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Dreams of Space -...
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AND October 1, 2012...
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Pyramid in Java Predates Egypt’s Oldest Pyramid?
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TheCollector
Ancient Marble Zeus Head Unearthed in Türkiye
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CrimethInc.
Georgia: The Firework Protests : A Report and Video Footage from the Streets of Tbilisi
Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government...
2 weeks ago
Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government protesters in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. We offer the following short report and video footage courtesy of Georgian anarchists.
The demonstrators are responding to the...
TheCollector
Is IQ a Sham? Jay Gould on the Mismeasure of Man
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10 Norse Goddesses You Need to Know
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Architectural Wizardry: 4 Fascinating Works by Antoni Gaudi
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The 5 Most Influential Modern Political Philosophers
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Lost Caravaggio Painting Unveiled at the Prado
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Top 8 Bronze Age Civilizations (in the Mediterranean and Near East)
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TheCollector
Landslide Victories: A Look at Pivotal Elections in US History
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What’s the Best Time of Year to Visit the Parthenon?
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Global Inequality...
The end and the beginning of history
Three ways of thinking about Lea Ypi’s Free
5 months ago
Three ways of thinking about Lea Ypi’s Free
TheCollector
History of Chariots: 10 Types from Ancient Cultures Explained
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TheCollector
Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick: Meet the “Real” Kingmaker
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Love, love, love
10 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Marie Antoinette Syndrome?
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TheCollector
What Is Conceptual Photography?
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TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Chancellorsville?
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TheCollector
What Is the Legacy of Genghis Khan’s Promiscuity?
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TheCollector
Iraq Receives an Ancient Sumerian Sculpture from The Met
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The Darien Scheme: Scotland’s Unsuccessful Settlement in the Americas
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TheCollector
Happy Easter! What Are the Origins of Easter?
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TheCollector
What Are the Six Labors of Theseus?
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TheCollector
Who Was Vernon Lee?
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What Is Philosophical Intelligence? (And How to Practice It)
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TheCollector
How the Nazis Captured the Minds of Germany’s Youth
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TheCollector
Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Story of Magic & Heartbreak
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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...
TheCollector
What Role Did the Sea Peoples Play in the Bronze Age Collapse?
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TheCollector
10 Must-See Pirate Fortresses and Coastal Strongholds Around the World
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Who Was Winston Churchill? The Dark Side of Britain’s Great Hero
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TheCollector
Why Did the Oracle of Delphi Call Socrates the Wisest Man?
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Trying to Understand...
We Are All Civilisational States
It's just that some people don't realise it.
a year ago
It's just that some people don't realise it.
TheCollector
History of Tea: The Drink that Conquered the World
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TheCollector
What Did the Art of the Third Reich Look Like?
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4 Norse Myths That Inspired Cinema
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7 European Powers Involved in the Scramble for Africa
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Flashbak
Snapshots of People Meeting Abraham Lincoln
“I see you have erected a very fine and handsome platform here for me, and I presume you expected me...
10 months ago
“I see you have erected a very fine and handsome platform here for me, and I presume you expected me to speak from it.” ― Abraham Lincoln The most famous statue of Abraham Lincoln (12 February 1809 – 15 April 1865) is the ginormous one sculpted by Daniel Chester French...
TheCollector
Art Basel Renames and Relocates Third Edition of Paris Show
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TheCollector
Was Honorius’ Letter Really Sent to Britain?
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TheCollector
7 Lost Books of the Christian Bible: What Were They About?
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Classical Wisdom
Democracy
The Greeks' Greatest Gift?
a month ago
The Greeks' Greatest Gift?
TheCollector
10 Things You Should Know About Henri Cartier-Bresson
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TheCollector
5 Tips on How to Approach Conceptual Art
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TheCollector
5 Inspirational Women From the Second World War
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8 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triump, Part IIb: Handfuls of Maniples
This is the second part of the second part of the second part of our four part look at the great...
10 months ago
This is the second part of the second part of the second part of our four part look at the great third and second century BC contest between the Romans and the heirs of Alexander, asking the question, “What can defeat a Macedonian sarisa-phalanx?” Last time, we started looking at...
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William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:21
9 months ago
William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:21
TheCollector
10 Art Techniques You Should Know
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TheCollector
Florida Museum Fires Curator After Issues With Object Provenance
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TheCollector
$18-Million Monet Heads to Auction
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TheCollector
Which Are the Best-known Castles and Churches in Trieste?
