How to Attend a Mardi Gras Parade
So you've finally made it to celebrate Mardi Gras in the famed Crescent City! If you're planning on attending any of the Mardi Gras parades, there are certain rules of etiquette that you should follow to ensure that you and everyone around you ... [... more]
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Mardi Gras: Parades, Costumes and Parties (Finding Out ...
 Author: Elaine Landau Binding: Library Binding Dewey Decimal Number: 394.25 EAN: 9780766017764 ISBN: 0766017761 Number Of Pages: 48 Publication Date: 2002-04 Reading Level: Ages 9-12 [... more]
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Mardi Gras: Parades, Costumes, and Parties
-- Each title in the Finding Out About Holidays series explores the history of different holidays and describes how they are observed in the United States.-- Each book is in chapter format, with simple sentences for ease of reading and color photographs [... more]
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Canal Street: New Orleans' Great Wide Way
Stretching from the riverfront to the cemeteries, Canal Street has served as a place for meeting, shopping, protesting, and parading since its creation in 1807. From white-gloved shopping trips at D.H. Holmes to department store boycotts by the NAACP, [... more]
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How to See the Zulu Parade at Mardi Gras
The Zulu parade at Mardis Gras is one of the most well known and longest standing parades during the Mardis Gras celebration. The first official Zulu parade occurred in 1909. The name for the parade came from a skit, "There Never Was and Never ... [... more]
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How to See the Grela Parade at Mardi Gras
The Grela parade continues its tradition of throwing a party on the streets of Gretna, as it has done for over 60 years. Despite the effects of Hurricane Katrina, the participants of the Grela parade have endured, and they celebrate all that ... [... more]
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How to See the Elks Orleans Parade at Mardi Gras
New Orleans is on the path to recovery after the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina. Many of your favorite restaurants and hotels are open for business. The parades associated with Mardi Gras are set to take place once more. One of the more ... [... more]
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How to Enjoy a Safe Mardi Gras 2008 in New Orleans
Mardi Gras 2008 is here and there is no place to celebrate like New Orleans! Here are some simple tips to help you have a safe Mardi Gras in the Big Easy! How to Enjoy a Safe Mardi Gras 2008 in New Orleans. Mardi Gras 2008 is here and there is no ... [... more]
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How to See the Argus Parade at Mardi Gras
The Krewe of Argus began in 1972 and was named after the Greek god Argus. Argus is the all-seeing god with one hundred eyes who caught Jupiter cheating on his wife. Argus' eyes were removed by the goddess Juno and put onto the peacock's tail. The ... [... more]
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How to Celebrate Mardi Gras
For practicing Christians, Mardi Gras is the last day before Ash Wednesday and the start of Lent. In places where it's celebrated on a grand scale, though, Mardi Gras is the culmination of a colorful, boisterous and nonreligious carnival season, ... [... more]
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Historic Photos of New Orleans
Birthplace of jazz, home to the beignet, city of a thousand legends, New Orleans grew out of a unique blend of cultures. Its architecture and cuisine, born of Spanish, French, Caribbean, African and other influences, created a city unlike any other in [... more]
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To Tame A Rogue (Zebra time travel historical romance)
Any Time, Any Place -- very highly recommended: Any Time, Any Place is an agency appearing in the French quarter overnight. With its artistically aged sign and poster of the Roman Coliseum and the Acropolis, not as look now, but as they looked when new, [... more]
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