carnival
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There’s an Ojai Fall Festival coming with carnival rides and games Sept. 11-13, followed by the Ojai Film Festival Nov. 5-9.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
Soul-Rebel Marley said performing at this year's carnival was "a blessing", after he played on the Rampage Sound stage on Sunday.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
It is Europe's largest street festival and the second-largest carnival in the world, surpassed only by Rio de Janeiro's Carnival in Brazil.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
In recent years, the soccer fields where the event was once held have been filled each June 4 with a carnival featuring foods from around China.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
It sounded like a circus or a carnival the way he said it.
From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen
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By the early 1990s, some crews in the U.K. began throwing megaraves more spiritually akin to experiential carnivals than to more lowkey dance-floor-and-DJ setups.
From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2026
From there it developed into the post-Lenten carnivals of medieval Europe and the private theatricals of Renaissance courts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
Met Assistant Commissioner Matt Ward said the use of live facial recognition, metal detector and stop-and-search had "prevented some of the serious violence we have seen at previous carnivals".
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2025
One rooted in the thrills, energy and pageantry of early 20th-century carnivals, but with a 21st-century twist — the atmosphere of a TikTok reel brought to life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2025
Sometime in 1925 Johnny and his guardian pulled into the old mining town of Butte, Montana, where the local bullring racetrack linked up with a network of other tracks, carnivals, and fairs.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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