In recognition of the warmer weather in the northern hemisphere, this is an invitation to take some time, go outside, and set a kite aloft. Collected here, some delightful images of kites in flight around the world from the past century.
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Read moreOn July 7, 1908, Alexander Graham Bell (right) and his assistants observe the progress of one of his experimental tetrahedral kites. #
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Read moreMadeleine Klonoski, 2, sits on her father's leg at a kite festival in Redondo Beach, California, on March 8, 2015. #
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Read moreAn Indian worker rolls kite threads on a road side in Amritsar, in India's northwestern state of Punjab, on January 7, 2007. #
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Read moreA large kite shaped like a scuba diver appears to hover over traffic above Haulover Park in Miami Beach, Florida, on March 13, 2006. #
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Read moreAgainst a yellowing sky a boy flies a kite from the roof of a house as other kites seem to flock in the sky above New Delhi, India, as Indians celebrate Independence Day, on August 15, 2013. People in New Delhi traditionally fly kites on this day as they mark the anniversary of independence from British colonial rule in 1947. #
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Read moreGiant kites made by residents of Sumpango, in the municipality of Sacatepequez, some 48 km west of Guatemala City, to celebrate All Saints day on November 1, 2009. #
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Read morePhotographer Toni Frissell's daughter, Sidney Bacon (Frissell) Stafford running on a beach with a kite, in Southampton, Long Island, Mew York, in 1944. #
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Read moreKite surfers compete during the European kite surfing championship, off the coast of Douarnenez, France, on May 5, 2007, as part of the "Grand Prix Petit Navire" competition. #
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Read moreA giant cat kite flies over two sunbathers at Cesar Chavez Park July 25, 2006, in Berkeley, California. #
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Read moreAn Indonesian man prepares a kite featuring national Indonesian costumes at Ancol beach in North Jakarta on August 4, 2002. #
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Read moreJack Berryman and his assistants fly a box kite 9 feet high and 21 feet wide, which lifts a little girl off the ground, on January 13, 1934. #
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Read morePeople fly kites on the beach during the 28th International Berck-sur-Mer Kite Festival, in the northern French resort of Berck-sur-Mer, on April 12, 2014. #
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Read moreDisplaced Iraqi children fly kites, made from plastic bags, at the Hammam al-Alil camp for internally displaced people south of Mosul on May 26, 2017, as government forces continued their offensive to retake the city of Mosul from ISIS fighters. #
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Read moreAn Afghan youth carries a kite on the outskirts of Jalalabad on October 18, 2016. #
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Read moreA man flies a kite made of 110 Tukkal or paper lanterns for the Hindu festival of "Makar Sankranti", which marks the start of spring, in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad on January 13, 2011. #
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Read moreA worker applies colour to strings which will be used to make kites, alongside a road in Ahmedabad, India, on December 26, 2016. #
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Read moreView of a Batman kite during the 30th kite-flying festival in Sao Goncalo, surburb of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on August 17, 2014. #
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Read moreTali Fleischmann holds on tight to her kite during the annual Festival of the Winds kite flying festival on Bondi Beach on September 11, 2011, in Sydney, Australia. #
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Read morePeople kite surf in the Mediterranean sea near Tel Aviv, Israel, on May 3, 2016. #
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Read morePeople launch a jumbo kite, measuring 13 meters tall and 2 meters wide, during the Yokaichi Odako, annual big kite festival on May 26, 2013 in Yokkaichi, Shiga Prefecture, Japan. The Yokaichi Odako kite festival dates from 1841, the Edo period, and is held on the fourth Sunday of May every year. #
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Read moreA kite buggy rider moves along the beach at Sandy Point on November 1, 2009, in Melbourne, Australia. #
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Read moreYouths fly a kite in a street bordered with fire-gutted buildings in the South Bronx section of New York City in June of 1977. #
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Read morePeople fly their kites to form the shape of a stick figure in the sky on the beach in Berck, France, on April 20, 2015, during the 29th "Rencontres Internationales de Cerfs Volants" (International Kite Meeting). #
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Read moreAn Afghan boy flies his kite on a hill overlooking Kabul, Afghanistan, on May 13, 2013. #
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Read moreHome-based kite maker Sheikh Kayamat, age 14, shows a kite that she is making in Ahmedabad, India, on August 22, 2015. She was earning about 100 rupees a day for 1,000 kites. #
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Read moreA man flies a dragon-shaped kite at a square on March 31, 2006, in Changchun, Jilin Province, China. #
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Read moreA Pakistani youth untangles a kite from a tree in Islamabad on February 10, 2017. #
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