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Armies of Heaven : the first crusade and the quest for apocalypse by Rubenstein, Jay, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…14 Kerbogah and the Lance15 Feasting on the Fallen: Antioch to Ma'arra; 16 Trial by Fire; 17 Seeking a New Apocalypse; 18 Jerusalem; 19 The Last Emperor; 20 Ascalon, the Sixth Battle; Conclusion: The Never-Ending Apocalypse; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; A Note on Sources; Notes; Index.…”
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Singapore. by Tsuji, Col. Masanobu

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Hear me Ohio by Hirt, Jen, 1975-

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Queen of the Fall : a Memoir of Girls and Goddesses. by Livingston, Sonja

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The quarry by Lechay, Dan, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Acknowledgments; Contents; i.; In Limelight; Last Night; River; Black Lab; In the Shallows; South Siders; Work; Singing Head; Oak Street Houses; Little Dream; Back to Nature; Playground; Reading the Iliad in Homer's Greek at the Cedar Valley Quarry; ii.; Screen; A Mouth; Out-of-the-Way Places; Notes on an Ancient Signary; The Dead; Porifera; Ghost Villanelle; Lively World; Like a Cat; World Full of Animals; The Undead; Quiet Evening; Cat; Then Rain; iii.; Houses by the Sea; Unpainted Portrait; Coda; In Memory of Neil C.; Mississippi Sunday Morning; Quarry.…”
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Across the ocean : nine essays on Indo-Mediterranean trade

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgements; List of Table, Figures, and Maps; Introduction; Part 1 The Cradle of the Ancient India Trade: The Red Sea; Chapter 1 Red Sea Trade and the State; Chapter 2 Trajan's Canal: River Navigation from the Nile to the Red Sea?; Chapter 3 Pearls, Power, and Profit: Mercantile Networks and Economic Considerations of the Pearl Trade in the Roman Empire; Chapter 4 Roman Policy on the Red Sea in the Second Century CE; Chapter 5 Roman Trade with the Far East: Evidence for Nabataean Middlemen in Puteoli; Part 2 Comparative Perspectives on the India Trade.…”
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Unworthy republic : the dispossession of Native Americans and the road to Indian territory / Dispossession of Native Americans and the road to Indian territory by Saunt, Claudio

Dark forest, black fly

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Exploring the world. Masada ; the Dead Sea ; Sea of Galilee / Israel.

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Domicide : the global destruction of home by Porteous, J. Douglas (John Douglas), 1943-

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Orders of protection by Hollmeyer, Jenn, 1977-

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Reconstructing Quaternary Environments. by Lowe, J. J. (Joseph John), 1946-

Table of Contents: “…2.5.5 Palaeoenvironmental significance of sea-level changes2.6 River terraces; 2.6.1 Origins of river terraces; 2.6.2 River terraces and palaeoenvironments; 2.6.3 The terraces of the River Thames; 2.7 Quaternary landforms in low latitudes; 2.7.1 Pluvial lakes; 2.7.2 Dunefields; 2.7.3 Fluvial landforms; 2.7.4 Weathering crusts; 2.8 Conclusions; Notes; Chapter 3 Lithological evidence; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Field and laboratory methods; 3.2.1 Sediment sections; 3.2.2 Coring; 3.2.3 Laboratory methods; 3.3 Glacial sediments; 3.3.1 Introduction; 3.3.2 The nature of glacial sediments.…”
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Passage from India by Moorty, Satyam Sikha

Table of Contents: “…; A Prayer Addressed to Lord of Death; On First Watching Attenborough's 'Gandhi'; Monkey Army at Tirumalai Hills, South India -- The Abode of Lord Venkateswara; On First Looking at the Lord of the Seven Hills; Karma I; Karma II; Crossing Godavary River by Train in Third-Class Compartment; Walking by Godavary River on a Rainy Evening; Godavary River in Floods; Godavary River in Summer; Immutability; Here and There; Meditation at Godavary; The Path Yet to Be Made; On Looking at Banyan Tree; Song of Hope…”
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Emergence and diversity of modern human behavior in paleolithic Asia

