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Father Christmas at the 2021 Christmas Parade in Helsinki, Finland. Helsinki: Helsinki Christmas Parade. Held annually in late November since 1949, as part of the Opening of the Aleksanterinkatu Christmas Street festivities.
Charm City is filled with plenty of holiday charm, especially during this annual Christmas parade! It features floats, local TV and radio personalities, over 100 Harley Davidson motorcycles, bands ...
A rocket ship float with Santa Claus during a Christmas parade in Los Angeles, 1940. The Christmas parade is a direct descendant of late Medieval and Renaissance revivals of Roman Triumphs, which had music and banners, wagons filled with the spoils of war, and climaxed with the dux riding in a chariot, preferably drawn by two horses, and thus called the biga.
A Rio Carnival parade in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 2005. A parade is a procession of people, usually organized along a street, often in costume, and often accompanied by marching bands, floats, or sometimes large balloons. Parades are held for a wide range of reasons, but are usually some variety of celebration.
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Registration to participate in the parade is not required and lineup will begin at 2 p.m. Along Historic Main Street, the annual Christmas on Main Street celebration will take place 9 a.m.-5 p.m ...
Christmas Eve and Midsummer Eve might very well be the single most important holidays during the entire year for Finns. Surprisingly they are not officially called holidays and are not so marked in calendars, but for most people, are not working days, and in practice they differ from official holidays only in that most shops are open on those days from early morning till noon.
Lord Smith may refer to: Rodney Smith, Baron Smith (1914–1998), British surgeon; Trevor Smith, Baron Smith of Clifton (1937–2021), Liberal Democrat politician; Chris Smith, Baron Smith of Finsbury (born 1951), Labour cabinet minister and chair of the Environment Agency; Philip Smith, Baron Smith of Hindhead (born 1966), British Conservative ...