Estimates show that about 1.2 - 1.4 Million people attend Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
Mardi Gras, Fat Tuesday, is a carnival-style celebration with feasting, parades, and masquerade balls. The holiday is of French Catholic origin. The celebration is in honor of the upcoming fasting and Lent season.
A. Hereditary rulers of a country
In federal systems, political authority is divided between two autonomous sets of governments, one national and the other subnational, both of which operate directly upon the people. ... The governmental structures and political processes found in these federal systems show great variety.
The aim of the Perestroika in the Soviet Union was to make the Socialism system there more efficient, so that the goods produced are actually the ones needed (but it ended up changing the system altogether)<span />
