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Fastnacht Day (also spelled Fasnacht, or in Pennsylvania German: Faasenacht) is an annual Pennsylvania Dutch celebration that falls on Shrove Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday. The word translates to "Fasting Night" or “Almost Night” in English. The tradition is to eat the very best foods, which are part of the German tradition, and ...
Vanessa Echols. Vanessa Lorraine Echols (born November 8, 1960) is a former television journalist and was the noon and 4pm news anchor at WFTV in Orlando, Florida, until her retirement on May 25, 2022. Echols was born in Auburn, Alabama, attending Auburn High School and later majoring in broadcast journalism at the University of Alabama.
Helvetia is a playable location in the 2018 video game Fallout 76, which is set in the state of West Virginia. It is the staging ground of the popular Fasnacht day event in the game. Events and festivals. Fasnacht, last Saturday before Lent; West Virginia Maple Syrup Festival, third Weekend in March; Helvetia Ramp Supper, last Saturday in April
At age 28, she was one of the youngest national news anchors. She joined NBC in June 1990 as the news anchor for Today and the NBC Sunday Nightly News, and she became anchor of the now-defunct NBC News at Sunrise. In 1991, Daniels became the first journalist to host her own national daily talk show, [3] A Closer Look (later renamed Faith ...
West Virginia University ( MA) Occupation. Journalist, businessman. Erik Patrick Wells (born February 5, 1967) is an American politician [1] and former television news anchor. Wells was born and raised in California, but moved to West Virginia in the early 1990s to further his career in journalism. Wells was a popular co-anchor in the state's ...
The Swabian - Alemannic carnival is known as Fastnacht, where Fast (en)-Nacht means the eve of the Fastenzeit ( lent ). Variants of the name are Fasnacht, Fasnet, or Fasent . Fastnacht is held in Baden-Württemberg, parts of Bavaria, Alsace, German Switzerland, and Austrian Vorarlberg. The festival starts on the Thursday before Ash Wednesday ...
Jeanne Whitefeather, 62, and Donald Lantz, 63, are accused of adopting the children, ages 6 to 16, from a shelter for homeless and vulnerable youths, targeting them for forced labor specifically ...
Carnival of Basel. The Carnival of Basel ( German: Basler Fasnacht) is the biggest carnival in Switzerland and it is the main Protestant carnival in the world. [1] Basler Fasnacht takes place annually between February and March in Basel. It has been listed as one of the top fifty local festivities in Europe.