Today is Shrove Tuesday.  Also known in France as Fat  Tuesady. Today we 
eat - tomorow we fast.  ..In England Shrove  Tuesday is called Pancake Day.  
In the news that I saw today, Prince Wiliam  and Catherine were celebrating 
Shrove Tuesday in North Ireland tossing pankcakes  with children.  And it's a 
big day in Rio and in New Orleans it is  a Mardi Gras celebration. 
 
In Hawaii it is Malasada Day.... A tradition in Hawaii brought by the  
Portuguese Catholics from Madeira and the Azores
 
So my genealogist friends - eat and be merry today, for tomorrow we  fast.  
 
Eloise
 
 
 
 

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