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It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas (35 photos)

With only a week left until Christmas, lighted displays, colorful markets, and Santa’s helpers are out in force. From Europe to the Americas and Asia, gathered here as an early gift to you, is a collection of holiday cheer and light wrapped up in 35 photographs.

Bystanders admire Christmas illuminations along the Meguro River in Tokyo, Japan, on December 17, 2017. The illuminations made up of some 500,000 LED lights will be displayed until December 24. (Kazuhiro Nogi / AFP / Getty)
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2017/12/its-beginning-to-look-a-lot-like-christmas/548654/