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<ul><li>This year, <keyword id="6378646" type="LOCATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="baisakhi">Baisakhi</keyword> falls on April 13, which is a Monday. </li><li>The harvest festival of Baisakhi marks the beginning of the solar year. </li><li>One of the most important festivals in Punjab, Baisakhi holds a special significance for the Sikh community.</li></ul>On April 13, 2020, the whole of Punjab and many parts of Northern India will gear up to celebrate the harvest festival of Baisakhi. On this joyful day, the farmers offer their prayers in thanks for a bountiful harvest of the Rabi crop. Baisakhi is also significant as it marks the founding of the Khalsa Panth community three hundred years ago by the tenth Sikh Guru, Guru Gobind Singh. Across the country, people celebrate the Baisakhi festival with a lot of fun, merriment and enthusiasm. Baisakhi in Punjab Punjab observes a state-wide holiday on the day of Baisakhi. Schools, colleges and offices remain closed to allow people to celebrate the event. Friends, relatives and neighbours exchange gifts among themselves. Businesses and offices also give away gifts to their employees. With all the gift-giving, there’s usually a surge in shopping ahead of the festival. The shops announce their annual sale offers and heavy discounts are offered on a wide range of items. Even the hotels announce huge discounts to lure in visitors from other states and countries who have come to either participate or observe the celebration of Baisakhi. Baisakhi and Sikhs The Sikh community celebrates Baisakhi by paying homage at Gurdwaras. They distribute offerings like Kada Prasad — a type of semolina halva made with equal portions of whole-wheat flour, clarified butter, and sugar — among the family members and friends. The tradition of Baisakhi was started in 1699 when the Panj Piaras or the ‘beloved five’ were the first five men to be baptised as Sikh and Guru Gobind Singh laid down the Panth Khalsa — the Order of the Pure Ones — according to scripture. Five individuals are chosen to represent the Panj Piaras and lead religious processions organized in the cities and provinces. Kar Sewa — volunteering to help at Gurdwaras — is an important highlight of the day. This act is considered as the expression of the modesty. In Gurdwaras, we can find the recitation of some passages from Guru Granth Sahib, kirtans and traditional songs. Baisakhi and farmers Punjab is rich in agriculture. Since Baisakhi commemorates the harvest season of the Rabi crops, it is a significant event for the farmers in the region. This festival is observed as a day of thanksgiving to the gods and natural elements that facilitated a bountiful harvest. Farmers visit the temples and Gurdwaras on this day wearing new clothes. Baisakhi fairs, bhangra and gidda are performances are common during this time in the state of Punjab. Baisakhi for Hindus and Buddhists Baisakhi marks the beginning of the solar calendar. On this day, the Sun enters the Mesh Rashi, the first one among the twelve zodiac signs. Therefore, this festival is also called as Mesh Sankranti. The other versions of Baisakhi are 'Naba Barsha' of Bengal, 'Rongali Bihu' of Assam, ‘Puthandu’ of Tamil Nadu, ‘Vaishakha’ of Bihar, and 'Pooram Vishu' of Kerala. These are all the variations of the Solar New Year celebrations across different parts of the country. The festival is highly significant for Hindus as well as Swami Dayanand Saraswati founded the Arya Samaj on this day in 1875. Baisakhi is a holy day for the Buddhists as they believe that Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism attained enlightenment or Nirvana on this day.

Know the significance of Baisakhi, the harvest festival of Punjab

Every country in this world has different cultures and traditions- and as a result different <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=harvest+festival">festivals</a>, but sometimes all of them do end up having festivals with the same themes. 
 
One of that is the theme of a harvest festival. A harvest festival is generally a celebration of an annual harvest, which generally happens during the time of the main harvest of the particular region. 
 
As <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=india">India</a> celebrates its harvest festival in the form of <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=makar+sankranti">Makar Sankranti </a>on January 15, we round up seven other countries that also have their version of a harvest festival and dig deep into how they are celebrated. 
 
Hop on this journey across the world, with Business Insider!

