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Carnival is a four day festival which marks the arival of Lent...Lent is lasts 40 days and ends on Easter Sunday. Lent is when Roman Catholics abstain from pleasures from the flesh including the consumption of meat. In fact, the word carnival comes form the Latin word "carne-vale"-to put away the flesh.

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