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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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Why geneticists found what archeologists and historians had failed to locate.
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Why geneticists found what archeologists and historians had failed to locate.
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‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review
‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review
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Tue, 12/26/2023 - 00:00
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‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review
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Tue, 12/26/2023 - 00:00
TheCollector
England’s Medieval Angevin Empire Explained
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The Ethics of Epicureanism vs The Ethics of Stoicism
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It's War, Josep, But Not As We Know It
Trying to understand what Ukraine is all about.
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Trying to understand what Ukraine is all about.
Classical Wisdom
Winged Victory
Art of the Hellenistic Period
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Art of the Hellenistic Period
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Belgium’s Collectible Design Fair Debuts in NYC
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Who Was Geoffrey of Monmouth? The Man Who Made Arthur and Merlin
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Iowa Museum Returns Benin Bronzes to Nigeria
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The Anglo-Zanzibar War (AKA The Shortest War in History)
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How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
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Thu, 10/10/2024 - 09:11
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How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
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Thu, 10/10/2024 - 09:11
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The Infamous Nanjing Massacre: Here’s What Happened
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Res Obscura
I talked to Terry Gross!
A brief update about the publication of "Tripping on Utopia" before we return to regularly scheduled...
11 months ago
A brief update about the publication of "Tripping on Utopia" before we return to regularly scheduled posting
TheCollector
How Did Belgium Become a Country?
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Switzerland’s Historic Neutrality: Why Doesn’t the Country Take Sides?
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How Did Aristotle Influence Western Thought?
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UK Exhibition to Pair Pre-Raphaelite Art and Aromas
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What Is the History of Constitution Day in the US?
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Shays’ Rebellion Explained: A New Governing System for the New US
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Laser Surveys Reveal Ancient Maya City in Mexico
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Should We Follow a Person’s Words... or Actions?
What should we do with Seneca?
a year ago
What should we do with Seneca?
TheCollector
Rome’s Worst Nemesis: What was the Sassanian Empire?
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‘Sparta and the Commemoration of War’ and ‘The Killing Ground’ review
‘Sparta and the Commemoration of War’ and ‘The Killing Ground’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/11/2024 -...
9 months ago
‘Sparta and the Commemoration of War’ and ‘The Killing Ground’ review
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Mon, 03/11/2024 - 15:56
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Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
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Mon, 03/25/2024 - 11:22
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Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
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Mon, 03/25/2024 - 11:22
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
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Tue, 05/07/2024 - 12:09
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
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Tue, 05/07/2024 - 12:09
TheCollector
5 Strangest Art Movements You Need to Know
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TheCollector
10 Historic Cities in Massachusetts That Are Great Alternatives to Boston
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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...
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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...
TheCollector
What is Wolfgang Tillmans Most Famous For?
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TheCollector
10 U.S. Retirement Destinations for History Lovers
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Women in Art History: Great Female Artists Who Were Long Overlooked
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What Are Djinn? (Powers, Tales, & Etymology)
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Open Culture
John Coltrane Draws a Picture Illustrating the Mathematics of Music
Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The...
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Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The Jazz of Physics that Albert Einstein and John Coltrane had quite a lot in common. Alexander in particular draws our attention to the so-called “Coltrane circle,” which resembles...
Open Culture
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...
TheCollector
How Did Black Friday Get Its Name?
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The Year Without a Summer: The Eruption of Mt Tambora
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How Does Street Art Shape Cities?
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TheCollector
Henri Matisse: Outstanding Paintings by the French Fauvist Master
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Wrong Side of...
The case for a Global Sanctuary City
What if the Syrians can’t return home?
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What if the Syrians can’t return home?
weird medieval guys
Huge announcement: there’s a Weird Medieval Guys BOOK coming out soon!
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TheCollector
Who Was Carolee Schneemann? 8 Facts About the Legendary Performance Artist
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Global Inequality...
Why not Keynes?
Keynes’ uneasy relationship with income distribution
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Keynes’ uneasy relationship with income distribution
TheCollector
Who Were the Most Important Leaders of WWII?
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Who Was Paracelsus? 11 Things You Should Know
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Can Stoicism Improve Personal and Professional Relationships?
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“Four Dead in Ohio”: The Kent State Shootings
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Noumenal and Phenomenal: What Were Kant’s ‘Two Worlds’?
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Martha Graham: 15 Facts About the Mother of Modern Dance
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What Is the History of Presidents’ Day in the US?
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African History...
Empire building and Government in the Yorubaland: a history of Oyo (1600-1836)
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over a year ago
Why Africa's internal political processes explain African history better than external actors.
TheCollector
Judith Leyster: The Most Famous Woman of the Dutch Golden Age
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Patterns in Humanity
Immigration and crime: Sweden
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Worrying crime trends in the land of Pippi Longstocking
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The Eiffel Tower: 12 Facts About the Iconic Parisian Landmark
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Horse Archers: The Feared Unit of Ancient and Medieval Warfare
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Who Won the Battle of Belmont?
