A Gloomy Carnival of Freedom

Carnival: a Short History of Carnival Customs and Their Social Function

Essential information on the origins and history of Carnival is provided, together with some remarks about the changes in Carnival practice, which were caused by political changes in Croatia. The author explains the Carnival terminology, discusses the place of Carnival in the Christian calendar, and writes about ancestral masks and the legacy of the Late Antiquity in Carnival customs. He points...

Gloomy in Glenburn.

On-Scene Emergency Department at Aalborg carnival

Background Every year in May, the biggest carnival in Scandinavia takes place in Aalborg. 100.000 people are gathered in the streets to celebrate, and of these more than 25.000 enters the carnival compound. During the day, the streets of central Aalborg are effectively closed due to the massive number of people. Historically, Danish Red Cross volunteers have set up first aid stations and treatm...

Compulsive carnival song whistling following cardiac arrest: a case study

BACKGROUND Compulsivity is the repetitive, irresistible urge to perform a behavior, the experience of loss of voluntary control over this intense urge and the tendency to perform repetitive acts in a habitual or stereotyped manner. Compulsivity is part of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), but may occasionally occur as stand-alone symptom following brain damage induced by cardiac arrest. In t...

AN TOSTAL carnival focus of hall presidents’ meeting

T h e \N TOSTAL irn ival proposal and debate concerning The Obser­ ver w ere the m ajor issues covered at last n ig h t’s Hall P res id en ts’s Council m eeting held in LaFortune S tudent C enter. R obertD riscoll of the M cD erm ott A m usem ent Com pany, Inc. p resen ted a film to fam iliarize the Council m em bers w ith his carn i­ val’s operations and attractions. H e said th a t he had “ w...