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Professor Brian Pentecost of the British Heart Foundation said the project was an exciting advance.
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The government's decision to scrap the Pentecost public holiday, on May 16th, was meant as a gesture of solidarity towards the elderly.
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The Ride of the Kings is an annual procession associated with the Christian feast of Pentecost in four small towns in south-eastern Czech Republic.
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The Council of the European Union has suggested moving the date of the European elections from 5-8 June to avoid it clashing with the Pentecost holiday.
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The festival was organised by the Churches' Millennium Office to coincide with the Pentecost, when Jesus' disciples joined together for a feast in Jerusalem shortly after Christ's ascension.
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The Festival of the Holy Spirit, celebrated at Pentecost, features prayers, dances and singing, accompanied by the music of the congos and a procession carrying the dove representing the Holy Spirit.
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As much as possible, the cantatas were programmed according to their appointed place in the liturgical calendar, so that Christmas works were played at Christmastime, Pentecostal ones on Pentecost, and so forth.
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The Vanuatu men of the Pentecost Islands climb a rickety 98-ft. tower, tie vines to their ankles and dive to the ground at speeds exceeding 45 mph as both a harvest ritual and rite of passage to manhood.
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There are only a few simple wooden pews and just one official service a year at Pentecost, which is packed and spills over outside - especially when the weather is good and the local rugby clubs bring along brass bands.
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