Their arrival in Tompkins Square Park has become a predictable harbinger of spring, a surviving custom in a neighborhood that has undergone various upheavals and changes over the past several decades.
One of the town's oldest surviving customs, there's evidence of the match taking place on the South Bay beach back in 1893.
SACU was established in 1910, making it the world's oldest surviving customs union and some 40 years senior to Europe's trade bloc.
Yeats's best hope, he felt, was to cultivate a tradition more profound than either the Catholic or the Protestant the tradition of a hidden Ireland that existed largely in the anthropological evidence of its surviving customs, beliefs, and holy places, more pagan than Christian.
Following the custom of ancient Israel, Tamar marries the surviving son.
In addition, the surviving Persians were refused entry into Dara since, according to Simocatta, Persian custom forbade entrance to fugitives.
A comparable surviving animal custom is the May Day procession of a man-horse, notably at Padstow, Cornwall.
However disruption unfolds, a core of critical work will survive, requiring custom solutions to complex, interdependent problems across industries and geographies.
Remoteness is perhaps why the customs survive.
In medieval England the children were reminded of the mournfulness of the day by being whipped in bed in the morning; this custom survived into the 17th century.
Representative Jo Ann Emerson, Republican of Missouri, says cutting overhead and spending less on custom vehicles could also help the Postal Service survive the recession.
