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Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective, a monograph from Thames and Hudson. The books features many of Leiter’s most gorgeous pictures, not least of all the street photograph above of a woman sat at a cafe in Paris in...
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The Wonder Of Soviet Bus Stops
“The bus stops are disappearing so fast. If I come back a year from now, they could be gone,...
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“The bus stops are disappearing so fast. If I come back a year from now, they could be gone, demolished, or rebuilt. These pictures may be all that’s left in the end. I want to give them some kind of immortality.” — Christopher Herwig, Photographer and Soviet Bus Stop Hunter ...
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What Happens When We Die? And Does That Impact How We Live?
Homer’s Hell: The Afterlife in Greek Mythology
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Overcoming Bias
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Over the last day, I did two sets of polls comparing 16 cultural drift scenarios (detailed here) re...
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Over the last day, I did two sets of polls comparing 16 cultural drift scenarios (detailed here) re their likelihood and desirability. (I later added influence.) Here are best fit priorities (relative to 100 max), sorted by priority sum:
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How Did the Megali Idea Shape Greece Until the Balkan Wars?
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Hokusai’s ‘Great Wave’ Heads to Auction
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What Are the Conservation Challenges at Mount Rushmore?
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Get to Know Tamara de Lempicka Through 8 Works
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What Are the 8 Best Art Attractions in Budapest? (local tips)
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7 Rococo Artists You Need to Know
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, December 8, 2023
Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester...
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Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester coming as the job market gets busier, I haven’t had time to finish the next post on shield walls just yet. That will come out next week for sure though, as it is close to done. For …...
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History of the Origin of Manned Flight: More than Just Planes
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Here Are Alfred Hitchcock’s 20 Greatest Films
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The Forgotten Tomb of Henry VIII: Why Was He Buried Somewhere Else?
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What Is the Twinkie Defense? (& Other Crazy Court Arguments)
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History Today Feed
‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
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Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
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Aspasia of Miletus: More Than Pericles’ Romantic Partner?
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10 Oldest National Parks in the United States
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‘Look at Me’: Scot Sothern’s powerful photographs of life on LA’s streets
In amongst the crowds drifting along Hollywood Boulevard there’s an old guy sitting on an orange...
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In amongst the crowds drifting along Hollywood Boulevard there’s an old guy sitting on an orange bucket. He’s wearing dirty jeans and a grey hoodie. The guy’s in his seventies. Weather-worn. Grizzled beard. Walking stick. Back trouble caused by “old spinal injuries and bad...
Patterns in Humanity
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Immigration data kept behind closed doors
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How Did Black Friday Get Its Name?
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Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars
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JamesHoare
Thu, 02/01/2024 - 09:58
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Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars
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The Furies: Goddesses of Vengeance and Retribution
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The Federalist Papers: History & Summary
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Polyphemus: Who Was the Cyclops That Was Tricked by Odysseus?
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Verification Vs. Falsification: The Birth of the Philosophy of Science
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What Was the Sturmabteilung?
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Encaustic Painting: An Ancient Art Form Explained
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Trying to Understand...
The Wrong Stuff
Don't even think about rebuilding western militaries.
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Res Obscura
How well can AI imitate a 17th century doctor?
Arcadio Huang is ill in 1710s Paris. Can GPT-4 and Gemini find a cure?
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The Kitchen Debate: Khrushchev vs. Nixon
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The Prado Museum Shows Paintings in Different Light
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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...
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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...
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Why Did Socrates Focus on Self-Knowledge and Introspection?
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Trying to Understand...
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Plato’s Phaedo: Is The Soul Immortal?
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The Tragic Life of Kermit Roosevelt & the Burden of Legacy
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Jindřich Štreit’s Villge People : Photographs of the Czechoslovak Countryside
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Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
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Fri, 11/24/2023 - 10:14
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TheCollector
Genoa vs. Venice: A Historic and Layered Rivalry
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Who Is Pina Bausch?
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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...
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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...
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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part II: Romans, Assemble!
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a year ago
This is the second of our planned five-part look (I) at the nature and structure of the Roman Republic, particularly the governing institutions of the Middle Republic, the period of the republic’s height from c. 287-100 BC. Last time we discussed the component parts and nature of...
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How Did Lucas Cranach the Elder Support the Protestant Reformation?
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Who Were the 6 Most Famous Artists of the Protestant Reformation?
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What Is Intuition & Can You Trust It?
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African History...
a brief note on the African exploration of the Old world
plus: the African discovery of north-western Europe.
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plus: the African discovery of north-western Europe.
Hundred Rabbits
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over a year ago
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Francisco Goya’s Descent Into Madness: The Disturbing Black Paintings
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Beyond Stoicism
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‘A Priori’ and ‘A Posteriori’ Knowledge: What Are They?
