* AM, Arrests are made in the Netherlands and Belgium and apartments searched in the Philippines and on a Carnival cruise ship in Florida.

* The annual Carnival festival in Zwaag is one of the biggest in the northern parts of The Netherlands.

* Summer Carnaval ( Zomercarnaval ) is summertime version of Carnival held in the Netherlands

In the forthcoming The Conquering Hero and Carnival, Broadway is not even adapting books, but reconverting old movies ( Hail The Conquering Hero and Lili ).

the multifigure `` Traveling Carnival '', in which action is vivified by lighting ; ;

Alpine festivals vary from country to country and often include the display of local costumes such as dirndl and trachten, the playing of Alpenhorns, wrestling matches, some pagan traditions such as Walpurgis Night, and in many areas Carnival is celebrated before Lent.

* Earliest date on which Notting Hill Carnival can fall, while August 31 is the latest ; celebrated on the last Monday in August and the day before.

The name " domino " is from the pieces ' resemblance to Venetian Carnival masks known as domini, which were white with black spots.

Winter term is celebrated by Winter Carnival, a tradition started in 1911 by the Dartmouth Outing Club to promote winter sports.

" The Elephant " from Camille Saint-Saëns ' The Carnival of the Animals is a satirical portrait of the double bass, and American virtuoso Gary Karr made his televised debut playing " The Swan " ( originally written for the cello ) with the New York Philharmonic conducted by Leonard Bernstein.

Like the rest of the Canaries, Carnival is traditionally one of the biggest festivals celebrated on the island.

The Crowd Roars is loosely based on the play The Barker: A Play of Carnival Life by Kenyon Nicholson.

The Carnival Procession is around long and consists of 3. 000 participants, around 30 festival vehicles and around 20 bands and takes place every year.

* Earliest day on which St Pauls Carnival can fall, while July 7 is the latest ; celebrated on the first Saturday in July.

To this day, AF is the center of student life in Lund, featuring many theater companies, a prize-winning student radio ( Radio AF ), and organizing the enormous Lundakarnevalen ( the Lund Carnival ) every four years.

A group of eleven musicians, such as found in The Carnival of the Animals, is called either a " hendectet " or an " undectet " ( see Latin numerical prefixes ).

The Werribee International Horse Centre at Werribee racecourse is the Victorian quarantine station for international horses competing in the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival.

Nash wrote humorous poems for each movement of the Camille Saint-Saëns orchestral suite The Carnival of the Animals, which are sometimes recited when the work is performed.

In Europe, this is particularly the case with the various customs of Carnival or Fasnacht and the Yule traditions surrounding Santa Claus / Sinterklaas.

Road travel is more dangerous during the rainy season and in the interior from Carnival through Good Friday.

It is recognized around the world as a symbol of Brazil and the Brazilian Carnival.

The samba is frequently associated abroad with football and Carnival.

The following recordings by the Seekers were each certified as having sold over one million copies: " I'll Never Find Another You ", " A World of Our Own ", " The Carnival is Over " and " Georgy Girl ".

Carnival is an important celebration in Anglican and Catholic European nations.

In the Belgian city of Binche the Mardi Gras festival is the most important day of the year and the summit of the Carnival of Binche.

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.

The last day of Carnival, therefore, is the " Sabato grasso " ( Shrove or Fat Saturday ).

He also opened the first public opera house in Rome, and for the Carnival celebrations of 1668, commissioned Antonio Maria Abbatini of the Sistine Chapel Choir to set to music his free Italian translation of a Spanish religious drama La Baltasara.

The word carne may also be translated as flesh, so suggesting carne vale as " a farewell to the flesh ", a phrase actually embraced by certain Carnival celebrants who encourage letting go of your former ( or everyday ) self and embracing the carefree nature of the festival.

The most famous Croatian Carnival ( Croatian: " karneval ", also called " maškare ") is the Rijeka Carnival, during which the mayor of Rijeka hands over the keys to the city to the Carnival master (" meštar od karnevala ") and the spirit of the Carnival takes over completely.

Edvard Grieg also attended the Carnival, and wrote " aus dem Karneval " ( folkelivsbilleder Op.

The Carnival season also includes Fastelavens søndag ( with cream buns ) and fastelavensris with decorated branches.

The Carnival season in Greece is also known as the Apokriés ( Greek: Αποκριές, " saying goodbye to meat "), or the season of the " Opening of the Triodion ", so named after the liturgical book used by the church from then until the Holy Week.

Carnival on these islands also includes a middle-of-the-night j ' ouvert ( juvé ) parade that ends at sunrise with the burning of a straw King Momo, cleansing the island of sins and bad luck.

Carnival has also been celebrated in Cuba since the 18th century.

It was here where the first Carnival of the Americas was held, and it is also one of the biggest in the region.

Carnival in Haiti is also known as Kanaval in the Creole language.

In Haitian Carnival, there are beautiful costumes, floats, Rara parades, masks, foods, and popular Konpa bands known around the world, such as T-Vice, Djakout # 1, Sweet Micky also known as the new president of Haiti Michel Martelly, Kreyol La, D. P.

Carnival is a festive time of costumes, dance, music, competitions, rum, and partying ( also referred to as fete-ing ).

Trinidad and Tobago's Carnival is also known as The Greatest Show on Earth, and it definitely is.

The Panamanian Carnival is also popular because of the great number of concerts by national and international artists held on different stages in the most visited areas of the country.

In all major cities and many towns throughout the country, Carnival is also celebrated, but less famous than in the above mentioned places.

Still, Rio de Janeiro carnival is considered world-wide, as the capital of the Brazilian Carnival, not only because of its historical origins, size and also world wide fame.

He invaded the visual arts — not only in the work of Willette, but also in the illustrations and posters of Jules Chéret ; in the engravings of Odilon Redon ( The Swamp Flower: A Sad Human Head ); and in the canvases of Georges Seurat ( Pierrot with a White Pipe ; The Painter Aman-Jean as Pierrot ), Léon Comerre ( Pierrot ), Henri Rousseau ( A Carnival Night ), Paul Cézanne ( Pierrot and Harlequin ), Fernand Pelez ( Grimaces and Miseries a. k. a. The Saltimbanques ), Pablo Picasso ( Pierrot and Columbine ), Guillaume Seignac ( Pierrot's Embrace ), and Edouard Vuillard ( The Black Pierrot 1890 ).

In southern Germany, they are also called Krapfen and are especially popular during Carnival season ( Karneval / Fasching ) in southern and middle Germany and on New Year's Eve in northern Germany.

Cass was also part of the nine member ensemble cast for the 1960 Broadway revue A Thurber Carnival, adapted by James Thurber from his own works.

The Procession has been led for over 30 years by Chief Marshal Trevor Harvey, also a Carnival Committee member for over 50 years.

He also wrote operas for other cities of Northern Italy in between Carnival seasons, including Turin and Venice, where his Ipermestra was given during November 1744 at the Teatro San Giovanni Crisostomo.