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What Is an Antipope?
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Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays In French
And some associated reflections.
2 months ago
And some associated reflections.
TheCollector
5 Captivating Photographs by Steve McCurry
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Animals of the Ancient World
7 months ago
Animals of the Ancient World
TheCollector
Elton John Collection Goes on Sale After 21 Years
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New Alphonse Mucha Museum to Open in Prague
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Dr Alun Withey
Victorian Swappers! Adverts for exchange in the 19th century.
Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and...
2 months ago
Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and journals were full of ads for objects sought and to be exchanged. These offer a fascinating insight into what was considered desirable, the value of objects, and the processes of...
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The Philosophy of the Oxford Group: Vegetarianism & Animal Rights
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Classical Wisdom
What Government Governs Best?
Is Democracy Still Our Best Bet?
a year ago
Is Democracy Still Our Best Bet?
History Today Feed
King John’s Lost Treasure
King John’s Lost Treasure
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/15/2024 - 09:28
5 months ago
King John’s Lost Treasure
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/15/2024 - 09:28
Overcoming Bias
Capitalism, Govt Causes Culture Woes?
Many have noticed a key time coincidence.
3 months ago
Many have noticed a key time coincidence.
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What Is the Difference Between Candomblé and Umbanda?
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When Was the First Flight in History?
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Iroquois Confederacy: A Brief History of Haudenosaunee
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Battle of Thebes: How Alexander the Great Destroyed the Great City
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The United States Bill of Rights: History & Overview
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New Study Reveals Fresh Insight Into Mayan Sacrifices
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African History...
a brief note on new discoveries in African archeology and the stone ruins of Cameroon.
Among the first ancient Egyptian accounts on its southern neighbors is an old kingdom inscription...
5 months ago
Among the first ancient Egyptian accounts on its southern neighbors is an old kingdom inscription that describes a trading expedition to an unspecified region called the land of Punt. Egyptologists had long debated about the location of this mysterious territory before recent...
TheCollector
Greco-Scythian Artifacts Seized by Spanish Police
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History Today Feed
Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:19
10 months ago
Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:19
TheCollector
Here’s How AI Completed Keith Haring’s Work
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4 months ago
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/17/2024 - 11:14
7 months ago
On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/17/2024 - 11:14
TheCollector
Marcel Breuer’s Iconic Work: From Bauhaus to Brutalism
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History Today Feed
The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
JamesHoare
Fri, 07/19/2024 - 08:00
6 months ago
The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
JamesHoare
Fri, 07/19/2024 - 08:00
Flashbak
A Tour of The Westwood Mall, Michigan, 1972 – 1984
We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are...
2 months ago
We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are from the store’s opening on August 3 1972. We see shopper browsing for music in Recordland beneath a poster for the singer Cyndi Lauper, buying into the ‘grapefruit diet’, getting...
African History...
a brief note on contacts between ancient African kingdoms and Rome.
finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
7 months ago
finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
Patterns in Humanity
Immigration and crime: Sweden
Worrying crime trends in the land of Pippi Longstocking
5 months ago
Worrying crime trends in the land of Pippi Longstocking
TheCollector
10 Facts About Odin the All-Father: Norse God of War & Wisdom
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10 Unmissable Masterpieces in the Louvre
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Great Zimbabwe: Center of a Mysterious African Civilization
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Flashbak
Marian Henel and His Perverted Rugs (NSFW)
These large-scale rugs and self-portrait photographs were created by Marian Henel (1926-1993), who...
2 months ago
These large-scale rugs and self-portrait photographs were created by Marian Henel (1926-1993), who spent 32 years as a patient of the Hospital for Psychiatric and Neurological Disorders in Branice, Poland. Admitted to the hospital’s Psychopathological Art Expression workshop in...
TheCollector
Interview with Margaret Iversen: What Was Freud’s Impact on Surrealism?
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7 Famous Artists Who Turned to Crime
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Classical Wisdom
Does FREE WILL Exist?
And if not, what are the consequences?
a month ago
And if not, what are the consequences?
Overcoming Bias
How Every Empire Falls
On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris...
2 months ago
On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris sometime before 2005, and performed at various times by Morris, John Prine, and Marianne Faithfull.
TheCollector
How Did George Orwell’s Life Influence his Literature?
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12 Most Important Art Techniques of Modern Times
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What are Aristophanes’ 11 Surviving Comedies?
