Mardi Gras

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Mardi gras is once a year so don't come and spend all your money , you do have a life outside of new Orleans and bills. Do not carry cash on you no more than 50 dollars..Remember you "left your wallet at the hotel room"... bring a debit card with you. remember carry no cash!

This coming Tuesday, March 8th.

Hi, Shrove Tuesday is always the day before Ash Wednesday. In 1934, Ash Wednesday fell on Wed, 14th Feb, so Shrove Tuesday was therefore on Tues, 13th Feb. Check out www.calendarhome.com for a handy 1934 calendar, with Ash Wednesday highlighted.

It is on the last day of feasting right before Lent. This year it falls on Tuesday, February 12. It varies year to year. Every year, however it will always be on a Tuesday. After all, "Mardi Gras" does mean "Fat Tuesday".

Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent

Because they banned throwing Cracker Jacks because the boxes they came in had sharp of corners. They found Moonpies could be tossed farther into the crowd with less chance of injury, or damage to the treat.

Mardi Gras was brought to Louisiana by early French settlers. The first record of the holiday being celebrated in Louisiana is 1699. During Mardi Gras of 1857 the Mistick Krewe of Comus held its first parade. Comus is the oldest active Mardi Gras organization and started a number of continuing traditions such as the use of floats in parades. In 1875 Mardi Gras was declared a legal holiday by the state of Louisiana. War, economic, political, and weather conditions sometimes led to cancellation of some or all major parades, but celebration of Carnival has always been observed in New Orleans. In 1979 the New Orleans police department went on strike. All the official parades were canceled or moved to surrounding communities. Fewer tourists than usual came to the city. Masking, costuming, and celebrations continued anyway. National Guardsmen prevented crimes against persons or property but made no attempt to enforce laws regulating morality or drug use. For these reasons, some in the French Quarter community are fond of calling 1979 the city's best Mardi Gras ever. The effects of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 definitely had an impact on Mardi Gras. Most of the locals who worked on the floats and rode on them were significantly impacted by the storm's aftermath. Many had lost most or all of the possessions in their homes, but enthusiasm for Carnival was even more intense as an affirmation of life. The themes of many costumes and floats had more barbed satire, with commentary on the trials and tribulations of living in the devastated city. There were mocking references made to MREs, FEMA trailers, Katrina refrigerators, FEMA, local, and national politicians. In the last decade of the 20th century, commercial videos helped encourage a tradition of females baring breasts in exchange for beads and trinkets. During Mardi Gras, women showing their breasts is documented since 1889, when the Times-Democrat decried the "degree of immodesty exhibited by nearly all female masqueraders seen on the streets." The practice was mostly limited to tourists in the upper Bourbon Street area. Until recent years, New Orleans police tolerated women flashing their breasts in the French Quarter if the display did not cause public disruption, but would arrest people for more explicit nudity, particularly "below the waist". In the last couple of years, police have been cracking down on such actions, reasoning that flashing can incite acts of indecency against women who expose themselves. Outside of the French Quarter, attitudes are much less lenient. While many visiting tourists think of Mardi Gras as an "adult" holiday, for most local residents it is a time of family traditions. Many view the parades mainly as sources of enjoyment for children. Parents with young children gather along the parade routes Uptown and in Mid City.

So people could over drink, over eat and have wild parties before they ask for forgiveness on Ash Wednesday. That's why Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday) is always the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday. Then Lent, time to fast until Easter.

I would have to say that French Explorer Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville created Mardi Gras in New Orleans.

But basically the Christians (Roman Catholic Church) created it.

To celebrate the start of Lent.

If you translate Mardi Gras to English it means Fat Tuesday.

New Orleans, Louisiana is the largest, St Louis, MO is second.

And Galveston, Texas.

Mardi gras is not a city. It is a French term that means Fat Tuesday. It refers to the day before Ash Wednesday, the first day in the Christian period of Lent, the 40 days before Easter. It is now used for the period of time between the day of Epiphany and Ash Wednesday. Epiphany is the day the Wise Men or Magi came to visit the baby Jesus after he was born. It comes 12 days after Christmas. Other places, such as Mobile, Alabama, also celebrate Mardi Gras.

