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Photo: Venice's Carnival costumes
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Photograph by Sam Abell
Panache goes on parade during Venice's Carnival. Today's pageantry lasts only ten days—a shadow of the two-month-long bacchanals of the 1700s.

—From "Venice: More Than a Dream," February 1995, National Geographic magazine.
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