English celebrate with flags, food on St. George's Day

Thursday, April 24, 2008

LONDON -- Londoners gathered Wednesday in Trafalgar Square, beneath statues of imperial lions and military heroes, to celebrate England's patron saint -- a third-century Turkish soldier who supposedly had the power to slay a dragon but likely never set foot in Britain.

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