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TheCollector
What Is Mithraism? The Secretive Cult That Swept the Roman World
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Open Culture
The Story Behind the Making of the Iconic Surrealist Photograph, Dalí Atomicus (1948)
With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks,...
2 days ago
With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks, Salvador Dalí would appear to have cultivated his own photographability. But taking a picture of the man who stood as a living definition of popular surrealism wasn’t a task to be...
TheCollector
The Holodomor, Ukraine’s Great Famine
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Flashbak
Arrows – Love And Punishment in Vintage Snapshots
The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some...
5 months ago
The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some have been drawn on the printed photo with pen, others form part of the image itself. The use of bows and arrows by humans predates recorded history and is common to most...
TheCollector
What Is Timothy Morton’s Dark Ecology?
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TheCollector
Samnite Wars: How Rome Conquered the Samnites (History & Aftermath)
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TheCollector
Imperial Chinese Porcelain Bring Novelties to Market
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over 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 February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, started working on a fantasy console called Uxn, and...
Classical Wisdom
Do You Believe in Magic?
Marcus Aurelius and Ephesia Grammata
8 months ago
Marcus Aurelius and Ephesia Grammata
TheCollector
Michelangelo Scribble Sells For $200,000
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8 months ago
Flashbak
Ships Then Swans: Ian Macdonald’s Pictures of England’s Teesside in the 1970s and 80s
The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits...
2 months ago
The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits of times past. These pictures cover three of the photographer’s major bodies of work from the late 1960s to the mid 1980s: Greatham Creek; the Redcar blast furnace and Smith’s Dock...
TheCollector
Reacting to the French Revolution: Edmund Burke and the British Pamphlet War
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TheCollector
Siege of the Sogdian Rock, 327 BCE: Alexander’s Winged Men
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Classical Wisdom
Ancient Greek Astronomy
Ursa Major
a year ago
TheCollector
How Divisionism Shaped Modern Painting and Art History
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TheCollector
Why Does the UK Celebrate Guy Fawkes Night?
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TheCollector
What Ancient Rituals Do We Still Celebrate at Halloween?
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TheCollector
What Are the Top 9 Historical Sites in Budapest?
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Classical Wisdom
The Many Roads to Rome
The Ancient Romans VS the Modern Chinese
6 months ago
The Ancient Romans VS the Modern Chinese
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Constantine and the Queen of Carthage
a year ago
Constantine and the Queen of Carthage
TheCollector
What Was the Importance of the Dragon in Early Medieval England?
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Classical Wisdom
The Furies
Vengeance or Justice?
3 months ago
TheCollector
Are the Aesir Gods the Villains of Norse Mythology?
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10 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part I: Divisa in Partes Tres
This is the first part of a three-part (if I can keep it) series, examining the historical...
5 months ago
This is the first part of a three-part (if I can keep it) series, examining the historical assumptions of Imperator: Rome, a historical grand strategy game by Paradox Interactive, set during the rise and collapse of the Roman Republic from 304-27 BC and covering the broader...
TheCollector
Pace Gallery Will Represent the Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative
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TheCollector
Surprising Results of The British Museum’s Internal Investigation
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Don't Give Peace Too Many Chances.
Nothing is more dangerous than a flawed peace treaty.
over a year ago
Nothing is more dangerous than a flawed peace treaty.
TheCollector
Baroque Art & Architecture: 6 Frequently Asked Questions
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TheCollector
Did Climate Change Cause the Collapse of Egypt’s New Kingdom?
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TheCollector
How Carl Jung Revolutionized Psychology: Into the Shadow-Land
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French Antique Art Dealers Against New E.U. Import Restrictions
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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.
Flashbak
How The Charlie Brown Christmas Special Got Jazz And Came Alive
“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news...
a year ago
“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news cycle? A few minutes? This [album] is something that’s lasted 50 years. And not only lasted, but grown … I think there’s just a humanness” — Jerry Granelli, drummer with the Vince...
Classical Wisdom
What is the Tall Poppy Syndrome?
Is it good, bad or relative?
6 months ago
Is it good, bad or relative?
Dr Alun Withey
Health and the Habitual Traveller in the 19th Century
Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’...
over a year ago
Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’ Register – a fantastic archive, with a wealth of sources on many aspects of maritime, but also broader social, history. The full series can be found here:...
