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2. Cain's Merry Widows - Wikipedia

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   [1] Each Mardi Gras, The ladies, known variously as "The Merry Widows of Joe Cain", "Joe Cain's Widows", or even just as "The Widows" gather on Joe Cain Day (the Sunday before Fat Tuesday), clothed in black mourning clothes with veils, to lay a wreath at Cain's burial site at Church Street Graveyard, wail over their "departed husband's" grave ...

3. Mardi Gras is coming. Here's what to know about New ... - AOL

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   Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday, marks the party's climax and the celebration will be citywide, with costumed revelers ... 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us ...

4. New Orleans' Carnival season marks Fat Tuesday with ... - AOL

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   Festivities marking Mardi Gras, the climactic day of New Orleans’ Carnival season, hit full swing early Tuesday, with costumed revelers gathering on the narrow streets of the French Quarter and ...

5. Mardi Gras in New Orleans - Wikipedia

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   [23] [24] This marked the first large-scale cancellation of Mardi Gras parades since the 1979 police strike. [ 25 ] [ 26 ] Other krewes subsequently announced that they would cancel their in-person balls, including Endymion and Rex (who therefore did not name a King and Queen of Mardi Gras for the first time since World War II ).

6. Fun, Fascinating Mardi Gras Facts That You Didn't Know - AOL

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7. Mardi Gras - Wikipedia

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   Mardi Gras (UK: / ˌ m ɑːr d i ˈ ɡ r ɑː /, US: / ˈ m ɑːr d i ɡ r ɑː /; [1] [2] also known as Shrove Tuesday) is the final day of Carnival (also known as Shrovetide or Fastelavn); it thus falls on the day before the beginning of Lent on Ash Wednesday. [3]