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Trees are Sanctuaries: Wandering – Notes and Sketches by Hermann Hesse, 1920
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Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard While we’re in the mood, cold jelly and custard Pease pudding and saveloys, what next is the question? Rich gentlemen have it boys – in-di-gestion! – Food Glorious Food from the muscial oliver by Lionel Bart, 1968 You didn’t need...
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Who Were the Black Panther Party?
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Who is Ana Mendieta? An Icon of Environmental Art
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Shopping The Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen Flea Market in 1990
We’re browsing the stalls at Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen, the wold’s largest antiques and second-hand...
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We’re browsing the stalls at Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen, the wold’s largest antiques and second-hand goods market, in Paris, France. Peter Marshall was staying in Noisy-le-Grand in the city’s eastern suburbs when he mooched to the market. Taken on walks around the area and...
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The Elgin Marbles: 5 of the Parthenon’s Incredible Sculptures
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How Saint Helena and the True Cross Changed an Empire
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4 Key Works by Mordecai Richler You Should Be Reading
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What Is Mithraism? The Secretive Cult That Swept the Roman World
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Did Pliny the Younger Attempt to Rig the Vote in the Roman Senate?
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You And Whose Army?
NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
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NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
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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...
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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...
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How Did Carl Jung’s Dream Birth “Man and His Symbols”?
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The Titans: The Greek Gods Before the Olympians
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Pompeii: Frozen in Time or an Ever-Evolving Landscape?
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How Did the 1979 Iranian Revolution Influence Iran’s Economy?
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African History...
A political history of the Kotoko city states (ca. 1000-1900)
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Urbanism and state building in the lake chad basin..
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Anger & Sadness: How Do Stoics Handle These Emotions?
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St. Nicholas
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What Is Populism?
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‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’ review
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Everything You Need To Know About Hecate (Maiden, Mother, Crone)
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Why Are the Black Hills Sacred to the Lakota Sioux?
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Pandas and Politics: What Is Panda Diplomacy?
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The Eritrean War of Independence: How Eritrea Won its Freedom
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Renovations Continue at Houston’s Rothko Chapel
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What Is the Philosophy of Cynicism?
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Wrong Side of...
Inside the Catholic State
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North Pacific Logbook
The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing...
over a year ago
The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing we've ever done. We decided to keep a logbook, to better remember it and so it can help others who wish to make this trip.
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Well, it depends what you're trying to do.
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Andrew Jackson’s Genocidal Legacy
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History as Tragedy?
A Different View of Thucydides
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Whaleship Essex: The Terrifying Story That Inspired Moby Dick
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5 of D.H. Lawrence’s Most Notable Novels
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Bruno Latour’s Irreductions: The World as a Network of Relations
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British Punks in the 1980s by Shirley Baker
British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of...
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British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of Manchester, Stockport and London’s Camden Town in the early 1980s. Shirley’s daughter, Nan Levy, spoke to the Museum of of Youth Culture about her mother’s work as part of an...
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What is the WORD? How can we understand Logos?
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Why Is Nicosia the Last Divided Capital of Cyprus?
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Bio, Nature, & the Birth of Transcendentalism
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Expressionists Exhibition to Open This Week at Tate Modern
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Weekend Roundup
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Stoicism and Stress
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Go Stress-Free with Philosophy
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Geneva Exhibition Shows Rare Picasso Works
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The Fate of Jewish Art Collections in WWII: 20 Looted Families
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Top Five Painters To Watch in 2024
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American Modernist Florine Stettheimer Gets Catalogue Raisonné
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What’s the Historical Background of Tristan and Isolde’s Legend?
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Archaeologists Unearth a Building in the Valley of the Temples
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6 of Katherine Mansfield’s Short Stories You Need to Read
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Third Punic War: Carthage Must Be Destroyed
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Why Was Hannibal Defeated? And What If He Had Won?
The Silence of the Elephants
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Cinema’s Epic History: From Then to Now
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Norse Pantheon: 10 Fascinating Gods and Goddesses
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September
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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 September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Orca, added way for instances of Orca to talk to each...
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Weekend Roundup
Essential Greeks Course Begins Tomorrow!
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Essential Greeks Course Begins Tomorrow!
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Why the Organ Split the Church
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Why the Organ Split the Church
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Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:05
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Who Was Christian Schad? 11 Facts About the German Artist
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Was Roy Lichtenstein an Innovator or a Copycat?
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6 Artists Associated With Magic Realism You Should Know
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The Kherson Art Museum Identified Pieces Looted by Russia
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, October 27, 2023 (On Politics in Strategy)
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101...
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Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101 series with a look at provincial governance, but I don’t think that will be done in time for this week, so I’m throwing a fireside in here in the meantime. That said, I thought it...
