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06-11-2008, 10:01 PM
1. Roswell UFO Festival
If you truly believe a UFO and its crew of bug-eyed aliens came crashing down here 60 years ago, rest assured: You're not alone.
At least 35,000 people descended on Roswell at the weekend for the 2007 Amazing Roswell UFO Festival to commemorate a purported flying saucer crash on a nearby ranch in July 1947.
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2. Hadakamatsuri, Japan
This is a Shinto exorcism ceremony. A very unusual festival where, as thousands of naked men try to touch the man selected that year as agod man,a? there is intense shoving and pushing.
Usually held in January/February.
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3. Up Helly-Aa
Up Helly Aa refers to any of a variety of fire festivals held in Shetland annually in the middle of winter to mark the end of the yule season. The festival involves a procession of up to a thousand guizers in Lerwick and considerably lower numbers in the more rural festivals, formed into squads who march through the town or village in a variety of themed costumes.
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4. Monkey Festival
Monkeys enjoy fruits and vegetables during the annual Monkey Buffet Festival, in front of the Pra Prang Sam Yot temple in Lopburi province, 150 km (94 miles) north of Bangkok, November 25, 2007. The annual festival provides various types of food and drink to the local monkey population, which numbers more than 2,000.
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5. Holi
Holi (Hindi), or Phagwa (Bhojpuri), also called the Festival of Colours, is a popular Hindu spring festival observed in India, Guyana, Trinidad, and Nepal. In West Bengal, it is known as Dolyatra (Doljatra) or Boshonto Utsav ("spring festival").
On the first day, burning of the demoness Holika, Hiranyakashipu's sister, in a huge bonfires at night. It is called as Kama dahanam in Andhra Pradesh.
On the second day, known as Dhulhendi, people spend the day throwing colored powder and water at each other. The spring season, during which the weather changes, is believed to cause viral fever and cold. Thus, the playful throwing of the colored powders has a medicinal significance: the colors are traditionally made of Neem, Kumkum, Haldi, Bilva, and other medicinal herbs prescribed by Ayurvedic doctors. A special drink called thandai is prepared, sometimes containing bhang (Cannabis sativa).
http://cn.yimg.com/ncp/161_1231136513.jpg
If you truly believe a UFO and its crew of bug-eyed aliens came crashing down here 60 years ago, rest assured: You're not alone.
At least 35,000 people descended on Roswell at the weekend for the 2007 Amazing Roswell UFO Festival to commemorate a purported flying saucer crash on a nearby ranch in July 1947.
http://cn.yimg.com/ncp/161_1231136514.jpg
2. Hadakamatsuri, Japan
This is a Shinto exorcism ceremony. A very unusual festival where, as thousands of naked men try to touch the man selected that year as agod man,a? there is intense shoving and pushing.
Usually held in January/February.
http://cn.yimg.com/ncp/161_1231136103.jpg
3. Up Helly-Aa
Up Helly Aa refers to any of a variety of fire festivals held in Shetland annually in the middle of winter to mark the end of the yule season. The festival involves a procession of up to a thousand guizers in Lerwick and considerably lower numbers in the more rural festivals, formed into squads who march through the town or village in a variety of themed costumes.
http://cn.yimg.com/ncp/161_1231136102.jpg
4. Monkey Festival
Monkeys enjoy fruits and vegetables during the annual Monkey Buffet Festival, in front of the Pra Prang Sam Yot temple in Lopburi province, 150 km (94 miles) north of Bangkok, November 25, 2007. The annual festival provides various types of food and drink to the local monkey population, which numbers more than 2,000.
http://cn.yimg.com/ncp/161_1231136511.jpg
5. Holi
Holi (Hindi), or Phagwa (Bhojpuri), also called the Festival of Colours, is a popular Hindu spring festival observed in India, Guyana, Trinidad, and Nepal. In West Bengal, it is known as Dolyatra (Doljatra) or Boshonto Utsav ("spring festival").
On the first day, burning of the demoness Holika, Hiranyakashipu's sister, in a huge bonfires at night. It is called as Kama dahanam in Andhra Pradesh.
On the second day, known as Dhulhendi, people spend the day throwing colored powder and water at each other. The spring season, during which the weather changes, is believed to cause viral fever and cold. Thus, the playful throwing of the colored powders has a medicinal significance: the colors are traditionally made of Neem, Kumkum, Haldi, Bilva, and other medicinal herbs prescribed by Ayurvedic doctors. A special drink called thandai is prepared, sometimes containing bhang (Cannabis sativa).
http://cn.yimg.com/ncp/161_1231136513.jpg