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Harvest festival

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A harvest festival is an annual celebration that occurs around the time of the main harvest of a given region. [1]

56 relations: All Things Bright and Beautiful, BBC, Brooke, Norfolk, Canada, Chapel, Church (building), Church of England, Come, Ye Thankful People, Come, Corn dolly, Cornwall, Croydon, Crying the Neck, Developing country, Dictionary of National Biography, Dożynki, Elton, Cambridgeshire, Encyclopædia Britannica, Eucharist, Federation of Old Cornwall Societies, Festival, Food, Fruit, Full moon, Harvest, Holi, Horkey, Hymn, Lammas, List of harvest festivals, Lohri, Makar Sankranti, Matthew Parker, Mehregan, Mid-Autumn Festival, Morwenstow, Nabanna, North America, Old English, Onam, Paganism, Piers Claughton, Pilgrims (Plymouth Colony), Prayer, Psalms, Robert Stephen Hawker, Summer's Last Will and Testament, Thai Pongal, Thanksgiving, Thomas Nashe, United Kingdom, ..., United States, Uttarayana, Vaisakhi, Victorian era, We Plough the Fields and Scatter, William Beal (writer). Expand index (6 more) »

All Things Bright and Beautiful

All Things Bright and Beautiful is an Anglican hymn, also popular with other Christian denominations.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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Brooke, Norfolk

Brooke is a village and civil parish in the South Norfolk district of Norfolk, England, about 7 miles south of Norwich and roughly equidistant from Norwich and Bungay.

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Canada

Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.

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Chapel

The term chapel usually refers to a Christian place of prayer and worship that is attached to a larger, often nonreligious institution or that is considered an extension of a primary religious institution.

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Church (building)

A church building or church house, often simply called a church, is a building used for Christian religious activities, particularly for worship services.

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Church of England

The Church of England (C of E) is the state church of England.

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Come, Ye Thankful People, Come

"Come, Ye Thankful People, Come" is an English Christian harvest festival hymn written in 1844 by Henry Alford.

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Corn dolly

Corn dollies or corn mothers are a form of straw work made as part of harvest customs of Europe before mechanization.

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Cornwall

Cornwall (Kernow) is a county in South West England in the United Kingdom.

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Croydon

Croydon is a large town in south London, England, south of Charing Cross.

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Crying the Neck

Crying The Neck is a harvest festival tradition once common in counties of Devon and Cornwall in the United Kingdom.

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Developing country

A developing country (or a low and middle income country (LMIC), less developed country, less economically developed country (LEDC), underdeveloped country) is a country with a less developed industrial base and a low Human Development Index (HDI) relative to other countries.

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Dictionary of National Biography

The Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) is a standard work of reference on notable figures from British history, published from 1885.

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Dożynki

Dożynki (Dozhinki, Obzhynky, Dożynki, Obzhynki; Прачыстая, Prachystaya; Dožínky, Obžinky; Òżniwinë; Dormition) is a Slavic harvest festival.

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Elton, Cambridgeshire

Elton is a village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England.

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Encyclopædia Britannica

The Encyclopædia Britannica (Latin for "British Encyclopaedia"), published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.

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Eucharist

The Eucharist (also called Holy Communion or the Lord's Supper, among other names) is a Christian rite that is considered a sacrament in most churches and an ordinance in others.

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Federation of Old Cornwall Societies

The Federation of Old Cornwall Societies (FOCS) was formed in 1924, on the initiative of Robert Morton Nance, with the objective of collecting and maintaining "all those ancient things that make the spirit of Cornwall — its traditions, its old words and ways, and what remains to it of its Celtic language and nationality".

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Festival

A festival is an event ordinarily celebrated by a community and centering on some characteristic aspect of that community and its religion or cultures.

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Food

Food is any substance consumed to provide nutritional support for an organism.

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Fruit

In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants (also known as angiosperms) formed from the ovary after flowering.

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Full moon

The full moon is the lunar phase when the Moon appears fully illuminated from Earth's perspective.

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Harvest

Harvesting is the process of gathering a ripe crop from the fields.

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Holi

Holi (Holī), also known as the "festival of colours", is a spring festival celebrated all across the Indian subcontinent as well as in countries with large Indian subcontinent diaspora populations such as Jamaica, Suriname, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, South Africa, Malaysia, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Mauritius, and Fiji.

