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unusual facts about Ceremony


Order of precedence

One's position in an order of precedence is not necessarily an indication of functional importance, but rather an indication of ceremonial or historical relevance; for instance, it may dictate where dignitaries are seated at formal dinners.


1938 Academy Awards

10th Academy Awards, the Academy Awards ceremony that took place in 1938

1942 Academy Awards

15th Academy Awards, the 1943 ceremony honoring the best in film for 1942

1953 in the United States

March 19 – The 25th Academy Awards ceremony is held (the first one broadcast on television).

1961 Academy Awards

34th Academy Awards, the 1962 ceremony honoring the best in film for 1961

1966 Academy Awards

38th Academy Awards, the Academy Awards ceremony that took place in 1966

1999 Pan Arab Games

Two of the sports were held and concluded before the opening ceremony: the athletics and basketball competitions were held early to allow the athletes to prepare and attend the 1999 World Championships in Athletics and the 1999 Asian Basketball Confederation Championship, respectively, which clashed with the dates for the Pan Arab Games that year.

2010 Awit Awards

23rd Awit Awards, the Awit Awards ceremony which took place in 2010

2012 Academy Awards

85th Academy Awards, the Academy Awards ceremony which took place in February of 2013 honoring the best in film for 2012

Aérospatiale Alouette III

On 2 December 2010, the last example was retired at a ceremony held at BAN Comandante Espora, Bahía Blanca.

Bakuriani

Georgia's flag-bearing athlete at the opening ceremony, alpine skiier Iason Abramashvili, also resides there; he has decided to compete to honor Kumaritashvili's memory.

Bideford, Westward Ho! and Appledore Railway

In 1866 a start was actually made on a line to run to Appledore with a branch to Westward Ho!, however soon after a full 'first sod cutting ceremony' by the Earl of Iddesleigh, the contractors went bankrupt and the project was abandoned.

Chakradharpur

With the opening of Goilkera-Jharsuguda section the main line route of Bengal Nagpur Railway (BNR) was completed and the official function for the opening ceremony of main line from Asansol to Nagpur, presided by the Viceroy of India, Lord Lansdowne was held at Chakradharpur station on 3 March 1891.

Cherry Boone

On October 4, 1975, Boone married writer Dan O'Neill, in a ceremony officiated by Jack Hayford, founding pastor of The Church On The Way, in Van Nuys, California.

Cyprus Football Association

The opening ceremony was attended by UEFA president Michel Platini, and the former president of Cyprus, Mr Tassos Papadopoulos.

David DiChiera

DiChiera delivered the commencement speech at the University of Michigan's graduation ceremony in 1998 and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Music degree.

Eko Atlantic

On 21 February 2013, a dedication ceremony was held at the reclaimed land of Eko Atlantic, with Goodluck Jonathan, Bill Clinton, Babatunde Fashola and Bola Tinubu attending.

Hakhel

The ceremony performed at the Western Wall in 2001 was led by the President of Israel, Moshe Katzav.

Helen Willetts

Married to Philip Boulby in March 2004, she returned to Colwyn Bay for the ceremony.

Henry Jordan

The ceremony brought together former NFL stars of the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, with surviving members of that year's Hall of Fame class representing the latter decade (one of them, then-Congressman Steve Largent flipped the coin on their behalf).

James Cotton

They performed "Juke" and "My Babe" together at the induction ceremony which was broadcast nationwide on VH1 Classic.

James K. Okubo

Okubo's award was one of those upgraded to the Medal of Honor and in a ceremony at the White House, on June 21, 2000, the formal presentation was made by President Bill Clinton.

Janine Jarman

After the 30-minute ceremony, the 250 guests including JC Chasez and Kevin Martin (American musician) of Candlebox watched Miss Derringer and Scarling. perform live at the reception.

Jawalakhel

Jawalakhel is famous for the annual chariot festival of Rato Machhendranath which ends with the Bhoto Jatra ceremony that takes place on the large open ground at the town center.

Jo-Ann Strauss

In 2010, Jo-Ann presented the opening ceremony for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa for the German television network ZDF along with Thomas Gottschalk in a live broadcast from Johannesburg on 10 June.

John Truelove

Following the BRIT Awards ceremony on February 16, 2010, where Florence And The Machine were joined on-stage by Dizzee Rascal for a performance of ‘You Got The Love’ combined with Dizzee Rascal’s ‘Dirtee Cash’, the mash-up version ‘You Got The Dirtee Love’ was released as a single by Universal Island, reaching number 2 in the UK Singles Chart.

Kelly Harmon

She was married to automotive executive John DeLorean from May 31,1969 in a private candlelight ceremony at the Bel-Air Country Club after becoming engaged in February of the same year; and separating in 1971.

Korean tea ceremony

As Korean tea culture died with the advent of Yi Dynasty in 1392, this newly revived "Korean Tea Ceremony," propagated by Panyaro Institute closely resembles the Japanese Tea Ceremony, and is considered an outright copy by the Japanese Sado practitioners, much the same way Tae Kwon Do, Yudo, and Haedong Gumdo are seen as copies of Karate, Judo, and Kendo by the Japanese.

