June 19, 2013
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Article Photos: Hundreds toil for months for Rio's Carnival parade
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In this photo taken Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013, men work on a Carnival float at the Grande Rio Samba school in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Yet it's from warehouses like this one that Rio's over-the-top glitz-and-glam Carnival parades emerge, as they will Monday night for the final round of a two-day performance. The internationally renowned competition between 12 elite samba groups dazzles more than a billion spectators in person and on TV for two days, but it takes nearly a year and hundreds of workers, many of them volunteers, to pull each one together. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
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