Table of Contents: “…Pawlik -- Wallacea and Australia -- Maritime migration and lithic assemblage on Talaud islands in northern Wallacea during the late Pleistocene / Rintaro Ono, Naoki Nakajima, Hiroe Nishizawa, Shizuo Oda, and Santoso Soegondho -- Crossing the Wallace line: the maritime skills of the earliest colonists in the Wallacean archipelago / Sue O'Connor -- Cultural diversification and the global dispersion of Homo sapiens: lessons from Australia / Peter Hiscock -- East Asia mainland and Taiwan -- Chang-pin culture of Paleolithic Taiwan and its related problems / Chao-mei Lien -- New evidence of modern human behavior in Paleolithic central China / Youping Wang -- Handaxes in the Imjin River basin, Korea: implications for late Pleistocene hominin evolution in East Asia / Seonbok Yi -- The characteristics of upper Paleolithic industries in Korea: innovation, continuity, and interaction / Gikil Lee -- East Asia Japanese archipelago -- The appearance and characteristics of the early upper Paleolithic in the Japanese archipelago / Masami Izuho -- Paleovegetation during MIS 3 in the east Asia / Hikaru Takahara and Ryoma Hayashi -- Further study on the late Pleistocene megafaunal extinction in the Japanese archipelago / Akira Iwase, Keiichi Takahashi, and Masami Izuho -- Pleistocene seafaring and colonization of the Ryuku Islands, southwestern Japan / Yousuke Kaifu, Masaki Fujita, Minoru Yoneda, and Shinji Yamasaki -- Maritime transport of obsidian in Japan during the upper Paleolithic / Nobuyuki Ikeya -- Appearance of Hakuhen-Sentoki (HS points) and second modern human migration into Kyushu, Japan / Kazuki Morisaki -- Trap-pit hunting in late Pleistocene Japan / Hiroyuki Sato -- Further analyses of Hokkaido Jōmon mitochondrial DNA / Noboru Adachi, Ken-ichi Shinoda, and Masami Izuho -- On the processes of diversification in microblade technocomplexes in the late glacial Hokkaido / Yuichi Nakazawa and Satoru Yamada -- Siberia -- The overland dispersal of modern humans to eastern Asia / Ted Goebel -- The Paleolithic peopling of Mongolia: an updated assessment / Jacques Jaubert -- Middle and upper Paleolithic interactions and the emergence of 'modern behavior' in southern Siberia and Mongolia / Evgeny P. …”
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The wildlife of New England : a viewer's guide by Burk, John S.

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Connecticut; Bigelow Hollow State Park and Nipmuck State Forest; Bluff Point State Park and Coastal Reserve; Connecticut River Estuary; Hammonasset Beach State Reservation; Housatonic Meadows State Park; James L. …”
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Trash : African cinema from below by Harrow, Kenneth W.

Table of Contents: “…Bataille, Stam, and locations of trash -- Rancière : aesthetics, its mésententes and discontents -- The out-of-place scene of trash -- Globalization's dumping ground: the case of Trafigura -- Agency and the mosquito : Mitchell and Chakrabarty -- Trashy women : Karmen Gei, L'Oiseau Rebelle -- Trashy women, fallen men : Fanta Nacro's "Puk Nini" and La nuit de la vérité -- Opening the distribution of the sensible : Kimberly Rivers and Trouble the water -- Abderrahmane Sissako's Bamako and the image : trash in its materiality -- The counter-archive for a new postcolonial order : O Herói and Daratt -- Nollywood and its masks : Fela, Osuofia in London, and Butler's Assujetissement -- Trash's last leaves : Nollywood, Nollywood, Nollywood.…”
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The rise and fall of the Branchhead boys : North Carolina's Scott family and the era of progressive politics by Christensen, Rob

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; 1. Haw River; 2. Hard Times; 3. 1948; 4. Mud Tax; 5. Low-Voltage Sutton; 6. …”
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The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan. by Berrigan, Ted

Table of Contents: “…Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chronology; The Sonnets; Great Stories of the Chair; The Secret Life of Ford Madox Ford; Great Stories of the Chair; A Boke; Many Happy Returns; In the Early Morning Rain; Train Ride; Memorial Day by Ted Berrigan and Anne Waldman; Short Poems; In a Blue River; Uncollected Short Poems; Red Wagon; Easter Monday; Nothing for You; In the 51st State; In the 51st State; The Morning Line; Uncollected Poems; A Certain Slant of Sunlight; A Certain Slant of Sunlight: Out-takes; Last Poems; Early Uncollected Poems; Notes; Glossary of Names; Credits.…”
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Astrid Taim's Almaguin Chronicles 2-Book Bundle : Almaguin by Taim, Astrid

