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Old 01-19-2005, 02:03 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Great CNN Article on T& T Carnival
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Old 01-19-2005, 02:07 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Old 01-19-2005, 02:34 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Note that carnival is not celebrating 100 years as some people are still spreading......

Carnival is a 166-year-old festival that has its origins in the clash and mesh of African and French cultures on the 18th-century sugarcane plantations of the West Indies.
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Originally Posted by Triniaries
Note that carnival is not celebrating 100 years as some people are still spreading......

Carnival is a 166-year-old festival that has its origins in the clash and mesh of African and French cultures on the 18th-century sugarcane plantations of the West Indies.
I'm still puzzled about this 100 years. And there are people that still insist on it being 100 years.
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Back in the towns, thousands will make their way to Catholic churches to have their sins absolved and to promise good behavior -- at least until Carnival 2006.
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I'm still puzzled about this 100 years. And there are people that still insist on it being 100 years.
It really makes you wonder where that rumor started....I still hearing DJ's up here saying that Trinidad is going to be celebrating 100 years....horrible that they aren't even researching the information they hear before speading it
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It really makes you wonder where that rumor started....I still hearing DJ's up here saying that Trinidad is going to be celebrating 100 years....horrible that they aren't even researching the information they hear before speading it
The chairman of the NCC (Kenny De Silver) said that they found it to have been started as an advertising ploy for certain charters done out of the US.
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Back in the towns, thousands will make their way to Catholic churches to have their sins absolved and to promise good behavior -- at least until Carnival 2006.
That explains why there's no seat at St. Peter's on Ash Wednesday. I almost had to stand last year.
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This 100 years is just a marketing tactic. But it could be 6 months ah carnival I will be there
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Now I don't feel guilty anymore and I know I'm not the only crazy person that's willing do this. "It's what we live for," said Dr. Faizah Assad-Perry, of Houston, president of the Trinidad and Tobago Association of Texas. "Without fail, every year, I do not miss it come hell or high water. I've resigned from jobs if I couldn't get the time off to go."
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