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Lunar New Year. Sebae (New Year's greetings), Charye (ancestral ceremony), Yunnori (traditional game) 1st day of first month. Tteokguk (rice cake soup), Yakgwa (honey cakes) Daeboreum. First full moon. Geuybulnori (rice field burning), Daljip Taeugi (bonfire), Aengmagi Taeugi (talisman burning) 15th day of first month.
Special Olympics World Games take place every two years and alternate between Summer and Winter Games, a schedule similar to the Olympics and Paralympics. Attracting as many as 350,000 volunteers and coaches, plus several thousands of athletes, these World Games can be the world's largest sporting event of the year. [ 1][ 2] Special Olympics ...
Ceremony. Ceremonial at court during Prinsjesdag. A ceremony ( UK: / ˈsɛrəməni /, US: / ˈsɛrəˌmoʊni /) is a unified ritualistic event with a purpose, usually consisting of a number of artistic components, performed on a special occasion. The word may be of Etruscan origin, via the Latin caerimonia. [ 1]
comiket.co.jp/ (Japanese) Comic Market ( Japanese: コミックマーケット, Hepburn: Komikku Māketto), more commonly known as Comiket (コミケット, Komiketto) or Comike (コミケ, Komike), is a semiannual doujinshi convention in Tokyo, Japan. A grassroots market focused on the sale of doujin (self-published) works, Comiket is a not ...
Media event. Groundhog Day annual ceremony. A media event, also known as a pseudo-event, [ 1] is an event, activity, or experience conducted for the purpose of creating media publicity. It may also be any event that is covered in the mass media or was hosted largely with the media in mind. [ 2]
A raffle is a gambling competition in which people obtain numbered tickets, each of which has the chance of winning a prize. At a set time, the winners are drawn at random from a container holding a copy of each number. The drawn tickets are checked against a collection of prizes with numbers attached to them, and the holder of the ticket wins ...
Postulates of special relativity. 1. First postulate ( principle of relativity ) The laws of physics take the same form in all inertial frames of reference. 2. Second postulate (invariance of c ) As measured in any inertial frame of reference, light is always propagated in empty space with a definite velocity c that is independent of the state ...
1. A social event is exclusively part of the biological and behavioral characteristics of the human organism and is, therefore, predictable and potentially explainable by experimental analysis that excludes the historical. 2. A social event is part of a process that, although constantly changing, returns to similar forms again and again.