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unday March 9th was an amazing day for the City of Orlando and even more so for Orlando City Soccer; a record breaking attendance for the season opener in Orlando – 62,510 attendees. Hours before the game, scalpers were asking $150 for tickets with face values of $60, and some fans arrived five hours before the 5:15 p.m. kickoff time, tailgating and playing games in the parking lots. The game started with great expectations from Orlando City’s highest paid import, Kaka’, and the rest of Orlando starting lineup. The Brazilian star Kaká (10) was a key acquisition for the expansion Orlando City club. When the game kicked off, it was the Orlando fans who had the best time, watching their team control the run of play and apply pressure behind Kaká, Kevin Molino and midfielder Cristian Higuita, son of the former Colombia goalkeeper
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The Celebration of Phagwa . . . The Hindu Festival of Holi oli is a festival in Hinduism, which many scholars regard as the oldest living religion. The word Hindu is derived from the Sanskritterm Sindhu (or Indus), which meant river. It referred to people living in the Indus valley in the Indian subcontinent. Hinduism has no founder, one universal reality (or god) known as Brahman, many gods and goddesses (sometimes referred to as devtas), and several scriptures. Hinduism also has no priesthood or hierarchical structure similar to that seen in some other religions, such as Christianity.
Hindus celebrate Holi in a colorful spring festival that has much in common with both Valentine’s Day and April Fool’s Day. The spirit of the day is to make people look and feel ridiculous by spraying them with colored water and playing practical jokes on them. The presiding deity is Kama, the Hindu version of Cupid whose sugarcane bow is strung with a line of humming bees, and whose arrows are flower stems that have been tipped with passion to wound the heart. Kama is most active in the springtime, when he wanders through the woodlands looking for victims. Although Holi is a two day festival in
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