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Tolkien and Plato
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
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Top 9 Places to Visit in South Africa
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Where Is Alexander the Great Buried?
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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 Mystery of Crazy Horse: His Life & Legacy
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Discover the Klondike Gold Rush: Frozen Riches
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5 Quotes by Karl Marx Explained
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Authoritarian vs. Democratic Socialism: What’s the Difference?
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10 Ancient Cities Around the World to Visit
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When Christmas Was Legally Banned for 22 Years by the Puritans in Colonial Massachusetts
Complaints about the commercial-age corruption of Christmas miss one critical fact: as a mass public...
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Complaints about the commercial-age corruption of Christmas miss one critical fact: as a mass public celebration, the holiday is a rather recent invention. Whether we credit Charles Dickens, Bing Crosby, or Frank Capra—men not opposed to marketing—we must reckon with Christmas as...
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Victoria Woodhull: The Women’s Rights Activist Who Ran for President
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Monet’s Favorite French Cathedral Catches Fire
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Was Brittany Founded by Magnus Maximus?
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7 Important Members of the Black Panthers You Need to Know
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Is IQ a Sham? Jay Gould on the Mismeasure of Man
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5 Ancient Roman Medical Practices Still in Use Today
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What Are the Earliest Manuscripts of the New Testament?
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How Did Babylon Shape the History of the Ancient Near East?
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Niagara Falls?
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How do we know what’s True? How can we decipher what is real among lies?
“Triple Threat at Suez Canal, Panama Canal, & Mexico Attack Freight”
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“Triple Threat at Suez Canal, Panama Canal, & Mexico Attack Freight”
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Sorites Paradox: Why Traditional Logic Is Not Omnipotent
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People, States and Borders.
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Take Your Best Shot: Vintage Fairground Shooting Gallery Photos
During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of...
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During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of fairground photos of men with guns at the shooting gallery. These snapshots were taken mostly in the 1920s and 1930s. Many looks remarkably fresh. When I was just a baby my mama told...
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How Has Modern Philosophy Built on Aristotle’s Ideas?
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7 Ancient Greek Temples You Should Know
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10 Crazy Facts About the History of Syphilis
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$35 Million Monet to Headline Auction at Christie’s New Asia HQ
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Dr Alun Withey
Health and the Habitual Traveller in the 19th Century
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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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What Are the Most Significant Battles of World War II?
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How Did the Watergate Scandal Impact Presidential Elections?
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Who Were Charlemagne’s Daughters
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What is the Relationship Between Politics and Art? 3 Answers
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9 Inventions We Owe to the Ancients
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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 December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Banksy’s Latest Artwork Is a Goat on a Ledge in London
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What is the Tall Poppy Syndrome?
Is it good, bad or relative?
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Is it good, bad or relative?
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Two ‘Great Wave’ Prints Fetch Over $800,000 Each
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Good Friday: The Significance of the Day & How Christians Observe It
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Philosophy of War: 3 Influential Theorists
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Where Did the Huguenots Go? (6 Regions They Settled)
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What Was the Pilgrimage of Grace?
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Who Was Ho Chi Minh?
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What Treaty Ended World War II?
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How Romanticism Set the Stage for Darwin’s Theory of Evolution
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The Rise of Television & The Power of Images in US Elections
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The Story of King Tewdrig & His Role in Arthurian Legend
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How the Nazis Looted Art in the Netherlands: Dienststelle Mühlmann
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10 Shocking Facts About King Philip’s War
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Useless in Gaza
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Did Spirituality Shape the Art of Ana Mendieta?
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Uncovering 5 Portraits From the Renaissance
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5 Quotes by Locke Explained
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5 of Hildegard of Bingen’s Most Notable Works
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Human Sacrifice in the Pre-Columbian Americas: Fact vs Fiction
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Why Is the Matterhorn So Famous?
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Has Depression Always Been Around? The History of a Timeless Disorder
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The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
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The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
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The Coming Of Neo-Tribalism.
Of honour, gangsters, nomadic tribes and of course identity politics.
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Of honour, gangsters, nomadic tribes and of course identity politics.
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What Are the Best-known Post-Impressionist Paintings?
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What Are the Key Influences That Shaped the French New Wave?
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Wrong Side of...
Your favourite half-British president
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When Is St Patrick’s Day? (Traditions & Festivities Around the World)
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What’s the Creation Myth in Norse Mythology?
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Historical maps probably helped cause World War I
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On cartography as historical argument
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What Are the Books of the Old Testament? Order & Overview
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Who Was Louise Bourgeois? 7 Facts About the Surrealist Artist
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