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2. Gulf Coast Limited - Wikipedia

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   The Gulf Coast Limited operated over a 145-mile (233 km) route from New Orleans to Mobile, hugging the coast of the Gulf of Mexico.The majority of this route is now owned by CSX Transportation (NO&M Subdivision), save a few miles around the New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal and East City Junction, which are owned by Amtrak and the Norfolk Southern Railway, respectively. [1]:

3. Shrove Monday - Wikipedia

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   2025 date: March 3: 2026 date: ... or Shrove Sunday and preceding Shrove Tuesday or Mardi Gras. ... of the New Orleans and Mississippi Gulf Coast Mardi Gras, ...

4. Mardi Gras - Wikipedia

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   Mardi Gras (UK: / ˌ m ɑːr d i ˈ ɡ r ɑː /, US: / ˈ m ɑːr d i ɡ r ɑː /; [1] [2] also known as Shrove Tuesday) is the final day of Carnival (also known as Shrovetide or Fastelavn); it thus falls on the day before the beginning of Lent on Ash Wednesday. [3]

5. When Is Mardi Gras 2023? Don't Let Tricky Dates Make ... - AOL

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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

6. Your guide to Corpus Christi's 14th annual Barefoot Mardi Gras

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   From left, Susan Wilson, Alma Silman, and Linda Calhoun, look at selfies they took before the Barefoot Mardi Gras Parade on North Padre Island, Saturday, Feb. 18, 2023, in Corpus Christi, Texas ...

7. 75 Mardi Gras Facts That Will Help You Bring Meaning to the ...

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   Mardi Gras masks are encouraged as a means to help revelers really let loose. 24. In 2018, The Corps de Napoleon was fined $100 for having 23 unmasked riders on a Mardi Gras parade float in New ...

8. Mardi Gras in the United States - Wikipedia

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   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.

9. The History of Mardi Gras Is Just as Fun and Exciting as the ...

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   Mardi is the French word for Tuesday, and gras means "fat." This name comes from the custom of eating all the fatty, rich foods in the house prior to Lent in order to prepare for fasting and ...