Mardi Gras in Mobile

2015-01-12

each year twelve days after Christmas! The highlight and marquee event each year is the royal coronation of the King and Queen, Knights, Ladies and Children of the Court. The unique and salient regalia of the Royal Court each year ...

Author: L. Craig Roberts

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

ISBN: 9781625852519

Category: Social Science

Page: 176

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Mardi Gras in Mobile began its carnival celebration years before the city of New Orleans was founded. In the 1700s, mystic societies formed in Mobile, such as the Societe de Saint Louis, believed to be the first in the New World. These curious organizations brought old-world traditions as they held celebrations like parades and balls with themes like Scandinavian mythology and the dream of Pythagoras. Today, more than 800,000 people annually take in the sights, sounds and attractions of the celebration. Historian and preservationist L. Craig Roberts, through extensive research and interviews, explores the captivating and charismatic history of Mardi Gras in the Port City.
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Mardi Gras

2015-12-15

Mardi Gras is French for Fat Tuesday . The last day of celebration during the Mardi Gras season occurs on the last Tuesday before Lent . ... That date is also known as Twelfth Night because it is twelve days after Christmas .

Author: Joanna Ponto

Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC

ISBN: 9780766074606

Category: Juvenile Nonfiction

Page: 34

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Young readers will learn all about the culture, history, and celebrations of Mardi Gras. From costumes to carnivals and music, students will want to revel in the festivities. Students can make gumbo according to the recipe in the book, as well as create a Mardi Gras mask to celebrate!
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Silhouettes in the Garden

2015-04-30

Early in school, we are taught the bases of Mardi Gras is religion. The season begins twelve days after Christmas. Feast of the Epiphany. Little Christmas on the Twelfth Night. Whichever term you choose to use, the day is in remembrance ...

Author: T. O. Stallings

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

ISBN: 9781503565838

Category: Fiction

Page: 158

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They call New Orleans the Big Easy. The moniker comes, in part, from the French saying laissez les bons temps rouler. Let the good times roll. The name is a misnomer. There is nothing easy about living and growing up in New Orleanss Eighth Ward. My mother told me God created the world as a garden. A peek and a promise of what is to be seen in heaven. She also taught me that God allowed the devil access to the garden. Access and permission to tempt earths mortals. My mother told me we should all try to hide from the devil. To do so she believed we should pass through life as much a shadow, a silhouette to the devils eye, as possible. That is a difficult task for the pious. It is even more difficult in New Orleans, a city made famous by its history and traditions. Traditions and history that include temptations, vices, corruption, Mardi Gras, and voodoo. My name is Jehan Henri. This is the story of my silhouette in the garden we call earth.
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Body with Soul

2008-12-02

You now have what's known as a Mardi Gras King Cake, one of the most delectable and decadent pastries you can get ... a cake to honor the three kings who came bearing gifts to the baby Jesus twelve days after his birth—Twelfth Night.

Author: Randy Jackson

Publisher: Penguin

ISBN: 9781440630200

Category: Biography & Autobiography

Page: 256

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From beloved American Idol judge Randy Jackson, a complete, inspiring wellness plan for taking control of your health The obesity epidemic is spreading throughout America, bringing with it health problems from diabetes to hypertension to heart disease. A lifetime of poor fitness and nutrition choices left Randy Jackson lethargic, overweight, and with a diagnosis of Type II diabetes. After years of yo-yo diets, hours in the gym, and even gastric bypass surgery, Randy finally decided to change his life. Body with Soul is his tried-and-true wellness plan; filled with meal plans, re-tooled recipes of Southern favorites, and workouts for people on the go, the regimen here is user-friendly and promises results. Having lost one hundred pounds, Randy is healthier than ever, and his diabetes has been in remission for five years. The program offered by Body with Soul ensures that readers, like Randy, can get their health in check, and lead happier, healthier lives.
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The Year Before the Flood

2009-09

It begins on January 6 (Epiphany or Twelfth Night for the English, Día de Reyes for the Spanish) and continues up to the actual day of Mardi Gras, or, as the Brits call it, Shrove Tuesday. The last twelve days are very busy.

