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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: New Orleans Mardi Gras (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Krewe of OAK is a small neighborhood New Orleans Mardi Gras krewe and parade held in the Carrollton neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana.
		The Bywater is a neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana.
		New Orleans Mardi Gras is Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Louisiana, one of the most famous Carnival celebrations in the world.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/New-Orleans-Mardi-Gras (5427 words)

	New Orleans Mardi Gras - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		New Orleans Mardi Gras is Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Louisiana, one of the most famous Carnival celebrations.
		The parades in New Orleans are organized by Carnival krewes.
		In 1991 the New Orleans city council passed an ordinance that prohibited spending city funds on police and sanitation for any event held on public streets by carnival organizations that imposed racial segregation in their bylaws.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Orleans_Mardi_Gras (1914 words)

	Float
		Float (project management) Float in project network can be delayed by, without causing a delay to: subsequent terminal e...
		Float chamber A float chamber is a device for automatically regulating the supply of a liquid to a system.
		Root beer float A root beer float is a dessert that consists of spoon.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/float.html (210 words)

	2008 Mardi Gras Krewe List and Photographs in New Orleans Mardi Gras Parade Schedule.com 2008
		The only Mardi Gras krewe in New Orleans by and for the canine population is ready to sniff the streets of the French Quarter for the fourteenth year on Sunday, February 19, 2006.
		Rex was organized by New Orleans business men in part to put on a spectacle in honor of the New Orleans visit of Grand Duke Alexis of Russia during the 1872 Carnival season.
		Bards Of Bohemia are parading in Galveston, TX and New Orleans, LA this is the 1st Mardi Gras parade krewe to be in two cities during the the same Mardi Gras season.
	www.mardigrasparadeschedule.com /krewes (2200 words)

	New Orleans Mardi Gras - TheBestLinks.com - American Civil War, Bank, Breast, Czechoslovakia, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In 1991 the New Orleans city council passed an ordinance that city funds could not be used to pay for police and sanitation for any event held on public streets by carnival organizations which imposed racial segregation in their bylaws.
		Promptly at the stroke of midnight at the end of Fat Tuesday, a mounted squad of New Orleans police officers clears upper Bourbon Street (where the bulk of out-of-town revelers congregate), with the announcement that Mardi Gras is over, as it is the start of Lent.
		The New Orleans police department decided to tolerate bare breasts within the French Quarter so long as the display is not causing public disruption, but will arrest people for more explicit nudity.
	www.thebestlinks.com /New_Orleans_Mardi_Gras.html (1659 words)

	MARDI GRAS 101
		When the United States took possession of Louisiana in 1803 and Americans began settling in, establishing their presence in New Orleans, there was, for more than 40 years, a bit of antagonism between the Creole society and the American upstarts, who controlled two separate sections of the developing city.
		Some krewes only stage their own carnival balls, since parading with floats is a mighty expensive proposition, and some groups prefer the more dignified celebration characteristic of the upper strata of society.
		There are some 70 separate carnival organizations in the New Orleans metro area, 10 of which, at the least, have been in continuous operation for over 100 years.
	mglinks.com /mg101.htm (1307 words)

	Photograph. Who is Photograph? What is Photograph? Where is Photograph? Definition of Photograph. Meaning of Photograph.
		A photograph (often just photo) is an image (or a representation of that on e.g.
		The most common photographs are those created of visible wavelengths, producing permanent records of what the human eye can see.
		A photograph is taken using photographic film loaded into a traditional film camera or using a CCD or CMOS chip in a digital camera.
	www.knowledgerush.com /kr/encyclopedia/Photograph (176 words)