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Top 10 Historic Sites to See in New York City
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History Today Feed
Columbine 25 Years On
Columbine 25 Years On
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/17/2024 - 09:42
9 months ago
Columbine 25 Years On
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/17/2024 - 09:42
TheCollector
Ghiberti vs. Brunelleschi: The Renaissance Competition
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A History of the Free City of Danzig (Now Gdansk)
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Flashbak
From Window: A Photographer’s Obsession With His Wife And Freezing Time
“I work and photograph while hoping to stop everything. In that sense, my work may be some kind of...
2 weeks ago
“I work and photograph while hoping to stop everything. In that sense, my work may be some kind of revenge drama about living now.” – Masahisa Fukase One morning in the summer of 1973, Masahisa Fukase (25 February 1934 – 9 June 2012) photographed his wife since 1964, Yoko...
Wrong Side of...
The Scottish Play
Canon Club podcast: Macbeth
2 months ago
Canon Club podcast: Macbeth
TheCollector
Why Was the Gutenberg Printing Press Important?
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Flashbak
Dear Dead Heads: Vintage Skull Postcards
Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve...
11 months ago
Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve been on the look out for more of these type of memento mori optical illusions. And now we’ve an entire set of skull postcards – many of which are available as postcards in the shop. ...
TheCollector
Shays’ Rebellion Explained: A New Governing System for the New US
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TheCollector
The Fowler Museum in L.A. Returns Seven Valuables to Ghana
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TheCollector
Why Did Remedios Varo Paint So Many Self-Portraits?
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15 Surprising Facts about Adolf Hitler, The World’s Most Hated Man
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The Rise & Fall of Hollywood’s Avant-Garde Cinema
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TheCollector
Who Are the Young British Artists? An Overview of the Movement
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a month ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIa: Peak Pike-Phalanx
This is the first part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the...
10 months ago
This is the first part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the triumph of the Roman legions in the third and second century over the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander. Last time, we looked at some of the operational and strategic...
TheCollector
5 Hero Archetypes You Should Know
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History Today Feed
Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:29
10 months ago
Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:29
TheCollector
When Was the Era of Japan’s Bakufu?
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TheCollector
What Are the 5 Longest Bridges in the World?
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TheCollector
What Criticisms Are Directed Towards Anti-Natalism?
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Open Culture
The Night When Miles Davis Opened for the Grateful Dead (1970)
What’s that, you ask? Did Miles Davis open for the Grateful Dead at the Fillmore West? In what world...
a week ago
What’s that, you ask? Did Miles Davis open for the Grateful Dead at the Fillmore West? In what world could such a thing happen? In the world of the late sixties/early seventies, when jazz fused with acid rock, acid rock with country, and pop culture took a long strange trip. The...
TheCollector
Top 10 Historic Sites You Should See in Paris
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TheCollector
A History of the Whig Party: Who Were the Whigs?
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TheCollector
Sufism in South and South East Asia
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
Sex Before Sex Education
Sex Before Sex Education
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/19/2024 - 12:10
a month ago
Sex Before Sex Education
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/19/2024 - 12:10
Dreams of Space -...
A Book of Moon Rockets for You (1959
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to...
a year ago
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to land on the Moon. It has wonderful illustrations and I am happy to share on this day of celebration of a landing.
Branley, Franklyn M. Illustrated by Kessler, Leonard. A Book of...
TheCollector
What Did Fascist Architecture Look Like?
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a month ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part V: Epilogue
This is the fifth part of our four(ish) five part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc) look...
8 months ago
This is the fifth part of our four(ish) five part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc) look at how the Roman legions were able to overcome the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the third and second centuries BC. We have covered the decisive battles in the story, although...
History Today Feed
‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/23/2024 - 08:00
4 months ago
‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/23/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
Who Was Josiah Wedgwood? Potter, Innovator, Entrepreneurial Genius
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TheCollector
How Did Libyan Migration Influence Egyptian Religion?
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TheCollector
5 Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche Explained
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TheCollector
Get to Know Alma Mahler: Composer, Muse, and Scandalous Woman
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What Is the Symbolism in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Henry Darger’s In The Realms of the Unreal?
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TheCollector
FBI Returns Nazi-Looted Monet to Jewish Collector’s Heirs
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TheCollector
‘A Priori’ and ‘A Posteriori’ Knowledge: What Are They?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Archaeologists Discover 4,100-Year-Old Tomb of Pharaoh’s Doctor
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Flashbak
26 Found Photos of Australian Life In the 1970s
The best satire is never far removed from the truth it lampoons. In the 1970s, comedian Barry...
3 months ago
The best satire is never far removed from the truth it lampoons. In the 1970s, comedian Barry Humphries (17 February 1934 – 22 April 2023) created Sir Les Patterson and made him Australia’s cultural ambassador. Drunk, lecherous and offensive, after Sir Les made his debut...