Table of Contents: “…CHAPTER 21 THE SAWMILL WAS FIRSTCHAPTER 22 POWASSAN: A BEND IN THE RIVER -- CHAPTER 23 FISH TALES -- CHAPTER 24 MOOSE TALES: A HUNT AND A STAMPEDE -- CHAPTER 25 THE OLD MOOSE TRAIL: SO THE STORY GOES -- CHAPTER 26 NIPISSING VILLAGE -- CHAPTER 27 THE STAGECOACH STOPPED HERE -- CHAPTER 28 THE MAWS OF RESTOULE -- CHAPTER 29 THE BRIDGE THAT WILL LAST FOREVER -- CHAPTER 30 PERSONALITIES OF TODAY -- CHAPTER 31 GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN -- Bibliography -- Photo Credits -- COVER -- BACK COVER -- FRONTISPIECE -- CHAPTER 1 SETTLING THE NEW LAND…”
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Blockades or breakthroughs? : aboriginal peoples confront the Canadian state by Lackenbauer, P. Whitney, Belanger, Yale Deron, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Whitney Lackenbauer -- 6 The Oldman River Dam and the Lonefighters' Response to Environmental Incursion / Yale D. …”
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A man comes from someplace : stories, history, memory from a lost time by Summerfield, Judith Pearl

Table of Contents: “…Sivan 5/5679 -- June 3, 1919 -- Beila and Motye (1920) -- Four: Going to America -- Motye: 1920 -- Meyer's Message -- Crossing the River -- Zgurita -- Kishinev -- Five: A Brother's Keeper -- A Story of a Family: Meyer 1911 -- Letters from the Shtetl, 1911 -- Six: A Man Without Papers -- Letters from Motye (1921) -- Bucharest -- America, at Last -- Seven: Immigrant Life -- Arrival -- Wanderings -- Eight: Finding a Place -- Becoming American -- Fredericktown, Pennsylvania -- Nine: Holding on to the Past -- Reunion: Meyer, Duved, Moishe, Motye (1965) -- Valhalla, New York -- Sabbath Shuvah.…”
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Short nights of the Shadow Catcher : the epic life and immortal photographs of Edward Curtis by Egan, Timothy

Colour for Colour, Skin for Skin by Hutto, N. Clinton A.

Table of Contents: “…Sugar cane plantations still dominate the Plantain Garden River District of St Thomas. Photo by Clinton Hutton. -- 'Legal Redress is Shut out from One Class Altogether': -- Magisterial Oppression in St Thomas-in-the-East -- Figure 2. …”
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E-Consumers in the era of new tourism

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1: An Introduction to Consumer Metamorphosis in the Digital Age -- Chapter 2: Mobile Communication and Applications in Tourism -- Chapter 3: Usage of E-loyalty Programs in Hospitality Industry -- Chapter 4: New Toy of Marketing Communication in Tourism: Gamification -- Chapter 5: The Symbolic Representation of Tourism Destinations: A Semiotic Analysis -- Chapter 6: Customer Decision on Hotel Booking via Mobile Phone Applications: A Case Study of Luxury Hotels in Bangkok -- Chapter 7: MoViT: A 3D Mobile Virtual Tour App of Panguil River Eco-Park -- Chapter 8: Marketing for new tourism perceived by East-Asian e-consumers.…”
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Partners in furs : a history of the fur trade in eastern James Bay, 1600-1870 by Francis, Daniel

Table of Contents: “…Contents; Tables; Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 The Land and the People: An Introduction; 2 Strangers Encroach on James Bay; 3 Competition for Indian Furs, 1668-1693; 4 Trading on the East Main, 1693-1735; 5 The Fur Trade in the Eighteenth Century; 6 A Decade on Richmond Gulf; 7 Daily Life at Eastmain House; 8 Penetrating the Hinterland, 1770-1820; 9 Big River Post and Beyond, 1784-1824; 10 A New Relationship; 11 The Inuit and the North, 1837-1870; 12 Rupert House in the Nineteenth Century; 13 Conclusion; Appendix: Population of James Bay in 1838 and 1858; References; Index.…”
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Post-Roman towns, trade and settlement in Europe and Byzantium.

