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known as the three kings day

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~ More than 500,000 king cakes are sold each year in New Orleans between January 6 and Fat Tuesday, and another 50,000 are shipped out-of-state via overnight courier.
~An economic impact study released by the University of New Orleans estimates that Mardi Gras generates over $840 million annually.

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Mardi Gras in Mobile is the annual Carnival celebration in Mobile, Alabama. It is the oldest annual Carnival celebration in the United States, started by Frenchman Nicholas Langlois in 1703. This was fifteen years before New Orleans was founded, although today their celebrations are much more widely known.

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PARADES ARE PLANNED BY ‘KREWES’

MASKS ARE REQUIRED BY LAW FOR FLOAT RIDERS

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Mardi Gras (/ˈmɑːrdiɡrɑː/), also called Shrove Tuesday, or Fat Tuesday, in English, refers to events of the Carnival celebrations, beginning on or after the Christian feasts of the Epiphany (Three Kings Day) and culminating on the day before Ash Wednesday.

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Carnival celebrations

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mask are required byt float riders

First parade was 177 years ago.

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Mardi gra
also called Shrove Tuesday, or Fat Tuesday, in English, refers to events of the Carnival celebrations, beginning on or after the Christian feasts of the Epiphany (Three Kings Day) and culminating on the day before Ash Wednesday.

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New Orleans has been celebrating Fat Tuesday with parades since 1837. The first floats appeared in the parade in 1857.

King’s cake (or three kings cake), is eaten throughout the world during carnival season. In the US, it is traditionally purple, green, and gold, with a trinket baby Jesus inside. Whoever gets the baby Jesus is said to have good luck all year!

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The millions of colorful beaded necklaces thrown from floats are the most visible symbols and souvenirs of Mardi Gras.

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Mardi Gras is the last Tuesday before ash wednesday

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its on a tuesday before ash wednesday celebrated in southern louisiana

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MARDI GRAS IS ALWAYS THE TUESDAY BEFORE ASH WEDNESDAY

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More than 500,000 kings cake are sold each year.

There is a five truck parade that follows afterwards.

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The holiday of Mardi Gras is celebrated in Southern Louisiana, although celebrations are concentrated for about two weeks before and through Shrove Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday. Usually there is one major parade each day (weather permitting); many days have several large parades.

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вторник на масляной неделе is how you say mardi gras in Russian

Also mardi gras is a carnival in mexico.

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first became a holiday in 1582 and is celebrated in New Orleans and Rio de Janeiro

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before ASH Wednesday

Beads have been a tradition since 1900ś

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Mardi gra
also called Shrove Tuesday, or Fat Tuesday, in English, refers to events of the Carnival celebrations, beginning on or after the Christian feasts of the Epiphany (Three Kings Day) and culminating on the day before Ash Wednesday.

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-Became a holiday in 1582
-Highly international holiday, celebrated in germany, Italy, etc.

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Mardi Gras means Fat Tuesday in French

First Mardi Gras was celebrated 177 years ago

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Mardi Gras is also known as "pancake Day"

"Karneval" in German

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Bryan Faryadi. Beards have been a tradition since the early 1900s.

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Bryan Faryadi. Beards have been a tradition since the early 1900s.

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The first New Orleans Mardi Gras parade was 177 years ago.

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Mardi Gras' colors are purple, and green

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mardi gras marks end of carnival season. Kings cake is eaten throughout carnival season.

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also called Shrove Tuesday, or Fat Tuesday, in English, refers to events of the Carnival celebrations, beginning on or after the Christian feasts of the Epiphany (Three Kings Day) and culminating on the day before Ash Wednesday.

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Many historians believe that the first American Mardi Gras took place on March 3, 1699, when the French explorers Iberville and Bienville landed in what is now Louisiana, just south of the holiday's future epicenter:New Orleans. They held a small celebration and dubbed the spot Point du Mardi Gras.