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Rijksmuseum Discovers Identity of Couple Painted by Frans Hals
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Dr Paul Cartledge on Alexander the Great’s Tomb, Netflix & More
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Collectible Toys Worth $1000s: Rare Finds With High Prices
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6 Artworks Inspired by Gabriel García Márquez’s Famous Novel
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Global Inequality...
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Wars and ideology simplified
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Wars and ideology simplified
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10 Ghost Towns in California You Need to Explore
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6 Astounding Achievements by Maya Lin
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The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
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The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
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Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:37
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St. Petersburg: A History of the City Built on Bones
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What Is the History and Significance of Diwali?
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Weekend Roundup
Secret of the Stoics
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Does Karma Exist?
Does what goes around come around?
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Does what goes around come around?
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Marian Henel and His Perverted Rugs (NSFW)
These large-scale rugs and self-portrait photographs were created by Marian Henel (1926-1993), who...
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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...
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Why Is Nan Goldin Considered a Trailblazer in Modern Photography?
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Capturing Alaska: Who Are 6 of Alaska’s Most Celebrated Painters?
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7 Facts About the Ghent Altarpiece
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Las Vegas Gallery to Sell $100 Million Leonardo Sculpture
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Elizabeth Anderson: What is the Point of Equality?
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Weekend Roundup
Monsters, Morpheus, and The Matrix
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Monsters, Morpheus, and The Matrix
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Andrew Jackson: The People’s President and the Rise of Populism
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7 Scottish Inventors & Their Inventions
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Dreams of Space -...
Exploring Space (Hebrew) (1960)
The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few...
a year ago
The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few pages where the Hebrew version "switches" sides. Because this is such a charming book I have loaded the whole thing. As an additional treat I own some of the original illustration...
African History...
State and society in southern Ethiopia: the Oromo kingdom of Jimma (ca. 1830-1932)
Modern Ethiopia is a diverse country comprised of many communities and languages, each with its...
11 months ago
Modern Ethiopia is a diverse country comprised of many communities and languages, each with its history and contribution to the country's cultural heritage. While Ethiopian historiography is often focused on the historical developments in the northern regions of the country, some...
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Cotton & How It Changed the World
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Columbine 25 Years On
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Columbine 25 Years On
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Wed, 04/17/2024 - 09:42
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4 Founding Fathers who Signed the Declaration of Independence
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Artist Frank Auerbach Dies at 93
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African History...
a brief note on the origin of African civilizations
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a year ago
plus, the Nok Neolithic culture.
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Who Were the Important Jewish Philosophers of the Medieval Period?
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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.
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What Is the Will to Power?
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Who Were the Maccabees?
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‘Broken Archangel’ by Roland Philipps review
‘Broken Archangel’ by Roland Philipps review
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Mon, 06/24/2024 - 10:22
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‘Broken Archangel’ by Roland Philipps review
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Mon, 06/24/2024 - 10:22
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Summary of changes for April
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 April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, improved documentation, implemented MIDI and sound chip, and...
Patterns in Humanity
Race, economics and homicide
Can economic disparities account for racial homicide disparities?
8 months ago
Can economic disparities account for racial homicide disparities?
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4 Awe-Inspiring Neolithic Monuments in the British Isles
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4 Sumerian Inventions that Changed the World
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, January 12, 2024
Fireside this week! The semester has started up in earnest and I am pushing hard to try to finish a...
11 months ago
Fireside this week! The semester has started up in earnest and I am pushing hard to try to finish a draft of something I have promised by the end of the month (so this may not be the only Fireside this month). That said, it seemed like a good time to discuss trade, the sea and...
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Why Did Shakespeare Write Macbeth?
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Who Was the Terrifying Ottoman Sultan Selim “the Grim?”
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Wallis Simpson: A Look Beyond Scandal
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Empedocles
The Philosopher God?
a year ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, February 2, 2024 (On City Building Games)
Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those...
11 months ago
Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those multi-multi-author companion volumes) on how video games (particularly more abstract simulation games) depict the ancient world. Writing that chapter led me to reengage with ancient city...
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Évora: History & 10 Must-See Sites
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The Life of St. Francis of Assisi: Patron of Animals
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What Was the Mason-Dixon Line?
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An Introduction to the Ethics of Care
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Open Culture
A Simple, Down-to-Earth Christmas Card from the Great Depression (1933)
The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great...
2 weeks ago
The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great Depression. They write: Despite the glum economic situation, the Pinero family used a brown paper bag to fashion an inexpensive holiday greeting card. They penned a clever rhyme and...
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Einstein vs. Bergson: A Historic Debate About Time
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What Makes Yinka Shonibare’s African Fabrics Unique?
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Was the Neolithic Revolution Really a Revolution?
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Christian Ethics vs Secular Ethics: What’s the Difference?
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Jansenism: The 17th Century Heresy That Divided the Church
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