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Death of Meriwether Lewis

A Historic Crime Scene Investigation

By: James Starrs,Kira Gale

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Death of Meriwether Lewis

A Historic Crime Scene Investigation

By: James Starrs,Kira Gale

Even after more than two centuries, mystery continues to surround Meriwether Lewis’s death—did the famous explorer commit suicide or was he murdered? Recently revealed truths and deconstructed myths are woven together in this fascinating account to form an unforgettable tale of political corruption, assassins, forged documents, and skeletal remains. New research implicating General James Wilkinson—commanding general of the U.S. Army and coconspirator of Aaron Burr—as the assassin is thoroughly discussed, while riveting testimony from 13 leading experts in wound ballistics, forensic anthropology, suicide psychology, grave-site exhumation, and handwriting analysis offers new insight into what Lewis’s exhumed remains might reveal. The new evidence not only destroys the foundation of suicide arguments by proving the primary evidence is a forgery, it also proves the Indian Agent escorting Lewis lied about his activities on the day of Lewis's death. The book also contains evidence of a previously unknown plot by Aaron Burr to seize New Orleans and invade Mexico in 1809, a repeat of his 1806 plot. It explains why Lewis suddenly changed his plans to travel to Washington, DC, by boat, and instead chose to go overland on the Natchez Trace, where he met his untimely death on October 11, 1809, at age 35.

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River Junction Press LLC

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0985017864

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Singing Like Germans

Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms

By: Kira Thurman

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Singing Like Germans

Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms

By: Kira Thurman

In Singing Like Germans, Kira Thurman tells the sweeping story of Black musicians in German-speaking Europe over more than a century. Thurman brings to life the incredible musical interactions and transnational collaborations among people of African descent and white Germans and Austrians. Through this compelling history, she explores how people reinforced or challenged racial identities in the concert hall. Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, audiences assumed the categories of Blackness and Germanness were mutually exclusive. Yet on attending a performance of German music by a Black musician, many listeners were surprised to discover that German identity is not a biological marker but something that could be learned, performed, and mastered. While Germans and Austrians located their national identity in music, championing composers such as Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms as national heroes, the performance of their works by Black musicians complicated the public's understanding of who had the right to play them. Audiences wavered between seeing these musicians as the rightful heirs of Austro-German musical culture and dangerous outsiders to it. Thurman explores the tension between the supposedly transcendental powers of classical music and the global conversations that developed about who could perform it. An interdisciplinary and transatlantic history, Singing Like Germans suggests that listening to music is not a passive experience, but an active process where racial and gendered categories are constantly made and unmade.

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Cornell University Press

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1501759868

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9781501759864

The Death of Meriwether Lewis

A Historic Crime Scene Investigation

By: James E. Starrs,Kira Gale

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The Death of Meriwether Lewis

A Historic Crime Scene Investigation

By: James E. Starrs,Kira Gale

Recently revealed truths and deconstructed myths are woven together in this fascinating account to form an unforgettable tale of political corruption, assassins, forged documents, and skeletal remains.

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River Junction Press LLC

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0964931540

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Women in Green

Voices of Sustainable Design

By: Kira Gould,Lance Hosey

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Women in Green

Voices of Sustainable Design

By: Kira Gould,Lance Hosey

Exploring a variety of topics ranging from communities to buildings to product design, this book explains how the sustainable design field is influenced by women and women's ways of working. It explains the often overlooked roles women have played as key catalysts in sustainability.

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Ecotone Publishing

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097490337X

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9780974903378

Five Nights at Freddy's Fazbear Frights Collection - An AFK Book

By: Scott Cawthon,Kira Breed-Wrisley

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Five Nights at Freddy's Fazbear Frights Collection - An AFK Book

By: Scott Cawthon,Kira Breed-Wrisley

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and creator of Five Nights at Freddy's, don't miss this twelve-book boxed set, which includes stories that were left on the cutting room floor from books one through eleven! All eleven Fazbear Frights books in one amazing collection, plus a twelfth book of bonus stories – stories that didn't make the cut for the first eleven books! Five Nights at Freddy's creator Scott Cawthon spins three sinister novella-length in each book of this collection, with stories from different corners of his series' canon.

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Scholastic Inc.

