frederick Castle, born 8 April 1909 at Elham, Kent and died 17 May 1997 at Portscatho, Cornwall, was a schoolmaster in Bath, Somerset, who played first- class cricket for Somerset County Cricket Club in the school holidays for the four summers immediately after the Second World War. A right-handed middle- order batsman and an occasional leg-break bowler, Castle played second eleven cricket for his native Kent in the Minor Counties in the early 1930s. According to a history of Somerset cricket, he was offered a contract as a professional by Kent "who liked the look of his assertive mid-order batting". Moving to Somerset as headmaster of Oldfield Boys' School, a secondary modern school in Bath, he made his first-class cricket debut in 1946 in the Whitsun match against Gloucestershire, scoring 30 in his only innings.
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Hooden horses at the Clock Tower in Broadstairs as part of Broadstairs Folk Week 2017 From 1954, the horse was also brought out for a Whitsun celebration in which it was paraded from Charing to the village green at Wye. A special service was held in the Charing Church, in which the Morris Men danced in the chancel and through the aisle, while the vicar put a bridle on the horse itself. The horse was also brought out for a July 1956 ceremony in which The Swan Inn, a pub at Wickhambreaux, was officially renamed as The Hooden Horse; present were the East Kent Morris Men, the Handbell Ringers, and the Ravensbourne Morris Men. This venture led to the groups establishing a new folk custom, "hop hoodening", which was derived in part from an older hop- picking ceremony found in the Weald area.
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5 January 1918 : Lloyd George makes his War Aims speech to trades union leaders, setting out the government's terms for peace with the Central Powers. 16 February 1918 : First 1,000 kilogram (2,205 pound) bomb is dropped on London during the twelfth night bomber raid.Castle & Hook p. 8 25 February 1918 : Start of rationing of meat and fats in London and the Home Counties. 1 April 1918 : Women's Royal Air Force is established. 18 April 1918 : Military Service (No. 2) Act 1918 extends conscription up to age 50 and to residents of Ireland; although the latter is never implemented because of the Conscription Crisis. A mother and son view the remains of their home after an air raid in London. 19 May 1918 : The "Whitsun Raid" the largest and last of 17 bomber aeroplane raids on London; 49 civilians are killed in London and Essex.
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One folk dancing party had 250-300 people taking part. In 1923 the family of three attended an English Folk Dance Society summer school at Aldeburgh, Suffolk (as non-dancing students); activities included the singing of traditional songs, sea shanties, carols, lectures by the folklorist and song collector Cecil Sharp, dance parties at Alde House, as well as demonstrations of sword, morris and country dancing. At Easter 1930 Winmill began renting a furnished labourer's cottage, dating back to the 1730s, at Church End, Henham, Essex, his mother's home village. Soon afterwards he bought the cottage and the one next door for holiday use, making visits there at Easter, Whitsun, summer and autumn for the next 10 years, before eventually living there permanently from 1942 onwards. In the autumn of 1930 he left Blackheath, and moved to Rochester, Kent, to a small Queen Anne house, at 1 Minor Canon Row, in the cathedral precinct (the link with Rochester came through his SPAB work).
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Our Lady of Walsingham By a rescript of 6 February 1897, Pope Leo XIII blessed a new statue for the restored ancient sanctuary of Our Lady of Walsingham. This was sent from Rome and placed in the Holy House Chapel at the newly built Roman Catholic parish church of King's Lynn (the village of Walsingham was within the parish) on 19 August 1897 and on the following day the first post-Reformation pilgrimage took place to the Slipper Chapel at Walsingham, which was purchased by Charlotte Boyd(e) in 1895 and restored for Catholic use. Hundreds of Catholics attended the pilgrimage and committed themselves to an annual pilgrimage (from 1897–1934 on Whitsun) to commemorate this event. Archives are kept at King's Lynn and Walsingham. In 1900, a caretaker was placed in the Priest's House at the Slipper Chapel (said to have been built in 1338); to facilitate its use by Catholic pilgrims, under the custody of the monks at Downside Abbey.
