Percussionists and dancers in colorful costumes signaled the beginning of carnival during the traditional inaugural parade on January 26, 2012 but carnival in Uruguay is not over yet.

Girls in costume resting at the side of the street during the Notting Hill Carnival children's parade, Sunday 26 August, 2007.

Over the years the Carnival Celebration has changed and now starts from the beginning of January till the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday with a large parade on the last Sunday of the festivities (Sunday before Ash Wednesday).

Putin on Parade

Llamadas parade, Montevideo, Uruguay.

The Rain on Russia s Parade

Let's look at the details of our Carnival

The military parade held in Paris each 14 July for France's national day is the oldest and largest regular military parade in Europe.

It was a parade with a capital P.

As we reported two years ago, blogs and websites dedicated to carnival allow people from all over the world to see what Uruguayan carnival is all about.

In the 1990 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, Bart made his debut as one of the giant helium filled balloons for which the parade is known.

About 10,000 people joined the Purple Parade in Singapore.

The Dame Lorraine is a traditional burlesque character in Trinidad Carnival.

Reconstruction of a historical 1812 era military parade, in St. Petersburg, Russia.

This hashtag will do all the work of spreading information and announcements for participation in the Carnival, but we would also like there to be tweets on the topic of the Carnival with this hashtag.

These feelings can be festive, even carnival like, as they were in Euro 2008.

This, in part, is because carnival in Uruguay involves a lot more than parades.

The Moscow Victory Parade of 1945 () was a victory parade held by the Soviet army (with a small squad from the Polish army) after the defeat of Nazi Germany in the Great Patriotic War.

Here is a selection of photos from this year's Notting Hill Carnival posted on Flickr.

For more photos by these and other photographers, see Flickr's Notting Hill Carnival 2007 pool.

Photo from the Ondina area, Carnival 2010, by Rodrigo Sá on Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

LJ user al_lex_ey and NewEurasia.net's Annasoltan offer a rare glimpse into the Turkmen parade.

Welcome to the Black Parade was released as a single on September 11, 2006.

So far, this is the biggest Purple Parade event which was first organized in 2013.

So this is one that they found, they called the Knife, the Carnival, the Boston Shuffler, Twilight.

The parade of gaffes and subsequent groveling apologies has become a regular feature of public life.

So, in New York City, on the first Saturday of every summer, Coney Island, our local, charmingly run down amusement park, hosts the Mermaid Parade. It's an amateur parade people come from all over the city people get all dressed up.

Notting Hill Carnival was long known as a Caribbean festival, but today Londoners from many cultural backgrounds participate.

The performances and contests that make up the longest carnival in the world will continue well into March.

But the majority opinion of Justice John Paul Stevens paid little heed to the Administration's parade of horribles.

Julio F. posts a photo essay of the Autumn candombe parade in Malvín, a neighborhood in Montevideo, Uruguay.

It took place in the Soviet capital of Moscow, mostly centering around a military parade through Red Square.

In today s free market carnival, nothing seems visible unless it is scandalous and nothing is scandalous enough to be memorable.

A follow up cruise titled Mayercraft Carrier 2 sailed from Los Angeles March 27 31, 2009 on the Carnival Splendor.

Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam, who also joined the parade, urged companies to hire more persons with special needs

When bloggers have published their post for the Carnival, they must email juan.arellano at globalvoicesonline dot org with the following information

The site Carnaval del Uruguay , for example, provides forums and a chat room where users can discuss different aspects of carnival.

The initiators of the blog carnival want to start a dialogue on what Europe as a concept means to its citizens.

Indeed, a whole net work of publications, some of which manage to parade as mainstream media, is devoted to the task.

This year, Solange González Henott wrote about Uruguay s carnival in El Blog de la Ruta , a travel blog from news site Otramérica.

Democrats as well as Republicans parade their religiousness if they want to get elected. Both parties invoke one nation under God.

Thanks partly to this parade of new talent, the Indian music industry is experiencing a period of extraordinary innovation and expansion.

By your Lord , We will gather them and the satans , and We shall parade them hobbling on their knees in Gehenna

By your Lord , We will gather them and the satans , and We shall parade them hobbling on their knees in Gehenna

At the same time foreigners and Uruguayans dedicate blog posts to the event, share photos, videos and thoughts on the world s longest carnival.