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Burning Man

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Burning Man is an annual event in the western United States at Black Rock City – a temporary city erected in the Black Rock Desert of northwest Nevada, approximately north-northeast of Reno. [1]

171 relations: Adpositional phrase, AfrikaBurn, Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, Airport, All the world's a stage, Apogaea, Arcosanti, Armin van Buuren, Art destruction, Assumption of risk, Auroville, Bad Day at Black Rock, Baker Beach, Barter, Bearing (navigation), BenBella Books, Biodiesel, Black Rock City, LLC, Black Rock Desert, Blazed and Confused, Blazing Swan, Bonfire, Bureau of Land Management, Burn Clean Project, Burning Flipside, Cacophony Society, California courts of appeal, Candy Chang, Carbon offset, Cargo cult, Carl Cox, CNBC, CNN, Coffee, Common traffic advisory frequency, Community, Coon vs. Coon and Friends, Cory Doctorow, Creative Commons, Cthulhu, Cult film, Current TV, Dada, Daniel Pinchbeck, David Best (sculptor), Decommodification, Diplo, Disc jockey, Dry lake, Duane Flatmo, ..., Dust & Illusions, Electroluminescent wire, Electronic dance music, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Electronic music, Elon Musk, Emergency medical services, Emergency medical technician, Emmy Award, Emotional expression, Empire, Nevada, Eric Cartman, Federal Aviation Administration, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Firefighting, Firefly Arts Collective, Fossil fuel, François Kevorkian, Freq Nasty, Fusion Festival, Gerlach, Nevada, Gift, Gift economy, Google Doodle, Green Tortoise, Greywater, Hitchhiking, Holika Dahan, Hollywood, Homeland (Doctorow novel), Hualapai Flat, Ice, Interstate 80 in Nevada, Jack Ü, Jean-Michel Jarre, John Frum, John Law (Burning Man), Kiwiburn, Labor Day, Larry Harvey, Leave No Trace, Lemonade, Leo Villareal, Leonardo da Vinci, Limited liability company, List of the busiest airports in the United States, Lohri, Malcolm in the Middle, Marco Cochrane, Mark Grieve, Markus Schulz, Masala chai, Midburn, Mobile army surgical hospital (United States), Money (magazine), Mountain bike, Nevada, Nevada State Route 34, Nevada State Route 447, Nonprofit organization, Nontransporting EMS vehicle, Nowhere (event), Numerical control, Paramedic, Park ranger, Pershing County, Nevada, Phonograph record, Photovoltaic system, Playa del Fuego, Police, Potlatch, Public nudity, Radio frequency, Rave, Reno, Nevada, Reno–Tahoe International Airport, Road bicycle, Road traffic control, Runway, Saint John's Eve, San Francisco, San Francisco Bay Area, San Francisco County Superior Court, San Francisco International Airport, Sculpture, Sechseläuten, Sectional chart, Self-sustainability, Sierra Club, Silicon Valley, Single carriageway, Situationist International, Skrillex, Social exclusion, Solstice, South Park, Spark: A Burning Man Story, Stock market crash, Summary judgment, Taking My Parents to Burning Man, Temporary Autonomous Zone, Tesla, Inc., The A.V. Club, The Guardian, The Simpsons, The Wicker Man, Transformational festival, Transformus, UNICOM, United States, Vijayadashami, Visionary art, Vitruvian Man, Wadsworth, Nevada, Washoe County, Nevada, Watch Dogs 2, Western United States, Wicker man, Wired (magazine), Xavier: Renegade Angel, Zaragoza. Expand index (121 more) »

Adpositional phrase

An adpositional phrase, in linguistics, is a syntactic category that includes prepositional phrases, postpositional phrases, and circumpositional phrases.

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AfrikaBurn

AfrikaBurn is an official Burning Man regional event, held annually in the Tankwa Karoo National Park in South Africa since 2007.

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Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association

The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) is a Frederick, Maryland-based American non-profit political organization that advocates for general aviation.

