• Refosco is speaking about Bonfires of Sao Joao, the New York-based band's latest release.

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  • There were bonfires on some of the bomb sites and lights in some of the shops.

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  • Since the beginning of seafaring, families and friends have lit bonfires at night to guide sailors home.

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  • This can still be a family occasion, with parents gently hoisting toddlers over bonfires in the back yard.

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  • During Samhain, Celts built huge bonfires on hilltops to frighten away evil spirits.

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  • Villagers build a midsummer pole, which is decorated with flowers and colourful ribbons, dance and, at midnight, bonfires are lit.

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  • Parade organiser Paddy Murray, a republican from Antrim, said it had been organised to avoid youngsters marking internment with bonfires.

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  • On Saturday, thousands of Israelis had been outside in parks and forests celebrating the Jewish holiday of Lag Baomer with traditional bonfires.

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  • It also draws visitors to its annual Torch Festival (Aug. 11 to 13 this year), marked by bonfires, traditional dances and a twist on bullfighting.

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  • The smoking bonfires of the foot-and-mouth outbreak in 2001 consumed 7m slaughtered animals and forced Tony Blair, then prime minister, to postpone a general election.

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  • At Puaucho, another village near Osorno, voters were bused in to a barbecue lunch of 180 lambs roasted over bonfires and supplied by local landowners.

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  • Many fans celebrated peacefully, but others vandalized their beloved town by setting a bus on fire, flipping over cars, and lighting bonfires fueled by couches.

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  • "We've still got plenty of wood for bonfires, " said Mr. Solner.

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  • On a recent night, the beach was dotted with makeshift bonfires and strains of music from portable speakers, as groups of friends and families strolled by the water.

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  • "These are our guns, " said 24-year-old Cliff Owino, holding up a handful of rocks in Mathare, another Nairobi slum where young men set up roadblocks and built bonfires.

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  • When American congressmen were watching, the Burmese army would make feeble attempts to take him out, or would organise bonfires of heroin that were largely stones and grass.

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  • You figure out how Humanity and bonfires work over time.

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  • The About page also describes the bonfires as Beacon Fires.

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  • For the most flavourful celebration of pagan rituals, visit Ukraine in the summer for the Ivana Kupala festival of making wreaths, jumping over bonfires and peeking into the future.

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  • During the Renaissance, intaglios, like the carnelian-and-gold "Bust of Girolamo Savonarola, " the Medici critic notorious for the "burning of the books, the bonfires of the vanities, " embellished clothing and decorative objects.

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  • Hence the great Bonfires of the Vanities in the Piazza della Signoria in 1497 and 1498, when countless works of art, as well as cards, books and dresses, went up in flames.

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  • At dozens of intersections in the capital of Iran thousands of students are protesting on a recent Friday around midnight, as they do nearly every night, chanting pro-democracy slogans and lighting bonfires on street corners.

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  • In India, Gandhi supported a boycott and bonfires of imported cloth, averring that each Indian should manufacture his own on a simple spinning wheel instead of buying cloth made much more cheaply and efficiently in English factories.

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  • You can also expect more warpable bonfires (including some very useful ones) for faster travel later in the game and a new arena mode accessed within the new content itself, making multiplayer PvP much more viable than before.

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  • The Celts built bonfires.

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  • In the evenings on each trip they would go to the beach with four or five other couples for bonfires, Hood Canal-style games and a tradition they called the sing-down, where each team is given a word and has to come up with songs that feature it.

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  • And also shown are the events with which Lorenzo's magnificent era ended: Charles VIII's entry into Florence, Savonarola preaching against luxuries in a city that derived so much wealth from making them, and the fundamentalist friar's own execution in the very square in which the Bonfires of the Vanities had been held.

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  • Held each June on the closest weekend to the longest day of the year (this year from 22 to 24 June), midsummer is Finland's most enthusiastic party -- an excuse for lakeshore bonfires, midnight airshows, drinking games, skinny dipping, saunas and all-you-can-eat banquets of grillimakkara (grilled sausages) served with mustard and the season's first new potatoes.

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  • For example, whilst loyalists felt it was indefensible for the police to touch the Union flags around Ballyclare. many deemed it perfectly acceptable to burn Irish tricolours and posters of the other side's representatives on their eleventh night bonfires (many of the Sinn Fein Belfast Mayor's posters were incinerated on loyalist bonfires due to receive grant aid from his council).

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