As India celebrates Makar Sankranti, here are how 7 countries across the world celebrate harvest festivals

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<div class="KonaFilter image-container float_right"><div class="image on-image"><a href="http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/two-women-share-a-laugh-as-they-drink-their-first-beer-at-news-photo/104238747">Miguel Villagran/Getty Images</a></div></div>Our experts round-up the best <keyword id="6359860" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="beer">beer</keyword> and <keyword id="4894" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="60" keywordseo="wine">wine</keyword> festivals from around the world.
Bandol Wine Festival, Provence
The Fête-du-Millésime is a jolly affair in the French manner - a little place letting rip in a big way. Wine growers put on fancy dress to show off the year's vintage straight from the barrel. These aren't finished wines - the rosés and whites, for instance, won't be ready until next spring .
These are the works in progress, and they will indicate how the vintage will turn out. Then, if you wish to tackle proper, bottled Bandol wines, you may visit the Maison des Vins opposite the casino or, as I was doing, go inland to call on the growers.
When? November 30-December 1, 2013 Details: <a href="http://vinsdebandol.com">vinsdebandol.com</a>
Wine Down Under
During the first quarter of the year Australia uncorks its finest wines across Victoria to Tasmania, but it is the verdant plains of South Australia that hold some of the very best, starting with the Crush Festival in the Adelaide Hills, where 30 wineries open up cellar doors. This is followed by the Harvest Festival McLaren Vale, which celebrates the region's finest food, wines, music and art. The climax, however, is the Cellar Door Wine Festival in Adelaide, which offers unlimited tastings from more than 150 wineries across the Barossa Valley, McLaren Vale, Coonawarra and the Limestone Coast.
When? January-February 2014 Details: <a href="http://australia.com">australia.com</a>
Mosel wine festivals
Although most European wine festivals are held in the autumn, the partying starts early in the picturesque towns, villages and vineyards lining the banks of the Moselle, with a host of festivals getting under way in the spring. Whether it is celebrating the best of the new wine from the most recent harvest or larger affairs involving local foods, music and the crowning of a wine queen, the region celebrates its finest product in style - and, in vino veritas, shows a gentler side to the Germans at play.
When? The festivals start around Easter and run until the end of September 2014 Details: <a href="http://traben-trarbach.de">traben-trarbach.de</a>
Sherry Festival
The festival celebrating the grape harvest, and autumn in general, combines with the feast of the Nativity of Our Lady in Jerez to provide an excuse for up to three weeks of partying, involving sherry-drinking, horse-riding displays and flamenco dancing. The main events usually open with a grand procession in which the newly crowned Queen of the Vintage, surrounded by "handmaidens", is carted around the town, finally arriving in the Plaza de Arenal.
When? Around September 8 2014 (provisional) Details:<a href="http://turismojerez.com">turismojerez.com</a>
Chianti Wine Festivals
On the second and third long weekends in September (Thursday to Sunday), two of Chianti's main wine enclaves celebrate the forthcoming harvest with street music, food and the opportunity to taste Chianti Classicos from plenty of local producers. Of the two, Panzano's "Vino al Vino" event offers the greatest range of wines and festivities.
When? September 11-14 2014 (Greve); September 18-21 2014 (Panzano). Details:<a href="http://greve-in-chianti.com">greve-in-chianti.com</a> ; <a href="http://vinoalvinopanzano.com">vinoalvinopanzano.com</a>
Munich Oktoberfest
The mother of all beer festivals, this one commemorates the wedding in October 1810 of Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria and Princess Therese of Saxony-Hildburghausen and now attracts six million visitors a year. The beers, all of which are brewed in Munich, are served only in stonking great litre glasses and are accompanied by roast chicken and giant pretzels. Oompah music and thigh- slapping Bavarians dressed in lederhosen and dirndls are the order of the day.
When: September 20-October 5 2014 Details: <a href="http://oktoberfest.eu">oktoberfest.eu</a> ; <a href="http://muenchen-tourist.de">muenchen-tourist.de</a>
Compiled by Anthony Peregrine, Charles Starmer-Smith, Adrian Bridge, Nick Trend and Lee Marshall