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1338833758

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9781338833751

Max's Curse

Sequel to Night of the Spook

By: Kira Edwards

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Max's Curse

Sequel to Night of the Spook

By: Kira Edwards

Max is back, but this time he has a new victim. Her name is Courtney Anderson. She finds Max New Year's Eve while on her way to her new house. Courtney finds out that she moved into the same house that Max's original master lived in. Confident that Courtney is the one to break his curse, Max tells Courtney all about his curse. Will Courtney break Max's curse before midnight on Halloween? Read to find out Max's Curse

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iUniverse

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0595250645

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9780595250646

Modern Women

By: Kira Cochrane

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Modern Women

By: Kira Cochrane

Modern Women is a celebration of influential and inspiring women who have changed the world through their lives, work and actions. From suffragettes to scientists, activists to artists, politicians to pilots and writers to riot grrrls, the women included have all paved the way for gender equality in their own indomitable way. Find out about extraordinary women including writer and teacher Maya Angelou, computer scientist Ada Lovelace, abolitionist Harriet Tubman, film star Katharine Hepburn and pioneering musician Björk. Their lives also enable bigger stories to be told: the suffrage movement with Sophia Duleep Singh; the civil rights struggle and Audre Lorde; advances in science made by Rosalind Franklin; the push for artistic freedom in the work of Frida Kahlo and Louise Bourgeois; and the importance of equality in all sections of society advocated by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

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Aurum

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0711255156

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9780711255159

Meriwether Lewis

The Assassination of an American Hero and the Silver Mines of Mexico

By: Kira Gale

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Meriwether Lewis

The Assassination of an American Hero and the Silver Mines of Mexico

By: Kira Gale

This new full-length biography of Meriwether Lewis is presented within the context of the turbulent times of the early AmericanRepublic. The author discusses intrigues to seize the Floridas and Louisiana from Spain with the help of France or Britain, and makes the case for General James Wilkinson assassinating General Anthony Wayne to become the commanding general of the U.S. Army. She proposes that the deadlock in the presidential election of 1800 between Aaron Burr and Thomas Jefferson was caused by a British faction of Federalists who planned to invade Louisiana and Mexico if Burr were elected president. Three parts of the conspiracy are identified: a secret military base on the Ohio, Cantonment Wilkinsonville, where 700 U.S. Army troops were stationed; the Philip Nolan filibuster into Texas; and British naval support. After Jefferson's election, Lewis lived in the White House as his confidential aide. In 1803, he left the White House as the leader of an elite army unit to reinforce America's claim to the Pacific Northwest. When he returned, Jefferson appointed him governor of LouisianaTerritory based in St. Louis with orders to remove followers of Aaron Burr from positions of power and influence. Within two years Meriwether Lewis was dead at the age of 35, killed by an assassin's bullets in 1809. The case is made that General Wilkinson and John Smith T., a wealthy lead mine operator, were the organizers of his assassination. Their motive was to prevent Lewis from stopping another filibuster expedition into Mexico in 1810. This biography of Lewis offers a very different interpretation of his character and achievements, supporting the idea that, if he had lived, Lewis was in line to become president of the United States. It presents a detailed account of his activities as a loyal Jefferson supporter, presidential aide, leader of a continental expedition, and governor of LouisianaTerritory.

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River Junction Press, LLC

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0991409329

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9780991409327

Selling Short Episode II

By: Vincent Mountjoy-Pepka,Kira Mountjoy-Pepka

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Selling Short Episode II

By: Vincent Mountjoy-Pepka,Kira Mountjoy-Pepka

Puget Sound author Vincent Mountjoy-Pepka returns to fiction in this, the second episode in his seven-part Puts&Calls thriller. "You'll be rich!

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iUniverse

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0595194745

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Cosmopolitan Elites

Indian Diplomats and the Social Hierarchies of Global Order

By: Huju

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Cosmopolitan Elites

Indian Diplomats and the Social Hierarchies of Global Order

By: Huju

Cosmopolitan Elites narrates the birth, everyday life, and fracturing of a Western-dominated global order from its margins. It offers a critical sociological examination of the elite Indian Foreign Service and its members, many of whom were present at the founding of this order. Kira Huju explores how these diplomats set out to remake the service in the name of a radically anti-colonial global subaltern, but often ended up seeking status within its hierarchies through social mimicry of its most powerful actors. This is a book about the struggles of belonging: it revisits what it takes to be a recognized member of international society and asks what the experience of historically marginalized actors inside the diplomatic club can tell us about the evident woes of global order today. In interrogating how Indian diplomats learned to live under a Westernized world order, it also offers a sociologically grounded reading of what might happen in spaces like India as the world transitions past Western domination. An awkward balancing act animates the order-making of India's cosmopolitan diplomats: despite a genuine desire to strive toward a postcolonial world founded on diversity, difference, and the symbolic representation of a global subaltern, there is a strong sense of a lingering caricature-like notion of a white, European-dominated homogenous club, to which Indian diplomats feel a deep-rooted and colonially embedded desire to belong. Cosmopolitanism operates inside this balancing act not as an international ethic upholding an equal, tolerant, or liberal global order, but rather as an elite aesthetic which presumes cultural compliance, diplomatic accommodation, and social assimilation into Western mores. Based on 85 interviews with Indian diplomats, politicians, and foreign policy experts, as well as archival work in New Delhi, the book asks what the experience of historically marginalized actors inside the diplomatic club tells us about the social hierarchies of race, class, religion, gender, and caste under global order.

