The vessel was carrying nearly three times its recommended limit of 74 passengers, including many indigenous tribal palm oil and timber workers returning to their home villages for a harvest festival holiday, said Bakar Sibau, a district police chief in Malaysia's Sarawak state.

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Here, each July, at harvest time, the Gilroy Garlic Festival kicks off--the biggest bulb bash in the world.

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Campaigners staged their protest during a parade to mark Halloween and Samhain, a Celtic festival celebrating the end of the harvest, on 1 November.

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Every April, female silkworm farmers adorn themselves with colourful flowers made of silk or paper and make harvest offerings as part of the Silkworm Flower festival.

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Some argue it was an ancient pagan festival of lugnasa to celebrate the harvest gathering, but either way, locals (and about 1, 000 blow-ins) do not seem to care and toast the feted goat on the village streets with much abandon.

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This had been an important structure for the annual Lughnasa Festival, when the ancient Celts celebrated the harvest season.

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Keeping Harvest Suffolk-orientated is high on the agenda for the festival organisers.

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Many cultures around the world celebrate a yearly thanksgiving festival, a time when we express our gratitude for a successful harvest.

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This key component of the festival takes the form of ritual dancing to flute music and drums for an abundant harvest of rice crops.

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It is a key component of the festival and takes the form of ritual dancing to flute music and drums for an abundant harvest of rice crops.

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