Lennoxtown training centre

The centre was officially opened on 9 October 2007 by Celtic chairman Brian Quinn at a ceremony where he was joined by Chief executive Peter Lawwell, then Celtic manager Gordon Strachan and then Celtic captain Stephen McManus.

Leyla Aliyeva

On February 24, 2012 Leyla Aliyeva attended opening ceremony of "Park of Friendship" and unveiled a monument to victims of Khojaly Massacre in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Linda Lovelace for President

After the 1972 release of Deep Throat, Linda Lovelace enjoyed a brief flurry of celebrity notoriety while dating David Winters of West Side Story fame, which included appearances at the Academy Awards ceremony with Winters and the opening day of the racing season at Ascot Racecourse plus author credit for two best-selling books that played up on her status as a pornographic icon.

Lita Roza

On 14 March 2001, the Liverpool Wall of Fame was inaugurated opposite the Cavern Club on Mathew Street in Liverpool with Roza presiding at the ceremony.

Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge

The bridge was officially lit in a special ceremony conducted by the City of Dallas and Mayor Mike Rawlings.

Marilyn Jenkins

The ceremony received even more attention when the Penny Marshall's film A League of Their Own, starring Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, Madonna and Rosie O'Donnell, was released in 1992.

Miguel Ángel Alba Díaz

He was appointed bishop for the Diocese of Fessei and auxiliar bishop for the Archdiocese of Oaxaca by Pope John Paul II on June 10, 1995, and consecrated on July 25, in a ceremony presided over by Archbishop Adolfo Antonio Suárez Rivera.

Naranarayan of Bhurishrestha

These two works were significant because they were required during the sraddha ceremony.

North Bridge, Halifax

A ceremony was then held which included the town's MP Sir James Stansfeld, Lord Frederick Cavendish, Colonel Akroyd, the mayors of Bradford, Leeds and Wakefield, the Master Cutler of Sheffield, the Town Clerk of Leeds and the bridge engineers.

Oodgeroo Noonuccal

In 1979, she was awarded the Sixth Annual Oscar at the Micheaux Awards Ceremony, hosted by the US Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame and in the same year received the International Acting Award for the film Shadow Sisters.

Pakistan Media Awards

The awards were first given in 2010 at a ceremony created for awards, at Karachi Carlton Hotel.

Regina Benjamin

On May 8, 2010, she was awarded an honorary degree of Doctorate of Pharmacy from the Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences at the college's 130th Commencement ceremony held at the Empire State Plaza in Albany, New York.

Richard G. Mitchell

Aside from composing original scores for Film, Mitchell has scored music for Theatre Productions and Live Events which include the Opening Ceremony for Euro '96 at Wembley Stadium. He was commissioned to write the score for one-man theatre show Ousama with Nadim Sawalha directed by Corin Redgrave at the Brixton Shaw Theatre, and a jazz suite for the Francis Bacon Retrospective Exhibition at the Tate Britain in 2008.

Saxtuba

The only other notable public appearance of the saxtubas occurred less than a month after the opera's première, on 10 May 1852, when twelve saxtubas participated in a military ceremony on the Champ de Mars, Paris, in which the President of the French Republic Louis Napoleon distributed the colours to his army.

Sergiu Comissiona

Comissiona and his wife became American citizens on July 4, 1976, at a special Bicentennial ceremony at Fort McHenry on Baltimore Harbor.

Sinan Al Shabibi

On February 2, 2012 Zaha Hadid joined Dr Sinan Al‐Shabibi at a ceremony in London to sign the agreement between the Central Bank of Iraq and Zaha Hadid Architects for the design stages of the new CBI Headquarters building.

Swords, Dublin

In attendance at this Presidential ceremony was Admiral Sir Jock Slater, R.N., a former British First Sea Lord then serving as Chairman of the Executive Committee of the R.N.L.I..

Tai Koo Station

The Island Line opening ceremony was held in this station in May 1985 and was officiated by then-MTR chairman Sir Wilfrid Newton and Governor of Hong Kong Sir Edward Youde, who unveiled the commemorative plaques at the concourse level.

The Gambia at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Qualified sprinter Suwaibou Sanneh, who competed at his second consecutive Olympics, was the nation's flag bearer at the opening ceremony.

Tommy Shaw

Tommy Shaw was inducted into the Alabama Music Hall of Fame on February 22, 2009 at their awards banquet held in Shaw's hometown of Montgomery, Alabama at the new Montgomery Convention Center, the construction of which was completed just prior to the ceremony.

Turkish Grand Prix

As part of the podium ceremony after the 2006 race, the winner's trophy was presented by Mehmet Ali Talat, who was introduced to television viewers via the captions as the president of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, a state which is recognised only by Turkey.

Whimple

The Whimple Wassail is an orchard-visiting wassail ceremony and was first mentioned by the Victorian author and folklorist; the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould in his book Devon Characters and Strange Events (published 1908).

Yuejiang Tower

It has also been reported that the action ceremony of the documentary of Zhenghe was set in Yuejiang Tower, Nanjing.


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