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2. Fiesta Shows - Wikipedia

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   Fiesta Shows has been in partnership with the Topsfield Fair for over 50 years now. About 500,000 views come to the fair every year. In the year of 1967, Dean and Flynn purchased Fiesta Shows completely. [2] Fiesta Shows is a traveling amusement park that features rides and concession set up for fairs and carnivals. [3]

3. Carnivalesque - Wikipedia

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   Carnivalesque is a literary mode that subverts and liberates the assumptions of the dominant style or atmosphere through humor and chaos. It originated as "carnival" in Mikhail Bakhtin 's Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics and was further developed in Rabelais and His World. For Bakhtin, "carnival" (the totality of popular festivities, rituals ...

4. Paris Carnival - Wikipedia

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   The Carnival of Paris is a festival with a very long history in the French capital. Nicolas de Baye wrote in his journal in 1411: "Monday, the 22nd of February, the royal household, in order to observe the Lenten feast, which is tomorrow, will be rising before dawn [to prepare]". The staying-power of the Carnival of Paris, the elements that ...

5. Fun Slide - Wikipedia

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   A Fun slide at a carnival in the UK. A fun slide, also known as the astroglide slide, or cascade slide, is an amusement ride. A rider walks up the stairs to get to the top of this slide along with a mat. The rider places the mat on the slide, sits on the mat, and slides down the ride. Fun slides come in different lengths and numbers of slide ...

6. Cologne Carnival - Wikipedia

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   The Cologne Carnival ( German: Kölner Karneval) is a carnival that takes place every year in Cologne, Germany . Traditionally, the "fifth season" (carnival season) is declared open at 11 minutes past 11 on the 11th of the 11th month November. The Carnival spirit is then temporarily suspended during the Advent and Christmas period, and picks up ...

7. Helter skelter (ride) - Wikipedia

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   Helter skelter (ride) A helter skelter, or helter-skelter lighthouse, is an amusement ride resembling a lighthouse with a spiral shaped slide built around the tower. Typically, fairgoers climb up a flight of stairs inside the tower and slide down the spiral on the outside using a coir mat. The ride is most prevalent in amusement parks and ...