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  2. Carnival - Wikipedia

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    Carnival in Rome, c. 1650 Rio's Carnival is the largest in the world according to Guinness World Records. [1]Carnival or Shrovetide is a festive season that occurs at the close of the Christian pre-Lenten period, [2] consisting of Quinquagesima or Shrove Sunday, Shrove Monday, and Shrove Tuesday or Mardi Gras.

  3. Traveling carnival - Wikipedia

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    A traveling carnival (American English), usually simply called a carnival, travelling funfair or travelling show (British English), is an amusement show that may be made up of amusement rides, food vendors, merchandise vendors, games of chance and skill, thrill acts, and animal acts.

  4. Timeline of historic inventions - Wikipedia

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    2004: First podcast, invented by Adam Curry and Dave Winer, is a program made available in digital format for download over the Internet and it usually features one or more recurring hosts engaged in a discussion about a particular topic or current event. [543] [544] [545] 2005: YouTube, the first popular video-streaming site, was founded

  5. Carnival of Venice - Wikipedia

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    The Carnival of Venice (Italian: Carnevale di Venezia; Venetian: Carneval de Venèsia) is an annual festival held in Venice, Italy, famous throughout the world for its elaborate costumes and masks. The Carnival ends on Shrove Tuesday ( Martedì Grasso or Mardi Gras ), which is the day before the start of Lent on Ash Wednesday .

  6. Voices: The truth about Black, Caribbean carnivals like ... - AOL

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    COMMENT: Despite the colourful costumes, body positivity, food and fun, Caribbean carnivals were born in response to Black trauma, writes Nadine White. They are celebrations of hard-won liberation ...

  7. Timeline of scientific discoveries - Wikipedia

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    However, modern mathematicians generally believe that his axioms were highly incomplete, and that his definitions were not really used in his proofs. 300 BC: Finite geometric progressions are studied by Euclid in Ptolemaic Egypt. [43] 300 BC: Euclid proves the infinitude of primes. [44] 300 BC: Euclid proves the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic.

  8. Timeline of transportation technology - Wikipedia

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    9th century – The sine quadrant, was invented by Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi in the 9th century at the House of Wisdom in Baghdad. [3]: 128 The other types were the universal quadrant, the horary quadrant and the astrolabe quadrant. 10th century – sea-going junk ships built in China. Late 10th century – Kamal invented in Arab world.

  9. Paris Carnival - Wikipedia

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    During the hiatus the words "Carnaval de Paris" were seldom spoken. Parisians were always able to celebrate "Mardi Gras", of course; they simply had to travel to Nice or Rio de Janeiro. Claude Monet, Carnaval boulevard des Capucines, 1873 A modern carnival poster made by Basile Pachkoff. The Carnaval de Paris has inspired great artists.