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A Christmas tree is installed on Red Square with St. Basil Cathedral in the background in Moscow, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010. Russia was announced as host of the 2018 tournament.

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A Christmas tree is installed on Red Square with St. Basil Cathedral in the background in Moscow, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010. Russia was announced as host of the 2018 tournament.
The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree is lit on November 30, 2010 in New York. Originally from Mahopac, New York, the 12-ton, 74-foot Norway Spruce is adorned with 30,000 environmentally friendly LED lights on more than five miles of electrical wire, andtopped with a Swarovski crystal star.
Fireworks light up the sky above at Christmas tree during a lighting up ceremony at Cathedral square in Vilnius, Lithuania, Saturday, Dec. 11, 2010.
For the 81st year, the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department's will light its holiday tree, a 100-foot Monterey cypress in front of McLaren Lodge in Golden Gate Park, in San Francisco, Calif., on Thursday, December 9 2010. The free event included train rides, live entertainment, caroling, arts and crafts and a visit with Santa.
A colourfully decorated house is iluminated with Christmas lights in the evening hours in the northern German city of Hamburg on December 15, 2010 in Hamburg, Germany.
Shoppers queue up for taxis as trees along a street are decorated with lights outside a shopping mall in Beijing on December 8, 2010. Christian culture, though still unfamiliar to most Chinese, continues to spread, and according to the Chinese Academy ofSocial Sciences, over 23 million Christians now live in China, a significant jump over the past three decades, has help to popularize the Christmas holiday.
People attend the U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree lighting ceremony on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol December 7, 2010 in Washington, DC. This year.s tree, a 67-foot Engelmann spruce, came from Wyoming.s Bridger-Teton National Forest. As part of the U.S. Capitol's commitment to save energy, strands of energy-efficient LED lights and hand-made ornaments made by Wyoming residents decorate the tree.
n this Nov. 26, 2010 file photo, a crowd watches as a Christmas tree is lit on Pioneer Courthouse square Friday night in Portland, Ore.
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