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Airport

An airport is an aerodrome with extended facilities, mostly for commercial air transport.

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All the world's a stage

"All the world's a stage" is the phrase that begins a monologue from William Shakespeare's As You Like It, spoken by the melancholy Jaques in Act II Scene VII.

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Apogaea

Apogaea (meaning "far from Earth") is an annual collaborative outdoor arts and music festival held as a Colorado regional counterpart for the Burning Man event.

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Arcosanti

Arcosanti is a projected experimental town with a molten bronze bell casting business in Yavapai County, central Arizona, 70 mi (110 km) north of Phoenix, at an elevation of 3,732 feet (1,130 metres).

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Armin van Buuren

Armin van Buuren OON (born 25 December 1976) is a Dutch DJ, record producer and remixer from South Holland.

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Art destruction

Art destruction involves the damaging or destruction of works of art.

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Assumption of risk

Assumption of risk is a defense in the law of torts, which bars or reduces a plaintiff's right to recovery against a negligent tortfeasor if the defendant can demonstrate that the plaintiff voluntarily and knowingly assumed the risks at issue inherent to the dangerous activity in which he was participating at the time of his or her injury.

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Auroville

Auroville (City of Dawn) is an experimental township in Viluppuram district mostly in the state of Tamil Nadu, India with some parts in the Union Territory of Puducherry in South India.

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Bad Day at Black Rock

Bad Day at Black Rock is a 1955 American thriller film in Eastmancolor and CinemaScope, directed by John Sturges and starring Spencer Tracy and Robert Ryan that combines elements of the western genre with that of film noir.

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Baker Beach

Baker Beach is a public beach on the peninsula of San Francisco, California, U.S..

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Barter

In trade, barter is a system of exchange where participants in a transaction directly exchange goods or services for other goods or services without using a medium of exchange, such as money.

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Bearing (navigation)

In navigation bearing may refer, depending on the context, to any of: (A) the direction or course of motion itself; (B) the direction of a distant object relative to the current course (or the "change" in course that would be needed to get to that distant object); or (C), the angle away from North of a distant point as observed at the current point.

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BenBella Books

BenBella Books is an independent publishing house based in Dallas, Texas.

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Biodiesel

Biodiesel refers to a vegetable oil- or animal fat-based diesel fuel consisting of long-chain alkyl (methyl, ethyl, or propyl) esters.

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Black Rock City, LLC

Black Rock City LLC is the company that organizes the annual Burning Man event ending on Labor Day, on the dry lake of the Black Rock Desert in northwestern Nevada.

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Black Rock Desert

The Black Rock Desert is a semi-arid region (in the Great Basin shrub steppe eco-region), of lava beds and playa, or alkali flats, situated in the Black Rock Desert–High Rock Canyon Emigrant Trails National Conservation Area, a silt playa north of Reno, Nevada that encompasses more than of land and contains more than of historic trails.

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Blazed and Confused

"Blazed and Confused" is the seventh episode of The Simpsons' 26th season, and 559th episode in total.

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Blazing Swan

Blazing Swan is an annual regional Burning Man event held near Jilakin Lake in the Shire of Kulin, Western Australia.

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Bonfire

A bonfire is a large but controlled outdoor fire, used either for informal disposal of burnable waste material or as part of a celebration.

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Bureau of Land Management

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is an agency within the United States Department of the Interior that administers more than of public lands in the United States which constitutes one-eighth of the landmass of the country.

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Burn Clean Project

The Burn Clean Project is a volunteer organization providing sustainable energy solutions for the Burning Man festival in Black Rock Desert.

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Burning Flipside

Burning Flipside (or Flipside) is an annual effigy burn, display of creative arts, and self-expression of performances staged in Central Texas near Austin.

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Cacophony Society

The Cacophony Society is "a randomly gathered network of free spirits united in the pursuit of experiences beyond the pale of mainstream society.” It was started in 1986 by surviving members of the now defunct Suicide Club of San Francisco.