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<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div></div></div>On Sunday, Stephen Paddock <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/las-vegas-gunman-paddock-hotel-mandalay-bay-shooting-2017-10">killed 59 people</a> and injured more than 520 others when he opened fire from a broken hotel window on the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas, Nevada.Police have now <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/las-vegas-shooting-chance-the-rapper-lorde-concert-2017-10">confirmed reports</a> that, one week prior to the Route 91 attack, Paddock rented a room overlooking another Las Vegas festival, <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=4&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=0ahUKEwim3qLJ09nWAhUDOCYKHTHKAOEQFgg4MAM&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Flifeisbeautiful.com%2F&amp;usg=AOvVaw0orxMz6kBjEpXJo7owyiZw">Life Is Beautiful</a>.&#xa0;The Life Is Beautiful Festival took place&#xa0;from September 22&#xa0;to 24, and featured artists like&#xa0;Chance the Rapper, Lorde, Gorillaz, and the xx.The Daily Beast <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/las-vegas-gunman-stephen-paddock-may-have-first-planned-to-attack-chance-the-rapper-and-lorde-concert">first reported</a> that Paddock&#xa0;may have&#xa0;initially targeted the Life Is Beautiful festival&#xa0;when he&#xa0;rented multiple condos at the Ogden, a&#xa0;luxury condominium tower with a line of sight to the concert&#xa0;grounds.&#xa0;Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo&#xa0;confirmed the report&#xa0;in a press conference on Wednesday. He stated that it's unclear why Paddock rented a room at the Ogden. "Was he doing pre-surveillance? We don't know yet,"&#xa0;Lombardo said.Last&#xa0;Thursday, days after the Life Is Beautiful festival, Paddock checked into a room on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino.Three days later, from a broken window in his room, he shot into a crowd of about 22,000 concertgoers during the performance of the Route 91 Harvest festival's headliner, Jason Aldean. It was&#xa0;the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history.Police found Paddock dead in his Mandalay Bay room and recovered a total of 42 guns from&#xa0;his home and hotel room. His&#xa0;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/what-was-stephen-paddock-motive-las-vegas-shooting-2017-10">motive remains unclear</a>.<div></div> <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/google-pixel-vs-iphone-x-2017-10">Google Pixel 2 vs iPhone X: The biggest differences between the two</a></h3> <div> </div> </div>

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<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"></div></div></div>On Sumba, a remote island in the Indonesian archipelago, natives continue to celebrate their most ancient traditions. The most important of these is the Pasola, an annual festival to celebrate the harvest. 
The Pasola festival is a brutal war ritual that pits two neighboring tribes against each other. Men of age ride on horseback throwing spears, with a deadly intent to spill blood onto the soil. Without blood, the Sumbanese believe, the harvest will be bad. 
Photographer James Morgan recently traveled to Sumba to document the festival. He has shared some of his photos with us here, but<a href="http://www.jamesmorgan.co.uk/"> you can check out the rest at his website</a>. 
<h4 class="p1">Editor's Warning: Images in this slideshow may be considered graphic by some readers.</h4>

The people on this remote Indonesian island still practice blood sacrifice 

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 Those in love with gourmet food are also looking forward to the celebrations. Start your evening with some spicy chat and tikka; wash it down with a Patiala peg or two or some sweet/salty lassi, and move on to a sumptuous dinner of <keyword id="2012392" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Makhani-di-dal">makhani di dal</keyword>, <keyword id="460117" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="sarson-da-saag">sarson da saag</keyword> and <keyword id="2012393" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Makki-di-roti">makki di roti</keyword> (more here on <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/Top-Indian-Foods-For-Your-Palate-Must-try-Items-FromEvery-State/articleshow/22515429.cms">top Indian foods</a>), followed by the traditional dessert – <keyword id="2012394" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Gajar-da-halwa">gajar da halwa</keyword> or <keyword id="2012395" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Mong-dal-da-halwa">mong dal da halwa</keyword>. 
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With so many festivities coming up in the next few days, we wish all our readers happiness, prosperity, and most importantly, a thawing of the heart. Our emotions freeze up at times; our sensitivity becomes numb and our empathy well often runs dry. So what better time is there than today for a renewal of self? That’s what Lohri or the bonfire celebration is all about – it tells us to thaw out our hearts and celebrate a fresh start, a new cycle of life.

