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Turtleneck (left) and Squeller, two alpacas wearing green-dyed coats courtesy of their owner, Deborah Westerfield, participate in a St. Patrick's Day celebration on March 16, 2001, in Frankfort, Kentucky.
Left: Jack the dog sports his Irish green paint job as he marches in the St. Patrick's Day parade, March 13, 2005, in Baltimore. Right: an attendee at the St Patrick's Day Parade in New York on March 17, 2001.
The water in the fountain on the North Lawn of the White House is seen dyed green for St. Patrick's Day in Washington, DC, on March 17, 2021.
A server prepares green beers during St. Patrick's Day celebrations at the Sheraton Hotel in Surabaya, Indonesia, on March 14, 2014.
Left: A family with dyed green hair at the St. Patrick's Day festival at Ponce Circle Park in Florida. Right: A man wearing St. Patrick's Day beer glasses in an undated photo.
Rob Highsted gets into the swing of St. Patrick's Day with painted green nails and hair outside Murphys Bar in Auckland, New Zealand.
The Niagara River flows over the Horseshoe Falls section of Niagara Falls, painted in green light to celebrate St. Patrick's Day, March 17, 2001, in New York.
Contestants drink green beer at the first stage of the annual three-legged race, on St Patrick's Day in Copenhagen, Denmark, March 17, 2005. Participants are given free beer at seven Irish pubs across the city and the pair who finish in the least amount of time are declared the winners.
Left: Shamrocks dot the face and hat of this viewer at the St. Patrick's Day Parade on Fifth Avenue in New York City in 1999. Right: One of the many faces watch the parade through the streets of Dublin to celebrate St. Patrick's Day in 2001, which was postponed from the traditional March 17 due to the foot and mouth disease crisis.
An aerial picture shot with a drone shows the Chicago River as it flows through downtown after it was dyed green in celebration of St. Patrick's Day on March 13, 2021.
Dressed in her best St. Patrick's Day green, Lucky, a 7-year-old dog from Minnelon, Florida, gets a pat on the head, March 17, 2004, during the 180th annual St. Patrick's Day parade in Savannah, Georgia.
Four-year-old Evan Sanders contemplates a problem with a green ribbon in his bike chain prior to the start of the St. Patrick's Day parade on March 17, 2005, in Lee's Summit, Missouri.
Left: Charles Anderson sports a green mustache on March 16, 2005, while walking on River Street in Savannah, Georgia, before the city's St. Patrick's Day celebration. Right: Dennis McNell dyed his dog, Coco, a bright shade of green for the St. Patrick's Day parade in San Francisco in March 2007.
St. Patrick's Day–themed baked goods on sale at a supermarket in New York on March 14, 2015.
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