The biennial Red Nose Day UK fundraiser encourages people to "do something funny for money" in their school, community or workplace.
Great sporting moments - A national holiday was declared when Oman won the 2009 Gulf Cup of Nations, West Asia's biennial bash, after two successive defeats in the final.
Not to be confused with Nye Bevan Beyoncé beyond the pale not pail; this pale is derived from the Latin palus, a stake as used to support a fence (cf palisade); hence the figurative meaning of beyond the pale as being outside the boundary, unacceptable biannual or biennial?
The fate of a proposed 50m sq miles sanctuary for migratory whales was hanging in the balance on Monday night after objections from enough delegates on the conference floor of the International Whaling Commission (IWC)'s biennial conference to block its creation.
Other tour announcements followed, such as the Blue Note jazz tour of the Caribbean island; Insight has announced an art tour for the biennial, while Authentic Cuba Travel is advertising an art tour for December 2015.
And also this year, the second biennial Edwin Morgan Poetry award worth roughly £20,000 will be made to a Scottish poet under the age of 30, just because Edwin Morgan well remembered the problems young poets can have in getting their first collection published.
Poitras's documentary about Edward Snowden, Citizenfour, recently won an Academy award; her relationship with the Whitney started when her work featured in their 2012 biennial.
In 2011, when he was 15 years old, he traveled to Bangkok from his native Melbourne to attend the biennial World Rubik's Cube Championship for the first time.
In July, the biennial International Festival will take over the city, featuring Alice in Wonderland the Musical by Damon Albarn, as well as a contemporary ballet which brings together DJ Jamie XX, Mancunian choreographer Wayne McGregor and the artist, Olafur Eliasson.
February also sees the return of Bristol's biennial In Between Time festival, which produces dramatic urban interventions around the city, including a 10-day installation during which Peros' Bridge in Bristol Harbourside will "disappear" behind a veil of fog – a creative celebration of the city's new Green Capital status.
Massimiliano Gioni, a curator based in Milan and New York, who is overseeing the Gwangju biennial, which opens in South Korea in September, recalls that the avant-garde was "built on a transnational community of kindred spirits," adding, "sometimes I long for that".
