St. Patrick's Day parade

Published: 18 March 2010 y., Thursday
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The world’s biggest St. Patrick’s Day parade bathed New York’s Fifth Avenue in a sea of green. Around 250,000 people were on Fifth Avenue to celebrate this year’s 249-year old Irish shindig.

 

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