Photos show masked revelers celebrating Shrovetide in Lithuania

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10:34 AM on Sunday, February 15

By MINDAUGAS KULBIS

RUMSISKES, Lithuania (AP) — People wearing traditional masks and folk costumes gathered in the Lithuanian village of Rumsiskes, north of Vilnius, for the Shrovetide celebrations to mark the annual pre-Lenten festival with music, dancing and the burning of an effigy symbolizing the end of winter.

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