Forty years later he was married on the island, now a park, in the first such ceremony there.
Reagan's state funeral will be the first such ceremony since the service for President Lyndon Baines Johnson in 1973.
However, Santa Monica (Calif.) High said no when Under Armour and ESPN wanted such a ceremony to honor Sebastian LaRue for his selection to the game, which features the best players in the nation knocking pads against each other, and picking a hat to announce their college choice.
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In many ways, geisha are living embodiments of Japanese traditional culture: each one is well versed in traditional dancing, singing, musical instruments and occasionally other arts such as tea ceremony and ikebana (flower arrangement).
Nicholas has also been the BBC radio commentator at national or state occasions such as the Ceremony of Remembrance at the Cenotaph and was awarded a Radio Academy award in 2001 for his coverage of the event.
Explain to your guests in the e-mail that the ceremony, such as a wedding, bar mitzvah, anniversary dinner, baptism, etc.
Indeed, Scafetta pointed out to me that in the Hindu tradition, the 60-year cycle is known as the cycle of Brihaspati, the name of Jupiter, and that every 60 years special ceremonies are celebrated by some populations, such as the Sigui ceremony among the Dogon people of Africa.
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Watching the Oscar ceremony can be such a bore--an anti-climactic exercise in industry self-congratulation.
During the ceremony, offerings such as tobacco may be made to the spirits.
The reason for such a low-key ceremony, says Saunders, is to prepare Middleton for life as a royal.
Drogba, who won the 2006 award, said it made no sense to have the awards ceremony in another country while such a high-profile African event was ongoing.
"It is a pleasure to be a winner again, to take it for the fourth time against such top opposition, " he said after the ceremony in Cairo.
The ceremony marked the beginning of one of 21 such projects funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Recovery Act).
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Contrast that to four years ago, when the inaugural ceremony included Aretha Franklin but also classical musicians such as cellist Yo-Yo Ma, violinist Itzhak Perlman and others, and the Hollywood types were largely saved for the evening's balls.
Most of Triumph's crew have missed out on this year's landmark events such as the Queen's Diamond Jubilee and the opening ceremony of the Olympics.
The highest-profile such case was for the Nets arena that just had a ribbon-cutting ceremony Friday in Brooklyn.
The star of films such as Zoolander and There's Something About Mary will receive the MTV Generation Award, the ceremony's top honour.
The bulk of those at the ceremony on Thursday were families of the British victims, although they were joined by dignitaries such as Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell.
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Pacific Time on Friday, the day of the Opening Ceremony, Twitter says the volume of tweets mentioning the Olympics surpassed the cumulative number of such tweets posted during the entire span of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.
As the Soviets are wont to say, it is no accident that President Gorbachev has declined at such a moment to receive in person the Nobel Peace Prize he was awarded earlier this year at the ceremony in Oslo on 10 December.
U.S. negotiators might have been able to hold out for elimination of such dangerous ambiguity, but they were under pressure to produce a treaty in time for a United Nations signing ceremony before the 1996 election.
But former IOC Director Michael Payne said such pre-Olympic jitters were only to be expected, and were common in host countries prior to the opening ceremony.
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