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More than 50,000 people crowd into the grounds of Virgin of Guadalupe Shrine in Mexico City for incredible festival that's a cross between Catholic Hi(...)
More than 50,000 people crowd into the grounds of Virgin of Guadalupe Shrine in Mexico City for incredible festival that's a cross between Catholic Hi(...)

More than 50,000 people crowd into the grounds of Virgin of Guadalupe Shrine in Mexico City for incredible festival that's a cross between Catholic Hi(...)

Date12/20/1968
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Original Toronto Star caption: More than 50;000 people crowd into the grounds of Virgin of Guadalupe Shrine in Mexico City for incredible festival that's a cross between Catholic High Holy Day and Aztec sacrificial ceremony familiar to the Conquistadors.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0117837F
On his way from Mosport after doing his thing, whatever that may have been, a rock festival fan leaves grounds, carrying a cross, to hitchhike home
On his way from Mosport after doing his thing, whatever that may have been, a rock festival fan leaves grounds, carrying a cross, to hitchhike home
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York mayor Philip White, and his son Kevin, 8, were among an estimated crowd of more than 50,000 walkers who turned out today to tackle the 15-mile walk to raise funds for the new Metro Toronto Zoo
York mayor Philip White, and his son Kevin, 8, were among an estimated crowd of more than 50,000 walkers who turned out today to tackle the 15-mile walk to raise funds for the new Metro Toronto Zoo
6/2/1973
This is where Cathy lives, in an apartment city built outside the Expo grounds for the hosts and hostesses who work thre in the pavilions of more than(...)
This is where Cathy lives, in an apartment city built outside the Expo grounds for the hosts and hostesses who work thre in the pavilions of more than(...)
6/11/1970
A Hunk of Hulk. He ain't much ot look at in the TV show the Incredible Hulk, but in real life Lou Ferrigno seems to attract the ladies. That's Sandra (...)
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1/27/1980
The flower-decorated barges that crowd canals in Mexico's Venice, the city of Xochimilco, take part in a fete that rivals Pasadena's festival of roses(...)
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Sand Was Crystallized like this near the centre of the atomic bomb test grounds near Alamogordo, New Mexico, when the world's most destructive force w(...)
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9/11/1945
More than $100,000 a year is donated by Oshawa for the upkeep of gardens and grounds at Parkwood, the former home of Robert Samuel McLaughlin, founder(...)
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3/16/1977
Interesting scene at the Martyrs' Shrine at Midland, Ont., showing pilgrims kneeling in worship before the figure of the Virgin
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2/6/1932
He's not overweight but advertising man Ken Borden says that's only because you don't get fat just tasting. Cooking is more than a hobby for him - he's already taken seven different night courses and says these courses aren't work, they're fun.
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The texture of Navajo sandstone can't be seen to more advantage than in this defile of the Mountain of Mystery in Zion National Park, Southern Utah, in Virgin River canyon
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Yes, you did see him: MASH TV star Mike Farrell turned a few heads in Metro on the weekend as he passed through town in a van that's carrying his family on a cross- Canada vacation from Hollywood
Yes, you did see him: MASH TV star Mike Farrell turned a few heads in Metro on the weekend as he passed through town in a van that's carrying his family on a cross- Canada vacation from Hollywood
8/2/1982
World War, 1914-1918, Red Cross, garden party in grounds of Empringham Hotel, Danforth Avenue, southwest corner Dawes Road
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1915