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Hüffler’s kermis (church consecration festival, locally known as the Kerb) is held on the fourth Sunday after Michaelmas (29 September) and lasts five days. Every year, on the first weekend in July, the municipality stages, in collaboration with local clubs, a village festival (Dorffest) on the primary school’s grounds. The municipality also invites the village’s older citizens every year to a seniors’ celebration. Not too many years ago, Hüffler was among those villages that still observed the peculiar Western Palatine custom known as the Pfingstquack, observed at Whitsun (Pfingsten in German); the —quack part of the custom’s name refers to a rhyme that the children recite as they go door to door begging for money with their gorse-decked wagon. The rhyme generally begins with the line “Quack, Quack, Quack”.The Pfingstquack explained The Saint Martin’s Day Parade is in the kindergarten’s care, and Hüffler and Wahnwegen take turns each year lighting Saint Martin’s Fire.
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Körborn's kermis (church consecration festival) is held on the last weekend in June. Other customs are, as in all surrounding villages, Fastnacht (Shrovetide Carnival), the raising of the Maypole and the May Day dance and the Whitsuntide Pfingstquack (“Whitsun” is Pfingsten in German). The —quack part of the custom's name refers to a rhyme that children recite as they go door to door begging for money with their gorse-decked wagon. The rhyme generally begins with the line “Quack, Quack, Quack”.The Pfingstquack explained On the eve of May Day (which to some is Walpurgis Night), the municipality lays out a meal at the village community centre with Wellfleisch mit Sauerkraut (a boiled-meat dish containing, according to one source, rindless pork belly, water, salt, pepper, dried marjoram and onionWellfleisch nach Oma (“Wellfleisch according to Grandma”)) fresh from the boiling pot and original Körborn Hausmacher Schlachtplatte (the first word means that it is “homemade”), along with the obligatory beer straight from the keg.
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This episode led to the nickname of "Prince of Cadland" being applied to him in London. Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria with Prince Schwarzenberg and Baron von Bach in 1848 Upon the outbreak of the 1848 Revolutions, he rushed to the Austrian Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia to join Field Marshal Joseph Radetzky defeating the Italian rebel forces of King Charles Albert of Sardinia in Milan. For his role as a close advisor to Radetzky, as well as his status as brother-in-law to Marshal Prince Alfred of Windisch-Grätz, who had suppressed the Czech "Whitsun Riot" in Prague and the Vienna Uprising in October, Schwarzenberg was appointed Austrian minister- president—the sixth within a year—and foreign minister on 21 November 1848. In these offices, which he both held until his premature death, his first step was to secure the replacement of incapacitated Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria by his nephew Francis Joseph.
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Abel studied singing at the Juilliard School of Music in New York City under Hans Heinz, where he excelled in studies of French art songs and German lieder. He won a Fulbright Fellowship in 1962 which enabled him to pursue further studies in the lieder and oratorio repertoire in Stuttgart, Germany with Hermann Reutter, Lore Fischer and Elinor Junker-Giesen. He went on to win several international singing competitions: Enrico Caruso Competition New York (1st prize, 1963), Concours International Geneve (1st prize, 1963), Mozart Wettbewerb Vienna (2nd prize, 1963), ARD International Music Competition (prize for Lied, 1964), International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Leipzig (1st prize, 1964). He gained international fame during the 1960s and 1970s for his numerous appearances in concerts in Northern America and throughout Europe as well as singing on numerous recordings. He was notably a soloist in the 1971 world premiere of Fritz Werner’s Whitsun Oratorio in Heilbronn, Germany.
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He has worked with conductors such as Rinaldo Alessandrini, Alan Curtis, Gabriel Garrido, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, René Jacobs, José Manuel Quintana, Marc Minkowski, Riccardo Muti and Christophe Rousset. Franco Fagioli is one of the five countertenors to appear in the opera, TV, CD and DVD production of Leonardo Vinci’s Artaserse, which has been awarded numerous national and international music prizes for example the Echo Award 2013 and 2014 or the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik. The 2013/2014 season was launched with the release of the CD Arias for Caffarelli, which includes many world premieres; this was accompanied by concerts in Germany, France and Denmark. Franco Fagioli made his debut at the 2014 Salzburg Whitsun Festival with his programme Giambattista Velutti. In the same year, there were two debuts with works by Mozart: after performing the part of Sesto in La clemenza di Tito in Nancy, he debuted as Idamante in Martin Kušej’s new production of Idomeneo at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in November 2014.
