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9. Battle of the Oranges, Italy
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This festival uses fruit-based warfare to symbolise the medieval battle between the nobility and the people.

The two groups are represented in this fight - which takes place during carnivale in the town of Ivrea - by the orange throwers, with their wagon and body armour, and the people on the ground.

Each hurls oranges at the other. Bruises and injuries are common given the toughness of the fruit's exterior.

10. La Tomatina, Spain
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Tens of thousands of people gather in Bunol on the last Wednesday of August each year for the mother of all food fights.

The fight is thought to have its beginnings in a food fight between children during a parade in the mid-1940s.

More than 100,000 kilograms of over-ripe tomatoes are thrown throughout the streets during this festival.

And while the official rules state the ammunition must be squashed before launch, this rule is not strictly observed.



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5. El Colacho, Spain
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In this festival, held in the Spanish village of Castrillo de Murcia, men dressed as the devil jump over babies born in the past year, who lie on mattresses in the street.

Baby jumping is a traditional practice, taking place annually to mark the Catholic feast of Corpus Christi.

Luckily, there have not been any serious injuries to babies in the festival's history.

6. Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake, England
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In the past, this festival featured activities such as bobbing for apples and shin-kicking.

Nowadays, all that remains is the downhill rolling of a handmade, three-kilogram circle of Double Gloucester cheese - and the chase to claim it.

Cooper's Hill is almost vertical at certain points, so participants are more likely to tumble rather than run in the race to grab the cheese.

The festival holds five cheese chases starting at noon on the last Monday of each May.


7. Takeuchi Festival, Japan
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After the romance of Valentine's Day, hundreds of men in the town of Rokugo gather for a manly clash between the north and the south.

About 200 men on opposing teams battle it out every February 15 by whacking each other with six-metre bamboo poles.

The battle is played over three rounds, with the stakes raised in the final round when the poles are set alight by a bonfire.

It is believed that if team north wins there will be a good harvest, and if team south wins the price of rice will increase.

8. Hadaka Festival, Japan
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More than 9,000 men dress in nothing but traditional loincloths for the Hadaka, or Naked Man, Festival.

The festival occurs in several locations throughout Japan, but the biggest one is held at the Saidai-ji Temple.

At midnight on the third Saturday of February, the men compete over a pair of sacred sticks and other fortune items in the hopes they will be blessed with a year of happiness.

And although the festivities occur in winter, participants warm themselves up beforehand by drinking copious amounts of sake, Japan's alcoholic beverage of choice.

1. Running of the Bulls, Spain
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The focal point of the festivities is the bracing daily test of courage against a pack of 500-kilogram fighting bulls thundering through San Fermin's cobbled streets.

At 8:00am crowds of people race with six bulls, charging along a winding 850-metre course through narrow streets to the city's bull ring.

Last year 50 people were taken to hospital, including an Australian woman who had been gored by a bull.

Hundreds of people are injured each year - usually from falling to the ground in the commotion - while more than a dozen are believed to have died since record-keeping began.

The festival grew out of a need to transport the bulls from where they were kept in town to the bullring. Young men would often follow them to demonstrate their bravery.

2. Onbashira Festival, Japan
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Every six years in April and May, huge logs are selected from trees in mountain forests in the Lake Suwa region and transported by hand to the smaller shrines of Suwa Taisha.

Part of the journey includes Kiotoshi, where local men climb aboard the logs and endeavour to stay on as they slide down the steep mountainside.

Injuries and deaths have occurred during the festival in past years, though being killed by one of the trees is considered to be an honourable death.

The festival is next due to be held in 2016.


3. Yanshui Beehive Rockets Festival, Taiwan
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Common sense dictates that, most of the time, you should not stand in the way of a lit firecracker.

But on the 15th day of the first lunar month, tens of thousands of participants flock to Yanshui in western Taiwan to do just that.

The event - during which beehive firecrackers are set off among a crowd of spectators - commemorates a cholera epidemic more than a century ago, with a customary belief that being bombed by the firecrackers wards off bad luck.

Participants are encouraged to wear a scarf around their neck to stop rockets shooting up under their helmets.

4. Takanakuy, Peru
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In Australia, December 25 is generally oriented around family: spending time together, sharing gifts and giving thanks.

In Peru's Chumbivilcas province, it's all about getting even - and using your fists to do it.

A centuries-old custom, Takanakuy - which means "to hit each other" - involves large numbers of participants punching-on in an attempt to settle old scores and conflicts from the past year.

Participants generally dress in traditional Andean outfits. Kicking and punching are allowed; biting and hair-pulling are not.

We will all die, how soon ? How prepared are you ?

Op i think you deserve to be in yabaleft.

GEJ does not have the balls yet to name boko haram sponsor. GEJ only thinks about 2015 now, maybe after 2015 their will be maximum arrest and conviction but for now concrete arrest of boko haram sponsors will only be done on paper. It's just a pity that ordinary citizens like me are the one suffering it.

Time na money

@abatically, thanks for correcting them. I can't count the number of times i heard his name, the camere men showed him number of time during match and jubilation. Some pple will just cause unnecessary scene

Ibadan, Idanre and Ijebu-Ode , three great cities i would love to live if the opportunity comes.

Biggest boy banker

APC are goner on this issue, i believe its clear victory for Fayose, since he can win all the local govt in the state including Fayemi ward, that 1 shows that Fayose play the ball very well either by illegitimate/legitimate way. Anyway time for those SANs to be become more richer than before.

BadBoy25: who has the time to read through all these Long Gibberish ? seeing the Long write up already made me lose interest . you guys need to learn to summarize your post, no one has time to waste .
what is the relationship between Igbo and Yoruba? is it bad or Good ? make it straightforward instead of composing a Novel . Time is Money .

like a popular saying, if you wish to hide something from a black man then put it in a book, i guess this small saying sweet you. Anyway always be a good boy , dont be a bad boy.
@topic, nice write but human race will compete against each other, not just issue of Yorubas or Igbos.

Jedijedi

Isreal yesterday, Egypt today, may be China tomorrow. I don't have time for all this shiit

Hmmmmmm honestly Nyako may soon joins goners club

Hmmmmmm i am very speechless. One one day e go beta for me and you

Prevention is better than cure. Cleanliness is next to Godliness

Deutschland sind die Weltmeister im Fußball

gotze

Deutschland sind die Weltmeister im Fußball

i will never advise my enemy to buy tecno product again. tecno is sh1t

omanifrank: fool

confirm

fresh air in chinese 清新的空氣

Hmmmmm God have mercy on us

Ok

Thuggery pple

Fate





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Thinking of the day i will become a father and husband.









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Man of god
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