<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c058fa51-9be5-4bf5-a945-c3056e1aa0d8/8E4DC5FD-9B78-4414-88B2-947FCFB1439E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://coexist101.wordpress.com/2009/03/17/nowruz-united-states-celebrates-iranian-culture/" href="http://coexist101.wordpress.com/2009/03/17/nowruz-united-states-celebrates-iranian-culture/" style="font-size: 11px;">coexist101.wordpress.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://coexist101.wordpress.com/2009/03/17/nowruz-united-states-celebrates-iranian-culture/"><ADDRESS class="subhead">Persian New Year festivities spotlight unique traditions</ADDRESS></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://coexist101.wordpress.com/2009/03/17/nowruz-united-states-celebrates-iranian-culture/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/coexist101.wordpress.com/img/9A5A3EF4-A93B-45CB-BB5B-978DF5E4001F" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://coexist101.wordpress.com/2009/03/17/nowruz-united-states-celebrates-iranian-culture/">Washington — New immigrants from Iran, native-born Americans and area residents young and old gathered on the National Mall in Washington to share a preview celebration of the Persian New Year, Nowruz.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://coexist101.wordpress.com/2009/03/17/nowruz-united-states-celebrates-iranian-culture/">Wishes of “Happy Nowruz” filled the halls of the Smithsonian Institution’s Freer and Sackler art galleries March 7 as the visitors enjoyed a day of musical performances, storytelling, fire jumping and Persian delicacies. Revelers crossed paths with the mythical New Year character Haji Firooz and admired a traditional haft-sin table filled with items emblematic of good luck and nature’s spring rebirth.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://coexist101.wordpress.com/2009/03/17/nowruz-united-states-celebrates-iranian-culture/">Nowruz — “new day” in Persian — occurs on the date of the vernal equinox, this year on March 21. </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/8E4DC5FD-9B78-4414-88B2-947FCFB1439E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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