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California courts of appeal

The California courts of appeal are the state intermediate appellate courts in the U.S. state of California.

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Candy Chang

Candy Chang, born in November 10, 1989 in Hong Kong, won Miss Chinese Toronto in 2009, and Miss Chinese International Pageant 2010 second runner-up.

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Carbon offset

A carbon offset is a reduction in emissions of carbon dioxide or greenhouse gases made in order to compensate for or to offset an emission made elsewhere.

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Cargo cult

A cargo cult is a millenarian movement first described in Melanesia which encompasses a range of practices and occurs in the wake of contact with more technologically advanced societies.

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Carl Cox

Carl Cox (born 29 July 1962) is a British DJ, and house and techno producer.

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CNBC

CNBC is an American basic cable, internet and satellite business news television channel that is owned by NBCUniversal News Group, a division of NBCUniversal, with both being ultimately owned by Comcast.

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CNN

Cable News Network (CNN) is an American basic cable and satellite television news channel and an independent subsidiary of AT&T's WarnerMedia.

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Coffee

Coffee is a brewed drink prepared from roasted coffee beans, which are the seeds of berries from the Coffea plant.

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Common traffic advisory frequency

Common traffic advisory frequency (CTAF) is the name given to the VHF radio frequency used for air-to-air communication at US, Canadian and Australian non-towered airports.

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Community

A community is a small or large social unit (a group of living things) that has something in common, such as norms, religion, values, or identity.

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Coon vs. Coon and Friends

"Coon vs.

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Cory Doctorow

Cory Efram Doctorow (born July 17, 1971) is a Canadian-British on his wife, Alice Taylor's Twitter stream, 12 August 2011 blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who serves as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing.

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Creative Commons

Creative Commons (CC) is an American non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share.

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Cthulhu

Cthulhu is a cosmic entity created by writer H. P. Lovecraft and first introduced in the short story "The Call of Cthulhu", published in the American pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1928.

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Cult film

A cult film or cult movie, also commonly referred to as a cult classic, is a film that has acquired a cult following.

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Current TV

Current TV was an American television channel from August 1, 2005 to August 20, 2013.

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Dada

Dada or Dadaism was an art movement of the European avant-garde in the early 20th century, with early centers in Zürich, Switzerland, at the Cabaret Voltaire (circa 1916); New York Dada began circa 1915, and after 1920 Dada flourished in Paris.

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Daniel Pinchbeck

Daniel Pinchbeck (born 15 June 1966) is an American author living in New York's East Village.

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David Best (sculptor)

David Best (born 1945) is an internationally renowned American sculptor.

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Decommodification

Decommodification is the strength of social entitlements and citizens' degree of immunization from market dependency.

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Diplo

Thomas Wesley Pentz (born November 10, 1978), better known by his stage name Diplo, is an American music composer, DJ and record producer based in Los Angeles, California.

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Disc jockey

A disc jockey, often abbreviated as DJ, is a person who plays existing recorded music for a live audience.

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Dry lake

A dry lake is either a basin or depression that formerly contained a standing surface water body, which disappeared when evaporation processes exceeded recharge.

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Duane Flatmo

Duane Flatmo (born 1957) is an American artist best known for his murals, label art and kinetic art sculptures in northern California.

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Dust & Illusions

Dust & Illusions is a 2009 documentary film about Burning Man and its founders.

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Electroluminescent wire

Electroluminescent wire (often abbreviated as EL wire) is a thin copper wire coated in a phosphor which glows when an alternating current is applied to it.

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Electronic dance music

Electronic dance music (also known as EDM, dance music, club music, or simply dance) is a broad range of percussive electronic music genres made largely for nightclubs, raves, and festivals.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is an international non-profit digital rights group based in San Francisco, California.

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Electronic music

Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments and circuitry-based music technology.

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Elon Musk

Elon Reeve Musk (born June 28, 1971) is an American business magnate, investor and engineer.