Happy
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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Worshippers climbed <keyword id="486777" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Mount-Bromo">Mount Bromo</keyword> to throw offerings into the active volcano. </li><li>The offerings are made as part of the annual Yadnya Kasada festival. </li><li>The practice dates back to a 15-century legend. </li></ul>Thousands of locals climbed Mount Bromo - one of <keyword id="8692" type="COUNTRY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Indonesia">Indonesia</keyword>'s <a href="https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/blink/takeaway/finding-mount-bromo/article34758661.ece">most active volcanos</a> - on Saturday to perform a centuries-old sacrificial ritual, which involves livestock, <a href="https://malaysia.news.yahoo.com/thousands-climb-indonesian-volcano-ritual-122749948.html">according to AFP</a>.Members of the Tengger tribe gather on Mount Bromo from the surrounding highlands as part of the annual <keyword id="6368818" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="hindu">Hindu</keyword> festival Yadnya Kasada and cast livestock such as chickens and goats and rice, fruit, and other items into the smoking crater as offerings to Hindu Gods.The origins of the month-long festival date back to the 15th-century legend of Javanese Princess Roro and her husband. The legend says the Hindu gods granted the couple 24 children after years of struggling to conceive but on the provision that their 25th child must be thrown into the volcano as a sacrifice. The tradition of throwing sacrifices into the volcano to appease Hindu Gods continues today, but locals offer up their harvest instead of humans."I brought these crops so that my fields will be fertile and I have a good harvest," one worshipper told AFP. "I come here every year."Another worshipper said: "I brought these crops so that my fields will be fertile and I have a good harvest." Other locals who are not members of the Tengger tribe can often be seen standing inside the volcano's crater, attempting to catch the offerings with nets before they descend into the active pit. This is not an official part of the Yadnya Kasada festival but is orchestrated to ensure the offerings aren't wasted, <a href="https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/1495582/ritual-sacrifice-draws-crowds-to-indonesia-volcano">according to local media reports</a>. <div type="image" title="People try to catch offerings thrown by Tengger tribe people off the summit of the active Mount Bromo volcano" height="3280" width="4928" msid="83891920" hostid="261"></div>Saturday was the second time that the Yadnya Kasada festival had taken place since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. "Organizers applied strict health protocols and they've been tested for the virus so we can protect everyone who attended," Bambang Suprapto, head of the local Hindu community association, told AFP.In recent years, the Yadnya Kasada festival has become a more elaborate and tourist-friendly attraction with the help of the local government. In 2019, the traditional rituals were accompanied by visual art and musical performances.

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<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Noam Galai/GettyLorde performing in 2017.</div></div></div>Before committing the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas Sunday night, Stephen Paddock may have had his eyes set on a different Las Vegas music festival, according to <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/las-vegas-gunman-stephen-paddock-may-have-first-planned-to-attack-chance-the-rapper-and-lorde-concert">The Daily Beast</a>.A law enforcement source told the outlet that Paddock had rented condos overlooking the <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjA-7vPmNXWAhVC6yYKHeahBNsQFggmMAA&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Flifeisbeautiful.com%2F&amp;usg=AOvVaw0orxMz6kBjEpXJo7owyiZw">Life Is Beautiful Festival</a>, which took place in Las Vegas in late August. The annual festival was headlined this year by Chance the Rapper and Lorde.Weeks after the Life Is Beautiful Festival, Paddock checked into a room in the Mandalay Bay hotel on September 28. Three days later, from a broken window, his shooting spree <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/las-vegas-gunman-paddock-hotel-mandalay-bay-shooting-2017-10">left</a> 59 people dead and more than 500 others injured in an estimated crowd of 22,000 concertgoers during the performance of Route 91's headlining act, Jason Aldean. Police recovered a total of 42 guns from Paddock's home and hotel room. <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/what-was-stephen-paddock-motive-las-vegas-shooting-2017-10">His motive</a> remains unclear. <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/super-mario-odyssey-play-nintendo-2017-9">We played the highly-anticipated new Super Mario game and were blown away</a></h3> <div> </div> </div>

