What is the love affair between New Orleans and this obscure religious holiday?
- Religious Holiday, beginning of Lent
- Extension of Christmas, Carnival Season starts the day after Twelfth Night
- Who else in the world celebrates Carnival with the same intensity? Brazil / Rio
- Sociological purpose?
- Relationship to climate. Good weather in the winter. Absence of mosquitos and Yellow Fever.
- King Cake
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