[["Mobile, Alabama is the birthplace of Mardi Gras in America.", 212.0], ["\u201cApparently, as early 1703, the French held a type of Mardi Gras celebration in Mobile,\u201d she says. \u201cNew Orleans wasn\u2019t founded until 1718. Therefore, strictly speaking, Mobile had the earliest celebration of the two cities.\u201d", 13.0]]
where was the first mardi gras
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