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President Trump condemned the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/las-vegas-shooting-reports-of-gunman-at-mandalay-bay-casino-2017-10">mass shooting</a> in Las Vegas and offered his condolences to victims and families.At least 50 people were killed and more than 400 were injured Sunday night in Las Vegas in the deadliest shooting in modern US history.A gunman opened fire from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, aiming into a tightly packed crowd of thousands below who were attending a country music festival.The shooter, armed with what appeared to be at least one automatic weapon, used the elevated vantage point to fire into the crowds across the Las Vegas Strip at the Route 91 Harvest festival, where <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/las-vegas-shooting-jason-aldean-says-attack-beyond-horrific-2017-10" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Jason Aldean was onstage</a>.

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The <keyword id="34478" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="auto-industry">auto industry</keyword> is expecting a cracker festival season in the backdrop of good monsoons and the seventh pay commission. 
 
Automakers are hoping for bumper sales as consumers are lining up at different companies ahead of Dussehra and Diwali. 
 For instance, <keyword id="44883" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Maruti-Suzuki">Maruti Suzuki</keyword> registered over 29% increase in September dispatches. Among others, Maruti’s Baleno and Vitara Brezza are selling like hot cakes. 
 
"The industry should see good demand during the festivals this year. The turnaround has taken place in rural markets and the momentum is expected to improve over the coming months once harvest takes place,” RS Kalsi, executive director for sales and marketing at Maruti Suzuki, told ET. 
 
During the festive season, the auto industry reports a surge in sales. During last year Dussehra and Diwali, the passenger vehicle sales increased by 21% to about 2,68,000 units. 
 "Festive season will be good this year. But wholesale growth should be read for September and October together as stocks have been built at dealerships over the last one month. Besides, there are several holidays with Dussehra and Diwali all falling in October this year, which may pose challenges in production,” N Raja, director for sales and marketing at <keyword id="118748" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Toyota-Kirloskar-Motor">Toyota Kirloskar Motor</keyword>, told ET. 
 <keyword id="596" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Hyundai">Hyundai</keyword> is also hoping for a 25% increase in India sales this festival month. 
 
Rakesh Srivastava, the India head for sales and marketing, said, “Monsoon rains that have been evenly spread which bettered sentiments in rural markets, and the salary hike that has put more money in the hands of government employees, as the key reasons for the optimism.” 
Manufacturers of two-wheelers also expect the growth curve to go upwards. 
 Ashok Bhasin, head of sales, marketing and customer care at <keyword id="6357252" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Hero-MotoCorp">Hero MotoCorp</keyword>, told ET, “The company has seen a good start to the season with the Onam in Kerala. There are green shoots in rural markets. This is based on sentiment right now, but once the harvest is in, there should be strong demand over the next few months.” 
 
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Auto industry is expecting the growth curve to go upwards this festive season

