* Ash Wednesday, Christian religious holiday

On Rosenmontag, or the Monday before Ash Wednesday, crowds of people line the streets, wearing masks.

This day, the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday when Lent begins, is also known as Mardi Gras, a French phrase which translates as " Fat Tuesday " to mark the last consumption of eggs and dairy before Lent begins.

Their proposals include always observing Easter on the second Sunday in April, or always having seven Sundays between the Epiphany and Ash Wednesday, producing the same result except that in leap years Easter could fall on 7 April.

In Western Christianity, Easter is preceded by Lent, a period of fasting and penitence in preparation for Easter, which begins on Ash Wednesday and lasts forty days ( not counting Sundays ).

* Earliest day on which Shrove Monday can fall, while March 8 is the latest ; celebrated on Monday before Ash Wednesday ( Christianity ), and its related observances:

* Earliest day on which Ash Wednesday can fall, while March 10 is the latest ; celebrated on the first day of Lent.

* 1983 – The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia kill 75.

On what came to be referred to as " Ash Wednesday ", at British headquarters, rear echelon units, and the British Embassy, the British frantically burned confidential papers in anticipation of the entry of Axis troops into the city.

A third album in the Connick on Piano series, Chanson du Vieux Carré was released in 2007, and Connick received two Grammy nominations for the track " Ash Wednesday ", for the Grammy awards in 2008.

* Ash Wednesday ( February 4 to March 10 in regular years, February 5 to March 10 in leap years )

* 1962 – Ash Wednesday Storm of 1962 begins on the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States.

See Ash Wednesday above.

Carnival starts the Saturday prior to Ash Wednesday and goes on for four days.

In 1958, Pope Pius XII declared the Feast of the Holy Face of Jesus as Shrove Tuesday ( the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday ) for all Roman Catholics.

The palms are saved in many churches to be burned the following year as the source of ashes used in Ash Wednesday services.

Quinquagesima is the name used in the Western Church for the Sunday before Ash Wednesday.

Since the forty days of the Lenten fast does not include Sundays, the first day of Lent, Ash Wednesday, succeeds Quinquagesima Sunday by only three days.

Turner once called observers of Ash Wednesday " Jesus freaks ," though he apologized, and dubbed opponents of abortion " bozos.

The devotion was eventually approved by Pope Pius XII in 1958 and he formally declared the Feast of the Holy Face of Jesus as Shrove Tuesday ( the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday ) for all Roman Catholics.

Along with these, there are also special services for holy days such as All Saints Day, Ash Wednesday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter Vigil.

* March 7 – Ash Wednesday Storm: A snow storm batters the Mid-Atlantic.

* February 16 – The Ash Wednesday fires in Victoria and South Australia claim the lives of 76 people, in one of Australia's worst bushfires ever.

* February 25 – Ash Wednesday

* 1950 – Andy Powell, British musician ( Wishbone Ash )

* 1960 – Leslie Ash, English actress

* 1946 – Russell Ash, English author

* 1977 – William Ash ( actor ), British actor

* 1918 – Mary Kay Ash, American businesswoman, founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics ( d. 2001 )

* 1981 – Russell Lissack, English musician ( Bloc Party, Pin Me Down and Ash )

In Islamic philosophy, skepticism was established by Al-Ghazali ( 1058 – 1111 ), known in the West as " Algazel ", as part of the orthodox Ash ' ari school of Islamic theology, whose method of skepticism shares many similarities with Descartes ' method.

* In Michael Chabon's 2002 novel Summerland, the four great limbs of the Lodgepole – also known as the " Tree of Worlds " and the " Ash o ' Ashes " – hold up the four Worlds of the Summerlands, the Winterlands, the Middling, and the Gleaming.

* March 9 – Ash Wednesday ( first day of Lent )

* February 22 – Ash Wednesday – Western Christianity

* March 5 – Ash Wednesday

* Johnson House at Cambridge, " The Ash Street House ", Cambridge, Massachusetts ( 1942 – 1943 )

* Fraxinus americana – White Ash or Autumn Purple Ash

* Fraxinus caroliniana – Carolina Ash

* Fraxinus nigra – Black Ash

* Fraxinus profunda – Pumpkin Ash

In Milan Mardi Gras is not the climax of Carnival, since the Carnival lasts four more days, ending on the Saturday after Ash Wednesday, because of the Ambrosian rite.

In the most part of the Archdiocese of Milan the Carnival lasts four more days, ending on the Saturday after Ash Wednesday, because of the Ambrosian rite.

Traditionally beginning on Friday and ending on the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday, " los Carnavales ", as Panamanians refer to the days of Carnival, are celebrated in almost the whole country.

The parade runs from morning until late at night, 18 hours a day, 3 days before Ash Wednesday.

Great Lent officially begins on Clean Monday, seven weeks before Pascha ( Ash Wednesday is not observed in Eastern Christianity ) and runs for 40 contiguous days, concluding with the Presanctified Liturgy on Friday of the Sixth Week.

* Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent in the Western Christian tradition, occurs forty six days before Easter, ( forty, not counting Sundays ).

It begins on Ash Wednesday and, if the penitential days of Good Friday and Holy Saturday are included, lasts for forty days, since the six Sundays within the season are not counted.

Choral Evensong ( or, on red-letter days, Holy Mass ) is currently sung on Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays during full term, in addition to which the Choir sings for Gaudy Evensongs, for Special Feasts and Ceremonies ( including the All Souls Requiem, Remembrance, the Advent and Christmas Carol Services, Ash Wednesday, and the Passiontide service ) and for frequent concerts, commercial events, foreign tours, CD recordings and broadcasts.

Two of the biggest festivals are the three-day carnival at Binche, near Mons, held just before Lent ( the 40 days between Ash Wednesday and Easter ), and the Procession of the Holy Blood, held in Bruges in May.

" Van Morrison, Jeff Beck and Jimi Hendrix were major influences during the early days of the band, and later influences included the pioneering twin lead guitars found in Wishbone Ash and American artists Little Feat and Bob Seger.

In the United States, there are only two obligatory days of fast – Ash Wednesday and Good Friday.

Ash may disrupt transportation systems over large areas for hours to days, including roads and vehicles, railways and ports and shipping.

* Lent starts four days later than in the Roman Rite, so that there is no Ash Wednesday, and Carnival continues until " sabato grasso " (" Fat Saturday " in Italian ), corresponding to Shrove Tuesday ( called " mardi gras ", i. e. " Fat Tuesday ", in French ) in areas where the Roman Rite is used.

In the first case the event was on February 2, nine days before Ash Wednesday, and may well have been a carnival practice.

The game is played over two days on Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday, starting each day at 2. 00 pm and lasting until 10. 00 pm.

Brock rejoins Ash a few days later in Sinnoh and they both meet Dawn (), a new Trainer who hopes to become a great Pokémon Coordinator, like her mother.

Featruing the Chinelos dancing and marching through the streets, the Carnival tradition here is centuries old and held the days just before Ash Wednesday.

Like with other versions of Carnival, the event is held for several days before Ash Wednesday but reaches its peak the night before on Tuesday.