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Emergency medical services

Emergency medical services, also known as ambulance services or paramedic services (abbreviated to the initialism EMS, EMAS, EMARS or SAMU in some countries), are a type of emergency service dedicated to providing out-of-hospital acute medical care, transport to definitive care, and other medical transport to patients with illnesses and injuries which prevent the patient from transporting themselves.

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Emergency medical technician

Emergency medical technician (EMT) and ambulance technician are terms used in some countries to denote a health care provider of emergency medical services.

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Emmy Award

An Emmy Award, or simply Emmy, is an American award that recognizes excellence in the television industry, and is the equivalent of an Academy Award (for film), the Tony Award (for theater), and the Grammy Award (for music).

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Emotional expression

Emotional expressions in psychology are.

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Empire, Nevada

Empire is a census-designated place (CDP) and Ghost town in Washoe County, Nevada, United States.

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Eric Cartman

Eric Theodore Cartman, often referred to as just Cartman, is a main character in the animated television series South Park, created by Matt Stone and Trey Parker, and voiced by Trey Parker.

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Federal Aviation Administration

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) of the United States is a national authority with powers to regulate all aspects of civil aviation.

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Federal Bureau of Investigation

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), formerly the Bureau of Investigation (BOI), is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States, and its principal federal law enforcement agency.

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Firefighting

Firefighting is the act of attempting to prevent the spread of and extinguish significant unwanted fires in buildings, vehicles, woodlands, etc.

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Firefly Arts Collective

Firefly Arts Collective is an American non-profit organization that facilitates the annual New England regional burner festival 'Firefly'.

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Fossil fuel

A fossil fuel is a fuel formed by natural processes, such as anaerobic decomposition of buried dead organisms, containing energy originating in ancient photosynthesis.

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François Kevorkian

François Kevorkian, alias François K (born 10 January 1954), is a French DJ of Armenian origin, remixer, producer and record label owner.

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Freq Nasty

Darin McFayden, better known by his stage name FreQ Nasty, is a DJ and producer of breakbeat electronic music based in Los Angeles, California.

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Fusion Festival

The Fusion Festival is a music and arts festival with a countercultural character.

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Gerlach, Nevada

Gerlach, Nevada is a census-designated place (CDP) in Washoe County, Nevada, United States.

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Gift

A gift or a present is an item given to someone without the expectation of payment or return.

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Gift economy

A gift economy, gift culture, or gift exchange is a mode of exchange where valuables are not traded or sold, but rather given without an explicit agreement for immediate or future rewards.

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Google Doodle

A Google Doodle is a special, temporary alteration of the logo on Google's homepages that commemorates holidays, events, achievements, and people.

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Green Tortoise

Green Tortoise Adventure Travel is an American long-distance tour bus company founded by Gardner Kent in mid-1973 and based in San Francisco, California.

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Greywater

Greywater (also spelled graywater, grey water and gray water) or sullage is all wastewater generated in households or office buildings from streams without fecal contamination, i.e. all streams except for the wastewater from toilets.

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Hitchhiking

Hitchhiking (also known as thumbing, hitching, or autostop) is a means of transportation that is gained by asking people, usually strangers, for a ride in their automobile or other vehicle.

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Holika Dahan

Holika Dahan also Kamudu pyre is celebrated by burning Holika, the devil.

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Hollywood

Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California.

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Homeland (Doctorow novel)

Homeland is a novel by Cory Doctorow, published by Tor Books.

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Hualapai Flat

Hualapai Flat (pronounced "wall-a-pie") is a valley in northwestern Nevada, USA, located northwest of the Black Rock Desert.

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Ice

Ice is water frozen into a solid state.

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Interstate 80 in Nevada

Interstate 80 (I-80) traverses the northern portion of the U.S. state of Nevada.

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Jack Ü

Jack Ü is an American EDM DJ duo, side group and collaborative project consisting of electronic music producers Skrillex and Diplo formed in 2013.

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Jean-Michel Jarre

Jean-Michel André Jarre (born 24 August 1948) is a French composer, performer and record producer.

