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The Mardi Gras season known as "Carnival" commences on Monday, Jan. 6, 2025 and concludes on Fat Tuesday, March 4, 2025. When is Mardi Gras? Fat Tuesday, or Mardi Gras, will take place on March 4 ...
In 2008, the Competitor Group took over Elite Racing, the company that had been organizing the Rock 'n' Roll Marathon. The following year, 2009, an internal audit revealed that the charity in whose name the race had been run, Elite Racing Foundation for Children, Education & Medical Research, had been improperly commingling funds with the for-profit Elite Racing.
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Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday, falls on a different date each year, but it always promises fun and tradition. Get dates for Mardi Gras 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026, 2027
The Knights of Momus ("KOM") were a Mardi Gras society in Galveston, Texas, founded in 1871. [6] The original Knights of Momus went defunct around the time of World War II. A new group was founded in the mid-1980s, and seeking to rekindle the spirit of the original group, adopted the Momus name. The group was named after the Greek god Momus.
Mardi Gras arrived in North America as a sedate French Catholic tradition with the Le Moyne brothers, [3] 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, which included what are now the U.S. states of Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.
What are the dates for Mardi Gras in 2024? Mardi Gras season begins on Jan. 6, the Epiphany, but its duration changes each year based on Easter. It always runs until Fat Tuesday, the day before ...