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World’s Largest Hot Air Balloon Festival

The hot air balloons festival was started in 1989. Recently, in France a new world record was set for balloons in a line prepared for take off. A total of 329 balloons were counted in two lines. In an area of 500 acres, in the heart of Lorraine Nature Park, the event site is organized around the launch field And how beautiful it looked when they took off!

Over 40,000 people from around the world gathered in the town of Bunol, Spain, on Aug. 31 to participate in red food fight (The La Tomatina Festival). Just jump down to see an amusing collection of photos from this year’s event.

Bizarre and Weird Roswell UFO incident was the alleged recovery of extra-terrestrial debris, including alien corpses, from an object which crashed near Roswell, New Mexico, USA, on or about July 8, 1947. Since the late 1970s the incident has been the subject of intense controversy and the subject of conspiracy theories as to the true nature of the object which crashed. The United States military maintains that what was actually recovered was debris from an experimental high-altitude surveillance balloon belonging to a classified program named “Mogul”; however, many UFO proponents maintain that in fact a crashed alien craft and bodies were recovered, and that the military then engaged in a cover-up. Roswell UFO Festival celebration involves an alien costume parade, an alien hot air balloon ride and an alien parade as well. Roswell UFO festival 2010 is scheduled on 1-4 July 2010.

New Years Firework Displays and Shows Worldwide

Cataloged here are some of the best New Years Fireworks display locations that were captured from the major cities and popular destinations across the world. It is a holiday that is celebrated by all cultures, and the Gregorian calender date of January 1st is synonymous with partying hard!

Beauty of Lights - Latern Festival in China

The Latern Festival is an old tradition festival of Chinese. In this day, there will be parades of lanterns everywhere. People will get together with their family and eat Tang-yuan, a dumpling made of sweet rice. It is an important day for Chinese people.

The Lantern Festival falls on the 15th day of the 1st lunar month, usually in February or March on the Gregorian calendar. As early as the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 25), it had become a festival with great significance.

In other places of World this festival has its own name and celebrated all around the world, Diwali in India,Chaharshanbe Suri in Persia, Hanukkah is same Jewish festival and Fête des lumières is a french local tradition

Brighton Festival

The Brighton Festival is an annual arts festival which takes place in the city of Brighton and Hove in England each May.

The festival includes organised processions such as the Children's Parade, outdoor spectaculars often involving pyrotechnics, and a great deal of theatre, music, literature and visual arts in venues throughout the city, some of which are brought into this use exclusively for the festival.

One feature of the festival is the Artists Open House concept, whereby artists and craftspeople literally open up their houses for the public to view or buy their work.

Living Statues Contest - 2010

There is an annual competition for such performers at Arnhem in the Netherlands. Also, the U.S. city of Laguna Beach, California, is home to the annual Pageant of the Masters show which is created by local amateur volunteers as part of the city's Festival of the Arts. The show presents living statue recreations of several dozen famous artworks in one evening. The show is set to classical music and about two minutes are allocated per artwork. In Portugal, the city of Espinho organizes since 1997 a living statues contest, the Sunday of June near the 16 (the municipal holiday).

Epcot Center in Orlando, Florida has hosted interactive examples of living statues from Unity Productions since April 1995.

At concerts for The Dresden Dolls, there are often living statues, as the lead singer/pianist Amanda Palmer was a living statue before starting The Dresden Dolls.

Festival of San Fermín

The festival of San Fermín is most famous event is the encierro, or the running of the bulls, the week-long celebration involves many other traditional and folkloric events, locally known as Sanfermines.