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    The Mistick Krewe of Comus (MKC), founded in 1856, is the oldest extant New Orleans, Louisiana Carnival Krewe, the longest to continually parade with...
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    Ye Mistick Krewe of Comus, as an archaic affectation; with time, it became the most common term for a New Orleans Carnival organization. The Mistick Krewe...
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    to parading in 2000, the Mistick Krewe of Knights have not since been seen. The Rex organization and the Mistick Krewe of Comus still hold their annual...
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  • including fellow super krewe Bacchus and all of the old-line parades, led by Rex, King of Carnival and the Mistick Krewe of Comus.[citation needed] The...
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    first and oldest krewe, the Mistick Krewe of Comus. According to one historian, "Comus was aggressively English in its celebration of what New Orleans...
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    Night Parade Krewe in New Orleans Carnival after the Mistick Krewe and the Knights of Momus, stopped parading in 1992. The parade of the krewe of Proteus traditionally...
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  • manufacturing company HMS Comus, the name of several ships of the Royal Navy Mistick Krewe of Comus, the oldest active New Orleans Mardi Gras krewe This disambiguation...
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    natives established the first secret society, or krewe, in New Orleans, the Mistick Krewe of Comus. Former French and Spanish colonies such as Pensacola...
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    Mardi Gras (category Holidays based on the date of Easter)
    a group of Protestant Anglo-Americans, some members of Mobile Mystic Societies, formed the first "old-line" krewe, The Mistick Krewe of Comus, based on...
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    organization the Mistick Krewe of Comus was organized, and in June following within its ranks The Pickwick Club for the purpose of covering the mysteries...
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    Knights of Momus (KoM) was founded in 1872 and was the second-oldest parading Old Line Krewe in New Orleans Carnival after the Mistick Krewe of Comus and...
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    had been presented by the Mistick Krewe of Comus, until they ceased parading in 1991. Now Mardi Gras ends with the parades of Zulu, Rex, Elks and Crescent...
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    Oxon Hill Manor (category Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland)
    at Bullitt, Miller & Co., and founding the Mistick Krewe of Comus and The Pickwick Club. After a period of ownership by the Berry family, in 1895, the...
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  • are formally debuting): Mistick Krewe of Comus, Founded in 1856(or 7) The Twelfth Night Revelers (TNR), founded in 1870 Knights of Momus, founded in 1872...
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    one of six Mobilians who moved to New Orleans and organized the Crescent City's first mystic societies; Ellison forms "The Mistick Krewe of Comus" in...
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  • coverage of the Rex ball hosted by Peggy Scott Laborde and Errol Laborde, including the "Meeting of the Courts" with the Mistick Krewe of Comus—an event...
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  • Dorothy Mae Taylor (category Democratic Party members of the Louisiana House of Representatives)
    The Mistick Krewe of Comus and Momus stopped parading in New Orleans as a result of the new law, but Rex, King of the Carnival, and the Proteus krewe, after...
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    Mystic society (category History of Mobile, Alabama)
    formal parade. They founded New Orleans' first and oldest krewe, the Mistick Krewe of Comus. Carnival celebrations in Mobile were canceled during the...
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  • Swiss Benevolent Society founded. 1856 Mistick Krewe of Comus founded. Last Island hurricane dumps 13 inches of rainfall on the city. Texas and New Orleans...
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    Bernard de Marigny (category People of Louisiana (New France))
    celebration in 1833, this model is what the Mistick Krewe of Comus would base their first parade and tableau on. One of the things Marigny brought back to New...
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  • political force as well". Krewe of Yuga Mardi Gras in New Orleans Mistick Krewe of Comus List of LGBT-related films of 2010 "The Sons of Tennessee Williams"...
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    William J. Behan (category Mayors of New Orleans)
    and the University of Louisiana (now known as Tulane University) of New Orleans. Behan became Captain of the Mistick Krewe of Comus. The Civil War absorbed...
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    Walter Dulany Addison (category Chaplains of the United States Senate)
    merchant and found the Mistick Krewe of Comus and The Pickwick Club.[citation needed] Rev. Addison lost his sight during the last decades of his life. He died...
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