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Whereas nearly every village has a kermis once or twice a year, the large Zuidfoor or Foire du Midi (South Fair) of Brussels and Sinksenfoor (Whitsun Fair) of Antwerp attract many visitors during several weeks. The funfair on the Vrijdagmarkt in Ghent coincides with the 10-day long Gentse Feesten (Ghent Festivities) which are held across the entire inner city around the 21st of July (Belgian national holiday). The standard Dutch language expression Vlaamse kermis (Flemish kermesse) once referred to the local village kermesse (as pronounced in the former County of Flanders) though its modern usage is mainly limited to privately organized fairs open to the public, often for fund-raising, such as by schools or youth organisations in the Flemish Region. The crew of the Dutch ship Gelderland used the names "griff-eendt" and "kermisgans" for the dodo in 1598, in reference to fowl fattened for the Kermesse festival, which was held the day after they anchored on Mauritius.
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Dancing around the maypole, in Åmmeberg, Sweden A maypole is a tall wooden pole erected as a part of various European folk festivals, around which a maypole dance often takes place. The festivals may occur on May Day or Pentecost (Whitsun), although in some countries it is instead erected at Midsummer. In some cases the maypole is a permanent feature that is only utilised during the festival, although in other cases it is erected specifically for the purpose before being taken down again. Primarily found within the nations of Germanic Europe and the neighbouring areas which they have influenced, its origins remain unknown, although it has been speculated that it originally had some importance in the Germanic paganism of Iron Age and early Medieval cultures, and that the tradition survived Christianisation, albeit losing any original meaning that it had. It has been a recorded practice in many parts of Europe throughout the Medieval and Early Modern periods, although became less popular in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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On 12 May, Leader of the House of Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg announced that Parliament would move back to meeting in person "as quickly as possible" after the Whitsun recess on 2 June. He stated that MPs should "set an example" and return to working in Westminster, as the Government had recently announced that certain groups of people may restart work from 13 May. This was met with widespread anger from opposition parties, with a Labour spokesperson stating that it contravened the Government's own public health advice, as the message was still to work from home if possible. In addition, it was pointed out that MPs from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland would be contravening rules set out by their respective devolved governments, which require the public to stay at home; and even if the law changed, it would be very difficult to get to London due to the geographical distance and lack of transport services.
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In 1962, Bazley left for central Chile as a missionary with the South American Mission Society (SAMS), in which general region he stayed until 2000. As a missionary priest, he also served as Rural Dean of Chol-Chol until 1966 and then as Archdeacon of Temuco or of Cautin and Malleco until his appointment to the episcopate. He was consecrated on Whitsun (Pentecost, 25 May) 1969 as Assistant Bishop for Cautin and Malleco, (but also called Assistant Bishop in Southern Chile) which See he served until 1975, when he was translated to become Assistant Bishop for Santiago. He remained in that post until 1977, when he became diocesan bishop for the Diocese of Chile, Bolivia and Peru (in which he'd served since its 1963 foundation;Melton, J. Gordon. Faiths across Time — 5,000 Years of Religious History Volume 1: 350 BCE–499 CE p. 1799 (Google Books) (Accessed 22 August 2016) until then Chile was in the Diocese of the Falkland Islands) — the Bishop of Chile, Bolivia and Peru.
