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  2. Banquet hall - Wikipedia

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    A banquet hall, function hall, or reception hall, is a special purpose room, or a building, used for hosting large social and business events. Typically a banquet hall is capable of serving dozens to hundreds of people a meal in a timely fashion. People and organizations rent them to hold parties, banquets, wedding receptions, or other social ...

  3. Banquet - Wikipedia

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    A banquet (/ ˈ b æ ŋ k w ɪ t /; French:) is a formal large meal [1] where a number of people consume food together. Banquets are traditionally held to enhance the prestige of a host, or reinforce social bonds among joint contributors.

  4. Banqueting House - Wikipedia

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    Interior of the Banqueting Hall The old Palace of Whitehall, showing the Banqueting House to the left. The Palace of Whitehall was the creation of King Henry VIII, expanding an earlier mansion that had belonged to Cardinal Wolsey, known as York Place.

  5. Ballroom - Wikipedia

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    In other large houses, a large room such as the main drawing room, long gallery, or hall may double as a ballroom, but, a good ballroom should have the right type of flooring, such as hardwood flooring or stone flooring (usually marble or stone). [citation needed]. For most styles of modern dance, a wooden sprung floor offers the best surface.

  6. Wedding reception - Wikipedia

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    Wedding reception in 17th-century Russia by Konstantin Makovsky Wedding dance of an Azerbaijani married couple. A wedding reception is a party usually held after the completion of a marriage ceremony as hospitality for those who have attended the wedding, hence the name reception: the couple receive society, in the form of family and friends, for the first time as a married couple.

  7. Symposium - Wikipedia

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    Plato's Symposium, depiction by Anselm Feuerbach Banquet scene from a Temple of Athena (6th century BC relief). The Greek symposium was a key Hellenic social institution. It was a forum for the progeny of respected families to debate, plot, boast, or simply to revel with others.

  8. Why have Columbia students renamed the college hall they ...

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    Renaming Hamilton Hall On Monday, 29 April, Columbia University, the school's president, Minouche Shafik, said negotiations with the protesters had broken down , and affirmed that the university ...

  9. Mead hall - Wikipedia

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    Among the early Germanic peoples, a mead hall or feasting hall was a large building with a single room intended to receive guests and serve as a center of community social life. From the fifth century to the Early Middle Ages such a building was the residence of a lord or king and his retainers .