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The first Thames Festival took place in September, 1997. It started with an amazing high wire walk across the Thames and was a great success. 

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Today, the Thames Festival has become London's

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biggest free outdoor arts festival.

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The most spectacular part of the festival is the Sunday night carnival.

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A huge 6­metre tall puppet of Lady Godiva leads the carnival. Lady Godiva lived in the 11th century and was the wife of an English earl.

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According to legend, she asked her husband to lower taxes on the people of Coventry and he said he would do it if she rode her horse naked through the town.

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She did this, and the taxes were lowered.

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The carnival usually is followed by a beautiful fireworks display,

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lighting up the whole sky with the brightest of colours.        

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