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John Frum

John Frum (also called John Brum, Jon Frum, or John From) is a figure associated with cargo cults on the island of Tanna in Vanuatu.

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John Law (Burning Man)

John Law is an American artist, culture-jammer, and co-founder of the Cacophony Society and a member of the Suicide Club.

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Kiwiburn

Kiwiburn is a regional Burning Man event celebrating principles such as inclusion, radical self-expression, gifting, participative art and culture.

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Labor Day

Labor Day in the United States is a public holiday celebrated on the first Monday in September.

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Larry Harvey

Larry Harvey (January 11, 1948 – April 28, 2018) was an American artist, philanthropist and activist.

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Leave No Trace

Leave No Trace is a set of outdoor ethics promoting conservation in the outdoors.

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Lemonade

Lemonade can be any one of a variety of sweetened beverages found throughout the world, but which are all characterized by a lemon flavor.

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Leo Villareal

Leo Villareal (born 1967 in Albuquerque, New Mexico) is an American artist living and working in New York City.

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Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 14522 May 1519), more commonly Leonardo da Vinci or simply Leonardo, was an Italian polymath of the Renaissance, whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography.

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Limited liability company

A limited liability company (LLC) is the United States of America-specific form of a private limited company.

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List of the busiest airports in the United States

These are lists of the busiest airports in the United States, based on various ranking criteria.

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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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Malcolm in the Middle

Malcolm in the Middle is an American television sitcom created by Linwood Boomer for the Fox Broadcasting Company.

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Marco Cochrane

Marco Cochrane (born 1962) is an American sculptor born in Venice, Italy, best known for his large-scale steel sculptures of nude women.

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Mark Grieve

Mark Grieve (born July 1965) is a contemporary American artist.

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Markus Schulz

Markus Schulz (born 3 February 1975), is a German-American DJ and music producer based in Miami, Florida.

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Masala chai

Masala chai (मसाला चाय, literally "mixed-spice tea") is a flavoured tea beverage made by brewing black tea with a mixture of aromatic Indian spices and herbs.

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Midburn

Midburn (Hebrew: מידברן; Arabic: ميدبيرن) is a 6-day event held in the Negev Desert in southern Israel.

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Mobile army surgical hospital (United States)

The Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) refers to a United States Army medical unit serving as a fully functional hospital in a combat area of operations.

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Money (magazine)

Money is a magazine that is published by Meredith Corporation.

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Mountain bike

A mountain bike or mountain bicycle (abbreviated Mtn Bike or MTB) is a bicycle designed for off-road cycling.

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Nevada

Nevada (see pronunciations) is a state in the Western, Mountain West, and Southwestern regions of the United States of America.

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Nevada State Route 34

Former SR 34 is a signed decommissioned State highway in Nevada from prior to the state's highway restructuring in 1978.

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Nevada State Route 447

State Route 447 (SR 447) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Nevada.

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Nonprofit organization

A non-profit organization (NPO), also known as a non-business entity or non-profit institution, is dedicated to furthering a particular social cause or advocating for a shared point of view.

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Nontransporting EMS vehicle

A nontransporting EMS vehicle, (also known by a variety of local names including fly-car and variations on response vehicle), is an emergency medical service (EMS) vehicle that responds to emergencies, but is not designed to transport a patient.

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Nowhere (event)

Nowhere is a European arts-based event inspired by Burning Man.

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Numerical control

Computer numerical control (CNC) is the automation of machine tools by means of computers executing pre-programmed sequences of machine control commands.

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Paramedic

A paramedic is a healthcare professional who responds to medical emergencies outside of a hospital.

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Park ranger

A park ranger, park warden, or forest ranger is a person entrusted with protecting and preserving parklands – national, state, provincial, or local parks.

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Pershing County, Nevada

Pershing County is a county in the U.S. state of Nevada.

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Phonograph record

A phonograph record (also known as a gramophone record, especially in British English, or record) is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove.