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Oxford University Press

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0198874928

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9780198874928

Arab Women in Arab News

Old Stereotypes and New Media

By: Amal Al-Malki,David Kaufer,Suguru Ishizaki,Kira Dreher

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Arab Women in Arab News

Old Stereotypes and New Media

By: Amal Al-Malki,David Kaufer,Suguru Ishizaki,Kira Dreher

This book addresses east-west understandings of Arab women as portrayed through translated media. The vast majority of media studies on Arab women are western-based. They study the effect of western stereotypes in western media depictions of Arab women. There is a vast scholarly literature tracing western stereotypes of Arab women from medieval times to the present. From 1800, the dominant western stereotype of Arab women depicts them as passive and oppressed. Thirty years of social science media research in the west has shown that media images of Arab women reinforce this two hundred year old stereotype. Much of this research has studied silent "image bites" of Arab women, where women are pictured in veils and their own voices are replaced by western captions or voice-overs. This book sets out to answer this question. To answer it, we contracted with a global news translation service from the Middle East to collect and translate a sample of 22 months of new summaries from 103 Arab media sources belonging to 22 Arab countries. Filtering the summaries that contained one or more female keywords (e.g., woman, mother, aunt, sister, she) yielded 2, 061 summaries between September 2005 and June of 2007. Using the 2,061 summaries as input data, a coding scheme was developed for "active" and "passive" female behaviors based on verb-phrase analysis and conventions of English-language news-reporting.

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A&C Black

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1780931255

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9781780931258

Sweetly, Deeply, Absolutely

By: Kira Archer

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Sweetly, Deeply, Absolutely

By: Kira Archer

Just the right amount of sweet and a hint of steamy to make this novel completely satisfying." —Sammi's Bookish Reality Culinary student Jenny Boyd happily agreed to help at her friend’s bakery while she was on vacation, and working side by side a 6’2” piece of man-candy is the icing on the cake. That is, until he opens his big mouth and agrees to make the wedding cake of the century for a giddy bride in under two weeks. Of course he did. And to think she’d been fantasizing about licking powdered sugar off his muscular shoulders. Now she wants to rap him in the head with her rolling pin. Graphic designer Jared Crew can’t believe he agreed to help manage his best friend’s bakery—and with her, the hottest baker in three states. She’s smart and sassy and so sexy he accidentally accepted an order to make a twenty-layer baklava wedding cake, whatever that is. One thing is for sure—Jenny might just kill him before he can convince her that desserts aren’t the only sweet thing between them... Each book in the Sweet Love series is a standalone, full-length story that can be enjoyed out of order. Series Order: Book #1 Truly, Madly, Sweetly Book #2 Totally, Sweetly, Irrevocably Book #3 Sweetly, Deeply, Absolutely

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Entangled: Lovestruck

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1633757595

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9781633757592

Why Does My Shadow Follow Me?

Transformative Teachers

Teacher Leadership and Learning in a Connected World

By: Kira J. Baker-Doyle

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Transformative Teachers

Teacher Leadership and Learning in a Connected World

By: Kira J. Baker-Doyle

cTransformative Teachers offers an insightful look at the growing movement of civic-minded educators who are using twenty-first-century participatory practices and connected technologies to organize change from the ground up. Kira J. Baker-Doyle highlights the collaborative, grassroots tactics that activist teachers are implementing to transform their profession and pursue greater social justice and equity in education. The author provides a framework and practical suggestions for charting the path to transformative teacher leadership as well as suggestions for how others, including administrators and outside organizations, can support them. In addition, the book profiles fifteen transformative teachers who are changing the face of education, features three case studies of organizational allies (Edcamps, the Philadelphia Education Fund, and the Connected Learning Alliance), and includes insights from a wide range of educational leaders. A guide to the norms and practices of innovative educators, Transformative Teachers offers a clear and compelling vision of the potential for grassroots change in education.

