RAMADA HOTEL DOVER – DIWALI FIREWORKS
Celebrate Diwali ‘The Festival of Light’ in the Grande Marquee whilst enjoying a lavish Indian Buffet and being entertained by Nikita Company, the well known Indian Bollywood Dancers. The night would not be complete without the Fireworks and Indian DJ who will be playing until midnight.
£29.95 per person
Children 5-12 years half price
Under 5 FREE
Lights switched-on from Saturday 5 September, 2009 at 7pm and then every night until Saturday 31 October. The parade of Illuminated and decorated boats takes place at 8.00pm every Saturday and Sunday during the season – with a programme of family entertainment in or near the bandstand in Derwent Gardens each evening, commencing at 7.00pm. The Admission Prices to Derwent Gardens are £4.00 Adults (Aged 16 and over), £3.50 Over 60s, Accompanied children under 16 free, Disabled persons free.
Clifftop firework displays 9pm Saturdays 3, 17 and 31 October 2009.
Washington DC is a spectacular place to celebrate July 4th! The National Mall, with Washington DC’s monuments and the U. S. Capitol in the background, forms a beautiful and patriotic backdrop to America’s Independence Day celebrations. This is an all-day event in the nation’s capital, beginning with a parade along Constitution Avenue and ending with a spectacular display of fireworks over the Washington Monument.
Fireworks Time: At dark, usually around 9:15 p.m. Rain Date: July 5th
Launch Location: The fireworks are launched from the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and light up the sky over the Washington Monument. See Photos of the Fireworks
Best Places to View the National Mall Fireworks
Spectacular views of the fireworks can also be seen from the Marine Corps War Memorial (Iwo Jima) in Arlington, Virginia near the Rosslyn Metro station and areas along the Virginia side of the Potomac River that can be reached from George Washington Memorial Parkway.
The 2009 Macy’s fireworks show will feature more than 40,000 shells exploding at a rate of more than 1,500 per minute. The 26-minute display will be set off from six barges positioned between 24th and 50th Streets on the Hudson River.
The fireworks display will be synchronized to a score of patriotic standards, classic river-themed works, and original music. The legendary New York Pops will perform the musical score under the direction of Steve Reineke.
Take note:
The spectacular Macy’s July 4th fireworks display is moving across town in 2009. To celebrate the 400th anniversary of the exploration of the Hudson River by Henry Hudson, Macy’s will stage their annual show stopping pyrotechnics over the Hudson River instead of the East River this year.
To us, 4th of July means fireworks, so we’ve rounded up a few of the best places to watch the 4th of July fireworks in California.
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The Bandstand Eastbourne will this summer be hosting its traditional concert on Wednesday nights from June 17th through to September 30th.
This year’s theme is Tchaikovsky’s 1812 and will be accompanied by spectacular fireworks.
Doors Open from 7pm and concerts start at 8pm.
Advance tickets can be purchased from The Seafront Office or online at www.VisitEastbourne.com Adults £7.50 Children £3.50
Tickets sold on the door Adults £8.50 Children £4.50. Licensed bar available.
Stealth Fireworks wishes all the bands taking part good luck for a great evening’s entertainment.
The two day Festival of the Air is undoubtedly the most spectacular event in Southend’s calendar. Southend was the first seaside resort in the country to stage an Airshow and it’s become one of Europe’s largest FREE events of its kind, regulary attracting over half a million people to the seafront over the weekend.
Whilst the skies over the Thames Estuary are filled with roaring and buzzing of fast jets as they zoom and flit at lightning speed, or formation aerobatic teams mesmerise the crowd with their manoeuvers, there’s a non-stop action packed entertainment programme that stretches for two miles on the ground. Southend’s Festival of the Air is a fun day out for all the family.
· Military Town Shows from the RAF, Army, Navy & Royal Marines
· Unarmed combat displays in the arena area both days – by the Royal Marines
· Veterans area with interactive displays
· Rides, Giant Inflatables & Simulators
· Meet the Pilots Area
· Trade Stands
· Caterers
· Charities Marquee
Spectacular Firework Displays to be held on Sunday and Monday evening
Stealth Fireworks looks forward to a great weekend.
Thanks go to Focus on the Southend for providing the information.
We are delighted to announce that Stealth Fireworks has been recognised by a great magazine none other than Vogue for our outstanding service and products.
We were ecstatic to receive a call from Vogue and asked if we would like to be included in their Secret Address Book which has been published with this month’s issue of Vogue Magazine. We are the only Firework Company advertised in here and I would like to take this opportunity to thank my team who are all credited with helping our Customers receive the best service and advice.
