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Mardi Gras
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Mardi Gras

From the custom of using up all the fat in the household before the beginning of Lent) on Shrove Tuesday. A festival was traditionally held on this day in Paris, and there are carnivals in many parts of the world, including New Orleans, Louisiana; Italy; and Brazil.



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Tomorrow will come, as it always does in New Orleans -- Ash Wednesday following Fat Tuesday -- and even Reggie Bush won't be able to sprinkle gold dust and make the city's problems go away.
REBIRTH BEGINS, BUT WHERE WILL IT END? WHERE THE SAINTS COME MARCHING ... by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Bargain hunters and a rally in the semiconductor sector helped to correct a Fat Tuesday sell-off sparked by a cautious outlook provided from Google Inc.
Market diary by Los Angeles Business Journal
Celebrations this year in New Orleans, abbreviated but not abandoned, will culminate on Fat Tuesday, of course, and all eyes in America will focus yet again on what's left of New Orleans as the town pulls itself together for the 2006 celebrations.
It's Mardi Gras time! by Gilmour, Peter / U.S. Catholic
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