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Encyclopedia > Float (parade)

A float is a decorated platform, either built on a vehicle or towed behind one, which is a component of many festive parades, such as the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and the Tournament of Roses Parade. For the latter event, floats are decorated in flowers. Vehicles are non-living means of transport. ... Marines on parade A parade is an organized procession of people along a street, often in costume, and often accompanied by decorated vehicles called floats or sometimes large lighter-than-air balloons with complex shapes. ... The Macys Thanksgiving Day Parade, originally called the Macys Christmas Parade, is an annual parade sponsored by Macys Department Store. ... There is also the Roses Tournament in England Perhaps one of the United States of Americas most important annual festivities, The Tournament of Roses Parade is the 114-year-old traditional parade generally held on New Years Day in Pasadena, California. ... Wildflowers A flower is the reproductive organ of those plants classified as angiosperms ( flowering plants; Division Magnoliophyta). ...


The name is derived from the first floats, which were decorated barges that were towed along canals with ropes held by parade marchers on the shore. Self propelled barge carrying bulk crushed stone Note that Barge is the NATO reporting name for the Soviet Tupolev Tu-85 bomber. ...


The climax of the movie Animal House features the misfits from the title fraternity surreptitiously launching their own float into a parade featuring legitimate entries from many of their rivals. The illicit float, in the form of a giant decorated cake adorned with the words "Eat Me" later splits open to reveal the parade-destroying "Deathmobile" inside. The Deltas in front of their house Movie poster of Animal House National Lampoons Animal House (also called Animal House) is a 1978 comedy film in which a misfit group of Delta fraternity boys takes on the system at their college. ... While the terms fraternity and sorority can be used to describe any number of social and charitable organizations, including the Lions Club, Epsilon Sigma Alpha, International and the Shriners, fraternities and sororities are most commonly known as social organizations of higher education students in the United States and Canada but... A cake is a form of food, usually sweet, often baked . ...


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All participants on floats must be wearing a safety belt, be enclosed in a harness or have handholds while the float is moving.
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Float personnel must be on their floats and be ready to judge at 5:00 PM.
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