Diwali is traditionally known as the “festival of lights”, for the common practice is to light small oil lamps (called diyas) and place them around the home, in courtyards, gardens, verandahs, on the walls built around the home and also on the roof tops.
The word Diwali is derived from the word Deepavali that means “a row of lights”. This suggests that it is a festival of light and illumination. The festival falls on the last day of the last month of lunar calendar. Diwali is celebrated for five days. The uniqueness of this festival is its harmony of five varied philosophies, with each day to a special thought.
Many reasons can be attributed for the use of Diyas in Diwali. Lamp or “Deep” is the symbol of knowledge. Lighting the lamp of knowledge within us means to understand and reflect upon the significant purpose of each of the five days of festivities and to bring those thoughts in to our day to day lives.The lighting of lamps is a form of obeisance to god for the attainment of health, wealth, knowledge, peace and fame. Mythology says Diyas are used to celebrate the occasion of Lord Rama’s return from exile.
Another legend says lighting of lamps symbolizes the spiritual light pervading the earth and the destruction of darkness and ignorance. According to another story the people of Dwaraka greeted Lord Krishna with illumination and rejoicing in honour of his victory over Narakasura. The darkness of the Chaturdasi night compelled them to use many lamps on the occasion, and subsequently the illumination became a part of this celebration.
Deepavali is a festival where people from all age groups participate. Irrespective of their religious and economic background, the festival is celebrated throughout the country to ward off the darkness and welcome light into life, as light is always associated with hope for the future. They give expression to their happiness by lighting earthen ‘diyas’ (lamps), decorating the houses, bursting firecrackers and inviting near and dear ones to their households for partaking in a sumptuous feast. Because of the Diwali Diyas , lights, fireworks, and sweets involved, it’s a great favourite with children.
Nowadays electric lights and candles have been a good replacement for traditional Diyas. They are available in attractive designs and patterns.
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“Remember, remember the fifth of November.
Gunpowder, Treason and Plot.
I see no reason why Gunpowder Treason
Should ever be forgot.”
Guy Fawkes was born on April 13th 1570 in Stonegate, Yorkshire and was the only son of Edward and Edith Fawkes. He had two younger sisters Anne born in 1572 and Anne born in 1575. Guy was educated at the Free School of St.Peters in Le Horse Fayre and was tutored by John Pulleyn who was a kinsman to the Pulleyns of Scotton, a suspected Catholic who was believed to have held great influence over the young impressionable Fawkes.
In 1593 Fawkes left Britain for Flanders in the Netherlands and joined the Spanish Army under Archduke Albert of Austria who later went on to be Governor of the Netherlands. Rising up through the ranks Fawkes held the post of Command when the Spaniards took Calais during 1596. Held in high regard Fawkes was described as a man of great piety, of exemplary temperance, and of mild and cheerful demeanour. A tall and powerfully built man, his hair was a reddish brown and moustache and beard were thick and flowing. Having become “one of the Spaniards” he was now known as Guido.
During 1600 he was wounded in the Battle of Nieuport and returned to England. Fawkes ties with Spain increased and an attempt to invade England upon the death of Elizabeth was planned but ultimately proved fruitless.
In May 1604, Guy Fawkes met with Robert Catesby, Thomas Percy, John Wright and Thomas Wintour at an inn called the Duck and Drake in the fashionable Strand district of London, and agreed under oath along with Percy to join the other three in the gunpowder conspiracy. This oath was then sanctified by the performing of mass and the administering of the sacraments by the Jesuit priest John Gerard in an adjoining room. Fawkes assumed the identity of John Johnson, a servant of Percy and was entrusted to the care of the tenement which Percy had rented. Around Michaelmas, Fawkes was asked to begin preparations for work on the mine, but these plans were delayed until early December as the Commissioners of the Union between England and Scotland were meeting in the same house. Eventually the work in the mine proved slow and difficult for men unused to such physical labours, and further accomplices were sworn into the plot.
About March 1605, the conspirators hired a cellar beneath Parliament, once again through Thomas Percy, and Fawkes assisted in filling the room with barrels of powder, hidden beneath iron bars and faggots. He was then despatched to Flanders to presumably communicate the details of the plot to Stanley and Owen. At the end of August, he was back in London again, replacing the spoiled powder barrels, and residing at “one Mrs. Herbert’s house, a widow that dwells on the backside of St. Clement’s Church“. He soon left this accommodation when his landlady suspected his involvement with Catholics. On 18 October he travelled to White Webbs for a meeting with Catesby, Thomas Wintour, and Francis Tresham to discuss how certain Catholic peers could be excluded from the explosion. On 26 October, the now famous Monteagle Letter was delivered into the hands of William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle. Concern quickly erupted amongst the conspirators, but the letter’s apparent vagueness prompted Catesby to continue with their plans.
