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Word: nian (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...bagpiper; and County-cork born Beijing local Shane O'Neill, whose leprechaun costume purchased at a Dublin shop came complete with a false belly. The trailing marchers included members of the Dublin Youth Orchestra, the local youth Irish dance troupe "The Celtic Dragons," and the chorus from the Bai Nian Vocational School, a free school that serves the children of migrant workers and to which the Irish embassy has donated a language lab. Bedecked in green, orange, and violet, giddy participants proudly carried the flags of either country. On the apples of their cheeks, most marchers wore the three-leaf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: St. Patrick in the Middle Kingdom | 3/16/2008 | See Source »

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