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From: Will Ford
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Subject: Feb 28th tidbits & quotes
"Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable." - Voltaire
"Hold the fort!" - William Tecumseh Sherman
Mardi Gras was first celebrated in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1827 when a group of young men
returned from a trip to Paris and introduced the French carnival idea. Mardi Gras is always on the
Tuesday (Shrove Tuesday) before Ash Wednesday, the day that marks the beginning of the
Lenten season. Mardi Gras means 'Fat Tuesday' from the custom of using all the fats in the home
before Lent. The term was first used in America in 1699 by the French explorer Pierre le Moyne,
Sieur d'Iberville, who gave the name Pointe du Mari Gras to a spot on the Mississippi River, to
commemorate the traditional pre-Lenten observance in France. Famous Mardi Gras carnivals
outside France and New Orleans are held in Rio de Janeiro and Sydney.
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