Table of Contents: “…The hinterlands of early medieval towns: the transformation of the countryside in TuscanyWhere is the eighth century in the towns of the Meuse valley?; Towns and rivers, river towns: environmental archaeology and the archaeological evaluation of urban activities and trade; The royal foundation of Recópolis and the urban renewal in Iberia during the second half of the sixth century; Recent archaeological research in Haithabu; Agrarian production and the emporia of mid Saxon England, ca. …”
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Archaic societies : diversity and complexity across the midcontinent

Table of Contents: “…An introduction to the archaic societies of the Midcontinent -- The Eastern Woodlands archaic and the tyranny of theory -- Archaic faunal exploitation in the Prairie Peninsula and surrounding regions of the Midcontinent -- A regional and chronological synthesis of archaic period plant use in the Midcontinent -- Archaic burial sites in the American Midcontinent -- Dalton and the Early Holocene Midcontinent : setting the stage -- Archaic prehistory of the western Ozarks of southwest Missouri -- Dated projectile point sequences from Modoc Rock shelter and applications of assemblage-based analysis -- The archaic period in the lower Illinois River basin -- Archaic period chronology in the hill country of southern Indiana -- The American bottom : an archaic cultural crossroads -- Archaic period of east-central Missouri -- Archaic cultural variation and lifeways in west-central Illinois -- Archaic periods in eastern Iowa -- The Ohio archaic : a review -- Land between the rivers : the archaic period of southernmost Illinois -- Archaic cultures of western Kentucky -- The view from the southeast -- The archaic tradition in Wisconsin -- Hunter-Gatherer adaptations and alternative perspectives on the Michigan archaic -- Defining the archaic in northern Illinois -- At the crossroad and periphery : the archaic archaeological record of southern Ontario -- Concluding thoughts on the archaic occupation of the Eastern Woodlands.…”
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See why New York's ferries are so popular

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Fighting corruption in Asia : causes, effects, and remedies / Corruption in Asia

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The road to martyrs' square : a journey into the world of the suicide bomber by Oliver, A. M.

Table of Contents: “…Saint Yasin -- Welcome to planet X-- Look with your ears, my friend -- Lunch with Hasan -- A complete darkness -- The disciple (Hahaha) -- A minor jihad -- The gharqad tree -- The evil incident -- The brotherhood -- Splits in the brain -- The miracle sheikh -- The mechanical waving hand of a keffiyah-clad manikin -- Soldier in Chinese hat, planning escape -- The sweet girl -- The antidote -- A babe in the womb -- The crazy girl -- The dark room -- Walls, maze, prison -- An entire cosmology -- A question of style -- It doesn't matter when or how I am killed -- Martyr on a black horse -- Terror in their hearts -- We are worth nothing without a machine-gun -- Children, but they are men and heroes -- Al-Aqsa massacre video -- Blood, blood, blood -- A collaborator breaker accused of something close to collaboration -- A daring shock of jet-black hair coyly peeking out beneath her veil -- Monkeys and pigs and servants of evil -- The mad dogs of language -- A notice of the end of the world -- A death on the path of God -- The green line -- The fixer -- Ghosts with guns -- The last words of Hamza Abu-Surur -- The smile of the martyr -- A still blue river -- The killing of Haim Nachmani -- The last words of Salah 'Uthman -- A happy man -- The last words of Muhammad al-Hindi -- Intimate of heart -- Al-Hindi and Abu-Surur meet -- Circle and vow, the trainer's soliloquy -- A tourist in the dunya -- A khanjar, floating -- A second appearance -- Any number compared to infinity -- The paradise hotel -- The gun dance -- A few hours later; or, the trail of a dagger.…”
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Toxic archipelago : a history of industrial disease in Japan by Walker, Brett L., 1967-

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Winterkill : poems by Davis, Todd F., 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Homily ; Phenology : actias luna ; Afterlife ; Sulphur hatch ; Mud dauber ; In a dream William Stafford visits me ; By the rivers of Babylon ; Drouth ; After the third concussion ; What my neighbor tells me isn't global warming ; Grievous ; Yu ; Wu ; After reading Han Shan ; Cenotaph ; Crow's Murder ; Aesthetics precedes ethics ; Signified ; Fire suppression ; Whip-poor-will -- II. …”
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Helminths : Handbook for Identification and Counting of Parasitic Helminth Eggs in Urban Wastewater by Lardin, Carlos

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Scotland's Mountain Landscapes A Geomorphological Perspective. by Ballantyne, Colin K.