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Getty ImagesEric Church.</div></div></div><ul><li>Country singer Eric Church discussed the October 2017 mass shooting that took place at the Las Vegas Route 91 Harvest Festival in a new interview with Rolling Stone.</li><li>In the interview, Church, who was a headlining performer at the festival last year, placed blame on the National Riffle Association and gun lobbyists for being a "roadblock" to safety.</li><li>"I blame the lobbyists. And the biggest in the gun world is the NRA," he said.</li></ul>Country singer Eric Church was one of the headlining performers at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas last October, where a gunman opened fire on a crowd during the performance of headliner Jason Aldean and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/las-vegas-gunman-paddock-hotel-mandalay-bay-shooting-2017-10">killed 59 people in the deadliest mass shooting</a> in US history. In a new interview with Rolling Stone, Church discussed the Vegas shooting and placed blame on the National Rifle Association and gun lobbyists for being a "roadblock" to safety."There are some things we can't stop," he said. "Like the disgruntled kid who takes his dad's shotgun and walks into a high school. But we could have stopped the guy in Vegas."He added: "I blame the lobbyists. And the biggest in the gun world is the NRA."Church, who paid tribute to the victims of the shooting in <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/eric-church-breaks-down-in-tribute-to-las-vegas-shooting-victims-2017-10">a moving performance at the Grand Ole Opry</a> in October, days after the shooting, told Rolling Stone that he is not a member of the NRA, but that he considers himself "a Second Amendment guy.""I feel like they've been a bit of a roadblock," Church said of the NRA. "I don't care who you are - you shouldn't have that kind of power over elected officials. To me it's cut-and-dried: The gun-show [loophole] would not exist if it weren't for the NRA, so at this point in time, if I was an NRA member, I would think I had more of a problem than the solution. I would question myself real hard about what I wanted to be in the next three, four, five years."Church performed two days before the shooting took place and was not at the festival when it occurred. He said that the shooting changed his perspective on guns "a little.""As a gun guy, the number of rounds [the shooter] fired was un-f------believable to me," Church said. "I saw a video on YouTube from the police officer's vest cam, and it sounded like an army was up there. I don't think our forefathers ever thought the right to bear arms was that."The NRA did not respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.<a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/eric-church-desperate-man-nashville-country-700750/">Read the interview here.</a> <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/miz-cracker-drag-queen-makeup-tutorial-ru-paul-drag-race-2018-6">Miz Cracker from 'RuPaul's Drag Race' shows her drag queen makeup routine</a></h3> <div> </div> </div>

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<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">David Becker / GettyThe scene from the Las Vegas shooting in October 2017.</div></div></div><ul class="summary-list"><li>People who survived the deadliest mass shooting in US history at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas in October 2017 were reportedly present at Thursday's <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/thousand-oaks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shooting in Thousand Oaks</a>, California.</li><li>Thursday's shooting at the Borderline Bar &amp; Grill, about 45 miles northwest of Los Angeles, left 13 people - including the gunman and a police officer - dead, making it the 15th deadliest mass shooting in US history.</li><li>The Las Vegas shooting was the deadliest shooting in US history, and it targeted the same type of crowd in the same region as Thursday's shooting.</li></ul>People who survived the deadliest mass shooting in US history at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas in October 2017, reportedly were present at Thursday's shooting at a college bar in Thousand Oaks California.Thursday's shooting at the Borderline Bar &amp; Grill, about 45 miles northwest of Los Angeles, left 13 people, including the gunman and a police officer, dead. It is tied for the 15th deadliest mass shooting in US history. "A lot of people in the Route 91 situation go here," <a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-borderline-mass-shooting-scene-20181108-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chandler Gunn, 23, of Newbury Park, California told the Los Angeles Times</a> of the Borderline Bar &amp; Grill.The bar holds a college night on Wednesdays, and witnesses reported the bar hosting line dancing and country music, similar to the theme of the festival in <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/timeline-shows-exactly-how-the-las-vegas-massacre-unfolded-2017-10" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Las Vegas that saw a lone shooter open fire</a> with an arsenal of more than 20 rifles on the unsuspecting crowd."There's people that live a whole lifetime without seeing this, and then there's people that have seen it twice," Gunn told the LA Times.Read more: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/thousand-oaks-shooting-california-2018-11" target="_blank" rel="noopener">What happened at the Thousand Oaks shooting</a>Witnesses who spoke to <a href="https://abc7.com/thousand-oaks-mass-shooting-13-dead-including-gunman/4644573/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">KABC</a>, a local <keyword id="6355005" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="news">news</keyword> outlet, also reported that Route 91 survivors had been present at the shooting, and that it was usually packed with nearby students on a Wednesday night.Savannah Stafseth, who was outside on the porch when the shooting started, told the LA Times that the bar was "insanely crowded.""There are no words. Those are my people. It's just not fair. It's not fair," Stafseth said. "All these people after Route 91. It's not fair."As of 8 a.m. ET on Thursday morning, the victims of the Thousand Oaks shooting have not been identified. Friends and family of the bar-goers have gathered at a nearby gas station awaiting word from their loved ones.

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