Karneval and Mardi Gras A Tale of Two Festivals!

In this activity you'll be comparing two holidays--Mardi Gras, as it is celebrated in New Orleans, and the German festival Karneval or Fasching. Explore these links for information. You may print and use this organizer to help you collect the information for our discussion.

General

Festivals.com http://www.festivals.com/

Karneval Links http://people.freenet.de/yellhomepages/KARNEVAL.html

Karneval--Faschting

About.com Fasching http://gogermany.about.com/travel/gogermany/library/weekly/aa020398.htm

Carnival in Cologne http://www.karneval.de/uebersetzung/uebersetzungeng.htm

Koelner Stadt Anzeiger (newspaper) http://www.ksta.de/

Festkomitee Kolner http://www.koelnerkarneval.de/

Karneval in Koeln http://www.cologne-in.de/karneval/

Karneval in Koeln http://hs.riverdale.k12.or.us/~dthompso/german/karneval/

Karneval-Fastnacht-Fasching http://www.serve.com/shea/germusa/karneval.htm

Karneval I http://www.truephotos.de/karneval.html

Karneval Weltweit http://www.infotech.tu-chemnitz.de/~hsc/karneval/worldwide/worldwide.html

Mardi Gras

About Mardi Gras http://www.mardigrasday.com/mardigras/default.php

Celebrate Mardi Gras in New Orleans http://www.mardigrasneworleans.com/

FatTuesday.com http://www.fattuesday.com/home.htm

Mardi Gras on the Net http://www.holidays.net/mardigras/

New Orleans News Sources--HeadlineSpot.com http://headlinespot.com/local/neworleans.htm

AltaVista Translator http://world.altavista.com/

Language Translators http://members.tripod.com/proagency/translator.html

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