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350K Fete Victorious Penguins

By Harry Kimball, Newser Staff

Posted Jun 15, 2009 2:18 PM CDT

(Newser) – Pittsburgh celebrated its Stanley Cup-winning Penguins today with a parade that may have drawn upward of 350,000, the Post-Gazette reports. Revelers began arriving at the parade route in center-city at 4:30am, and by 10:15 there were already 185,000 happy fans. At... Read full story »

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