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  2. Illuminated procession - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  3. Up Helly Aa - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. List of Lerwick Up Helly Aa Guizer Jarls - Wikipedia

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    Only the Jarl's Squad dresses as Vikings; the festival's other squads dress up in other costumes associated with the act they perform throughout the halls opened after the torchlight procession. [1] It took until after the First World War until a squad of Vikings appeared in the festival every year. [2]

  5. No Edinburgh Hogmanay torchlight procession this year ... - AOL

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    While there will be no torchlight procession, event producers Unique Assembly have announced that the world famous Hogmanay street party will take place again this year on December 31, while the ...

  6. Torchlight parade to begin Edinburgh's New Year celebrations

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  7. Porthleven - Wikipedia

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    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 ]

  8. File:SA members and university students march in a torchlight ...

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    File: SA members and university students march in a torchlight procession around the bonfire of "un-German" books on the Opernplatz.jpg

  9. Lenaia - Wikipedia

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    The coincidence of invoking Iacchus, seen as Dionysus as a child, by torchlight and commemorating the myth of the god's death and rebirth. This happened both in Delphi and in Athens in the Lenaia, in the same season, winter. It further supports the idea that Attic Lenaia had a specific ritual involving women, the followers of the god.