	Photographs
		Gallery of Arc de Triomphe photographs Photographs of the Arc de Triomphe: One of the numerous bas reliefs inside the mu...
		Gallery of John S. Mosby photographs Photographs of John S. Mosby a daguerreotype Mosby and his gang of Partisan Fighter...
		New England Historic Photographs Archive The New England Historic Photographs Archive is a project started by the Brattl...
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	Salon Travel \| Sexual license, cross-dressing and other healthy behavior (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Carnival was imported to the New World by its original French and Spanish settlers.
		New Orleans is self-conscious about its history and uses Mardi Gras to reconfirm its image as Southern, Catholic and French.
		Women began to parade openly in New Orleans during the 1941 Mardi Gras, with the foundation of the Krewe of Venus.
	archive.salon.com /travel/food/col/wolf/2000/03/02/feast/index1.html (813 words)

	Mardi Gras - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Carnival is an important celebration in most of Europe (Especially Southern Europe), and in many parts of Latin America and the Caribbean.
		In Quebec the carnival period usually coincided with the coldest days of the year when temperatures dropped to forty degrees below zero, linking it to snow and ice sports.
		New Orleans traditions include Krewes such as the Krewe du Vieux, the Zulu Social Aid & Pleasure Club, and the famous Rex parade, in addition to Mardi Gras Indians and king cake parties.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /mardi_gras.htm (694 words)

	New Orleans Carnival float photographs - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation New Orleans Carnival float ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		New Orleans Carnival float photographs - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation New Orleans Carnival float photographs.
		Photographs of New Orleans Mardi Gras parade floats
		The Krewe of Thoth is unique in Carnival as their parade's unique route passes a children's hospital and several nursing homes, giving them their nickname as the "Krewe of Shut-ins", allowing those who may not get a chance to see a parade to get a close up view.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/New-Orleans-Carnival-float-photographs.html (223 words)

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		New Northwest Broadcasters - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation New Northwest Broadcasters.
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		New Northwest Broadcasters, headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, operates 38 radio stations in seven cities in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/New-Northwest-Broadcasters.html (416 words)

	annual meeting
		New Orleans, like une femme fatale, has so many seductive aspects that a visitor can feel, well, bouleverse (overwhelmed).
		As a result, APA has planned 53 different tours to give members and their families attending APA’s annual meeting not only some perspective on the many fascinating things that a person can do in the New Orleans area, but a means of pursuing such adventures.
		This "American castle" was begun in 1849 by one of New Orleans’ most successful architects and, upon its completion, boasted 64 rooms, intricate lacy friezework, hand-painted Dresden doorknobs, and hand-carved marble mantles.
	www.psych.org /pnews/01-02-16/tours.html (803 words)

	Photographing the Biggest Party of the Year: Mardi Gras (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		What you imagine is Mardi Gras, New Orleans style—arguably the nation's largest and longest party, and unquestionably one of the choice photo ops of the year.
		New Orleans native and professional photographer Les Riess attends the party every year, and has never found the party to be a bore.
		Then there are photographic forays into the infamous French Quarter—forays Riess describes as "an interesting situation." He elaborates, saying, "It's very crowded, so you can't be claustrophobic." Riess relies on his wide-angle lenses when he's in the thick of the crowd.
	photos.msn.com /resources/targeted/en-us/editorial/PhotographingTheBiggestPartyOfTheYear_p.htm (1415 words)

	BigEasy.com City Tours and Attractions; Your Guide to New Orleans: attractions, hotels, restaurants, vacations, ...
		New Orleans voodoo is a religion based on spiritual beliefs carried to the colony by slaves from West Africa.
		While the bulk of the artifacts concern the current practices both in New Orleans and in Cajun Country, there is also a section on the European roots of carnival and its relation to Christian and pagan rituals.
		The dresses are accompanied by the faux jewels worn to the balls and by vintage photographs.
	www.bigeasy.com /features/offbeat.html (1740 words)

	Rex parade - free-definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Rex was organized by New Orleans business men in part to put on a spectacle in honor of the New Orleans visit of Grand Duke Alexis of Russia during the 1872 Carnival season.
		Also in the minds of the founders of Rex was the desire to lure tourism and business to New Orleans in the years after the American Civil War.
		Rex is categorized as one of the four New Orleans "Super Krewes" for the very large size of the parade; the others (Endymion, Baccus, and Orpheus) were all founded in the 2nd half of the 20th century and parade during nights in the days leading up to Mardi Gras.
	www.free-definition.com /Rex-Parade.html (416 words)

