Fasching

Fasching is Germany's version of Mardi Gras,  only on a much larger scale.  It begins precisely at eleven minutes and eleven seconds after elevon o'clock on the eleventh day of the eleventh month... The beginning of Fasching is usually quiet because of the Christmas holidays.  But on New Year's Eve, known as Silvester, the festivities begin.  The bars and nightclubs are filled with people dressed in amazing costumes... The Monday before Ash Wednesday is called Rosenmontag.  The word comes from the slangword rasen.  It means to rave and party...

Links

http://gogermany.miningco.com/blfashingexp.htm

www.unc.edu/~snyderk/fasching.html

http://schiller.darmouth.edu/~gicnyc/holidocs/fmuc.htm