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The first Yule torch procession took place in 1876. The first torch celebration on Up Helly Aa Day took place in 1881. The following year the torchlit procession was significantly enhanced and institutionalised through a request by a Lerwick civic body to hold another Up Helly Aa torch procession for the visit of Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh.
On 1 January 2014, Stepan Bandera's 105th birthday was celebrated by a torchlight procession of 15,000 people in the centre of Kyiv and thousands more rallied near his statue in Lviv. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] The march was supported by the far-right Svoboda party and some members of the center-right Batkivshchyna .
In a statement, organisers of Edinburgh’s Hogmanay said: “We have been trying hard to find a way to bring the torchlight procession into Edinburgh’s Hogmanay celebrations this year, however ...
Porthleven (/ ˌ p ɔː θ ˈ l ɛ v ən /; Cornish: Porthlynn) is a town, civil parish and fishing port near Helston, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.The most southerly port in Great Britain, it was a harbour of refuge when this part of the Cornish coastline was infamous for wrecks in the days of sail. [1]
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Porthleven Football Club is a Cornish football club based in Porthleven in Cornwall. Founded in 1896, the club competed in the South Western League from 1967 to 1977 and again from 1989 until the dissolution of the league in 2007, when they joined the new South West Peninsula League .
The Torchlight Parade is the longest of a series of parades around the greater Seattle area in the U.S. state of Washington. It is under the auspices of Seafair , a Seattle summertime celebration. The parade is one of the original Seafair events dating to the 1950 centennial celebration; the first parade was held on August 12, 1950, in the ...
Torches were usually constructed of a wooden stave with one end wrapped in a material which was soaked in a flammable substance. [3] In the United States, black bear bones may have been used. [4] Modern procession torches are made from coarse hessian rolled into a tube and soaked in wax. A wooden handle is usually used, and a cardboard collar ...