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Photovoltaic system

A photovoltaic system, also PV system or solar power system, is a power system designed to supply usable solar power by means of photovoltaics.

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Playa del Fuego

Playa del Fuego, also known as "PDF" by its participants, is a regional event inspired by the annual Burning Man festival in Nevada.

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Police

A police force is a constituted body of persons empowered by a state to enforce the law, to protect people and property, and to prevent crime and civil disorder.

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Potlatch

A potlatch is a gift-giving feast practiced by indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast of Canada and the United States,Harkin, Michael E., 2001, Potlatch in Anthropology, International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes, eds., vol 17, pp.

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Public nudity

Public nudity refers to nudity not in an entirely private context, that is, a person appearing nude in a public place or being able to be seen nude from a public place.

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Radio frequency

Radio frequency (RF) refers to oscillatory change in voltage or current in a circuit, waveguide or transmission line in the range extending from around twenty thousand times per second to around three hundred billion times per second, roughly between the upper limit of audio and the lower limit of infrared.

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Rave

A rave (from the verb: to rave) is an organized dance party at a nightclub, outdoor festival, warehouse, or other private property typically featuring performances by DJs, playing a seamless flow of electronic dance music.

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Reno, Nevada

Reno is a city in the U.S. state of Nevada, located in the western part of the state, approximately from Lake Tahoe.

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Reno–Tahoe International Airport

Reno–Tahoe International Airport is a public and military use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) southeast of downtown Reno, in Washoe County, Nevada.

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Road bicycle

The term road bicycle is used to describe bicycles built for traveling at speed on paved roads.

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Road traffic control

Road traffic control involves directing vehicular and pedestrian traffic around a construction zone, accident or other road disruption, thus ensuring the safety of emergency response teams, construction workers and the general public.

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Runway

According to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a runway is a "defined rectangular area on a land aerodrome prepared for the landing and takeoff of aircraft".

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Saint John's Eve

When the sun sets on 23 June, Saint John's Eve, is the eve of celebration before the Feast Day of Saint John the Baptist.

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San Francisco

San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.

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San Francisco Bay Area

The San Francisco Bay Area (popularly referred to as the Bay Area) is a populous region surrounding the San Francisco, San Pablo and Suisun estuaries in the northern part of the U.S. state of California.

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San Francisco County Superior Court

The San Francisco County Superior Court is a branch of the California Superior Court with jurisdiction over the City and County of San Francisco.

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San Francisco International Airport

San Francisco International Airport is an international airport south of downtown San Francisco, California, United States, near Millbrae and San Bruno in unincorporated San Mateo County.

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Sculpture

Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions.

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Sechseläuten

The Sechseläuten (Zürich German: Sächsilüüte) is a traditional spring holiday in the Swiss city of Zürich celebrated in its current form, usually on the 3rd Monday of April, since the early 20th century.

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Sectional chart

In United States aviation, a sectional chart, often called sectional for short, is a type of aeronautical chart designed for navigation under visual flight rules.

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Self-sustainability

Self-sustainability (also called self-sufficiency) is the state of not requiring any aid, support, or interaction for survival; it is a type of personal or collective autonomy.

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Sierra Club

The Sierra Club is an environmental organization in the United States.

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Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley (abbreviated as SV) is a region in the southern San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California, referring to the Santa Clara Valley, which serves as the global center for high technology, venture capital, innovation, and social media.

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Single carriageway

A single carriageway (British English) or undivided highway (American English) is a road with one, two or more lanes arranged within a single carriageway with no central reservation to separate opposing flows of traffic.

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Situationist International

The Situationist International (SI) was an international organization of social revolutionaries made up of avant-garde artists, intellectuals, and political theorists, prominent in Europe from its formation in 1957 to its dissolution in 1972.

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Skrillex

Sonny John Moore (born January 15, 1988), known professionally as Skrillex, is an American electronic dance music producer, DJ, singer, songwriter and musician.

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Social exclusion

Social exclusion, or social marginalization, is the social disadvantage and relegation to the fringe of society.

