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Thousands of candles -- many bearing Christian icons, others Muslim designs -- flickered in a semicircle around the grave and melted together into a multicolored patina of wax.

Then, finally, that evening comes "Flames of Liberty," when thousands of candles will light up towns and cities all over France and the United States.

During the day, Hindus bathe in the Ganges as a blessing and for spiritual salvation; at nightfall, the river glistens magically from the glow of thousands of candles floating on the water.

In Belfast, Bob and Roberta Smith (actually a single acclaimed contemporary artist called Patrick Brill) is working with dozens of community groups and local artists, each making one letter of his text, which will be brought together and lit by thousands of candles outside the city hall, spelling out his words: "What unites human beings is huge and wonderful.

So Am I. LOS ANGELES — I keep coming back to Nipsey Hussle's vigil — the thousands of candles, flowers and handwritten notes — left where the rapper and activist was shot and killed outside his clothing store in the city's Hyde Park neighborhood on March 31.

George Grace wants to place thousands of candles and flowers in the graveyard of St Paul's, Bedminster on 2 November.

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On the night of April 11 , 1967 hundreds of candles flickered on the street outside California Gov. Ronald Reagan's residence.

Slowly, the dark cathedral brightened with the light of hundreds of candles as the flame from the large candle was passed among worshipers.

On the main square of the quiet town of Čapljina, hundreds of candles on the paving stones outside the pastel-shaded municipal building spell out one name: Praljak.

They carried white roses, which they laid among the hundreds of candles and bouquets left by members of the public and were accompanied, as a show of inter-faith solidarity, by representatives of the French capital's Jewish community.

They carried white roses, which they laid amid the hundreds of candles and bouquets left by members of the public and were accompanied, as a show of inter-faith solidarity, by representatives of Paris's Jewish community.

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