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* Mardi gras throws, or throws, are small gifts or trinkets passed out or thrown from New Orleans Mardi Gras parades to spectators lining the streets

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It is a tradition to feast for a week or two up until Mardi gras (" Fat Tuesday ", or Shrove Tuesday ) before the 40-day-long fasting observance of Lent begins.

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.

** The Gay & Lesbian Solidarity March is held in Sydney, Australia to mark 10th Anniversary of the Stonewall Riots ( which later becomes the annual Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras ; later incorporating a festival ).

* October 20 – The first Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras is held as a protest march and commemoration of the Stonewall Riots.

* February 27 – The annual Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans, Louisiana is canceled due to a strike called by the New Orleans Police Department.

In some US cities, it is now called " Mardi Gras Day " or " Fat Tuesday ".

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.

The celebration of Mardi Gras in Germany is called Karneval, Fastnacht, or Fasching.

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.

This is practiced only in very small fragments of where Mardi Gras is celebrated, mostly by visitors rather than locals.

* February – In America, Mardi Gras is celebrated one more time with Masque de la Mobile in the capital of French Louisianne, Mobile ( Alabama ), before Mobile is moved 27 miles ( 43 km ) down the Mobile River to Mobile Bay in 1711.

* February – In America, Mardi Gras is celebrated with the Masque de la Mobile in the capital of French Louisianne, Mobile ( Alabama ).

He is a member of Statik, a group he established together with Istanbul's Turbo, and a German jazz / funk group named Mardi Gras BB.

Mardi Gras, ( French for " Fat Tuesday ", also known as Shrove Tuesday ), is the day before Ash Wednesday, which marks the beginning of Lent, a 40-day period of fasting and reflection in preparation for Easter Sunday.

Sydney's pride parade, Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras, is one of the world's largest and is held at night

The Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras is the largest Australian pride event and one of the largest in the world.

Parades such as Sydney's Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras and Manchester's Pride events attract significant investment and create tourist revenue, and cities are beginning to realize, firstly, that the acceptance of lesbian and gay culture is fast becoming a sign of urban " sophistication ", and secondly, that gay-oriented events, such as pride parades, the World Outgames and the Gay Games, are potentially lucrative events, attracting thousands of gay tourists and their dollars.

" The Knights of Momus " is also the name of the third-oldest New Orleans Mardi Gras krewe, founded in 1872.

The result is one of the best known and most striking krewes of Mardi Gras, the Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club.

The term is best known for its association with New Orleans Mardi Gras, but is also used in other Carnival celebrations around the Gulf of Mexico, such as the Gasparilla Pirate Festival in Tampa, Florida, and Springtime Tallahassee as well as in La Crosse, Wisconsin and at the Saint Paul Winter Carnival.

* February – French settlers at Fort Louis de la Mobile celebrate Mardi Gras in Mobile ( Alabama ) by parading a large papier-mache ox head on a cart ( the first Mardi Gras parade in America ).

A connection can be seen in the etymology of the name in some European languages ( Mardi in French or martes in Spanish ).

Mardi Gras 2010 celebrants in the French Quarter of New Orleans, in the traditional colors of purple, green, and gold

Mardi Gras arrived in North America as a French Catholic tradition with the Le Moyne brothers, Pierre Le Moyne d ' Iberville and Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, in the late 17th century, when King Louis XIV sent the pair to defend France's claim on the territory of Louisiane, which included what are now the U. S. states of Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.

This was on March 3, 1699, Mardi Gras, so in honor of this holiday, Iberville named the spot Point du Mardi Gras ( French: " Mardi Gras Point ") and called the nearby tributary Bayou Mardi Gras.

In 1703 French settlers in Mobile established the first organized Mardi Gras celebration tradition in what was to become the United States.

The French Mardi Gras customs had accompanied the colonists who settled there.

The idea of mystic societies was exported to New Orleans in 1856 when six businessmen, three who were formerly of Mobile, gathered at a club room in New Orlean's French Quarter to organize a secret society, inspired by the Cowbellion de Rakin Society, that would observe Mardi Gras with a formal parade.