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Horkey

The name horkey was applied to end of harvest customs and celebrations, especially in the Eastern Counties of England, although the word occurred elsewhere in England and also Ireland.

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Hymn

A hymn is a type of song, usually religious, specifically written for the purpose of adoration or prayer, and typically addressed to a deity or deities, or to a prominent figure or personification.

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Lammas

Lammas Day (Anglo-Saxon hlaf-mas, "loaf-mass"), is a holiday celebrated in some English-speaking countries in the Northern Hemisphere, usually between 1 August and 1 September.

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List of harvest festivals

This is a list of harvest festivals around the world.

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Lohri

Lohri is a popular winter time Punjabi folk festival, celebrated primarily by Sikhs and Hindus from the Punjab region of Indian subcontinent.

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Makar Sankranti

Makar Sankranti, also known as Makara Sankrānti (Sanskrit: मकर सङ्क्रान्ति) or Maghi, is a festival day in the Hindu calendar, in reference to deity Surya (sun).

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Matthew Parker

Matthew Parker (6 August 1504 – 17 May 1575) was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1559 until his death in 1575.

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Mehregan

Mehregān (مهرگان or Jašn-e Mehr جشن مهر Mithra Festival) is a Zoroastrian and Persian festival celebrated to honor the yazata Mithra (Mehr), which is responsible for friendship, affection and love.

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Mid-Autumn Festival

The Mid-Autumn Festival is a harvest festival celebrated notably by ethnic Chinese and Vietnamese peoples.

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Morwenstow

Morwenstow (Logmorwenna) is a civil parish in north Cornwall, England.

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Nabanna

Nabanna (নবান্ন, Nabānna; lit: new Feast) is a Bengali harvest celebration usually celebrated with food and dance and music in Bangladesh and in the Indian State of West Bengal.

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North America

North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere; it is also considered by some to be a northern subcontinent of the Americas.

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Old English

Old English (Ænglisc, Anglisc, Englisc), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest historical form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages.

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Onam

Onam is an annual Hindu festival with origins in the state of Kerala in India.

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Paganism

Paganism is a term first used in the fourth century by early Christians for populations of the Roman Empire who practiced polytheism, either because they were increasingly rural and provincial relative to the Christian population or because they were not milites Christi (soldiers of Christ).

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Piers Claughton

The Rt Rev. Piers Calveley Claughton, DD (8 June 1814 – 11 August 1884) was an Anglican colonial bishop and author in the second half of the nineteenth century.

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Pilgrims (Plymouth Colony)

The Pilgrims or Pilgrim Fathers were early European settlers of the Plymouth Colony in present-day Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States.

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Prayer

Prayer is an invocation or act that seeks to activate a rapport with an object of worship, typically a deity, through deliberate communication.

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Psalms

The Book of Psalms (תְּהִלִּים or, Tehillim, "praises"), commonly referred to simply as Psalms or "the Psalms", is the first book of the Ketuvim ("Writings"), the third section of the Hebrew Bible, and a book of the Christian Old Testament.

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Robert Stephen Hawker

Robert Stephen Hawker (1803–1875) was an Anglican priest, poet, antiquarian of Cornwall and reputed eccentric.

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Summer's Last Will and Testament

Summer's Last Will and Testament is an Elizabethan stage play, a comedy written by Thomas Nashe.

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Thai Pongal

Thai Pongal (தைப்பொங்கல்)is a harvest festival dedicated to the Sun God.

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Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Day is a national holiday celebrated in Canada, the United States, some of the Caribbean islands, and Liberia.

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Thomas Nashe

Thomas Nashe (baptised November 1567 – c. 1601) is considered the greatest of the English Elizabethan pamphleteers.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Uttarayana

The Surya Siddhanta defines Uttarāyaṇa or Uttarayan as the period between the Makara Sankranti (which currently occurs around January 14) and Karka Sankranti (which currently occurs around July 16).

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Vaisakhi

Vaisakhi (IAST), also known as Baisakhi, Vaishakhi, or Vasakhi is a historical and religious festival in Sikhism and Hinduism.

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Victorian era

In the history of the United Kingdom, the Victorian era was the period of Queen Victoria's reign, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901.

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We Plough the Fields and Scatter

"We Plough the Fields and Scatter" is a hymn of German origin commonly associated with harvest festival.

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William Beal (writer)

William Beal (9 September 1815, Sheffield – 20 April 1870, Aigle, Switzerland) was an English religious writer.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvest_festival

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