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The West End Festival in Glasgow was started in 1996 by Michael Dale as a small local festival centred on Byres Road. It has since become the biggest festival in Glasgow's calendar with events running for 16 days in June. It has been used as a model for other festival start-ups, as with minimal local authority or Scottish Arts Council funding ...
Woman in costume in the 2009 New York City parade. David Dubinsky, Nelson Rockefeller, and Robert F. Wagner Jr. watch the 1959 Labor Day Parade. Jessie Waddell and some of her West Indian friends started the Carnival in Harlem in Upper Manhattan, New York City, in the 1930s by staging costume parties in large, enclosed places such as the Savoy, Renaissance and Audubon Ballrooms due to the cold ...
France transfers all of its territory west of the Appalachian Mountains to Spain in a secret treaty just months prior to the negotiations that end the French and Indian War. [16] 1769: Jul 16: Spanish Franciscans, led by friar Junípero Serra, establish Mission San Diego de Alcalá in Las Californias.
The annual West Indian American Day Parade stepped off in New York City on Monday with brightly colored costumes, steel bands, flag waving and street dancing. The Brooklyn parade is the ...
For example, the Old West subperiod is sometimes used by historians regarding the time from the end of the American Civil War in 1865 to when the Superintendent of the Census, William Rush Merriam, stated the U.S. Census Bureau would stop recording western frontier settlement as part of its census categories after the 1890 U.S. Census.
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2. Amarillo, Texas. Amarillo's Wild West roots lie not in gold or silver but cattle, as the wide, open spaces attracted ranchers to the area in the late 1800s.
Dahlia parade in Zundert always held on the first Sunday in September; Days of '47 Parade in Salt Lake City; Disney Parks Christmas Day Parade; Dragon of Shandon Samhain parade in Cork, held annually on the 31st of October at night; Easter parade; Gasparilla Pirate Festival in Tampa is the third largest parade in the US and commemorates a ...