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Sydney -
The Mardi Gras Drag Races were held at Bondi Beach at 5pm on 2 March 2012. Anybody who had come expecting to see cars racing around a track would have been in for a surprise.
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New Orleans -
“Throw me something, mister!” yells the crowd as hands reach up for throws of beads during Mardi Gras parades. But this year, after 8pm on Bourbon street, that same cry will yield throws of another kind: Handcuffs.
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Sydney -
The Mardi Gras Fair Day was held at Victoria Park, Sydney on Sunday 12 February 2012, from 10am to 8pm and marked the start of the Mardi Gras festival season.
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Pensacola -
Three business friends met in November of 1979 and hatched up the idea of planning a Mardi Gras on the island. The first Mardi Gras was in mid-February 1980. It is a time of excitement for the locals as well as the tourists.
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Bandera -
Party-goers, young and old alike, on Saturday lined and poured onto main street of this small Texas hill country town that bills itself as the Cowboy Capital of the World, tipping their hats to the wild and colorful Mardi Gras parade.
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It's the season of Mardi Gras but the sexy heiress, Paris Hilton has become a real hot sensation on Brazil television after her beer ad was found to be provocative by Brazilian authorities.
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Police were in praise of the behaviour of onlookers at this year’s gay and lesbian Mardi Gras parade even though they had to make dozens of arrests.
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Fat Tuesday is today, and the crowds are thin. The floats were out, but the shops were quiet. The economic downturn has brought a pall over the magic of believing as Mardi Gras promotes. So things aren’t easy for the Big Easy.
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It was Mardi Gras weekend this past few days, and even though the Oscars were out, the attention in the town of Natchitoches was on the parades and parties. No one cares about recessions or Hollywood in Louisiana when magic is in the air.
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New Orleans is identified with Mardi Gras in the United States. It looks forward to crowds this weekend. In the meantime, other towns in Louisiana are gearing up for their own parades and parties and hoping to turn recession woes to wonderful news
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Revellers take to the streets of New Orleans for Mardi Gras
The city of New Orleans, Louisiana, celebrates Mardi Gras - or Fat Tuesday - with boisterous street parties and spectacular, choreographed parades.
 Carnival celebrations around the world peak Tuesday for Mardi Gras, which at midnight ushers in Lent, the period of fasting and self-denial before Easter Sunday. Until then, revellers around the world cut loose in a cultural kaleidoscope that ranges from marching jazz bands in New Orleans, quirky Old World traditions, and Rio de Janeiro's wild street parties and Sambadrome parades.
 Revellers are hitting the streets of New Orlean's French Quarter for Mardi Gras celebrations, marking Fat Tuesday, also called Shrove or Pancake Tuesday, an annual party held before the Christian period of Lent.
 Frank Dancevic of Niagara Falls, Ont., has been named an injury fill-in for the French Open, which starts Sunday. Several players, including 10th-ranked Mardy Fish, have withdrawn from the tennis tourney.
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