Mardi Gras Beads Displays and Dragons

Mardi Gras Beads Displays and Dragons. Public Domain ClipArt Stock Photos. Title: Mardi Gras beads hang in a tree for weeks after Mardi Gras in Mobile, Alabama. Creator(s): Highsmith, Carol M., 1946-, photographer. Date Created / Published: 2010 February 14.

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"Mardi Gras" "Mardi Gras season", "Fat Tuesday" and "Carnival season", in English, refer to events of the Carnival celebrations, beginning on or after the Epiphany or Kings day and culminating on the day before Ash Wednesday.

Mardi Gras Beads

Mardi Gras is French for Fat Tuesday, referring to the practice of the last night of eating richer, fatty foods before the ritual fasting of the Lenten season, which begins on Ash Wednesday. The day is sometimes referred to as Shrove Tuesday, from the word shrive, meaning "confess."

Mardi Gras displays and details in store windows and cast iron during the Mardi Gras season in Mobile, Alabama.

Mardi Gras began in Mobile, Alabama in 1703 when it was a colony of French soldiers. Colorful beads and Moon Pies (two large cookies with marshmellow in between and covered with various flavors of chocolate) are thrown from the floats.

Mardi Gras displays and details in store windows during the Mardi Gras season in Mobile, Alabama.

Mardi Gras, Mobile, Alabama. Mardi Gras Watchmen Rorschach

Mardi Gras Fat Tuesday

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Mardi Gras French Quarter

Title: Details in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. Creator(s): Highsmith, Carol M., 1946-, photographer. Date Created / Published: 2011 March 7. Medium: 1 photograph : digital, TIFF file, color. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-highsm-11685 (original digital file)

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Mardi Gras Parade, New Orleans, Louisiana

Mardi Gras Parade, New Orleans, Louisiana. Public Domain ClipArt Stock Photos and Images. Title: Mardi Gras Parade, New Orleans, Louisiana, a few months after Hurricane Katrina.

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Mardi Gras New Orleans

Mardi Gras New Orleans. Title: Metropolitan Magazine, Volume 23. Publisher: Re-published by Peck and Newton, 1905. Original: from the University of Michigan, Digitized: Dec 4, 2008. ILLUSTRATED BY JOHN P. PEMBERTON At Mardi Gras time, when the whole city is metamorphosed into a scene of revelry, when serious things are laid aside for a time and the spirit of carnival is abroad. This Image (or other media file) is in the public domain because its copyright has expired.

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Mardi Gras Carnival Procession

Mardi Gras Carnival Procession Leeds West Indian Carnival Procession, 2008. Harehills and Chapeltown. 25 August 2008. I (Chemical Engineer), the copyright holder of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. This applies worldwide. In case this is not legally possible: I (Chemical Engineer) grant anyone the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law.

Carnival. Carnival is the season between Twelfth Night and Lent. It is the gayest season of the year in New Orleans, the climax being reached by the costly festivities of Mardi Gras, "fat Tuesday," the eve of Ash Wednesday. The name "Carnival" is derived from two Latin words "carne," "flesh," and "vale," "farewell," hence " farewell to the flesh"; the pleasures of "carnival" are a gay good-by to the flesh which is to be mortified during the penitential season of Lent.

Carnival is of pagan origin. The Romans celebrated the feast of the Pastoral god, Lupercus, on February 15th; goats were sacrificed and two youths clothed in goat skins ran

through the streets hitting with leather thongs the persons they met. The celebration in modified form was kept by the Christian Romans and has been continued to the present day. The custom spread from Rome to other places. New Orleans adopted the Carnival from Paris, but has improved upon it so greatly, that, today, her Carnival is the most noted in the world. The brilliant balls and gorgeous pageants of the last week of Carnival annually attract thousands of visitors to the hospitable metropolis of the Southland.

The custom of having pageants reproducing scenes from history, literature, or art, by means of gorgeously decorated floats was introduced into New Orleans from Mobile. In 1831, an organization of Mobile known as the "Cowbellions," held the first parade of the kind in America.

The Mystic Krewe of Comus was the first to delight the populace of New Orleans by its appearance in the streets. In 1857, they presented scenes from Milton's "Paradise Lost" and then repaired to the old Varieties Theatre for the grand ball with which they entertained their more intimate friends. This merry god and his court annually parade in exquisitely artistic guise in the evening of Mardi Gras; their ball later at the French Opera House is the climax andclose of the brilliant social season.

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Mardi Gras Carnival Masks

The Venice Carnival (Mardi Gras) is one of the most famous and one of the oldest celebrations in the world. The Carnival of Venice (or Carnevale di Venezia in Italian) was first recorded in 1268. The subversive nature of the festival is reflected in the many laws created over the centuries attempting to restrict celebrations and often banning the wearing of masks.

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Mardi Gras Masks

Mardi Gras Masks, The Paper House 73d and Amsterdam NYC.

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Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Louisiana is one of the most famous Carnival celebrations in the world (also see: Mardi Gras).

The New Orleans Carnival season, with roots in the start of the Catholic season of Lent, starts on Twelfth Night (January 6). The season of parades, balls (some of them masquerade balls), and king cake parties begins on that date.