	New Orleans Tourism Marketing Corporation :: Mardi Gras 2005 Approaches, Exhibits Offer Year-Round Fun for the Entire ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- More than 100 years ago, the first Mardi Gras parade rode down St. Charles Avenue, and since that time the festival has grown into one of the most extravagant events in the world.
		More than 80 percent of the floats that travel down New Orleans streets, and many floats that decorate parades worldwide, are made at Blaine Kern's Mardi Gras World.
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	sev.prnewswire.com /travel/20050111/DATU01411012005-1.html (651 words)

	New Orleans Mardi Gras biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The celebration of Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Louisiana is one of the most famous Carnival celebrations.
		Ash Wednesday, the day after Fat Tuesday, is sometimes jokingly referred to as "Trash Wednesday" due to the large amount of refuse typically left in the streets by the previous day's celebrations.
		The amount of garbage picked up by the city sanitation department this day, measured in tons, is a local news item and is considered to reflect the economic impact of each year's Mardi Gras.
	new-orleans-mardi-gras.biography.ms (1612 words)

	Fleur de Lists
		Carnival’s biggest parade can be the backdrop for an evening-long party.
		Float builder Blaine Kern’s test laboratory for design, this is easily the West Bank’s best.
		One of Carnival’s biggest parades, this all-female group usually has a force-fed generic theme but a good mix of bands.
	neworleansmagazine.com /in-this-issue/articles/news/fleur-de-lists-1782.html (1047 words)

	Alibris: Carnival
		Carnival songs resemble a tabloid newspaper in their verve, spirit and range of themes.
		Text and photographs present the traditions and rituals of the annual celebration of Carnaval as experienced in the small Brazilian city of Olinda.
		Other countries celebrate carnival, but none quite like Trinidad, where carnival is not just a two-day event; it is an all-year-round statement of identity Up to 100,000 Trinidadians, or almost 10 percent of the population,...
	www.alibris.com /search/books/subject/Carnival/page/3&matches=152 (865 words)

	You got the graphologist, I got the pothead.
		Since we were visiting just after Carnival, we got to see many of the floats and props from this year's parade, as they were in the process of being dismantled in preparation for the new creations being started for next year's parade.
		We also wandered through the "party room" which was lined with the permanent floats for the superkrewes, such the giant Leviathon, a sea dragon float covered in fiber optic lights, as well as the "Bacchasaurus," an old-fashioned riverboat, and two merpeople who were also lit with fiber optics.
		The walk through the park was lovely, we saw turtles sunning on a log floating in the stream, and trees which were covered with hundreds of birds, as well as some sort of dog show which was taking place at one end of the park.
	www.inle.org /nola/nola4.html (980 words)

	Schindler
		Henri Schindler, a New Orleans native, is the acclaimed designer of Mardi Gras parades and balls for some of the city's most eminent societies.
		He is highly regarded among Carnival historians for his knowledge of the festival's rich cultural legacy and its forgotten artists and builders.
		Though Mardi Gras had been celebrated in New Orleans for many years, the Golden Age of Carnival artistry began in the 1870's, and was marked by shimmering pageants and opulent private balls.
	www.enochsframing.com /mgfavors/books2.html (352 words)

	NEW ORLEANS
		The brackish stew was particularly unkind to the wooden wheels on 16 of the 27 floats, some dating back to the 19th century, when, according to krewe lore, the wheels had been on cotton wagons.
		As they were ripping the floats apart, Brown said, workers made this discovery: Clumps of Spanish moss had been used decades ago to make a cushion between the canvas and the hard wood.
		The king's float was spared by Katrina's floodwaters, Brown said, because it happened to be undergoing repairs at Blaine Kern's Algiers studio in August 2005.
	www.firstshotphoto.com /new_orleans.htm (973 words)