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Markham won what is said to be the first formal cycle race held in Britain. It was in a meadow at Brent Reservoir, known locally as the Welsh Harp, in north-west London on Whitsun Monday, 1 June 1868.Cycling Record, UK, 1968 Markham received a silver cup from the licensee of the Old Welsh Harp Hotel, William Perkins Warner, who had sponsored the race.Association of British Cycling Coaches, The Evolution of Cycling in Britain by Malcolm Firth The Hendon & District Archaeological Society, Newsletter 415 October 2005 In another source, Warner is named as Jack.Ritchie, Andrew (1999)), The Origins of Bicycle Racing in England: Technology, Entertainment, Sponsorship and Advertising in the Early History of the Sport, Strathclyde University, UK Markham opened a bicycle shop at nearby 345 Edgware Road1881 Census - 345 Edgware Road, Paddington, London - Arthur Marckham, an "Engineer" aged 35, living at the address along with his mother, Sarah aged 61 ("Annuitant", born Pampesford, Cambridgeshire), sister Helen D. Marckham, aged 23 is listed as a bicycle maker, and sister Kate, aged 22, a dressmaker in 1872.
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Robert Burns by Alexander Nasmyth, 1787 Patrick Miller of Dalswinton had offered Burns a choice of three farms, two on the rich holms of the River Nith's east side; and one, Ellisland, on the west bank, composed of a fertile strip along the river itself and stony fields between the river and the Dumfries road.Dougal, Page 282 – 3 Burns visited Ellisland on 27 February 1788 with James Tennant of Glenconner, a friend of himself and his father;McQueen, Page 122 taking James's advice he agreed to sign up to the seventy-six-year lease from his friend Patrick Miller of Dalswinton,Hogg, Page 178 taking up the lease of the farm at Whitsun (25 May) 1788. The lease was divided up into four periods of nineteen years, the rent for the first three years to be £50 per annum, and £70 thereafter.Hecht, Page 181 Robert had written a letter to his friend Patrick Miller, on 20 October 1787: I want to be a farmer in a small farm, about a plough-gang, in a pleasant country, under the auspices of a good landlord.
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The singer's stage activity began in Chemnitz (Germany) in 2014 when he sang the role of Don Ramiro in Rossini's La Cenerentola. During the season 2015/16 he became a member of the Young Ensemble of Semperoper in Dresden. The following season he performed the roles of Don Ramiro, Count Almaviva (Il barbiere di Siviglia) and Lindoro, at Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Bavarian State Opera, Hamburg State Opera and Aalto- Musiktheater Essen. He also appeared at Royal Opera Copenhagen, where he sang the role of Il Conte di Libenskof in a new production of Rossini's Il Viaggio a Reims (2017). Levy Sekgapane also performed at opera festivals: the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro singing the roles of Albazar in Il turco in Italia (2016) and Selimo in Adina (2018), the Whitsun Festival at State Theatre Wiesbaden when he debuted as Nemorino in Donizetti's L’elisir d’amore (2018), the international Donizetti Opera festival in Bergamo singing the role of King Guido in Donizetti's Enrico di Borgogna (2018), Glyndebourne Festival as Count Almaviva, Salzburg Festival as Arbace in Mozart's Idomeneo (2019) and lastly in the Wexford Festival Opera in the role of Selimo (2019).
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The Burroughs was a distinct hamlet until the 1890s, and appears on an 1873 Ordnance Survey map of the area. The name, known from 1316 until the 19th Century as 'the burrows', doubtless refers to the keeping of rabbit warrens. There was an inn and brew-house by the 16th century for travellers, very possibly the White Bear, which was so-called from 1736, and was rebuilt in 1932. Here, the 'leet courts', based on feudal tradition, were held as late as 1916, to ensure the rights of the Lord of the Manor to control the increasingly emancipated peasantry, to punish transgressors, and to fix 'Quit-Rent' for those who had built on manorial land and wastes. By 1697 the inn was the location for Hendon's Whitsun fair. Originally an un-chartered hiring fair for local hay farmers, it was also renowned for dancing and country sports, and was immortalised in the lines of a song of the 1810s: :Then a soldier fond of battle, :Who has fought and bled in Spain, :Finds in Hendon air his metal, :Well stirred up to fight again.
