Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
A typical float at the Panagbenga Festival in 2009. The month-long festival starts on the first day of February with an opening parade. [15] Activities celebrated throughout the month include a landscape competition and cultural shows; street dancing and float parades during the last week of February draw huge crowds.
The Panagbenga festival queen assumed the title and her duties for the rest of the year—the third time a Baguio lass wore the crown. The Reyna ng Aliwan pageant is considered the training ground of many national pageant winners, who have also gone on to compete—and win—international titles.
Folk festivals are an important part of American community life. For the American people, popular folk festivals are important events composed of complex folklore phenomena. [1] Folk festivals are generally used to celebrate folk music and traditional folk crafts, and some folk festivals are embodied in the form of dance and art.
Mardi Gras's roots go all the way back to pagan spring festivals thousands of years ago. The day has similarities to the raucous Roman festivals of Saturnalia and Lupercalia.
A fact from Panagbenga Festival appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 5 February 2008, and was viewed approximately 881 times (check views).The text of the entry was as follows:
April 1 is the 91st day of the year (92nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 274 days remain until the end of the year. ... 1865 – American Civil War: ...
Kwanzaa is a week-long celebration at the end of the year where African American families gather to light a candle on the Kinara. Why The 7 Principles Of Kwanzaa Should Be Celebrated All Year ...
April is Arab American Heritage Month. Celebrate with APA President @drthema and Drs. @Dr_GigiAwad @dr_sawssan as they discuss the power of AMENA culture & identity, the value of community, the ...