"Best R$3,428 I Ever Spent!" Carnival, Rio de Janeiro Style

The Cordão do Bola Preta, considered perhaps the biggest of all roving Blocos, was supposedly established almost 100 years ago to celebrate an unnamed but particularly beautiful young woman in a black-and-white polka dot dress, whose appearance was so striking that everyone around her felt like they just needed to immediately throw an enormous party. In related news, a group of white male elderly Republicans just had a men-only Congressional hearing here in America to discuss women's reproductive rights.