Mardi Gras is the annual Carnival celebration in Mobile, Alabama. It is the oldest official Carnival celebration in the United States, started by Frenchman...
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Mardi Gras (UK: /ˌmɑːrdi ˈɡrɑː/, US: /ˈmɑːrdi ɡrɑː/; also known as Shrove Tuesday) is the final day of Carnival (also known as Shrovetide or Fastelavn);...
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Mardi Gras in the United States is celebrated in a number of cities and regions in the country. Most of these places trace their Mardi Gras celebrations...
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Joe Cain (category Carnival and Mardi Gras in Mobile, Alabama)
the modern way of observing Mardi Gras and its celebrations in Mobile, Alabama, following the Civil War. In 1868, while Mobile was still under Union occupation...
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Mystic society (category Carnival and Mardi Gras in Mobile, Alabama)
A mystic society is a Mardi Gras social organization in Mobile, Alabama, that presents parades and/or balls for the enjoyment of its members, guests,...
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Mardi Gras throws are strings of beads, doubloons, cups, or other trinkets passed out or thrown from the floats for Mardi Gras celebrations, particularly...
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Mardi Gras Park is a municipal park in downtown Mobile, Alabama, US. The park is bounded by Government Street to the north, Royal Street to the east,...
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The Mobile Carnival Museum is a history museum that chronicles over 300 years of Carnival and Mardi Gras in Mobile, Alabama. The museum is housed in the...
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historic architecture. Mobile is known for having the oldest organized Carnival or Mardi Gras celebrations in the United States. Alabama's French Creole population...
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Look up Mardi Gras or mardi gras in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Mardi Gras refers to events of the Carnival celebrations, beginning on or after Epiphany...
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Order of Myths (category Carnival and Mardi Gras in Mobile, Alabama)
Order of Myths, (OOMs) founded in 1867, is the second oldest mystic society to celebrate Mardi Gras in Mobile, Alabama, after the Striker's Independent...
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Cowbellion de Rakin Society (category Carnival and Mardi Gras in Mobile, Alabama)
Society The Manassas Club Mistick Krewe "Museum of Mobile > Museum Exhibits > Mardi Gras in Mobile". Archived from the original on 2004-12-13. "Ordering...
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in 1830, a tradition that continues to this day. Mardi Gras is an official state holiday in Mobile and Baldwin counties. In 2018, Mobile's Mardi Gras...
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Striker's Independent Society (category Carnival and Mardi Gras in Mobile, Alabama)
continuously active mystic society in Mobile, founded in 1843 (during Mobile's first American period), Alabama. Mobile's Mardi Gras history spans over 300 years...
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Cain's Merry Widows (category Carnival and Mardi Gras in Mobile, Alabama)
Mardi Gras mystic society of Cain’s Merry Widows (a women’s mystic society) was founded in 1974 in Mobile, Alabama, home of the first Mardi Gras in America...
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Moon Pie (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)
thrown from a parade float into the crowd) of Mardi Gras "krewes" (parade participants) in Mobile, Alabama during 1956, followed by other communities along...
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built with the city's longtime Mardi Gras celebrations in mind. The concourse area is often used for balls during Mardi Gras. The building's "entertainment...
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in the 2001-02 season and folded after the 2002-03 season. The team was named after the people who took part in Mardi Gras parades as the Mardi Gras tradition...
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that continues to this day. Mardi Gras is an official state holiday in Mobile and Baldwin counties. In 2018, Mobile's Mardi Gras parade was the state's top...
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Krewe (category Mardi Gras in New Orleans)
"What is La Crosse Mardi Gras?". lacrossemardigras.com. "Krewe". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 2012-06-18. "Carnival/Mobile Mardi Gras Timeline". The...
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Carnival (redirect from Carnival in Ecuador)
Fools Federation of European Carnival Cities Mardi Gras Mardi Gras in Mobile, Alabama New Orleans Mardi Gras Sitalsasthi Narrenmarsch "Largest carnival"...
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Gulf Coast Limited (redirect from Mardi Gras Service)
Gulf Coast Limited in 2025, with two daily round trips. The restored route has been referred to as the Gulf Coast and Mardi Gras Service during planning...
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Mistick Krewe of Comus (category Mardi Gras in New Orleans)
Mobile, Alabama, were involved, and they went en masse to the first Comus event. One Mardi Gras historian describes The Mistick Krewe's creation in New...
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The Manassas Club (category Carnival and Mardi Gras in Mobile, Alabama)
The Athelstan Club by a decade. In an article by the Mobile Press Register Today in history: Wrapping up Mardi Gras 1911, "Hundreds of maskers entered...
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journalist (died 1911) October 10 – Joe Cain, parade organizer for Mardi Gras in Mobile, Alabama (died 1904) November 7 – Andrew Dickson White, historian, diplomat...
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Cajuns (category Ethnic groups in Louisiana)
including fat, eggs, and meat. Mardi Gras celebrations in rural Acadiana are distinct from the more widely known celebrations in New Orleans and other metropolitan...
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Barnwell-Mitchell House) at 607 Government Street in Mobile, Alabama, was built by local landowner Joshua Kennedy, Jr in 1857. It is a stuccoed brick two storey...
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1711 (redirect from Events in 1711)
the Teatro San Cassiano in Venice. February – French settlers at Fort Louis de la Mobile celebrate Mardi Gras in Mobile (Alabama), by parading a large papier-mache...
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1832 (redirect from Events in 1832)
American parade organizer for Mardi Gras in Mobile, Alabama (d. 1904) October 16 – George Crockett Strong, Union brigadier general in the American Civil War(d...
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Alabama Creoles (French: Créoles de l'Alabama) are a Louisiana French group native to the region around Mobile, Alabama. They are the descendants of colonial...
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