Indios Date Festival

Author : Sarah Seekatz
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467134252
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indio's Date Festival written by Sarah Seekatz and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the turn of the 20th century, Southern California's Coachella Valley has embraced a unique crop: the date. As success with the fruit grew, so too did regional celebrations of it. Beginning in 1921, the City of Indio hosted a Festival of Dates, an event that became the annual National Date Festival in 1947. The area linked itself to the date's birthplace, the Greater Middle East, in multiple ways, but the festival drew national attention to Indio's use of these Arabian fantasies. Attendees celebrated the fair's camel races, Arabian Nights musical pageant, Middle Eastern architecture, Queen Scheherazade pageant, and the costumes worn by boosters and visitors alike. While the United States' political and pop-cultural relationship to the region changed over time, the Eastern Coachella Valley continued to embrace fantasies of the Middle East at its fair.

Author : Sarah Seekatz
Publisher : Arcadia Library Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781531678296
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indio's Date Festival written by Sarah Seekatz and published by Arcadia Library Editions. This book was released on 2016-01-18 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the turn of the 20th century, Southern California's Coachella Valley has embraced a unique crop: the date. As success with the fruit grew, so too did regional celebrations of it. Beginning in 1921, the City of Indio hosted a Festival of Dates, an event that became the annual National Date Festival in 1947. The area linked itself to the date's birthplace, the Greater Middle East, in multiple ways, but the festival drew national attention to Indio's use of these Arabian fantasies. Attendees celebrated the fair's camel races, Arabian Nights musical pageant, Middle Eastern architecture, Queen Scheherazade pageant, and the costumes worn by boosters and visitors alike. While the United States' political and pop-cultural relationship to the region changed over time, the Eastern Coachella Valley continued to embrace fantasies of the Middle East at its fair.

Author : John Howard Weeks
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738559070
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inland Empire written by John Howard Weeks and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Southern California's vast Inland Empire is one of the fastest growing regions of the United States. It is a wonderland of old-growth vineyards, citrus groves, hot-water resorts, Wild West landmarks, and Native American territories. America's fabled Mother Road, Route 66, runs right through it. Its fertile valleys are encircled by mountains with famous resort areas such as Idyllwild, Big Bear Lake, and Lake Arrowhead. Those mountains are surrounded in turn by some of the world's best-known desert resort and recreational areas, including Palm Springs, the Mojave, Death Valley, and Joshua Tree National Park. Inland Empire is the first book of its kind, offering a postcard-perfect grand tour of the entire region.

Author : Nawal Nasrallah
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 186189984X
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dates written by Nawal Nasrallah and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Dates, Nawal Nasrallah draws on her experience of growing up in the lands of ancient Mesopotamia, where the date palm was first cultivated, to explore the history behind the fruit. Dates have an important role in their arid homeland of the Middle East, where they are a dietary staple and can be consumed fresh or dried, as a snack or a dessert, and are even thought to have aphrodisiac qualities. In this history, Nasrallah describes the central role the date palm has played in the economy of the Middle East. This informative account of the date palm’s story follows its journey from its land of origin to the far-flung regions where it is cultivated today. Along the way, Nasrallah weaves many fascinating and humorous anecdotes that explore the etymology, history, culture, religion, myths, and legends surrounding dates. For example, she explains how the tree came to be a symbol of the Tree of Life and associated with the fiery phoenix bird, the famous ancient goddess Ishtar, and the moon, and how the medjool date acquired its name. This delightful and unusual book is generously illustrated with many beautiful images, and supplemented with more than a dozen delicious date recipes for savory dishes, sweets, and wine.

Author : United States. Bureau of Reclamation
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
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Download or read book Billboard written by and published by . This book was released on 1960-03-07 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.

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Total Pages : 264 pages
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Download or read book Billboard written by and published by . This book was released on 1950-04-08 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.

Author : Reed Ueda
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440828652
Total Pages : 1295 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America's Changing Neighborhoods [3 volumes] written by Reed Ueda and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-09-21 with total page 1295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique panoramic survey of ethnic groups throughout the United States that explores the diverse communities in every region, state, and big city. Race, ethnicity, and immigrants' lives and identity: these are all key topics that Americans need to study in order to fully understand U.S. culture, society, politics, economics, and history. Learning about "place" through our own historical and contemporary neighborhoods is an ideal way to better grasp the important role of race and ethnicity in the United States. This reference work comprehensively covers both historical and contemporary ethnic and immigrant neighborhoods through A–Z entries that explore the places and people in every major U.S. region and neighborhood. America's Changing Neighborhoods: An Exploration of Diversity uniquely combines the history of ethnic groups with the history of communities, offering an interdisciplinary examination of the nation's makeup. It gives readers perspective and insight into ethnicity and race based on the geography of enclaves across the nation, in regions and in specific cities or localized areas within a city. Among the entries are nearly 200 "neighborhood biographies" that provide histories of local communities and their ethnic groups. Images, sidebars, cross-references at the end of each entry, and cross-indexing of entries serve readers conducting preliminary as well as in-depth research. The book's state-by-state entries also offer population data, and an appendix of ancestry statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau details ethnic and racial diversity.

Author : Kathy Strong
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0762774789
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Southern California Off the Beaten Path® written by Kathy Strong and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Southern California Off the Beaten Path features the things travelers and locals want to see and experience––if only they knew about them. From the best in local dining to quirky cultural tidbits to hidden attractions, unique finds, and unusual locales, Southern California Off the Beaten Path takes the reader down the road less traveled and reveals a side of Southern California that other guidebooks just don't offer.

Author : Donald R. Hodel
Publisher : UCANR Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781879906785
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imported and American Varieties of Dates (Phoenix Dactylifera) in the United States written by Donald R. Hodel and published by UCANR Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the work of Roy W. Nixon's unpublished manuscript on American varieties of dates in its entirety and borrows liberally from his 1950 work on imported varieties of dates.