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The organiser claimed a total number of attendees of over 1.7 million (only counting people in Causeway Bay and Tin Hau areas) while a lot of people gathered around Wan Chai, Central and Sheung Wan. An estimated number of over 2 million people took part in the march. [91] Hajj to Mecca: November 2010 2.8 million Pilgrimage Mecca Saudi Arabia
Berlonghi classified crowds as spectator, demonstrator, or escaping, to correlate to the purpose for gathering. Other sociologists distinguished four types of crowds: casual, conventional, expressive, and acting. [8] [9] Casual crowds consists of people aggregated in the same place informally such as a coffee shop. There are also conventional ...
A meeting refers to a gathering with a specific agenda and not just mere gathering of people casually talking to each other. [1] Meetings may occur face-to-face or virtually, as mediated by communications technology, such as a telephone conference call, a skyped conference call or a videoconference. One Merriam-Webster dictionary defines a ...
Mass Gathering Medicine is a new field of medicine that focuses on the health risks of mass gatherings. [11] The World Health Organization through its "Department of Global Alert and Response" supports Member States hosting mass gatherings and regularly receives a large number of requests for technical support by countries organizing large mass ...
A gathering place is any place where people are able to congregate. Gathering places may be public; for example, city streets, town squares, and parks; or private; for example, churches, coffee shops, stadiums, and theaters. Examples of gathering places include Stonehenge, the agora of ancient Greece, New York City's Central Park, and London's ...
Communal work is a gathering for mutually accomplishing a task or for communal fundraising. Communal work provided manual labour to others, especially for major projects such as barn raising , "bees" of various kinds (see § Bee below), log rolling , and subbotniks .
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From the 1990s, kiki was being used to refer to people gathering together to have a good time. This usage came from Black queer Ballroom culture, which gained a wider public audience through the 1990 movie Paris Is Burning , in which Ballroom participants used kiki to refer to the sound of laughter.