Part 1 Opening day of “Celebrate! A Street Party” at Disneyland Park!!
(Opening parade until end of Rock section)
First show stop at Small World Mall.
Congratulations to all cast and crew. You guys were AWESOME!
Duration : 0:8:49
Celebrate! A Street Party (Part 1) – Disneyland – Opening Day
“Celebrate You” – Corbin Bleu – Walt Disney World Christmas Day Parade 2008 – HD/HQ
Corbin Bleu sings the Disney Parks song “Celebrate You” at Disneyland during the 25th Annual Walt Disney World Christmas Day Parade special (2008), which aired on December 25, 2008.
Copyright: Disney, 2008.
Duration : 0:3:13
I think it is disgusting the way we celebrate Christmas
Christmas in the United states has become a disgusting consumer holiday.
Duration : 0:7:26
1000 Immigrants Celebrate U.S. Citizenship at the Walt Disney World Resort
More than 1,000 immigrants from more than 100 countries gathered on Main Street, U.S.A. in the Magic Kingdom, Friday, July 3, 2009, to be sworn in as American citizens. The new citizens took the Oath of Allegiance to the United States during a morning ceremony hosted by Disney Parks and the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services. Actor/director Andy Garcia, a naturalized citizen born in Cuba, addressed the new Americans before many of them previewed the Hall of Presidents, reopening July 4. The attraction has been closed since Election Day last November for a makeover that included installation of a lifelike Audio-Animatronics figure based on President Barack Obama.
Duration : 0:3:16
Shrove Tuesday (Pancake Day) Tradition, Portland, Dorset
Shrove Tuesday (Pancake Day) 20th February 2007 at All Saints Church, Rectory Green, Easton, Portland, Dorset.
Shrove Tuesday is the term used in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Australia to refer to the day after Shrove Monday (or the more old fashioned Collop Monday) and before Ash Wednesday (the liturgical season of Lent begins on Ash Wednesday). In these countries, particularly Ireland, and amongst Anglicans, Lutherans and possibly other protestant denominations in Canada, this day is also known as Pancake Day or Pancake Tuesday, because it is customary to eat pancakes on this day. In other parts of the world—for example, in historically Catholic and French-speaking parts of the United States and elsewhere—this day is called Mardi Gras. In areas with large Polish-immigrant populations (for example, Chicago and Detroit) it is known as Paczki Day. And in areas with large German-immigrant populations (for example, Pennsylvania Dutch Country) it is known as Fasnacht Day or Fauschnaut Day.
The French also have a festival ociated with pancakes (crêpes) which is held on February 2 each year. This festival is called Chandeleur and is a celebration of light (the name is derived from the word “chandelle” which also gave the English word “candle”. The festival is known as Candlemas in English). It is thought that pancakes are ociated to this celebration because of the solar symbolic of their shape and color. A traditional food for Mardi Gras are sweet fried dumplings, cenci, usually served in the shape of a loose knot (a 5cm wide, 20cm long strip of dough one extremity of which is passed through a slit in its middle.) In New Orleans the traditional food is king cake.
The reason that pancakes are ociated with the day preceding Lent is that the 40 days of Lent form a period of liturgical fasting, during which only the plainest foodstuffs may be eaten. Therefore, rich ingredients such as eggs, milk, and sugar are disposed of immediately prior to the commencement of the fast. Pancakes and doughnuts were therefore an efficient way of using up these perishable goods, besides providing a minor celebratory feast prior to the fast itself.
The word shrove is a past tense of the English verb “shrive,” which means to obtain absolution for one’s sins by confessing and doing penance. Shrove Tuesday gets its name from the shriving (confession) that Anglo-Saxon Christians were expected to receive immediately before Lent.
Shrove Tuesday is the last day of “shrovetide,” which is the English equivalent to the Carnival tradition that developed separately out of the countries of Latin Europe. In countries of the Carnival tradition, the day before Ash Wednesday is known either as the “Tuesday of Carnival” (in Spanish-speaking countries, “Martes de Carnaval,” in Portuguese-speaking countries, “Terça-feira de Carnaval”, in German “Faschingsdienstag”) or “Fat Tuesday” (in Portuguese-speaking countries “Terça-feira Gorda”, in French-speaking countries, “Mardi Gras,” in Italian-speaking countries, “Martedì Grasso”).
The term “Shrove Tuesday” is not widely known in the United States[9][10], especially in those regions that celebrate Mardi Gras on the day before Ash Wednesday.
Pancake Races
On Pancake Day, pancake races are held in villages and towns across the United Kingdom. In 1634 William Fennor wrote in his Palinodia:
“And tosse their Pancakes up for feare they burne.”
But the tradition of pancake racing had started long before that. The most famous pancake race, at Olney in Buckinghamshire, has been held since 1445. The contestants, traditionally women, carry a frying pan (skillet) and race to the finishing line tossing the pancakes as they go. As the pancakes are thin, some skill is required to toss them successfully while running. The winner is the first to cross the line having tossed the pancake a certain number of times.
Discover more Dorset traditions in the book ‘Dark Dorset Calendar Customs’, by Robert Newland, now available at Amazon.co.uk. Visit the Dark Dorset website, http://www.darkdorset.co.uk or blog http://darkdorset.blogspot.com
and open the door to a world of fascinating folklore and legends.
Duration : 0:2:24
Obama Holds Father’s Day Events at White House
President Barack Obama is touting responsible fatherhood at a series of White House events ahead of Father’s Day. (June 19)
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