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‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/24/2024 - 09:46
8 months ago
‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/24/2024 - 09:46
TheCollector
Who Was the Only U.S. President to Serve More Than Two Terms?
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3 months ago
Overcoming Bias
Love And War And Status
“All is Fair in Love and War” - common saying
3 weeks ago
“All is Fair in Love and War” - common saying
Flashbak
New York City’s NIGHT Magazine – 1978-79
Launched in September 1978, Anton Perich’s self-financed NIGHT magazine showcased New York City’s...
5 months ago
Launched in September 1978, Anton Perich’s self-financed NIGHT magazine showcased New York City’s mix of fashion, art, and music at clubs like Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager’s Studio 54 and Howard Stein and Peppo Vanini’s Xenon, where nightlife and performance met. Distribution...
TheCollector
London’s National Portrait Gallery Opens First Francis Bacon Show
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TheCollector
Dust Bowl Troubadour: Who Was Woody Guthrie?
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Automata & AI: A Historical & Cultural Comparison
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Orange Free State, South Africa: A History
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The Violent Race Riots of the Red Summer of 1919
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Why Are the Black Hills Sacred to the Lakota Sioux?
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TheCollector
10 Historical Facts About London You Might Not Know
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What Can We Learn from Genre Paintings of the Northern Renaissance?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
What Treaty Ended World War II?
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TheCollector
How Did the Opium Wars Impact China?
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a year ago
African History...
The African diaspora in Portuguese India: 1500-1800.
Sailors, Merchants and Priests.
a year ago
Sailors, Merchants and Priests.
TheCollector
What Are the Most Similar Languages?
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TheCollector
What Is Hermeneutics? Explaining the Theory of Interpretation
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3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
What Happens When We Die? And Does That Impact How We Live?
Homer’s Hell: The Afterlife in Greek Mythology
a month ago
Homer’s Hell: The Afterlife in Greek Mythology
TheCollector
History of the Origin of Manned Flight: More than Just Planes
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TheCollector
6 Astounding Facts About the Inhotim Institute
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Classical Wisdom
Happy Birthday Marcus Aurelius!
A Celebration of Virtue
8 months ago
TheCollector
The Nepalese Royal Massacre: Royalty Meets True Crime
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Nashville?
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4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Blindspots and Biographies
a year ago
Blindspots and Biographies
Dreams of Space -...
Searching In Science (1965)
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also...
over a year ago
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also issued booklets of content. These were more astronomy than manned space flight but also had some very nice illustrations.
The Moon
The Milky Way and The...
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Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 12:26
11 months ago
Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 12:26
TheCollector
William Blake’s Cottage to Be Preserved as a Museum
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TheCollector
Attritional Warfare: Stalemate on the Western Front During WWI
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Classical Wisdom
Origins of Latin Literature
...and the Master of Roman Comedy
a year ago
...and the Master of Roman Comedy
TheCollector
Picasso to Lead Emily Fisher Landau’s Collection at Sotheby’s
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a year ago
TheCollector
4 Roman Emperors Who Died in Battle
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a year ago
Flashbak
Snapshots of London Going Mad For Christmas In the 1980s
When they unpacked the 76h Christmas tree sent to the people of London from the City of Oslo as a...
a year ago
When they unpacked the 76h Christmas tree sent to the people of London from the City of Oslo as a token of gratitude for British support to Norway during the Second World War, it looked bedraggled. So before it went up on Trafalgar Square, the decorators nailed some of the...
TheCollector
Who Is the Real Banksy? Rumors Behind the Street Artist
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a year ago
Flashbak
That Time Kenneth Anger Wanted to Make a Film about Cricket – Exclusive
St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next...
10 months ago
St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next film Arrangement in White on Green. It was to be a film about cricket. A sports film was the last thing I ever imagined the director of Lucifer Rising would make. I was intrigued....
TheCollector
End of an Era: Why Did the Beatles Break Up?
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TheCollector
Father of Emperor Caligula: Who Was Germanicus?
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10 months ago
Dr Alun Withey
Cuts, Rashes & Chatter! The Pain of the 18th-century Shave!
Unless there are particular reasons, for example a skin condition, or a faulty razor, shaving today...
over a year ago
Unless there are particular reasons, for example a skin condition, or a faulty razor, shaving today is usually a pretty mundane – if not a pleasant – experience. Indeed, the rise of traditional barbershops over the past few years, offering shaving as an experience, together with...
TheCollector
Amerigo Vespucci & The Naming of the Americas
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