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Solstice

A solstice is an event occurring when the Sun appears to reach its most northerly or southerly excursion relative to the celestial equator on the celestial sphere.

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South Park

South Park is an American adult animated sitcom created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone and developed by Brian Graden for the Comedy Central television network.

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Spark: A Burning Man Story

Spark: A Burning Man Story is a 2013 independent documentary film with its world premiere at the South by Southwest film festival (SXSW) in Austin, Texas.

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Stock market crash

A stock market crash is a sudden dramatic decline of stock prices across a significant cross-section of a stock market, resulting in a significant loss of paper wealth.

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Summary judgment

In law, a summary judgment (also judgment as a matter of law) is a judgment entered by a court for one party and against another party summarily, i.e., without a full trial.

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Taking My Parents to Burning Man

Taking My Parents to Burning Man is a 2014 Canadian documentary film directed by Joel Ashton McCarthy and Bryant H. Boesen that follows the latter's adventures with his 60-year-old parents at the "infamous", annual Burning Man arts festival in Black Rock Desert.

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Temporary Autonomous Zone

T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone is a book by anarchist writer and poet Hakim Bey (Peter Lamborn Wilson) published in 1991 by Autonomedia and in 2011 by Pacific Publishing Studio.

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Tesla, Inc.

Tesla, Inc. (formerly Tesla Motors) was founded in 2003, and is an American multinational corporation based in Palo Alto, California, that specializes in electric vehicles, lithium-ion battery energy storage and solar panel manufacturing (through the subsidiary company SolarCity).

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The A.V. Club

The A.V. Club is an entertainment website featuring reviews, interviews, and other articles that examine films, music, television, books, games, and other elements of pop culture media.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Simpsons

The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company.

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The Wicker Man

The Wicker Man is a 1973 British mystery horror film directed by Robin Hardy.

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Transformational festival

A transformational festival is a counterculture festival that espouses a community-building ethic, and a value system that celebrates life, personal growth, social responsibility, healthy living, and creative expression.

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Transformus

Transformus is a regional Burning Man art festival hosted on Marvin's Mountaintop in Masontown, West Virginia.

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UNICOM

A UNICOM (universal communications) station is an air-ground communication facility operated by a non-air traffic control private agency to provide advisory service at uncontrolled aerodromes and airports and to provide various non-flight services, such as requesting a taxi, even at towered airports.

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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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Vijayadashami

Vijayadashami (IAST: Vijayadaśamī) also known as Dasara, Dusshera or Dussehra is a major Hindu festival celebrated at the end of Navratri every year.

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Visionary art

Visionary art is art that purports to transcend the physical world and portray a wider vision of awareness including spiritual or mystical themes, or is based in such experiences.

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Vitruvian Man

The Vitruvian Man (Le proporzioni del corpo umano secondo Vitruvio, which is translated to "The proportions of the human body according to Vitruvius"), or simply L'Uomo Vitruviano, is a drawing by Leonardo da Vinci around 1490.

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Wadsworth, Nevada

Wadsworth is a census-designated place (CDP) in Washoe County, Nevada, United States.

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Washoe County, Nevada

Washoe County is a county in the U.S. state of Nevada.

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Watch Dogs 2

Watch Dogs 2 (stylized as WATCH_DOGS 2) is an action-adventure video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft.

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Western United States

The Western United States, commonly referred to as the American West, the Far West, or simply the West, traditionally refers to the region comprising the westernmost states of the United States.

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Wicker man

A wicker man was a large wicker statue reportedly used by the ancient Druids (priests of Celtic paganism) for sacrifice by burning it in effigy.

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Wired (magazine)

Wired is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics.

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Xavier: Renegade Angel

Xavier: Renegade Angel is an American C.G. surrealist dark comedy-fantasy television series created by PFFR.

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Zaragoza

Zaragoza, also called Saragossa in English, is the capital city of the Zaragoza province and of the autonomous community of Aragon, Spain.

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References

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

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