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  • 1
    Sep
    2011
    7:44pm, EDT

    Russian students launch lanterns to mark 'Day of Knowledge'

    Anatoly Maltsev / EPA

    Russian students launch paper lanterns during a flashmob action marking 'Day of Knowledge' in St. Petersburg, Russia, September 1. The Day of Knowledge marks the beginning of every school year in Russia.

    Dmitry Lovetsky / AP

    The tracks of launching sky paper lanterns seen in this time exposure photo in St.Petersburg, Russia, late Thursday, Sept. 1 with the Savior of Spilled Blood Cathedral in the background. Some hundreds of lanterns were launched into the sky from Mars field as a flashmob action.

     

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    Marek Zakrzewski / EPA

    People launch Chinese lanterns on Kupala Night in Poznan, Poland, late on June 21. Kupala Night is a celebration of the shortest night of the year that is marked in Poland, Russia, Belarus and Ukraine.

    Poles celebrate the shortest night of the year

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    5:28am, EDT

    Ahn Young-Joon / AP

    A man hangs lanterns to prepare for the celebration of the upcoming May 10 birthday of the Buddha at the Chogye temple in Seoul, South Korea on March 29. About one-third of South Korea's 48 million people are Buddhists.

    Colorful lanterns for the Buddha's birthday

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    2011
    5:14am, EST

    Frederic J. Brown / AFP - Getty Images

    A man walks through a tunnel of red lanterns decorating a park for the coming lunar new year in Beijing on January 25, 2011. The "Year of the Rabbit" in the lunar calendar begins in China on February 3.

    Tunnel of lanterns in Beijing

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