Table of Contents: “…Before the ice: the preglacial landscape of Scotland -- 4 The Ice Age in Scotland -- Ice ages: an introduction -- Glacial and interglacial stages -- Glaciers and glaciation -- The last Scottish Ice Sheet -- The last mountain glaciers: the Loch Lomond Stade -- The Holocene -- Synthesis -- 5 Glacial landforms -- Introduction -- Landforms of glacial erosion -- Landforms of glacial deposition -- Glacifluvial landforms and deposits -- Ice-dammed lakes -- Synthesis: glacial landscapes of Scotland -- 6 Periglacial landforms -- Introduction -- Ancient periglacial landforms: blockfields and tors…”
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The Swimming Holes of Texas by Wernersbach, Julie

Table of Contents: “…Boerne City Lake Park -- Cypress Bend Park -- Flat Rock Park -- Guadalupe River State Park -- Hancock Springs Free Flow Pool -- Ingram Dam -- Inks Lake State Park -- James Kiehl River Bend Park -- Kerrville-Schreiner Park -- Lions Park -- Llano River Slab -- Louise Hays Park -- Moffett Park -- Pedernales Falls State Park -- Robinson Llano County Park -- Schumacher Crossing -- Wagon Wheel Crossing -- Austin and the Surrounding Area -- Arkansas Bend Park -- Barton Creek Greenbelt -- The Flats and Campbell's Hole. -- Gus Fruh -- Twin Falls and Sculpture Falls -- Barton Springs Pool…”
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Inside the Berlin Island Museums / Inside the Pergamon and Neues Museums, Berlin

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Let It Shine! : the Emergence of African American Catholic Worship. by McGann, Mary

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Adventures in archaeology : the wreck of the Orca II and other explorations by Capelotti, P. J. (Peter Joseph), 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Preface: Time and the river -- Acknowledgements -- Shoreline and shallows archaeology -- The last logbook of the Orca II -- The throwaway society in the mudflats -- Airship underwater: in search of the USS Akron -- The archaeological shorelines of the high north -- Transoceanic archaeology -- The elusive island -- The origins of the raft -- Thor Heyerdahl and the theory of the archaeological raft -- Eric de Bisschop and the response to Kon-Tiki -- Aeronautical archaeology -- The airship hangar at the top of the world -- Buried treasure -- A rock in the fuselage -- The TB-3 on Rudolf Island -- Aerospace archaeology -- Space, the final (archaeological) frontier -- Surveying Fermi's paradox, mapping Dyson's sphere -- Measuring the mountains of the moon -- Mobile artifacts in the solar system and beyond -- Epilog: Back down to earth, in search of Pedro.…”
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Shadows of doubt : negotiations of masculinity in American genre films by Grant, Barry Keith, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Fields, Groucho Marx, and the emasculation of the American comic tradition -- Cock and bull story : Howard Hawks's Red river, professionalism, and the Western -- All shook up : the classic Hollywood musical, male desire, and the "problem" of rock n' roll -- Growing up absurd : shtick meets teenpic in The delicate delinquent -- "Cussers last stan'" : black masculinity in The cool world -- Of men and monoliths : science fiction, gender, and 2001: a space odyssey -- Taking back the Night of the living dead : George Romero, feminism, and the horror film -- Rich and strange : economic performance anxiety and the yuppie horror film -- Man's favorite sport? …”

A Civil War Round Table quiz book by Smith, Dave, 1932-

Table of Contents: “…Lincoln of Springfield; Answers; SECTION II: At War with Ourselves; 1 Old Fuss and Feathers; 2 By the Numbers; 3 Missouri Saved; 4 Wilson's Creek; 5 Divided Loyalties; 6 The Confederate Cabinet; 7 The Union Cabinet; 8 Nomenclature; 9 Language of War; 10 Toehold at Port Royal; 11 Double Vision; Answers; SECTION III: No Easy Path to Victory; 1 Island Number 10; 2 Stones River.…”
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