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2. Mardi Gras is coming. Here's what to know about New Orleans ...

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   Carnival celebrations — parties, fancy masked balls and other markers of the season — may start on Jan. 6, but the big buildup to Mardi Gras happens in New Orleans in the final 12 days of the ...

3. WATCH: Mardi Gras parade, celebrations kick off in New Orleans

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   Tuesday marks Mardi Gras celebrations across the world, including New Orleans, the center of festivities in North America. You can watch a livestream of the city's annual parade and festivities ...

4. As Mardi Gras nears, a beefed-up police presence and a rain ...

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   New Orleans' annual Carnival celebration entered its high-intensity home stretch Friday with a beefed-up police presence and a weather forecast that threatened to disrupt the first of two weekends ...

5. Mardi Gras in New Orleans - Wikipedia

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   James R. Creecy in his book Scenes in the South, and Other Miscellaneous Pieces describes New Orleans Mardi Gras in 1835: [3] The Carnival at New Orleans, 1885. Shrove Tuesday is a day to be remembered by strangers in New Orleans, for that is the day for fun, frolic, and comic masquerading.

6. Super Bowl parade a reminder 'New Orleans is still in business'

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   Mardi Gras floats with bead-tossing revelers cruised through New Orleans on Saturday as the city celebrated its record-tying 11th Super Bowl hosting gig with a stout security presence after a New ...

7. Mardi Gras World - Wikipedia

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   Leviathan float, Krewe of Orpheus, Mardi Gras World. Mardi Gras World (also known as Blaine Kern's Mardi Gras World, MGW) is a tourist attraction located in New Orleans. Guests tour the 300,000 square foot working warehouse where floats are made for Mardi Gras parades in New Orleans. [1] Mardi Gras World is located along the Mississippi River ...

8. Mardi Gras - Wikipedia

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   The party proceeded upstream to a place on the east bank about 60 miles (100 km) downriver from where New Orleans is today, and made camp. This was on 3 March 1699, Mardi Gras, so in honour of this holiday, Iberville named the spot Point du Mardi Gras (French: "Mardi Gras Point") and called the nearby tributary Bayou Mardi Gras. [32]

9. New Orleans' Carnival season marks Fat Tuesday with ... - AOL

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   Festivities marking Mardi Gras, the climactic day of New Orleans’ Carnival season, hit full swing early Tuesday, with costumed revelers gathering on the narrow streets of the French Quarter and ...