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In a popular ritual of rebuke, young men rounded up women who had not taken a husband by Shrove Tuesday, and yoked them to a plough, forcing them to pull it--an inversion of the sexual division of labor, since plowing was men's work. On Shrove Tuesday, 1366, an appearance of Jesus would change her life for evermore. On National Pancake Day, also known as Mardi Gras and Shrove Tuesday, IHOP will give away one free short stack of its famous buttermilk pancakes from 7 a. |
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