From about two weeks before, through Fat Tuesday, there is at least one major parade each day. The largest and most elaborate parades take place the last five days of the season. In the final week of Carnival many events large and small occur throughout New Orleans and surrounding communities.

The parades in New Orleans are organized by Carnival krewes. Krewe float riders toss throws to the crowds; the most common throws are strings, usually made of plastic colorful beads, doubloons (aluminium or wooden dollar-sized coins usually impressed with a krewe logo), decorated plastic throw cups, and small inexpensive toys. Major krewes follow the same parade schedule and route each year.

While many tourists center their Mardi Gras season activities on Bourbon Street and the French Quarter, none of the major Mardi Gras parades have entered the Quarter since 1972 because of its narrow streets and overhead obstructions. Instead, major parades originate in the Uptown and Mid-City districts and follow a route along St. Charles Avenue and Canal Street, on the upriver side of the French Quarter.

To New Orleanians, "Mardi Gras" refers only to the final and most elaborate day of the Carnival Season; visitors tend to refer to the entire Carnival as "Mardi Gras." Some locals have thus started to refer to the final day of Carnival as "Mardi Gras Day" to avoid confusion.

Costumes and masks are seldom publicly worn by non-Krewe members on the days before Fat Tuesday (other than at parties), but are frequently worn on Mardi Gras Day. Laws against concealing one's identity with a mask are suspended for the day. Banks are closed, and some businesses and other places with security concerns (such as convenience stores) post signs asking people to remove their masks before entering.

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Mardi Gras Lighting

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Mardi Gras, Comus parades

Float design lithograph, Comus Mardi Gras Parade, New Orleans, 1912

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Mistick Krewe of Comus, From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The first Comus parade was held on Mardi Gras 1857, and this became an annual event. Other organizations sprung up in New Orleans in the 19th century inspired by the Comus model and also came to be known as "Krewes".

Parading on Mardi Gras night, Comus was the final parade of the New Orleans carnival season for many years. It was much smaller and more sedate than the other parades of the day put on by Rex and the Zulu Social Aid & Pleasure Club. The Comus parades became known for their sometimes obscure themes relating to ancient history and mythology. While other New Orleans parades might have themes like "Foods of the World" or "Broadway Show Tunes", Comus would present themes like "Serpent Deities of the Ancient Near East".

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Mardi Gras scenery 2, New Orleans, Louisiana

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While beads, costumes, and King Cakes are all great additions to Mardi Gras, the Carnival season wouldn't be where it was today without its famous parades rolling through the streets of New Orleans Mardi Gras Official Site 2007

Mardi Gras, "Mistick Krewe of Comus" Epicurean floats

TITLE: Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans, Tuesday, March 6 - Procession of the "Mistick Krewe of Comus" [Epicurean floats], CALL NUMBER: Illus. in AP2.L52 1867 [Case Y] [P&P]

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Mistick Krewe of Comus, From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

(founded in 1856) is a New Orleans, Louisiana Carnival krewe. Prior to the advent of Comus, Carnival celebrations in New Orleans were mostly confined to the Roman Catholic Creole community, and parades were irregular and often very informally organized.

The Mistick Krewe of Comus also originated another Carnival tradition: the so-called Meeting of the Courts. The practice originated in 1892, when Rex (the King of Carnival) and his Queen paid a formal visit to the throne of Comus. This ritualized meeting eventually evolved into the symbolic conclusion of the Mardi Gras season, a practice which continues to this day.

Although Rex is the titular "King" of Carnival, observers believe that the Meeting of the Courts -- in which Rex leaves his own festivities and is received by a seated Comus at the Mistick Krewe's bal masque -- establishes Comus as the more prestigious of the two organizations in the Carnival hierarchy. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article, Mistick Krewe of Comus.

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Mardi Gras scenery, New Orleans, Louisiana

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Louisiana Ratified a New State Constitution December 8, 1879

Before Europeans settled in Louisiana, Native Americans had lived there for 16,000 years. Although the Spanish were the first Europeans to discover Louisiana, the French were the first to colonize the territory. French Canadians from the colony of Acadia sought refuge in Louisiana during the 1750s and 1760s after being driven out of Canada by the British. The Acadians' descendants, the "Cajuns," culturally dominate much of southern Louisiana. Today, New Orleans is a "melting pot" of French, Spanish, and African cultures, and hosts the colorful Mardi Gras festival each year.

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Mardi Gras, mask, beads, and doubloons

Mardi Gras Season in New Orleans, A Local Legacy. Do you celebrate Fat Tuesday? If you live in New Orleans, Louisiana, or any place else along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, you probably do.

Every year, the people of New Orleans celebrate Mardi Gras, which is French for "Fat Tuesday." This holiday is the day before Ash Wednesday, and it begins a season of fasting, called Lent, for many Christians leading up to Easter Sunday. It's called Fat Tuesday because it's the last day that many people eat meat and fatty foods before Lent begins.

Today, Mardi Gras season in New Orleans is a time of merry-making and festivity. Many clubs in the city, called krewes (pronounced "crews"), sponsor extravagant parades and masked balls in the weeks leading up to Fat Tuesday. It's a lot of fun to try to catch the trinkets that are thrown to the crowds from the parade floats. Every krewe has a king and queen, whose identities are kept secret until the night of the ball. It's all part of the fun and mystery of Mardi Gras.

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