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  • Schleichers don colorful, traditional costumes and masks for the Schleicherlaufen parade held every five years. Schleichers wear masks and elaborate hats that weigh 50 pounds - quite an ordeal to balance.  Hats are passed down generations and stored in museums brought out only for the celebration.
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  • Young girls dressed in star and sunflower costumes wait to parade before their families at the Brazoria County Fair.
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  • During Holy Week in Mendrisio, Christians dressed in white robes carry canvas lanterns, some over a hundred years old, The crosses are lit by candles and somberly carried through the streets for a passion play processional.
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  • A white-gloved military parade takes over a street through the downtown Santiago.<br />
Carabineros de Chile are the uniformed Chilean national police force and gendarmery created on April 27, 1927. Their mission is to maintain order and create public respect for the laws of the country.<br />
They also re-establish order and security in Chilean society through civic education, service to the community, police work, and in a war situation, to act as a paramilitary force (all their members have military training).
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  • A Ladin funeral procession seen trough a lace curtained window in a small village of LaVal in the Alps where the people are isolated and speak German and Italian but also Ladin, their own ethnic language.
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  • A child carries a torch with the flame lighting the way during a Good Friday procession at the beginning of the Christians' Holy Week. Parishioners wear clothing of Jews and Romans as they walk through the darkened streets in a Christian celebration that dates back the 17th century.
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  • Schleichers ride in ornately decorated horse-drawn carriages in a parade that is part of a traditional celebration. Schleichers wear masks and elaborate hats that weigh 50 pounds - quite an ordeal to balance.  Hats are passed down generations and stored in museums.
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  • Spring Carnival paraders in Cerkno dress in costumes to celebrate Laufarija. There are 25 different characters wearing costumes--Pust, Ivy Man, Fleece Man and others who convict Pust in a play charging him for all the bad things that happened the past year. The cultural tradition is slightly varied in numerous communities throughout the Alps.
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  • A Laufarija carnival festival participant, Daisy, holds her mask carved from Linden wood. She is one of 25 characters that symbolize the features and weaknesses of particular groups of people. The cultural tradition is an annual play held in the streets to celebrate the coming of spring to Slovenia.
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  • An elderly woman has a front-window view of a Good Friday procession.
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  • Easter Procession in the town of Orosei on the island of Sardinia.
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  • Children in a parade commemorating the opening of Parliament in 1920.
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  • Men and boys dress in white sheep's fur costumes to celebrate Slovenia's traditional version of Carnival. In Ptuj, the oldest town in the Slovenia, they parade ringing bells to scare off evil spirits and chase away winter believed to bring spring and abundance to the land. Kurent is a mythological god of joy and wine and sometimes a creature with a magical instrument who persuades people to dance.
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  • Fur-costumed revelers at a spring festival surround a woman during their parade through the streets.  Men dressed in white sheep's fur don tall hats to celebrate Slovenia's version of Carnival. In Ptuj, the oldest town in the Slovenia, they ring bells to scare off evil spirits and to chase away winter which brings spring and abundance to the land. Kurent is a mythological god of joy and wine and sometimes a creature with a magical instrument who persuades people to dance.
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  • Wearing heavy, white fur costumes passed down through generations, carnival revelers stop for a drink in a local establishment. In Ptuj, Slovenia's oldest town, Kurentovanje is a popular festival drawing large crowds who parade in the street ringing large cow bells.
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  • Slovenian townsfolk gather to watch the spring Carnival festival where  revelers are a spectacle wearing white fur suits with large hats as they parade silently except to ring cowbells.
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  • Costumed revelers march on the Pan American highway in San Pedro Totolapán, Mexico, on Day of the Dead. They stop traffic to solicit handouts from drivers; if no pesos appear, the driver is generally treated to verbal abuse.
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  • Immigrant Indians at a Sikh festival in Barcelona.
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  • At a political demonstration, marchers carry independence from Chile banners.
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  • Onlookers watch an Indian festival, Vaisakhi, in Barcelona's Rambla de Catalunya area.
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  • Children carry canvas lanterns lit by candles in an evening passion play processional. Christian Holy Week is celebrated annual in Mendrisio with this tradition.
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  • Christians dressed in costume carry crosses through the streets on Holy Week. Night view of a passion play depicting Christ's death.
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  • A blur envelopes a young parishioner who carries a candle-lit canvas lantern in a processional that celebrates Christians' Holy Week. It is a centuries-old annual Mendrisio tradition.
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  • Over 700 children carry hundred year old candle-lit lanterns made of canvas as they walk through the streets on Good Friday of Holy Week. The Christian celebration in Mendrisio dates back to the 17th century.
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