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Lightning Strikes Ancient Roman Arch of Constantine
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The First Great Awakening: Promoting America’s Revolution
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17 Crazy Facts about the History of Chocolate
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Why Do Religions Decline?
Why Do Religions Decline?
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Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:06
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Why Do Religions Decline?
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Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:06
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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...
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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...
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5 Great European Christmas Markets Worth Traveling For
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Cape Town’s Troubled Colonial History
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7 Historical Places to Visit on the Isle of Skye
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Musée Rodin to Launch Shanghai Outpost in September
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Submerged Bridge in Spanish Cave Built Nearly 6,000 Years Ago
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What Was ‘The Malleus Maleficarum’, or ‘The Hammer of Witches’?
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Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
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Thu, 12/12/2024 - 09:28
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Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/12/2024 - 09:28
History Today Feed
Reforming England’s Divorce Law
Reforming England’s Divorce Law
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/12/2024 - 08:48
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Reforming England’s Divorce Law
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Tue, 03/12/2024 - 08:48
TheCollector
Gottfried Leibniz’s Monadology: Do Souls Exist in Space?
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Classical Wisdom
Why Socrates Matters
New Event: November 22
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What Was the Sturmabteilung?
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Ivar the Boneless: History, TV Portrayals, and Viking Legends
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The Cold War & the Rise of Superpowers: US Elections in a Divided World (1945-91)
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Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/04/2024 - 10:11
6 months ago
Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/04/2024 - 10:11
Open Culture
Binge-Watch Classic Television Programs Free: The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Lone Ranger, Dragnet, That...
Earlier this week, we featured the 99-year-old Dick Van Dyke’s performance in Coldplay’s new music...
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Earlier this week, we featured the 99-year-old Dick Van Dyke’s performance in Coldplay’s new music video, full of visual references to the sitcom that made him a household name in the early nineteen-sixties. And a household name he remains these six decades later, though one does...
TheCollector
4 Key Works by James Joyce You Need to Read
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Who Was Jerome of Stridon?
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How Saint Helena and the True Cross Changed an Empire
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weird medieval guys
An 800 year prayer book that's decorated with puns
Plus a little history of manuscript illustration
a year ago
Plus a little history of manuscript illustration
TheCollector
How did Alexander the Great Untangle the Gordian Knot?
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Trying to Understand...
Too Much of Not A Lot
Winning the day and losing the war.
a year ago
Winning the day and losing the war.
TheCollector
Where Did the Huguenots Go? (6 Regions They Settled)
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Alexander Hamilton: From Orphan to Founding Father
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Benjamin Franklin: All About His Personal & Private Life
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3 Modern Christian Ethicists You Must Know
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Rare Leonora Carrington Sculpture Heads to Auction
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Piero della Francesca in 3 Works: Perspective, Politics, and Symbols
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Reclaiming Medusa: How Did She Become a Symbol of Female Empowerment?
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Ancient Jerusalem: From the Bronze Age to the Roman Era
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Get to Know Audrey Flack, Icon of Photorealism
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What Makes Salvador Dali So Famous?
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The Psychology of Drawing: What Is the HTP Test?
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The Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand
Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us...
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Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us the gang’s members in isolation. To avoid controlling the narrative and anaesthetising their spirit, while “still letting them retain their mystery and privacy”, Rotman took the...
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Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:50
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Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:50
TheCollector
What Are the Most Iconic ‘Original’ Photos of Yellowstone?
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Andrew Jackson’s Early Life: Lawyer, Slave Trader, & Military Hero
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How Did George Orwell’s Life Influence his Literature?
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Drug Use in the Third Reich: Mass Addiction & Scientific Progress
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Classical Wisdom
Early Christian Poetry
A Forgotten Genre?
8 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Philosophy of Cynicism?
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Classical Wisdom
How to Deal with Change: Advice from the Stoics
Everything changes and nothing stands still.
3 months ago
Everything changes and nothing stands still.
TheCollector
The US Museum Directors Salary Data
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TheCollector
Interview With Joseph A. Miller on Figurative Art
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
What is the Soul?
Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
9 months ago
Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
TheCollector
Serpentine Installs 19-Foot Pumpkin Sculpture by Yayoi Kusama
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African History...
Life and works of Africa's most famous Woman scholar: Nana Asmau (1793-1864)
On the contribution of Muslim women in African history.
7 months ago
On the contribution of Muslim women in African history.
Patterns in Humanity
Why controlling for variables is insufficient
On the pervasiveness of residual confounding in the social sciences, how to think about it, and what...
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On the pervasiveness of residual confounding in the social sciences, how to think about it, and what to do
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The Bay of Pigs Invasion: The US Fails to Overthrow Communist Cuba
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Danish Unknown Royal Family Discovered Thanks to Ring
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How Did the English Longbow Win So Many Battles?
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TheCollector Interviews Director Karen Milbourne of The Fralin
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Who Is Grace Jones? Androgyny in Art
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Who Were the Most Influential People of the British Empire?
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The 6 Finest Gothic Cathedrals in France
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