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Old March 17th, 2012, 06:09 PM   #1
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St Patrick's Day imagery from home and abroad

Hi all! Happy St Patrick's Day!


Just opening this thread to post some imagery from around the world this St Patrick's weekend. The "greening" of global landmarks should be worth it!
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Old March 17th, 2012, 08:04 PM   #2
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Dublin, half a million people turned out for the parade





Sky Tower, Auckland





Oriental Pearl TV Tower in Shanghai





Leaning Tower of Pisa




City Hall, San Francisco




Cibeles Fountain in Madrid




Coit Tower in San Francisco




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Old March 17th, 2012, 08:31 PM   #3
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Happy St Patrick's Day from Manchester/Manchain to everyone.
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Old March 17th, 2012, 09:16 PM   #4
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Same to you...have a good un!


More snaps

London Eye




Niagra Falls looks spectacular!




Sidney Opera House



Tokyo Tower, Tokyo



White House fountain




Chicago river dyed green





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Old March 17th, 2012, 11:03 PM   #5
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Battersea Power Station in London (oddly enough)





The Hötorgsskraporna (five skyscrapers) in Stockholm



Moulin Rouge




Burj Al Arab hotel in Dubai





Obama on a ramble



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Old March 18th, 2012, 12:47 AM   #6
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Happy St. Paddy's to everyone!

Greetings from San Francisco.
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Old March 18th, 2012, 01:53 AM   #7
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Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig oraibh go léir!
Happy Saint Patrick's Day, everyone!

Here's a list of the sites outside Ireland which 'went green' for the holiday:

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ICONIC SITES AROUND THE WORLD TO GO GREEN ON ST PATRICK’S DAY 2012 INCLUDE:

Great Britain
• London Eye
• Selfridges in London
• Selfridges in Birmingham
• Town Hall in Manchester
• A flock of sheep in West Lothian, Scotland
• Glasgow Eye, Scotland
• Clyde Auditorium, affectionately known as ‘the Armadillo’ (SECC) in Glasgow, Scotland
• The Hub in Edinburgh, Scotland
• Camera Obscura in Edinburgh (beside the castle), Scotland
• Leading online travel agencies are also getting in on the act: the homepage of lastminute.com in GB will be ‘greened’ for three days (16-19 March); ebookers will be promoting some of their Ireland offers on five specially ‘greened’ London taxis; and Opodo will send a ‘Happy St Patrick’s Day’ email with Ireland holiday offers to its database on 17 March

US
• Niagara Falls (on both the Canadian and US sides)
• Empire State Building in New York
• Coit Tower and City Hall in San Francisco
• Replica “Chrysler Building” in the New York New York Hotel in Las Vegas

Mainland Europe
• Municipal Stadium in Poznań where the Republic of Ireland will play Croatia and Italy at Euro 2012, Poland
• Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw, Poland
• TV tower in Berlin’s Alexanderplatz, Germany
• “Lighthouse” in Düsseldorf, Germany
• Hötorgsskraporna in Stockholm (five skyscrapers in the city centre), Sweden
• Cibeles fountain in Madrid, Spain
• An entire town on the Costa Blanca called Moraira, Spain
• Plaza Mayor in Salamanca, Spain (organised by Irish student Ben Finnegan)
• Leaning Tower of Pisa, Italy
• Prince’s Palace of Monaco
• Burgtheather (City Hall) in Vienna, Austria
• Brussels Town Hall, Belgium

Australia and New Zealand
• Sydney Opera House, Australia
• the Sky Tower in Auckland, New Zealand

Emerging markets
• Burj Al Arab, Dubai
• Table Mountain, South Africa
• Oriental Pearl TV Tower in Shanghai, China
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Old March 18th, 2012, 12:29 PM   #8
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Did all you lads have a good St Patricks Day. It was a good day apart from the rugby of course.
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This was Birmingham's Selfridges Building courtesy of Reiss.

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Selfridges lit up in green, Dedication to St. Paddy's



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Moscow is here
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1497342
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Old March 18th, 2012, 02:49 PM   #12
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cool, i never knew it was so big in moscow!
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Old March 18th, 2012, 10:45 PM   #13
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Either did I! Really (pleasantly) surprised by that I have to say


Brummyboy thanks for that image! Very cool looking.


"Lydon" on the African forums posted these of Table Mountain, South Africa

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New York City from http://isardasorensen.wordpress.com/...-patricks-day/





Empire State building

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Old March 19th, 2012, 02:03 PM   #15
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Table Mountain looks amazing. That really is a sight.
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Old March 20th, 2012, 08:34 PM   #16
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President Obama's "St Patrick's Day" bilateral meeting with the Taoiseach today




The function tonight, which is always a laugh, can be seen live here at around 12am our time.


http://www.whitehouse.gov/live

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