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** FOR USE WITH YEAR END--FILE **Swimmer and winner in retrieving a cross, Nikos Sparis, carries the wooden cross during a ceremony to bless the water in Greece's Perama port near Athens, in this Jan. 6, 2006, file photo. Similar ceremonies to mark Epiphany day were held across Greece on river banks, seafronts and lakes. An Orthodox priest throws a cross into the water and swimmers race to be the first to retrieve it. In the central Greek town of Elassona a young man drowned trying to catch the cross. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris/FILE)

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FOR USE WITH YEAR END. A JAN. 6, 2006 FILE PHOTO Minimum price 50PLN

headline AP HDD 2

created date 2006-01-06

credit ASSOCIATED PRESS/East News

source Associated Press

byline PETROS GIANNKOURIS

original transmission reference 060106018397

weight 0,3MB

size 17cm x 12cm by 300dpi

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