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The Geography of a Woman

2008-09-04T23:07:00.000+05:30

Between the ages of 18 - 21 a woman is like Africa or Australia. She is half discovered, half wild and naturally beautiful with bushland around the fertile deltas.

Between the ages of 21 - 30 a woman is like America or Japan. Completely discovered, very well developed and open to trade especially with countries with cash or cars.
Between the ages of 30 - 35, she is like India or Spain. Very hot, relaxed and convinced of its own beauty.
Between the ages of 35 - 40 a woman is like France or Argentina. She may have been half destroyed during the war but can still be a warm and desirable place to visit.
Between the ages of 40 - 50 she is like Yugoslavia or Iraq. She lost the war and is haunted by past mistakes. Massive reconstruction is now necessary.
Between the ages of 50 - 60 she is like Russia or Canada. Very wide, quiet and the borders are practically unpatrolled but the frigid climate keeps people away.
Between the ages of 60 - 70 a woman is like England or Mongolia. With a glorious and all conquering past but alas no future
After 70, they become Albania or Afghanistan. Everyone knows where it is, but no one wants to go there.

Zombie March:Boston, USA

2008-08-04T09:03:00.000+05:30

Zombie March:Boston, USA

For the third straight year, Bostonians dressed as zombies marched from Boston to Cambridge's Harvard Square in what organizers call a non-political, no-agenda good time.

Rapa Das Bestas: Spain

2008-07-04T11:10:00.000+05:30

Rapa Das Bestas: Spain

Since the Bronze Age, Galicians have been taming wild horses. On the first weekend of the month of July, hundreds of wild horses are rounded up by expert stockbreeders, known as agarradores, then trimmed and groomed.

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Ivana Kupala Night: Belarus

2008-06-04T11:01:00.000+05:30

Ivana Kupala Night: Belarus

On the night of this pagan festival, celebrated on July 7, the Gregorian summer solstice, young women don wreathes and celebrants jump through fire and swim naked. The rites are connected to ancient beliefs about fertility and autopurification.

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The Summer Redneck Games: Georgia

2008-05-04T10:29:00.000+05:30

The Summer Redneck Games: Georgia

L-bow, the official mascot of the Summer Redneck Games, poses next to the mud pit with the festival's ceremonial torch. Started in 1996 as a spoof of the summer Olympics held in Atlanta, the Games feature bobbing for pigs feet, hub cap hurling and the Redneck mud pit belly-flop contest

The Battle of the Oranges, Ivrea, Italy

2008-04-04T07:31:00.000+05:30

The Battle of the Oranges, Ivrea, Italy

The origins of this festival are not well understood, particularly because oranges do not grow in the Alps of Italy, where the town is located. One legend has it that the Battle commemorates a popular rebellion of the 13th century, when the local poor deemed the largess of their feudal lord as inadequate, and threw it back in his face.

Tapati Festival: Chile

2008-03-04T08:48:00.000+05:30

A week-long festival begun in the 1970s in an effort to drum up more tourism, Tapati includes a triathlon in which native participates run around the lake of the Rano Raraku vulcano carrying a large bunch of bananas.

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Hadaka Matsuri, The Naked Festival: Japan

2007-09-02T11:32:00.000+05:30

Hadaka Matsuri, The Naked Festival: Japan

Hidden somewhere in the midst of all these men in loincloths is one fully naked man. Touching him is believed to bring good luck and happiness.

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The Monkey Buffet: Thailand

2007-09-02T11:26:00.001+05:30

The Monkey Buffet: Thailand

Monkeys sit on a tourist's shoulders during the annual Monkey Buffet Festival at the Pra Prang Sam Yot temple in Lopburi province, 150km (94 miles) north of Bangkok, November 26, 2006. More than 2,000kg of fruits and vegetables were used during the festival to promote tourism

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Festival of Falconry: England

2007-09-02T10:48:00.000+05:30

Festival of Falconry: England

Bird-of-prey handlers from Turkmenistan hold falcons at the first Festival of Falconry. Bird keepers from all over the world attended the event to highlight the popularity and importance of the sport worldwide.

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The Chap & Hendrick's Olympics: England

2007-09-02T10:43:00.000+05:30

The Chap & Hendrick's Olympics: England

A series of tongue-in-cheek competitions for traditional gentlemen who are against the vulgarity of modern culture, this festival includes events such as mixing dry martinis, the three-trousered limbo and a pipe relay.

La Tomatina, Bunol, Spain

2007-09-02T07:25:00.000+05:30

La Tomatina, Bunol, Spain:

Every year the 9000 inhabitants of the tiny village of Bunyol find their population has quadrupled overnight as a multitude of enthusiasts turn up for the largest tomato fight on the planet. It's the opportunity of a lifetime - let battle commence!
By 11am the 30,000-strong army are well breakfasted on pancetta, chorizo and lots of rosé and have been prepared for action by copious soakings. Five bulbous, tomato-packed rockets are sent whistling into the skies and the masses launch into a frenzy of flinging, slinging and lobbing - it's every man and woman for themselves.
There are very few rules in La Tomatina - it is compulsory to squish your tomato before sending it into the red blur of the crowd before you, and other projectiles are not allowed. Don't worry about running out of ammunition because there's a monumental 125,000 kilo arsenal of ripe fruit. Participants have two hours in which to hurl them at what will be, for that brief time, thousands of enemies.
The aftermath of La Tomatina puts any blood-injected, horror-film set to shame. Don't count on recognising your mates, or them recognising you for that matter. Within hours, though, the town is transformed back to its former self. Shopkeepers take down their tarpaulins and everyone chips in to hose down the town and return it to its former "tomato-less" glory.
So how on earth did this gastronomically obscure tradition start? There is no patron saint of tomatoes or miraculous explanation of a tomato ritual, whereby locals beseech the gods for good weather and fortune for next year's harvest. It so happens the tradition was born way back in 1945 when some locals got carried away in a restaurant food fight. It must be the sheer fun of it that led to the "small-time" altercation taking on such epic proportions. The original disruptive diners must be very proud.

Annual tomato fight in Colombia

2007-09-02T07:18:00.000+05:30

Annual tomato fight in Colombia:

Beggar and Billinear

2007-08-27T10:44:00.000+05:30

Voilence - Non Voilence

2007-08-26T09:50:00.000+05:30

Mother N Hitler

2007-08-25T00:11:00.000+05:30

Alaska N Africa

2007-08-23T00:41:00.000+05:30

Handicapped - Healthy

2007-08-10T00:40:00.000+05:30

water

2007-08-10T00:03:00.000+05:30

hair

2007-08-09T23:31:00.000+05:30

Slim and Fat

2007-08-07T12:15:00.000+05:30

Sales Woman - Sales Girl

2007-08-07T00:47:00.000+05:30

Smile N Cry

2007-08-07T00:23:00.000+05:30

Bikini N Saree

2007-08-06T08:02:00.000+05:30

Huts and Buildings

2007-08-06T05:22:00.000+05:30

Classrooms

2007-08-05T20:29:00.001+05:30

Cart N Car

2007-08-05T20:09:00.000+05:30

Short and Tall

2007-08-05T17:27:00.000+05:30

Black and White

2007-08-05T16:27:00.000+05:30

Black and White

2007-08-03T00:23:00.000+05:30

Blind and Normal

2007-08-01T23:49:00.000+05:30