St. Patrick's Day 2013

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Children dressed as St. Patrick make their way to the St. Patrick's Day parade in Limerick, Ireland.

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Three boys react to a band during Savannah’s 189-year-old St. Patrick’s Day parade in Savannah, Ga.

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Members of the Emerald Isle Step Dancers, from Wilkes-Barre, Pa., make their way up New York's Fifth Avenue as they take part in the annual St. Patrick's Day Parade.

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People dressed in costume wait for the parade to start during the Singapore St. Patricks Day Street Festival in Singapore.

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A father and daughter enjoy the St. Patrick's Day parade in Limerick, Ireland.

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Kourtney Sizemore of Rincon, Ga. hugs a firefighter while he marches in the St. Patrick’s Day parade in Savannah, Ga. Kissing members of the military and law enforcement is a tradition during the parade.

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Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, attends a St. Patrick's Day parade, walking by the 1st Battalion Irish Guards while visiting the Aldershot Barracks in Aldershot, England.

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The Jefferson Memorial fountain on the White House grounds is dyed green for St. Patrick's Day.

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Spectators watch as the Chicago River is dyed green before the start of the St. Patrick's Day parade.

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A man uses a jetpack on the Chicago River after it was dyed green for St. Patrick's Day.

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The Cathedral bell tower is illuminated green to celebrate St. Patrick's Day in Vilnius, Lithuania.

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A green and white ribbon, the colors of Sandy Hook Elememtary School in Newtown, Conn., is seen on the uniform of a Newtown High School Marching Band member after a St. Patrick's Day Parade in New York.

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People dance during a St. Patrick's Day Parade in Moscow, Russia.

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Rev. Nicholas DiMarzio, Bishop of Brooklyn, chats with alter boys and girls before the arrival of Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny for a Saint Patrick's Day Mass at St. Thomas More Church in the Breezy Point neighborhood in Queens, N.Y., home to many residents devastated by Superstorm Sandy.

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Brian Clifton of Savannah, Ga., shows his painted face during Savannah’s annual St. Patrick’s Day parade.

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Women from the Sanford High School color guard, of Sanford, Me., twirl green flags while marching in a St. Patrick's Day Parade in Boston.

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Doc Foley leads the Yonkers New York Fire Department Pipe and Drum in Savannah’s 189-year-old St. Patrick’s Day parade.