Author: Ned Sublette

Publisher: Chicago Review Press

ISBN: 9781569763230

Category: Biography & Autobiography

Page: 496

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With a style the "Los Angeles Times "calls as "vivid and fast-moving as the music he loves," Ned Sublette's powerful new book drives the reader through the potholed, sinking streets of the United States's least-typical city. In this eagerly awaited follow-up to "The World That Made New Orleans," Sublette's award-winning history of the Crescent City's colonial years, he traces an arc of his own experience, from the white supremacy of segregated 1950s Louisiana through the funky year of 2004-2005--the last year New Orleans was whole. By turns irreverent, joyous, darkly comic, passionate, and pol.
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Popular New Orleans

2020-10-02

... (Twelfth Night, or the Feast of the Epiphany) to Mardi Gras (see Gotham 22), the parade season only starts twelve days before Mardi Gras. As Arthur Hardy, editor of the annual Mardi Gras Guide, explains: “They [Krewe du Vieux] are a ...

Author: Florian Freitag

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781000196955

Category: History

Page: 348

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New Orleans is unique – which is precisely why there are many Crescent Cities all over the world: for almost 150 years, writers, artists, cultural brokers, and entrepreneurs have drawn on and simultaneously contributed to New Orleans’s fame and popularity by recreating the city in popular media from literature, photographs, and plays to movies, television shows, and theme parks. Addressing students and fans of the city and of popular culture, Popular New Orleans examines three pivotal moments in the history of New Orleans in popular media: the creation of the popular image of the Crescent City during the late nineteenth century in the local-color writings published in Scribner’s Monthly/Century Magazine; the translation of this image into three-dimensional immersive spaces during the twentieth century in Disney’s theme parks and resorts in California, Florida, and Japan; and the radical transformation of this image following Hurricane Katrina in public performances such as Mardi Gras parades and operas. Covering visions of the Crescent City from George W. Cable’s Old Creole Days stories (1873-1876) to Disneyland’s "New Orleans Square" (1966) to Rosalyn Story’s opera Wading Home (2015), Popular New Orleans traces how popular images of New Orleans have changed from exceptional to exemplary.
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New Orleans Yesterday and Today

2001

Indeed , a psychiatrist might well consider Mardi Gras a safety valve , important for the city's mental health . ... Carnival it would have no effect on the twelve - day parade extravaganza which culminates spectacularly on Mardi Gras .

Author: Walter G. Cowan

Publisher: LSU Press

ISBN: 0807127434

Category: New Orleans (La.)

Page: 300

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Updated by the two living original authors, this new paper edition of New Orleans Yesterday and Today provides information on recent additions to the New Orleans scene, including countless new restaurants and music venues, casino gambling, the D-Day Museum, and the Aquarium of the Americas. The book provides a well-rounded sense of New Orleans' unique and multi-faceted culture and its evolution as a city. In addition to being a help to tourists, the book will provide a refresher history course to New Orleans natives.
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Holidays of the World Cookbook for Students

1995

masked dancers, many marching bands, and Mardi Gras beads, which are thrown from the floats. The traditional Creole food, ... King cake parties continue from the twelfth day of Christmas up to Fat Tuesday, Mardi Gras day.

Author: Lois Sinaiko Webb

Publisher: ABC-CLIO

ISBN: 9780897748841

Category: Cookbooks

Page: 336

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A collection of 388 recipes from more than 136 countries plus an introduction describing local holidays, customs, and foods that are part of the holiday tradition in each country.
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Mimi s First Mardi Gras

1999

MIMI'S FIRST MARDI GRAS Mimi's mother kissed her on the forehead . " Mimi , it's time to wake up . Today is Mardi Gras ! " Mimi's eyes popped open and she gave her mother a big smile and hug . Ever since twelve days after Christmas ...

Author: Elizabeth Moore, Alice Couvillon, Marilyn Rougelot

Publisher: Pelican Publishing

ISBN: 1455608890

Category: Carnival

Page: 36

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Mimi and her parents enjoy the color and excitement of Mardi Gras in New Orleans and observe many traditional aspects of the celebration.
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Saving Mr Bingle

2004-09

handedly save Mardi Gras for about two hundred and fifty guys. ... Now he wants to save Christmas and Mardi Gras. ... the Mardi Gras season kicks off with the Twelfth Night Revelers' Ball, a mere twelve days after Christmas.

Author: Sean Patrick Doles

Publisher:

ISBN: 9780975899601

Category: Department stores

Page: 177

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Covers the story of how Mr. Bingle came to be created as a New Orleans Christmas character for a local department store and evetually as a familiar New Orleans advertising charcter.
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