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The Theory of Self-Image: The Concept of the Looking-Glass Self
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India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
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Women Smoking Snapshots – Touching The Sublime
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“Cigarettes are bad for you; that is why they are so good” – Richard Klein, Cigarettes Are Sublime Richard Klein, Professor of French at Cornell University and editor of Diacritics, quit smoking while writing Cigarettes Are Sublime and has been nicotine-free ever since. So do...
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TheCollector
5 Great Books by Alexandre Dumas
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Res Obscura
Before psychedelic therapy for wartime trauma, there was narcosynthesis
Notes on using AI to analyze three World War II-era films about drugs and PTSD
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Notes on using AI to analyze three World War II-era films about drugs and PTSD
TheCollector
Who Is the Most Famous Centaur?
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Salford in 1977: People Of Langworthy, Ordsall and the Adelphi
In 1977, Phil Portus photographed life on the streets of Salford in Greater Manchester, England. A...
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In 1977, Phil Portus photographed life on the streets of Salford in Greater Manchester, England. A member of the Reflex photography group, led by documentarian Diane Bush, a young American established documentary photographer, Portus wanted to show the everyday things people...
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Marble Head of Apollo Discovered in Greece
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What Were the Strategic Objectives During the Battle of Narvik?
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6 Facts About Hilla von Rebay: The Mastermind Behind the Guggenheim
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Pastel Purchased For $1,000 Identified as Lost Degas
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Is Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman the Greatest Film of All Time?
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A Collection of...
Gap Week: August 2, 2024
Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one)...
4 months ago
Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one) whatever fresh COVID-19 variant is going around. Everyone is fine, but being sick left me pretty exhausted over the past few days with fewer productive writing hours available. Since I...
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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Moving Past Apartheid?
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Brother of Jesus: Who Was Saint James?
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Why Visit Aqaba? Jordan’s City of Contrasts
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Hundred Rabbits
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
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Classical Wisdom
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Homer, Heracles, and Virgil
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Res Obscura
I talked to Terry Gross!
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11 months ago
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TheCollector
“Singular” Spanish Painting Reappears After Vanishing in 1890
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Windows In Time: The New York City Years, 1975 – 1980
We are delighted to share reader Philip Flip Collier’s photographs of New York City in the late...
3 months ago
We are delighted to share reader Philip Flip Collier’s photographs of New York City in the late 1970s to 1980. Upon graduating from The New England School of Photography in Boston, Massachusetts in 1974, he immediately took to the streets. Here he tell us his story of living in...
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Who Was Pasquale Paoli, the (Other) Corsican Revolutionary?
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Battle of Chaeronea: Philip II vs. Athens and Thebes
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Who Was Oswald Mosley?
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History Today Feed
Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
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Mon, 04/29/2024 - 11:05
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Mon, 04/29/2024 - 11:05
TheCollector
What Is a Film Auteur?
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Lucio Fontana Piece Could Set Auction Record at Sotheby’s
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Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
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Alive! The Incredible Story of Hugh Glass
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10 Historic Small Towns in Arizona You Must Visit
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Bayeux Tapestry: 9 Revelations from a Medieval Masterpiece
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1950s American Culture: Suburbia, the American Dream, & Inequality
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Groovy Ads That Sold Woolworths’ UK Line of Baby Doll Cosmetics
Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote...
6 months ago
Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote Woolworths’ UK line of “Baby Doll” cosmetics in the late 1960s. These “pop-style” adverts appeared in the country’s magazines for teenagers, like Jackie, RAVE, Flair, Queen and...
TheCollector
The Scariest Sermon Ever? Jonathan Edwards & the Great Awakening
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Trying to Understand...
How About a Victory for the Left Occasionally?
Here are a few modest ideas.
a year ago
Here are a few modest ideas.
History Today Feed
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
TheCollector
Hinduism in Bali: Things You Need to Know
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Classical Wisdom
Why are MYTHS Important?
