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**nursopoutaras** · 02-17-2010, 09:09 PM

Roman Catholics queue up to have crosses etched to their foreheads with ash by nuns and laymen in Manila, as the country marks Ash Wednesday, the official beginning of the Christian Lenten season. The ash symbolizes the mortality of human beings, of bodies disintegrating to ash after one dies. -- PHOTO: AFP

A Sartiglia knight performs during the 545th Carnival in Oristano on the Italian island of Sardinia. The Sartiglia is an equestrian game of ancient origins, where masked knights on horseback try to pass a star, hung along the track, onto their sword. -- PHOTO: AFP

Joe Perez with the Mondo Kayo Social and Marching Club parades down St. Charles Avenue during Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Louisiana. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

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nursopoutaras Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 578 Senior Member	Roman Catholics queue up to have crosses etched to their foreheads with ash by nuns and laymen in Manila, as the country marks Ash Wednesday, the official beginning of the Christian Lenten season. The ash symbolizes the mortality of human beings, of bodies disintegrating to ash after one dies. -- PHOTO: AFP A Sartiglia knight performs during the 545th Carnival in Oristano on the Italian island of Sardinia. The Sartiglia is an equestrian game of ancient origins, where masked knights on horseback try to pass a star, hung along the track, onto their sword. -- PHOTO: AFP Joe Perez with the Mondo Kayo Social and Marching Club parades down St. Charles Avenue during Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Louisiana. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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