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From 1997 until the end of the 2012/13 season, Soltész was artistic director of the Aalto-Theater in Essen, which was voted "Opera House of the Year" in the critics' survey conducted by the magazine "Opernwelt" in 2008, and until the end of the 2012/2013 season he was General Music Director of the Essen Philharmonic, which was selected "Orchestra of the Year" in 2003 and 2008. Soltész is a regular guest conductor at the Vienna State Opera and the major opera houses in Germany (including Munich, Hamburg, Berlin, Frankfurt and Cologne). Further focal points of his work are the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, the Budapest State Opera, the Teatr Wielki in Warsaw, the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow and the Grand Théâtre de Genève. He has also made guest appearances at the Paris Opera and the Zurich Opera House, Het Muziektheater in Amsterdam, the Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania, at the Bilbao Opera, at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, in Japan, Taiwan, at the Washington and San Francisco Opera, in Covent Garden, as well as at the Festivals in Montpellier, Aix-en-Provence and Savonlinna, the Baden-Baden Whitsun Festival, anima mundi in Pisa, the Tongyeong Festival (Korea) and the Glyndebourne Festival.
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As well as his duties as a test pilot, Pope found the time to take part in several sporting events. On 15 April he attended the Bournemouth Easter Meeting, taking part in the Branksome "Cirrus" Handicap Stakes flying de Havilland DH.60 Moth (G-EBPG), and in June attended the Bournemouth Whitsun Meeting, taking part in the Medium-Power Handicap Stakes. On 1 March 1929 Pope was test flying the second prototype of the Parnall Pipit single-seat fighter over the Parnall airfield at Yate, Gloucestershire. During the flight test the tail and rudder broke off. Pope parachuted out the aircraft at a height of , making a successful landing despite standing over tall and weighing about 15 stone (), and thus becoming a member of the Caterpillar Club. The same day he was awarded the Air Force Cross, receiving his medal from the Prince of Wales at St. James's Palace on 28 March. On 13 July 1929 he was appointed to the Directorate of Scientific Research at the Air Ministry. A year later, in July 1930, Pope flew the Avro 618 Five (G-AASO) owned by Sir Philip Sassoon, in the King's Cup Air Race, but did not complete the course, being forced to retire at Manchester.
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St Peter and St Leonard's Church Horbury had a chapel of ease to the Church of All Saints in Wakefield, from before the time of the Domesday Book. The chapel was replaced by a Norman chapel with a nave and tower that stood until it was replaced by the present church in 1790. St Peter and St Leonard's Church, the parish church, was designed by John Carr, the Horbury born architect who built it in the Georgian neo-classical style between 1790 and 1794 at a cost to himself of £8,000. He is buried in a vault beneath the north aisle. St John's Church, Horbury Bridge The foundation of St John's Church at Horbury Bridge was in a mission meeting in a room in what is now the hairdressers in 1864. Funds were raised and the church was built with stone from Horbury Quarry in 1884. The curate, Sabine Baring-Gould, wrote the hymn "Onward Christian Soldiers" in 1865 for the Whitsun procession to Horbury Church. Another mission was set up at Horbury Junction in 1887 and St Mary's Church was built in 1893. A Methodist society was established in Horbury in about 1746, meeting for worship in a private house in Cluntergate.
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The 10.5 tonne 0-6-0T Decauville locomotive Simonne was manufactured in 1916 by Établissements Decauville Ainé with the works number 1587. It differs from the other locomotives of the Progress type in that it does not have a flat rear wall of the cab, but an inclined one, which makes it easier to operate. It was used by the French army during the World War I and in the post-war period until June 1965 at the Toury sugar mill in Eure-et-Loir. From there it was sold to the owner of a château in Quinéville (Manche) called Touquet, who kept it in the open air in the château's garden. When Jaques Maginot bought it in 1978, it was in good condition but needed a new boiler, which Jaques Maginot rebuilt himself with the help of a professional boiler-maker. The locomotive was taken out of service after Whitsun 2013, as it needed new boiler tubes after 30 years of operation. The 5.5 tonne 0-4-0ST saddle tank locomotive Charles was built by W.G. Bagnall in 1919 with the works number 2094. It is one of four locomotives (works numbers 2092-2095) built by Bagnall for Elias Wild & Son Ltd.
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