Podcast with Stephen Fry
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Thai Fortune-Telling Manuscript, Before 1844
A beautiful paper accordion manuscript from Thailand that features hand-painted illustrations of...
9 months ago
A beautiful paper accordion manuscript from Thailand that features hand-painted illustrations of zodiac figures accompanied with text. It was made before 1844. “Maria Revere Balestier (daughter of Paul Revere and wife to the first American consulate to Singapore) was the...
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Who Won the Battle of Antietam?
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A Fabulous Collection of Antique Espresso Coffee Machines
“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the...
4 weeks ago
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History Today Feed
The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
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Thu, 09/19/2024 - 08:00
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TheCollector
10 Small Towns in the US for Art Lovers
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Hanging Out With Rock And Pop Stars at The Zenith of Their Careers In The 1980s
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10 months ago
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Giorgio Agamben on the End of the Poem
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Who Won the Battle of Chancellorsville?
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The Thirteenth Amendment: Abolishing Slavery in the USA
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History of Tea: The Drink that Conquered the World
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10 Women Thinkers of the Enlightenment You Should Know
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The Role of Money in US Elections: Can We Achieve Fair Campaign Finance?
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Why Was the Gutenberg Printing Press Important?
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Trying to Understand...
Ukraine: A Guide For The Perplexed
Part One, anyway. More next week.
8 months ago
Part One, anyway. More next week.
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History of Gunpowder: An In-Depth Overview
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Beyond Watergate: A Look at President Nixon’s Legacy
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Top 10 Depictions of the Annunciation in Art
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Who Is Ai Weiwei?
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6 Micronations You Should Know
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Civil Rights & Social Change: The Fight for Equality in US Elections
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TheCollector Interviews Director Karen Milbourne of The Fralin
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, April 12, 2024
Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car...
8 months ago
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TheCollector
Andrei Molodkin Holds Art Hostage for Julian Assange’s Life
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African History...
Seafaring, trade and travel in the African Atlantic. ca. 1100-1900.
historical links between West Africa and Central Africa. (Africans exploring Africa chapter 4)
11 months ago
historical links between West Africa and Central Africa. (Africans exploring Africa chapter 4)
African History...
An empire of cloth: the textile industry of the Sokoto empire ca. 1808-1903.
The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in...
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The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in pre-colonial Africa, whose scale and scope were unparalleled throughout most of the continent.
African History...
Persian myths and realities on the Swahili coast: contextualizing the 'Shirazi' civilization.
Why geneticists found what archeologists and historians had failed to locate.
a year ago
Why geneticists found what archeologists and historians had failed to locate.
TheCollector
7 Facts About Banana Republics & Their Role in History and Politics
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Flashbak
Fixing Time In 1970s and 80s England: Ian Macdonald Shows Us A Changing World
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3 months ago
Ian Macdonald’s black-and-white film photography from the 1970 and 80s shows us children’s at school, heavy industry, steel works, Redcar blast furnace, Smith’s Dock Shipyard, houseboats and life in Cleveland and Teesside, England. “The blast furnace has a drama and beauty to...
Classical Wisdom
Ancient Greece's Master Sculptor
The Life and Work of Pheidias
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The Life and Work of Pheidias
TheCollector
Inside a Renaissance Workshop: How did it Work?
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The Word Renaissance: Its Meaning, History, and Cultural Impact
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Delian League: Rise & Fall of the Empire of Athens
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African History...
Voices of Africa's past: a brief note on the autobiographies of itinerant scholars.
an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
6 months ago
an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
TheCollector
‘Just Stop Oil’ Protestors Cover Stonehenge in Powder Paint
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TheCollector
3 Debunked Rumors About Anne Boleyn
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History Today Feed
Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/24/2024 - 08:00
8 months ago
Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/24/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
Princess Diana ‘Black Sheep’ Jumper Sold for $1.1 M.
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TheCollector
Valhalla & the Other Afterlives in Norse Mythology
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Who Won the Battle of Nashville?
