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Suffolk Police use cones for major events such as a carnival or an airshow.
BBC: Cones have been disappearing over the summer
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Mary Genis from the Reading Steel Percussion Orchestra, which has taken part in the carnival since 1998, said such events need "professional" support.
BBC: Reading Carnival cancelled over a lack of funding
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Fears of overcrowding were mainly to blame, but the mayor warned that without solving such problems in future a similar fate could befall other events such as the Notting Hill Carnival.
BBC: Ken Livingstone
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In the first section, history paintings documenting the familiar events of 18th-century Venice, such as masked carnival-goers at the Ridotto, the state-run gambling house, are executed in precise detail, according to the canons of the neoclassical current of the day, with none of the fanciful splashes of color in the artist's later work.
WSJ: Appreciating Francesco Guardi's Changing Genres/ A Guardi Retropsective at Museo Correr in Venice
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While seven weeks of events precede Cup Day, it is the weeklong Melbourne Cup Carnival that really gets into high gear, with two other major races of note, kicking off on Sunday with fashionable Derby Day, which boasts an even higher level of sartorial splendor than the Cup itself.
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