The vandalised tree was planted in 1951 to celebrate the Festival of Britain and has since been replaced.
Heskel Haddad, an 11-year-old boy was finishing a festive meal and preparing to celebrate the Jewish festival of Shavuot, oblivious to the angry mob that was about to take over the city.
Mooncakes have been the dessert of choice for Chinese families gathering together during the Mid-Autumn Festival to celebrate the Moon Goddess of immortality.
Many cultures around the world celebrate a yearly thanksgiving festival, a time when we express our gratitude for a successful harvest.
These days, more than a million residents and visitors celebrate the free street festival and parade, which features around 5, 000 professional and amateur performers of all ages and ethnicities, as well as bands and DJs.
Beginning on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, people of several ethnic groups throughout China and the world celebrate the Dragon Boat festival, especially in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.
On June 18, locals celebrate the annual Dragon Boat Festival, a national holiday that is marked by races on the Keelung River and by eating jungtzu, a steamed dumpling stuffed with glutinous rice and other goodies.
With the country set to celebrate its lunar new year festival in early February, companies have already started scaling back production and tens of millions of workers have begun their annual mass migration from their factories and city jobs back to their rural homes.
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Each October, the Tsou celebrate the Life Bean or Fona Festival.
More than 60, 000 people have attended the first day of a two-day Hindu festival in Hertfordshire to celebrate the birth of Krishna, organisers said.
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.
To celebrate what has been described as a festival of friendship, France and Germany are issuing stamps, coins and other items of memorabilia.
"Krishna protected cows as sacred animals and we are delighted to celebrate the cow at this year's festival, " said President of the Temple, Srutidharma Das.
The Macy's Thanksgiving tradition began in 1924 when immigrant workers eager to celebrate their new American heritage held a public festival to herald the coming of Christmas.
Blizzard Entertainment had plenty to celebrate with its fans at its annual BlizzCon 2011 fan festival.
And if you are in Dublin in mid-August, you can celebrate the city's feisty Viking history at the Dublin Viking Festival, where a Viking craft village is the central attraction.
Eight new works have been commissioned to celebrate the return of the Southbank Centre's fully-restored Royal Festival Hall organ which made its debut there in 1954.
If you really want to make the most of the day, celebrate in the town of Ibi, Alicante, which hosts the Els Enfarinats festival that has taken place for two centuries.
The organization already runs similar operations at the Celebrate Brooklyn concert series at the Prospect Park Bandshell, as well as the Great GoogaMooga food festival.
The Festival will always be a great time, a great place to network, and a time to celebrate great work.
To celebrate these prophetic creatures, Banner Elk, North Carolina, located near the Tennessee border, organises a Woolly Worm Festival every October.
Every year, the Harkness Dance Festival and various performance series bring choreographers and performers at various stages of their careers to Buttenwieser Hall to celebrate the history and future of modern dance.
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