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The Rocket War of Vrondados is an old custom that began at the time of the Turkish occupation and it still happens every year at Easter. In the beginning the residents of the parishes of Panagia Erithiani and Saint Mark's, which are facing each other, made small cannons, to fire at each other. But through time the canons became rockets and fireworks made from nitre, sulphur and gunpowder.
http://www.lesvos-ecotourism.com/greekislands_chios_festivals.html -via Cynical-C
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It's all fun until you shoot someones eye out.
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Before I read the little blurb, I thought the Rocket War of Vrondados was some sci-fi movie. It sounds like it, doesn't it?
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Woo! That much be sooo much fun! :D
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I definitly put that on the 'to go' list!
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that would be so much fun... until i was hit in the eye with one of those rockets.....yes, i have such luck.
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