	DesMoinesRegister.com \| Entertainment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Members of this same group were invited to New Orleans in 1857 to help organize mystic societies there.
		Marching high school bands are interspersed with brightly decorated floats and full-masked costumed characters tossing beads, candy, moonpies, stuffed animals, and doubloons to the crowd.
		Many of these are held at the new Mardi Gras park, but others are held on the waterfront, in Spanish Plaza and other public locations.
	desmoinesregister.com /entertainment/stories/c2225555/23387351.html (969 words)

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		The lush, seductive, nostalgic elegance of New Orleans' streets, parks, and public buildings, as well as the fanciful, nuanced interiors of some of its most beautiful private home and gardens, are insightfully revealed in this comprehensive photographic homage to the "Venice of North America." 200 full-color photos.
		Henri Schindler is a devotee of New Orleans Carnival.
		He served as the last float designer for the Mistick Krewe of Comus, the orginator of thematic New Orleans Carnival parades, until the Mistick Krewe was driven from the streets in 1992 by government interference.
	www.bookwhores.com /absinthe-idx.html (2017 words)

	Tulane University, Manuscripts Department (21. Brown to 40. Chesky)
		Copies of two letters from Nancy Brown, one from Washington and one from New Orleans, to her sister, Susan Price, of Lexington, Kentucky, discussing family and social problems.
		Speeches and committee reports of Chicago born Gladys Freeman, who married Moise S. Cahn and spent her life in New Orleans working in social welfare and for the National Council for Jewish Women, serving as National President from 1949 to 1955.
		The Tulane Carnival Collection primarily encompasses two broad categories of materials: an extensive collection of Carnival ephemera (invitations, programs, dance cards, etc.) and possibly the largest collection of original Carnival float and costume designs.
	www.tulane.edu /~wc/guidetocollections/tulaneUmanu21-40.html (642 words)

	Leda Plauche Collection, Louisiana Division, New Orleans Public Library
		Henry Plauché) was born in New Orleans in 1886.
		She designed her first Carnival ball for the Krewe of Nereus in 1916 and, over the next forty years, she included the krewes of Rex, Proteus, Comus, and Momus among her clients.
		The float designs are arranged in separate sets for each parade, and, within each set, by float number.
	nutrias.org /~nopl/plauche/lhpinv.htm (727 words)

	MARDI GRAS \| News for New Orleans, Louisiana \| wwltv.com
		If you’re looking to catch the Carnival spirit and can’t wait until the parades roll, there are several local museums and research facilities where you can explore the history, traditions and fun of the celebration year-round.
		Tour guides will show you the spots where Carnival floats and props are designed, produced and housed.
		While there is no permanent display of Carnival memorabilia, the Historic New Orleans Collection does include many priceless Carnival photographs and sketches, writings and pieces of memorabilia, which can be viewed with assistance from the collection’s research staff.
	www.wwltv.com /mardigras/carnivalupclose.htm (387 words)

	Amazon.com: Profile For Patience: Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Schindler's magnum opus, Mardi Gras New Orleans, is the perfect guide as we embark on the 150th anniversary of the New Orleans Carnival celebration--a must read for any serious or curious observer of the New Orleans scene.
		With glorious photography by former Carnival Queen Tina Freeman, and archival photographs, Schindler paints a fascinating verbal picture of the post-classical European roots of the modern celebration, and the effects of the Venetian and Bourbon French rulers on the ancient feast.
		Schindler, himself a treasure-trove of history and lore of New Orleans' "golden age", shares through lucid and eloquent essays and stunning color plates the story of the evolution of the Carnival street pageant, from its beginnings in pre-Civil War affluence to the great depression of the 1930s.
	www.amazon.com /gp/cdp/member-reviews/AN32I3E2GP1O6?_encoding=UTF8 (977 words)

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