• The Carnival season in Greece is known as the Apokria ( “saying goodbye to meet"), because after that, the 50 days of Lent before Easter start. The second Thursday before the beginning of Lent is called Tsikno Pempti (Smoke Thursday), a day when meat should be cooked at every house. The celebrations come to a head in the last week (and particularly the last weekend) before the beginning of Lent with Kathari Deutera (Clean or Ash Monday) . Clean Monday is a public holiday in Greece and is marked by meat free feasts and thflying of kites ...
Looking forward and looking back: Janus and January ‘Twelfth Night Merrymaking in Farmer Shakeshaft’s Barn’ (Phiz, c. 1840) Recap: Carnival Shrove Tuesday May Games Misrule (Christmas – especially Twelfth Night) From Philip Stubbes, The Anatomie of Abuses (1583): ‘First, all the wildheads of the parish, conventing together, choose them a grand captain (of all mischief) whom they ennoble with the title of “my Lord of Misrule”, and him they crown with great solemnity, and adopt for their king. And in this sort they go to the church (I say) and into the church (though the ...
WHAT • HAPPENED JANUARY 13, 2012 • SAILING ALONG THE COST OF THE ISLAND GIGLIO • 3,206 PASSENGERS AND 1,023 CREW ONBOARD • HIT A ROCKY OUTCROP • CREW AND CAPTAIN RESPONDED POORLY • 30 PEOPLE DIED AND 2 REMAIN MISSING COSTA’S IMMEDIATE ACTION • THE COSTA COMPANY COMMENTED WITHIN HOURS AFTER ACCIDENT • POSTED UPDATES ON THEIR WEBSITE • COSTA CRUISES OFFERED COMPENSATION TO PASSENGERS • THEY HELD TWO PRESS CONFERENCES CARNIVAL’S CEO’S RESPONSE • MICKEY ARISON • TWEET • NO IN PERSON STATEMENT OR PRESS CONFERENCE • OFFICIAL STATEMENT EXPRESSING CONDOLENCE • &ndash ...
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