TheCollector
Did Jesus Christ Really Exist?
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TheCollector
What Was Lucas Cranach’s Legacy? A Dynasty in the German Renaissance
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TheCollector
Digitization Reveals Cathedral’s Hidden Medieval Wall Paintings
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Classical Wisdom
What to do with Columbus?
Should We Learn “Outdated” History?
3 months ago
Should We Learn “Outdated” History?
TheCollector
How Did Romania Become a Country?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Rembrandt Used Arsenic to Paint “The Night Watch”
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6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Ovid's Dating Advice
Love Lessons from a Roman Poet
11 months ago
Love Lessons from a Roman Poet
TheCollector
Who Was Aleister Crowley?
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a year ago
Flashbak
Looking For Tibet And A Llama At England’s Pestalozzi Children’s Village – 1959 – 1965
We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about...
a year ago
We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about his memories of the Pestalozzi Children’s Village in East Sussex, England, in the 1960s. Len had seen an image on Flashback of a group of Tibetan children playing ball at the...
TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Places Around the World for History Buffs
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TheCollector
A Greek Hoplite’s Day in Ancient Greece: A Spear of Greece
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, March 29, 2024 (On Roman Values)
Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had...
9 months ago
Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had some unexpected (but good) travel, which has made a bit of havoc in my schedule and I am still trying to catch back up. Nevertheless, I wanted to use this week’s fireside to muse a...
TheCollector
How Were Plato and Aristotle Interpreted During the Renaissance?
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great?
This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman...
8 months ago
This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman legions, I wanted to take the opportunity to talk about Alexander III, who you almost certainly know as Alexander the Great. But I want to discuss his reign with that title, ‘the...
TheCollector
Eric the Red: The Incredible Story of Greenland’s First Viking
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11 months ago
weird medieval guys
What does a biblically accurate angel actually look like?
Sexy? Scary? Both?
a year ago
TheCollector
History of the Origin of Manned Flight: More than Just Planes
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10 months ago
History Today Feed
‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/30/2024 - 10:04
8 months ago
‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/30/2024 - 10:04
Flashbak
1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like...
9 months ago
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like home anymore.” – Richard Davis We’re back looking at 1980s Britain’s through Richard Davis’s photographs. This time we join him in Birmingham, the country’s ‘shabby not chic‘...
TheCollector
4 Surprising Things You Didn’t Know About the Catholic Catechism
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TheCollector
“Horrible” Painting Found in Cellar Could Be $6 Million Picasso
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TheCollector
Operation Paperclip: What the US Did With Nazi Scientists After WWII
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TheCollector
What Was the Massachusetts 54th Regiment?
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Classical Wisdom
Last Chance: The Essential Greeks
Starting Tomorrow
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Stoicism and Stress
Go Stress-Free with Philosophy
8 months ago
Go Stress-Free with Philosophy
African History...
The pre-Islamic civilizations of west Africa
While West Africa has been part of the Muslim world since the late Middle Ages, as famously...
2 weeks ago
While West Africa has been part of the Muslim world since the late Middle Ages, as famously demonstrated by the golden pilgrimage of Mali's Mansa Musa in 1324, Islam had only arrived in the region at the close of the 1st millennium.
Open Culture
How Leonardo da Vinci Painted The Last Supper: A Deep Dive Into a Masterpiece
When Leonardo da Vinci was 42 years old, he hadn’t yet completed any major publicly viewable work....
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When Leonardo da Vinci was 42 years old, he hadn’t yet completed any major publicly viewable work. Not that he’d been idle: in that same era, while working for the Duke of Milan, Ludovico Sforza, he “developed, organized, and directed productions for festival pageants, triumphal...
TheCollector
Unlikely Politics: The History of the World Chess Championship
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TheCollector
Veni, Vidi, Vici: Decoding Julius Caesar’s “I Came, I Saw, I Conquered”
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Utagawa Hiroshige: 10 Works From the Last Great Master of Ukiyo-e
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6 months ago
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8 Women Artists Who Were Inspired by Conceptual Art
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3 months ago
TheCollector
The 7 Best Historical Sites in Bangkok, Thailand
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5 months ago
Trying to Understand...
In the Shallows Of The Deep State.
But is there anything there?
a month ago
But is there anything there?
History Today Feed
The KGB After Stalin
The KGB After Stalin
j.hoare
Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:36
a year ago
The KGB After Stalin
j.hoare
Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:36
TheCollector
The Electoral College Explained
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TheCollector
Line in the Sand: 5 Defenders of the Alamo
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Top 8 Bronze Age Civilizations (in the Mediterranean and Near East)
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10 months ago
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