The event takes Getting its name from its culmination , the symbolic ritual burning Damaging of a large wooden effigy ( `` The Man '' ) that traditionally occurs Coming_to_be on the Saturday evening of the event.First held in 1986 on Baker Beach in San Francisco as a small function organized Arranging by Larry Harvey and Jerry James who built Creating the first `` Man '' , it has since been held annually , spanning Change_event_time the nine days leading up to and including Labor Day ( the opening day is a Sunday , while the closing day is the first Monday in September ) .

The Australian Wooden Boat Festival Social_event ( MyState Australian Wooden Boat Festival ) is a biennial event Social_event held in Hobart Tasmania celebrating Social_event wooden boats .

The festival Social_event welcomes Choosing wooden boats of all sizes including wooden canoes , kayaks and dinghies as well as yachts and tall ships .

The festival Social_event welcomes Choosing wooden boats of all sizes including wooden canoes , kayaks and dinghies as well as yachts and tall ships .

Indeed , it may be the world 's largest boat festival Social_event only open Openness to wooden boats .

The escapees sat Placing on the carriage couplings , the steam-engine , and the cargo of the wooden logs .

Ten wooden trawlers carrying 150 men sank Motion offshore Bangladesh , with only 11 reaching Arriving safety .

Gas from the Pintsch gas lighting system of the old wooden carriages of the troop train ignited , starting Process_start a fire which soon engulfed Destroying all five trains .

The primary focus was on the central fortress : first with artillery , which failed Earnings_and_losses because it only punctured the wooden walls , then with cannons , and eventually with fire .

The remaining guns were either left GiveUp in old positions and fired Use_firearm at the limit of their range or were operated Being_in_operation from any flat ground near wooden roadways or from platforms , many of which were unstable , when it was found Know impossible to move Motion them forward to new positions before the attack began .

Wind from the mountains and dry weather combined Cause_to_amalgamate to fan the flames and spread Dispersal them across the wooden stockades , destroying Destroying the entire fortress , along with the nearby Hachiman Shintō shrine .

Thick wooden boards lashed Connect over the chains provided Supply the roadway across the bridge .

The burn is held Hold every year in May or June , around the Hebrew holiday of `` Shavuot '' ( Pentecost ) , and culminates Process_end in a bonfire of wooden sculptures .

The wooden image of Christ , by unknown artist , in a Renaissance-style representation of the `` Ecce Homo '' , represents the episode of Jesus of Nazareth 's life when the martyred religious figure was presented Presence to the crowd following his whipping , and includes a crown of thorns , uncovered torso and bruised/beaten body .

The fire started Process_start under a wooden escalator serving the Piccadilly line and , at 19:45 , erupted Process_start in a flashover into the underground ticket hall , killing 31 people and injuring 100 .

The railway platform was a simple wooden structure on the Doncaster - bound line usually used Using for the collection of tickets Preventing_or_letting from the many trains arriving in Arriving the town for the St. Leger race Competition meeting Social_event .