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Children sit behind the barricade during the New York parade on Saturday.

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Green-clad spectators watch the St. Patrick's Day parade in New York on Saturday.

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Knights of the Auld Republic: A costumed Imperial Stormtrooper watches the parade in New York on Saturday.

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Madison Grace, seven months old, gets a hand from her mother to watch the St. Patrick's Day parade in New York on Saturday.

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Phillies outfielder John Mayberry Jr. signs autographs before a St. Patrick's Day spring training game against the Toronto Blue Jays in Clearwater, Fla., on Saturday.

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Dyed green water fills the South Lawn Fountain at the White House on Saturday.

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U.S. President Barack Obama shows his approval as he celebrates St. Patrick's Day with a Guinness at the Dubliner Irish pub in Washington.

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A leprechaun joins the St. Patrick's Day parade in Armagh, Northern Ireland, on Saturday.

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Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, was at Aldershot army base in southern England to present shamrocks to members of the 1st Battalion Irish Guards, a St. Patrick's Day tradition.

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Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, greets two children at the Aldershot military base in southern England on Sunday for a St. Patrick's Day traditional event.

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Revelers mark St. Patrick's Day on Arbat Street in downtown Moscow on Saturday.

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