On Wednesday 30 October, Fawkes, apparently ignorant of the letter’s existence inspected the cellar again and satisfied himself that the gunpowder was still in place and had not been disturbed. On Sunday 3 November, a few of the leading conspirators met in London and agreed that the authorities were still unaware of their actions. However, all except Fawkes made plans for a speedy exit from London. Fawkes had agreed to watch the cellar by himself, having already been given the task of firing the powder, undoubtedly because of his munitions experience in the Low Countries where he had been taught how to “fire a slow train”. His orders were to embark for Flanders as soon as the powder was fired, and to spread the news of the explosion on the continent.
On the following Monday afternoon, the Lord Chamberlain, Thomas Howard, Earl of Suffolk, searched the parliament buildings accompanied by Monteagle and John Whynniard. In the cellar they came upon an unusually large pile of billets and faggots, and perceived Fawkes whom they described as “a very bad and desperate fellow”. They asked who claimed the pile, and Fawkes replied that it was Thomas Percy’s in whose employment he worked. They reported these details to the King, and believing, by the look of Fawkes “he seemed to be a man shrewd enough, but up to no good”, they again searched the cellar, a little before midnight the following night, this time led by Sir Thomas Knyvett, a Westminster magistrate and Gentleman of the Privy Chamber. Fawkes had gone forth to warn Percy that same day, but returned to his post before night. Once again, the pile of billets and faggots was searched and the powder discovered, and this time Fawkes was arrested. On his person they discovered a watch, slow matches and touchwood. Fawkes later declared that had he been in the cellar when Knyvett entered it he would have “blown him up, house, himself, and all”.
Early in the morning of 5 November, the Privy Council met in the King’s bedchamber, and Fawkes was brought in under guard. He declined to give any information beyond that his name was Johnson and he was a servant of Thomas Percy. Further interrogations that day revealed little more than his apparent xenophobia. When questioned by the King how he could conspire such a hideous treason, Fawkes replied that a dangerous disease required a desperate remedy, and that his intentions were to blow the Scotsmen present back into Scotland.
King James indicated in a letter of 6 November that “The gentler tortours are to be first used unto him, et sic per gradus ad mia tenditur [and so by degrees proceeding to the worst], and so God speed your goode worke”, as it [torture] was contrary to English common law, unless authorised by the King or Privy Council. Eventually on 7 November Guido’s spirit broke and he confessed his real name and that the plot was confined to five men. “He told us that since he undertook this action he did every day pray to God he might perform that which might be for the advancement of the Catholic Faith and saving his own soul”. The following day he recounted the events of the conspiracy, without naming names, then on the 9 November he named his fellow plotters, having heard that some of them had already been arrested at Holbeche. Guido’s final signature, a barely legible scrawl, is testament to his suffering. There is no direct evidence as to what tortures were used on Guy Fawkes, although it is almost certain that they included the manacles, and probably also the rack.
On Monday 27 January 1606, the day of the capture of Edward Oldcorne and Henry Garnet, the trial of the eight surviving conspirators began in Westminster Hall. It was a trial in name only, for a guilty verdict had certainly already been handed down. The conspirators pleaded not guilty, a plea which caused some consternation amongst those present. Fawkes later explained that his objection was to the implication that the “seducing Jesuits” were the principal offenders.
On Friday, 31 January 1606, Fawkes, Thomas Wintour, Ambrose Rookwood and Robert Keyes were taken to the Old Palace Yard at Westminster and hanged, drawn and quartered “in the very place which they had planned to demolish in order to hammer home the message of their wickedness”. Thomas Wintour was followed by Rookwood and then by Keyes. Guido, the “romantic caped figure of such evil villainy” came last. A contemporary wrote:
“Last of all came the great devil of all, Guy Fawkes, alias Johnson, who should have put fire to the powder. His body being weak with the torture and sickness he was scarce able to go up the ladder, yet with much ado, by the help of the hangman, went high enough to break his neck by the fall. He made no speech, but with his crosses and idle ceremonies made his end upon the gallows and the block, to the great joy of all the beholders that the land was ended of so wicked a villainy”.
Special thanks to:
Britannia
The Gun Powder Plot Society
http://www.gunpowder-plot.org/