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4 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Ukraine and the end of "Europe."
Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
over a year ago
Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
History Today Feed
The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:37
a month ago
The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:37
Dreams of Space -...
Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (May 1947)
Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The...
over a year ago
Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight.
Flashbak
Things To Come : The 1950s Science Fiction Book Club Newsletter
Things To Come was the monthly newsletter (originally bi-monthly) of publisher Doubleday’s Science...
6 months ago
Things To Come was the monthly newsletter (originally bi-monthly) of publisher Doubleday’s Science Fiction Book Club (SFBC). The short, typically four-page issues promoted the book club’s coming selections and best of volumes from Galaxy and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science...
TheCollector
Naumachia: The Gladiatorial Naval Battles of Ancient Rome
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Interview with Giulio Dalvit: TheCollector Chats with Frick Curator
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The Rise of Television & The Power of Images in US Elections
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Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
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JamesHoare
Mon, 10/21/2024 - 08:00
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Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/21/2024 - 08:00
Wrong Side of...
Soothing the injured spirit of the Temple
The case for giving back the Elgin Marbles
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The case for giving back the Elgin Marbles
TheCollector
Why Do People Love or Hate John Calvin?
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TheCollector
Hendrik Verwoerd’s Life & Death: The Architect of Apartheid
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Global Inequality...
On general futility of political discussions with people
Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people...
a year ago
Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people and have concluded that these discussions are, almost entirely, futile in making people either see things differently, or acknowledge that others may see things differently, or...
TheCollector
Art Basel Miami Beach Opens 2024 Fair
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The Last Question: Hear Leonard Nimoy Read Isaac Asimov’s Best Short Story
Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than...
6 months ago
Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than the 500 or so stories he wrote or edited, including the bestselling I, Robot, the Foundation series and Lecherous Limericks. The story is The Last Question. First published in the...
TheCollector
What Did Martin Luther Have to Say About Justification?
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Classical Wisdom
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Augustus and Ancient Religion
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Augustus and Ancient Religion
TheCollector
The Chinese Civil War & Mao’s Long March
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Pyramid in Java Predates Egypt’s Oldest Pyramid?
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‘A Priori’ and ‘A Posteriori’ Knowledge: What Are They?
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Verification Vs. Falsification: The Birth of the Philosophy of Science
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TheCollector
The First Black President: Barack Obama’s Historic Election in 2008
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African History...
a brief note on Madagascar's position in African history
plus, early industrialization in the Merina kingdom.
a year ago
plus, early industrialization in the Merina kingdom.
TheCollector
Wuxing: What Are the Five Elements of Chinese Philosophy?
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The 5 Most Ridiculous Ways the CIA Tried & Failed to Kill Fidel Castro
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A History Lover’s Guide to Bangkok
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Open Culture
Hear Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast from 1938: The Original Tale of Mysterious...
A month ago, drones were spotted near Morris County, New Jersey. Since then, reports of further...
4 days ago
A month ago, drones were spotted near Morris County, New Jersey. Since then, reports of further sightings in various locations in the region have been lodged on a daily basis, and anxieties about the origin and purpose of these unidentified flying objects have grown apace. “We...
TheCollector
The Philosophy of the Oxford Group: Vegetarianism & Animal Rights
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TheCollector
4 Ways that Magical Realism Rewrites History
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Writing Templates From A Beautiful German Printing Book, c. 1880
Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and...
2 months ago
Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and drawing schools. They were printed and published by J. Veith of Karlsruhe, Germany around 1880 as ‘Schriften Vorlagen zum Praktischen Gebrauche für Maler, Steinhauer, Architecten...
TheCollector
7 Ancient Greek Temples You Should Know
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TheCollector
Operation Unthinkable: The Military Plan That Was Never Used
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What Are the Top 7 Must-See Attractions in Mallorca?
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What Are the Abraham Tapestries?
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Spanish Museums To Distance Themselves From Colonial Framing
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Remedios Varo: The Surrealist Artist in 7 Works and 7 Facts
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