Mardi Gras, also known as “Fat Tuesday” or “Shrove Tuesday”, dates back thousands of years to pagan celebrations of Spring and Fertility, such as the festival of Lupercalia. However, as Christianity spread throughout the Roman Empire these festivals began to fade and change. It was considered easier to incorporate the festivals into Christian celebrations than […]
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Thanksgiving: Truth Behind Tradition
As children we are all taught about the tradition of Thanksgiving and the story of the first Thanksgiving. We learned the story of the struggling Pilgrims that hosted a large harvest feast with a Native American tribe, the Wampanoag, which we now know as Thanksgiving. However, that was not the start of the tradition of […]
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My family has taken me tailgating at least once a summer since I was just a child. We always went tailgating for Nascar Races and every year it got more elaborate. At first we would tailgate for just a few hours and now it’s an event that lasts for days, last time it was all […]
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