BUNCH OF ROSES.The Rose Parade is always on New Year's Day New Year's Day, among ancient peoples the first day of the year frequently corresponded to the vernal or autumnal equinox, or to the summer or winter solstice. In the Middle Ages it was celebrated among Christians usually on Mar. 25. - unless Jan. 1 falls on a Sunday, which it does this year. And the Rose Bowl Game is always played on parade day - unless the game is a national championship, which it is this year. This mix of happenstance hap·pen·stance n. A chance circumstance: "Marriage loomed only as an outgrowth of happenstance; you met a person" Bruce Weber. and Bowl Championship Series finagling has forced the Tournament of Roses Association to take what is typically a one-day event and spread it out over three weekdays - Jan. 2, 3 and 4. The parade will be held Monday morning; float viewing on Monday afternoon and Tuesday; and the Rose Bowl Game on Wednesday. The last time the parade fell on a Sunday was in 1995. It has never happened when the Rose Bowl hosted the national championship game. CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1 -- 2) DON'T MESS WITH MAMA Workers, above, help finish a Farmers Insurance Group float, themed '`Protecting Your Family,'' in which a mama Tyrannosaurs rex is the protector. Baby T. rex is being stalked by two Deinonychus Deinonychus (dī'nənī`kəs) [Gr.,=terrible claw], swift bipedal carnivorous dinosaur of the early Cretaceous period, approximately 119–93 million years ago. Fossil specimens have been discovered in Montana and Wyoming. antirrhopus ``terribleclaw'' dinos in the float that will roll Monday in the Tournament of Roses Parade The Tournament of Roses Parade was established, and first held, on January 1,1890, in Pasadena, California, eight miles (13 km) northeast of Downtown Los Angeles. Rooted in tradition, this parade is broadcast on multiple television networks, watched by upwards of one at Pasadena. At left, Murray Smith of Santa Monica and Ann Vitti of Pacific Palisades Palisades, cliffs along the west bank of the Hudson River, NE N.J. and SE N.Y., extending from N of Jersey City, N.J., to the vicinity of Piermont, N.Y., with a general altitude of from 350 ft to 550 ft (107–168 m). do a little dental work on Mama T. rex. Workers are using roses, orchids, irises and daisies. Hans Gutknecht/Staff Photographer |
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