Other cities along the Gulf Coast with early French colonial heritage, from Pensacola, Florida to Lafayette, Louisiana, have active Mardi Gras celebrations.

The gumbo is the centerpiece of the community supper the same night, where the Mardi Gras riders sing the Chanson de Mardi Gras, an old song in Cajun French sung for generations, then take off their masks and reveal, ostensibly for the first time that day, the identity of each rider.

In December 1856, six Anglo-American New Orleans businessmen, formerly of Mobile, Alabama gathered at a club room above the now-defunct Gem Restaurant in New Orleans ' French Quarter to organize a secret society to observe Mardi Gras in a less crude fashion.

* Carnival: The Krewe du Vieux parades through the Faubourg Marigny and French Quarter neighborhoods of New Orleans, Louisiana, starting that city's " Mardi Gras " season of parades.

Celebrations are concentrated for about two weeks before and through Fat Tuesday ( Mardi Gras in French ), the day before Ash Wednesday.

While many tourists center their Mardi Gras season activities on Bourbon Street and the French Quarter, none of the major Mardi Gras parades has entered the Quarter since 1972 because of its narrow streets and overhead obstructions.

The wearing of costumes has become an important part of such holidays and festivals as Mardi Gras and Halloween ( see Halloween costume for more information ), and ( to a lesser extent ) people may also wear costumes in conjunction with other holidays, such as Christmas and Easter.

A 12th-century treatise prepared by Mardi bin Ali al-Tarsusi for Saladin records an Arab version of Greek fire, called naft, which also had a petroleum base, with sulphur and various resins added.

Mardi was a disappointment for readers who wanted another rollicking and exotic sea yarn.

* February 13 – Rex, the most famous parade on Mardi Gras, parades for the first time in New Orleans for Grand Duke Alexei Mikhailovich of Russia.

* February – Soldiers at Fort Louis de la Mobile celebrate Mardi Gras in Mobile, starting the tradition for Mobile, Alabama.

* October 10 – Joe Cain, American parade organizer for Mardi Gras in Mobile, Alabama ( d. 1904 )

Other cities famous for Mardi Gras celebrations include Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ; Barranquilla, Colombia ; Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago ; Quebec City, Canada ; Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico ; and New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.

* Troughman an Australian noted in the Sydney media for lying down in urinal troughs at Sydney Mardi Gras parties and other events.

With the money from the sale stuffed into a plastic tube hidden inside the Stars & Stripes-adorned fuel tank of Wyatt's California-style chopper, they ride eastward in an attempt to reach New Orleans, Louisiana, in time for Mardi Gras.

Marriage equality was a dominant theme in the 2011 Sydney Mardi Gras Parade, with at least 15 floats lobbying for same-sex marriage.

1991 saw the eighth annual Sydney Gay and Lesbian Film festival, a Mardi Gras event, included in a national film festival for the first time.

To allow for greater inclusion of the LGBTQI community it represents ( including those identifying as bisexual, transexual, queer and intersex ), on 17 November 2011 the festival and event organisers changed the event name to " Sydney Mardi Gras ".

In recent years, the Mardi Gras Parade has been on the first Saturday of March, with a festival of events going for approximately three weeks preceding it.

Fair Day is the kick off event for the official Mardi Gras season in Victoria Park, Sydney for Sydney's wider LGBTQI community and their friends, family and pets.

The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras is regarded internationally as one of the world's biggest and best LGBTQI marches and festivals, and has been described as an " absolute once-in-a-lifetime must for every travelling gay man ".

As a consequence of the impending collapse of the organisation, there was a groundswell of concern and support within Sydney's LGBTQI communities for the continuation of the work and events of Mardi Gras.

In 2008, it was announced that the Government of New South Wales would provide funding for Mardi Gras as it had become part of the state's Master Events Calendar.

Mardi Gras still receives significant public support and the event now receives some limited government funding which should go towards ensuring that it remains a part of Sydney culture for some time.

Criticism of the Sydney Mardi Gras was perhaps at its strongest during the early years of the AIDS crisis, and flared again when in 1994 the national broadcaster, ABC, telecast the parade for the first time.