1.   Carnival time in Rio is the culmination of months of preparation.

2.   Colonial Christmas was more like carnival time, when rowdies sullied the streets with public displays of eating and drunkenness.

3.   During carnival time, back lots in Flatbush are swept clean, strung with Christmas lights and transformed into festive courtyards.

4.   In Italy, prominent people, often masked and dressed in costume, crowded into dissection amphitheaters during carnival time.

5.   It was carnival time again!

6.   From the Amazon rainforest in the north to the pampas in the south, Brazilians partied like it was carnival time in the midst of the South American winter.

7.   And from there, it was carnival time again.

8.   But carnival time is traditionally also when women act provocatively, take the initiative and dress to kill.

9.   Eggs and flour are also regularly thrown at others at carnival time.