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Harvard Education Press

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1682530345

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9781682530344

Renovating Hearts

By: Kira Anderson

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Renovating Hearts

By: Kira Anderson

Widower Jack Ransom's family-owned café is going bankrupt. He needs help, but not the kind his eight-year-old daughter dreamed up. Writing a letter to her favorite television celebrity, Sydney Ryan, star of Ryan to the Rescue, is bad enough. Now the station decides to use his restaurant and sends the star to seal the deal. Chef Sydney Ryan built an empire turning around failing restaurants. If she doesn't get Jack's approval, her latest episode could be her last. With her contract up for renewal, she does what's needed to make everyone but the handsome, stubborn owner happy.

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The Wild Rose Press Inc

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1509239227

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9781509239221

Fox & Fowle Architects

Designing for the Built Realm

By: Kira L. Gould

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Fox & Fowle Architects

Designing for the Built Realm

By: Kira L. Gould

A book that serves as a tribute to the 'Fox and Fowle architectural firm' based in New York.

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Images Publishing

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1920744002

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9781920744007

101 Mixed Media Techniques

Master the fundamental concepts of mixed media art

By: Cherril Doty,Suzette Rosenthal,Isaac Anderson,Jennifer McCully,Linda Robertson Womack,Samantha Kira Harding

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101 Mixed Media Techniques

Master the fundamental concepts of mixed media art

By: Cherril Doty,Suzette Rosenthal,Isaac Anderson,Jennifer McCully,Linda Robertson Womack,Samantha Kira Harding

Learn to create awesome mixed media art with 101 Mixed Media Techniques.

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Walter Foster

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1600583660

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9781600583667

Horses Are Special

A Tribute to Our Noble Companions

By: Kira Baum,Random House Value Publishing Staff

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Horses Are Special

A Tribute to Our Noble Companions

By: Kira Baum,Random House Value Publishing Staff

From wide-eyed children to professional breeders and racers, few can look at a horse and not be captivated by its beauty and strength. Riding a horse can be akin to flying, and sharing the exhilaration with our majestic companions is a special joy. HORSES ARE SPECIAL is a tribute to these glorious animals. Full-color photographs paired with quotes from everyone from William Shakespeare to John Wayne, from Elizabeth Arden to Mister Ed, celebrate the role of these loyal companions in our lives. Horses of many breeds; colts, mares, and stallions; big and small, all gallop across these pages in magnificent and endearing photographs. HORSES ARE SPECIAL is a celebration of all the things we love about these regal, stunning beasts. They are strong, graceful, and swift. Some horses can be high-strung and strong-willed, others timid and skittish, but with the right kind of love and devotion, a horse and rider can become an inseparable pair. Horses make a landscape look beautiful. Alice Walker I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace. Abraham Lincoln A horse is that thing of beauty…none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor. Xenophon Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses. Elizabeth Taylor Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of Solitaire. It is a grand passion. Ralph Waldo Emerson A man that don’t love a horse, there is something the matter with him. Will Rogers I got a horse and the west is wide. Billy the Kid

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Gramercy

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051722884X

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9780517228845

Migrant Media

Turkish Broadcasting and Multicultural Politics in Berlin

By: Kira Kosnick

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Migrant Media

Turkish Broadcasting and Multicultural Politics in Berlin

By: Kira Kosnick

In this innovative and thought-provoking study, Kira Kosnick explores the landscape of Turkish-language broadcasting in Berlin. From 24-hour radio broadcasting in Turkish to programming on Germany's national public broadcasting and local public access channels, Germany's largest immigrant minority has made its presence felt in German media. Satellite dishes have appeared in migrant neighborhoods all over the city, giving viewers access to Kurdish channels and broadcasts from Turkey. Kosnick draws on interviews with producers, her own participation in production work, and analysis of programs to elaborate a new approach to "migrant media" in relation to the larger cultural and political spaces through which immigrant life is imagined and created.

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0253349486

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9780253349484

Cotton Candy Dreams and Chocolate Chip Kisses

By: Kira Anderson

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Cotton Candy Dreams and Chocolate Chip Kisses

By: Kira Anderson

Avery Parker has finally realized her childhood dream of owning the quaint ice cream shop in Eden Beach, Delaware. Unoccupied for over a year, the place needs major renovations, but at what cost? The only contractor available for the job is the one who squashed her dream twenty years earlier. Will these two be able to put aside their differences while they bring Sprinkles back to its former glory and mend their broken hearts in the process?

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1509233776

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