Word: mardi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mardi Gras" is just a French phrase that means "Martedi Grosso" in Italian. That's too bad, because it comes out "Fat Tuesday" any you look...
...Scotland and England the Mardi Gras is called Shrove Tuesday, and the natives of these places celebrate it by playing football in the streets. In Cambridge, Massachusetts, football is hardly over played, and especially not in the streets on Shrove Tuesday...
Some make believe they are Napoleon, and some Satan. Other favorite characters are Robespierre, Perseus and Audromeda, and Pelion and Ossa. Sometimes men dress up as women and vice versa. Mardi Gras historians are still chuckling over the time a man won first prize for the "Most beautifully dressed lady...
...Mardi Gras was brought over from France in 1827 by a group of Paris-educated New Orleans men who put on costumes and started street processions. Since then the idea has mushroomed all over the country, and everybody seems pretty happy about it. Especially the theatrical costumers...