Paris Carnival

•  Paris

  Paris is the capital and primate city of France. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region . The city of Paris, within its administrative limits largely unchanged since 1860, has an estimated population of 2,203,817 (January 2006), but the Paris aire urbaine has a population of 11,769,433 (January 2006), and is one of the most populated metropolitan areas in Europe.

  

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•  Mardi Gras

  The terms "Mardi Gras", "Mardi Gras season", and "Carnival season", in English, refer to events of the Carnival celebrations, beginning on or after Epiphany and ending on the day before Ash Wednesday. Mardi Gras is French for "Fat Tuesday" (in ethnic English tradition, Shrove Tuesday), referring to the practice of the last night of eating richer, fatty foods before the ritual fasting of the Lenten season, which started on Ash Wednesday.

  

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•  Carnival

  Carnival (Carnaval, Καρναβάλι, Carnevale, Carnaval, Karneval, Carnaval and Karnawał in Portuguese, Greek, Italian, French, Dutch, German, Spanish and Polish languages) is a festive season which occurs immediately before Lent; the main events are usually during February. Carnival typically involves a public celebration or parade combining some elements of a circus, mask and public street party. People often dress up or masquerade during the celebrations, which mark an overturning of daily life.

  

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•  Krewe

  A krewe (pronounced in the same way as "crew") is an organization that puts on a parade and or a ball for the Carnival season. 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.

  

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•  Notting Hill Carnival

  Notting Hill Carnival is an annual event which since 1966 has taken place on the streets of Notting Hill, London, UK each August, over two days (the August bank holiday Monday and the day beforehand). It is led by members of the Trinidad and Tobago (Trini) Caribbean population, many of whom have lived in the area since the 1950s.

  

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•  J'ouvert

  J'ouvert which is pronounced 'juuvay', is a large street party during Carnival in the eastern Caribbean region. J'ouvert is a contraction of the French jour ouvert, or day open (morning). J'ouvert is celebrated on many islands, including Trinidad and Tobago, Dominica, Saint Lucia, Guyana, Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Aruba, Barbados, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Kitts and Nevis, Sint Maarten, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.

  

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•  New Orleans Mardi Gras

  Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday in French) in New Orleans, Louisiana, is a Carnival celebration well-known throughout the world. The New Orleans Carnival season, with roots in preparing for the start of the Christian season of Lent, starts after Twelfth Night, on Epiphany (January 6). It is a season of parades, balls (some of them masquerade balls), and king cake parties.

  

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•  Chienbäse

  Chienbäse is a Fasnacht tradition of Liestal, Basel-Country, Switzerland. On the Sunday night after Ash Wednesday, the night before the Morgestraich in Basel city, a procession begins of people carrying burning bundles of pinewood chips (called Chienbäse, the Alemannic German for "pinewood besom") through the medieval town center along the Rathausstrasse, entering through the city gate from the south.

  

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•  Birmingham International Carnival

  Birmingham International Carnival takes place biennially in Birmingham, England. Caribbean style carnivals were held in Handsworth Park there, from 1984 – 1994. The following year, the carnival moved from the park onto the streets of Handsworth, since which time it was known as the Birmingham Carnival. Since 1999, it has been held as the Birmingham International Carnival in Perry Barr, following a procession from Handsworth's Soho Road.

  

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•  Rabadan

  Rabadan is a carnival festival that takes place in the town of Bellinzona, capital of southern canton of Ticino in Switzerland. It is a very lively festival, especially alluring for its sponteaneous popular character. It has been ongoing now for more than 150 years. It attracts people from the rest of Switzerland and neighbouring Italy and during its peak evenings tens of thousands of people take to the streets wearing colourful carnival costumes.

  

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•  Mann (military rank)

  Mann, was a paramilitary rank used by several Nazi Party paramilitary organizations between 1925 and 1945. The rank is most often associated with the S.S. , and also as a rank of the SA where Mann was the lowest enlisted rank and was the equivalent of a Private. In 1938, with the rise of the SS-Verfügungstruppe (later called the Waffen-SS), the SS changed the rank of Mann to Schütze, although still retained the original SS rank of Mann for the Allgemeine-SS (General SS).

  

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•  Smart Common Input Method

  The Smart Common Input Method platform (SCIM) is an input method (IM) platform containing support for more than thirty languages for POSIX-style operating systems including Linux and BSD. It uses a clear architecture and provides a simple and powerful programming interface, which is meant to reduce the time required for developing individual IMs.

  

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•  Tia Hellebaut

  Tia Hellebaut (born February 16, 1978 in Antwerp, Belgium) is a Belgian Olympic champion and athlete who started out in the heptathlon, but afterwards specialized in the high jump event. She holds the Belgian records for heptathlon, indoor pentathlon, and high jump, both indoors and outdoors. She started as professional athlete with Atletiek Vlaanderen in the period from 2001 to October 2005. From November 1, 2006 she again became a professional athlete, this time at Bloso.

  

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•  Bucharest Botanical Garden

  The Bucharest Botanical Garden, now named after its founder, Dimitrie Brândză, is located in the Cotroceni neighbourhood of Bucharest, Romania. It has a surface of 17.5 hectares (including 4,000 m² of greenhouses), and has more than 10,000 species of plants. The first botanical garden in Bucharest was founded in 1860 near the Medicine Faculty by Carol Davila. Its first director was the botanist Ulrich Hoffmann, followed six years later by Dimitrie Grecescu.

  

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