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A rain dance being performed in Harar, Eastern Ethiopia Rain dance, ca. 1920 (from the Potawatomi agency, presumably Prairie Band Potawatomi people) Rainmaking is a weather modification ritual that attempts to invoke rain. It is based on the belief that humans can influence nature, spirits, or the ancestors who withhold or bring rain. [1]
Touken Ranbu quickly became very popular in Japan, particularly with young women, and had over 1.5 million registered players by 2016. [6] The game has been credited with accelerating the Japanese cultural trend of "katana women" (カタナ女子, katana joshi) – women who are interested in, and who pose with, historical Japanese swords. [7]
Lady Gongsun of the Tang dynasty, who was known for her elegant sword dancing, as depicted in Gathering Gems of Beauty (畫麗珠萃秀). Sword dances in China and Vietnam, known as jian wu or múa kiếm, began as a military training exercise with swords and spears which evolved into an elaborate acrobatic dance. [8]
"Rain Dance" is a song written by Burton Cummings and Kurt Winter and performed by The Guess Who. It was featured on their 1971 album, So Long, Bannatyne. [2]
The Kingdom of Avalonia is a large island country in the video game, Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors. Queen Curtana (voiced by Emma Fielding ) She is a widowed sovereign of the Kingdom of Avalonia who insists upon wearing the Rorrim Mask, which is used to contain Xiphos the Death Bringer in a powerless form since ...
The 2019 anime series Fruits Basket is the second anime based on the manga series of the same name by Natsuki Takaya, adapted from all 23 volumes of the story.The new anime adaptation was announced in November 2018, [1] featuring a new cast and staff, with TMS Entertainment handling the 63 episodes-long productions from April 2019 to June 2021, and divided into three seasons.
The Book of Swords series is also linked to the Empire of the East series, which is set in the same universe and presents the backstory to the series. [3] The first three works in the Empire of the East series predate the Book of Swords series (The Broken Lands (1968), The Black Mountains (1971), and Changeling Earth (1973), also titled Ardneh's World), with the fourth Empire of the East book ...
Dance in the Rain is Japanese R&B-turned-pop artist Kumi Koda's fifty-eighth single. While the single was given a worldwide digital release, it was only released physically to her fan club. [4] [5] The physical single release carried the making-of for Dance in the Rain, which was not released publicly.