Queen carnival at Atherton in 1919Participants in a queen carnival in Hobart, Tasmania, in 1918, including Enid Lyons as "Queen of the Public Service" and a young Errol Flynn (right) as one of her page boys.
A queen carnival was a type of fundraising event that was popular in New Zealand and Australia during the early 20th century. They were particularly common during World War I and in the years after, when they were used to raise funds for returned soldiers. The first such carnival is believed to have been held in Napier, New Zealand, in 1913. The carnivals were not always annual events, and were held in various locations throughout a year.
A queencarnival was a type of fundraising event that was popular in New Zealand and Australia during the early 20th century. They were particularly common...
CarnivalQueen, or sometimes Carnaval Queen, is the name or title given to a woman or a girl who is chosen to perform official duties during the celebration...
Carnival in Rio de Janeiro (Portuguese: Carnaval do Rio de Janeiro) is a festival held every year before Lent; it is considered the biggest carnival in...
Carnival or Shrovetide is a festive season that occurs at the close of the Christian pre-Lenten period, consisting of Quinquagesima or Shrove Sunday, Shrove...
Heritage of Humanity, and it was during Olga Lucia Rodriguez CarnivalQueen year. The Carnival starts on the Saturday before the Ash Wednesday with the Battle...
Fincantieri delivered Carnival Horizon to Carnival Cruise Line. On March 1, 2018, Carnival announced Queen Latifah as the godmother of Carnival Horizon. She christened...
Carnival Cruise Line is an international cruise line with headquarters in Doral, Florida. The company is a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation & plc. Its...
is reigned over by current year's secretly selected King, Queen, and Royal Court of Carnival. The Royal Court is made up of young women from Memphis (princesses)...
that year.[citation needed] The main venues for Carnival competitions and the election of the Queen have been the Teatro Guimerá (until 1985) and the...
refreshment for carnival-goers. Since 2005 this event has been covered by BBC Radio 1Xtra in conjunction with Notting Hill Carnival. The CarnivalQueen is chosen...
in 1918, aged nine, when he served as a page boy to Enid Lyons in a queencarnival. In her memoirs, Lyons recalled Flynn as "a dashing figure—a handsome...
by private subscription campaigns such as the CarnivalQueen contest. The site of the Manila Carnival was the old Wallace Field that was just off the...
a Cinderella story involving a cookie girl who wishes to be queen at the cookie carnival, and a homage to the Atlantic City boardwalk parade and bathing...
Electric Daisy Carnival, commonly known as EDC, is an electronic dance music festival organized by promoter and distributor Insomniac. The annual flagship...
businesses. The inaugural CarnivalQueen show was held at the Deluxe Cinema, and Miss Gloria White was crowned Antigua's first Carnivalqueen. A Calypso competition...
2013. Retrieved November 19, 2013. "Know the New River Momo King and QueenCarnival 2007" (in Portuguese). November 11, 2006. Archived from the original...
shipping and cruise line based at Carnival House at Southampton, England, operated by Carnival UK and owned by Carnival Corporation & plc. Since 2011, Cunard...
Carnival glass is moulded or pressed glass to which an iridescent surface shimmer has been applied. It has previously been referred to as aurora glass...
Caribbean (Aruba, Bonaire & Curacao). The Summer Carnival offers people an opportunity to celebrate Carnival in such a manner. The Dutch city of Arnhem used...
The Carnival of Brazil (Portuguese: Carnaval do Brasil, IPA: [kaʁnaˈvaw]) is an annual festival held the Friday afternoon before Ash Wednesday at noon...
of the larger carnivals start with the burning or condemning of an effigy called “mal humor” (bad mood), the election of a CarnivalQueen and sometimes...
etc. Carnival month ends with the Rose QueenCarnival, started over a hundred years ago, where groups of local young people from the town, Rose Queen royalty...
named King and Queen of Carnival. Joella Crichton has been awarded Queen of the Carnival nine times and was subject of "Becoming a Queen" a ninety minute...
and it started as a Student Carnival for which a congeniality queen was elected. The first queen of Bogotá's student carnival was Elvira Zea. After winning...
The Notting Hill Carnival is an annual Caribbean Carnival event that has taken place in London since 1966 on the streets of the Notting Hill area of Kensington...
fulfilled her obligations as CarnivalQueen at the 1925 Banff Winter Carnival. Their last appearance at the Banff Winter Carnival was in 1926, when they were...
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