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BARCELONA Women's Nike Air Max 90 Leather All White Australia , April 23 (Xinhua) -- Foreigners and locals took to the streets of the northeastern city of Barcelona on Thursday, in the region of Catalonia, to enjoy Saint Jordi, a festival honoring the patron saint of Catalonia.


April 23 is International Book Day and Saint George or Saint Jordi (in Catalan), the patron saint of Catalonia where this day is associated with books and roses due to the legend.


A visitor from Singapore, Samantha, told Xinhua she was planning to leave the city, but as she read about the festival, she decided to stay one day more. "It is fun, it is nice. There are a lot of books, very interesting", she said.


The tradition dictates women buy a book for men while men buy a rose for women, as according to the legend, Sant Jordi gave the princess a rose after killing the dragon.


"I bought a flower this morning and then we went to the Cathedral and offer it to Jesus and Mother Mary", Samantha explained, "we also bought a book at La Pedrera and gave it to a male companion".


Not only visitors follow the tradition but also new residents, as Chie and Mitsuko from Japan, who have been living in Barcelona for six and seven years and this was the first time they had a stand at the festival.


"This is our first year of selling roses, but we have always bought books for people in Sant Jordi. After two years here, we started following this tradition", they explained to Xinhua while selling roses made of fabric.


Others followed the tradition since the first time they arrived. This is the case of a Chinese student who has been living in Barcelona for 11 years.


"I have always celebrated Sant Jordi and at school we hold competitions on drawings and literature" she told Xinhua while she was going to buy a book for her brother.


"I like the culture that involves this tradition", she said, "it does not exist in every part of the world", she added.


For many, Sant Jordi means culture and reading, but for book shops and florists it also means business. Spanish domestic demand is recovering and they expect to increase sales this year.


Oriol, from the book shop La Central, expects sales of books this year to grow.


According to local media, book shops expect to surpass the 19.3 million euros (20.91 million U.S. dollars) they earned last year and florists expect roses purchases to reach 7 million euros. (1 euro = 1.08 U.S. dollars)

FILE - In this March 23, 2015 file photo, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks in Washington. Clinton will launch her long-awaited 2016 presidential campaign on Sunday, April 12, 2015, according to people familiar with her plans. The former secretary of state is making her second presidential bid and enters the race in a strong position to succeed her one-time rival, President Barack Obama. (AP PhotoPablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

WASHINGTON — A look at key things to know about Hillary Rodham Clinton, who entered the 2016 Democratic presidential campaign on Sunday:


THE BRIEF


As first lady to President Bill Clinton during the 1990s, she was a driving figure in a failed health care overhaul and lived through multiple ethics investigations and her husband's impeachment. She won a Senate seat representing New York in 2000 and ran for the president in 2008, losing the nomination to Barack Obama. She was his secretary of state for four years. No woman has been a major party's presidential nominee or been elected president.


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Lawyer, senator, diplomat. In Arkansas, she was a lawyer at a top firm while Bill Clinton was governor. She advised her husband after he won the White House in 1992. In the Senate, she struck a bipartisan tone at times. Her Senate vote for the 2002 Iraq invasion became a point of contention in 2008; Obama had spoken out against the "dumb war." At the State Department, she was a hawkish member of Obama's national security team. She helped set the foundation for nuclear talks with Iran.


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PERSONAL STORY


The daughter of a small-business owner and homemaker, Clinton grew up in suburban Chicago. As a senior at Wellesley College, she delivered a 1969 commencement speech that earned national attention. At Yale Law School, she met Bill Clinton. After working as a child advocate, Clinton followed her future husband back to Arkansas, where he launched his political career. The couple's 35-year-old daughter, Chelsea Clinton, gave birth to her first child, Charlotte, in September.


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A 1995 address in Beijing and her final campaign event in 2008 are signature moments. As first lady, Clinton declared in a speech at a U.N. conference on women that "human rights are women's rights and women's rights are human rights." The speech challenged human rights abuses of women and helped set the tone for Clinton's work years later in the State Department. Her 2008 speech