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From the Great Pyramids to the Acropolis, the London Eye to the Las Vegas strip,  nearly 4,000 cities and towns in 88 countries planned to join in the World Wildlife Fund-sponsored event, a time zone-by-time zone plan to dim nonessential lights between 8:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m on Saturday, March 28, 2009. About a hundred participants in an event to mark Earth Hour celebrate with a group photo after the event in which they freeze their movement for a few minutes at a shopping mall in Beijing, China, Saturday, March 28 , 2009. The lights are going down from the Great Pyramids to the Acropolis, the Eiffel Tower to Sears Tower, as more than 2,800 municipalities in 84 countries plan Saturday to mark the second worldwide Earth Hour Traditional Filipino dancers hold candles before a show as lights are turned off as the Philippines participates in "Earth Hour" in Manila. Major cities and world landmarks plunged into darkness Saturday as a symbolic energy-saving exercise unfolded across the globe, calling for action to avert potentially devastating climate change.
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