Mardi Gras was canceled twice since it was first celebrated in a settlement called the Fort Louis de la Mobile (1703).

The first time it was stopped was in 1862 because of the Civil war, it started back up in 1872.

The second time in 1918 was because of World War 1, and the start of the Great Depression.

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The day before Lent begins is called Shrove Tuesday.

'Shrove' means being forgiven for wrong-doings or sins. Shrove Tuesday is also known as Pancake Day. Long ago this was a day for feasting and having a good time. People would go to church to confess their sins and would be 'shriven' or forgiven before the start of Lent. Since rich foods such as eggs were forbidden during Lent, one way of using them up would be to make pancakes.

1. It is believed that Mardi Gras came to America in the year 1699 with the French explorer Sieur d'Iberville.
2. Mardi Gras is not only celebrated in New Orleans but, in the US is also celebrated in these places: Galveston, Texas, Biloxi, Mississippi, Mobile, Alabama, Pensacola, Florida, and Port Arthur, Texas.
3. Mardi Grasis also celebrated in places outside of the US. These places include: Rio de Janeiro and also Sao Palo, Venice.
4. In Mardi Gras Parades, floats are decorated and people with people wearing big and colorful costumes are riding them.
5. The people who are riding the floats throw away the beads and necklaces towards the crowd, which they collect as souvenirs.
6. The official colors of Mardi Gras are purple, green and gold. Purple for justice, green for faith and gold for power.
7. Mardi Gras literally means "fat Tuesday".
8. Mardi Gras is the day before Ash Wednesday.
9. The Mardi Gras season begins on January 6 and continues until Fat Tuesday.
10. Mardi Gras is a legal holiday in Louisiana.

Election to the House of Lords - an institution that goes back much further than the House of Commons, back to the old Saxon Assemblies.

You may be elected by hereditary means, usually as the son of the previous peer of that creation, but sometimes as a distantcousin, if the mainline had died out. (And there are some comic reports of very humble folk, sometimes living abroad,receiving the news that they had just become Peers of the Realm!)

The other means of election is aLife Peerage, which does not pass-on to the descendants.

As we write, there has been new legislation (in the UK)about Royal Princesses enjoying equal rights of succession to theirmale counterparts. This will probably soon apply to Peers' daughters.

40 days after mardi gras comes palm sunday then the next week is easter sunday. So 47 technically

Mardi Gras arrived in North America with the Le Moyne brothers, Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville and Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, in the late 17th century, when King Louis XIV sent the pair to defend France's claim on the territory of Louisiane. The expedition, led by Iberville, entered the mouth of the Mississippi River on the evening of March 2, 1699, Lundi Gras, not yet knowing it was the river explored and claimed for France by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle in 1683. The party proceeded upstream to a place on the west bank about 60 miles downriver from where New Orleans is today, where a small tributary emptied into the great river, and made camp. This was on March 3, 1699, Mardi Gras day, so in honor of this holiday, Iberville named the spot Point du Mardi Gras (French: "Mardi Gras Point") and called the small tributary Bayou Mardi Gras. Even today the most famous Mardi Gras celebrations are held in Louisiana, although other states have much smaller celebrations as well. New Orleans is generally considered to have the largest and most festive celebration, with the Cajun city of Lafayette close behind. In short, it all started in Louisiana...

It's Catholic. It was to celebrate the day before Lent when all the meat had to be eaten, because you couldn't eat meat during Lent back then. They would have a big party and eat all of their meat

Mardi Gras was first celebrated in Mobile, Al.

One day. Its is on the day before Ash Wednesday and you feast and feast because you (if you are over 18 or if you want) fast on Ash Wednesday as a sign to show Jesus that we can give up somethings if he can give up his life to save mankind from sin.

people have there own ways of dressing up :)

The duration of Shrove Tuesday - The Legend Of Pancake Marion - is 1320.0 seconds.