Thursday, February 14, 2013

AP PHOTOS: Fat Tuesday Celebrated Around the World

CHARLES TOWN - There are not many holidays that require 1,300 pounds of sausage, 120 dozen eggs and 50 gallons of orange juice. That is, not many holidays except for Fat Tuesday. Some call it Shrove Tuesday, some call it Fat Tuesday, but either way,

Today is Fat Tuesday. This is the day before the church's festival of Ash Wednesday which is tomorrow and begins the season of Lent. Lent, as church tradition holds, is a time for spiritual reflection and restriction as we hear.

Live@Five@Four's Erin Donovan and Stoney Sharp brought the purple, green and gold to Market Square in Downtown Knoxville Tuesday. The two threw beads from the Knoxville Chamber's balcony to people below. Fat Tuesday is being celebrated across

From sequin-drenched samba parades in Rio de Janeiro to cascades of Mardi Gras beads on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, revelers gathered to dance until dawn at Fat Tuesday celebrations. The Roman Catholic period of Lent begins on Wednesday and

GRAND RAPIDS (WZZM) -- If we're talking Fat Tuesday, you might as well go all out, right? 12 high school students from West Catholic, Comstock Park, and Kenowa Hills high schools think so. The annual paczki-eating contest at Plumb's grocery store in

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