Click topic for LINKWe hope the remake is as good as the original but I'll do a limb on a wager and say, unlikely.
Monday, October 31, 2011
Dicaprio is Gatsby
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We hope the remake is as good as the original but I'll do a limb on a wager and say, unlikely.
Click topic for LINKWe hope the remake is as good as the original but I'll do a limb on a wager and say, unlikely.
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Extinct Crossings
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The Pedestrian Cross or Zebra Crossings are becoming extinct. First used in the 1940s and 1950s to save lives from accidental death ... crossings today are slowly being replaced by new technology and the need to save lives from even greater traffic fatalities.
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The Pedestrian Cross or Zebra Crossings are becoming extinct. First used in the 1940s and 1950s to save lives from accidental death ... crossings today are slowly being replaced by new technology and the need to save lives from even greater traffic fatalities.
Libyan Heist
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It could be one of largest heists in archaeological history.
The Treasure of Benghazi - priceless gold and silver coins from the time of Alexander the Great stolen for the Bank of Benghazi in Libya.
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It could be one of largest heists in archaeological history.
The Treasure of Benghazi - priceless gold and silver coins from the time of Alexander the Great stolen for the Bank of Benghazi in Libya.
Story of Christmas
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Christmas continues to change every year as it has done throughout history.
Xmas is a Pagan celebration:
http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/christmas-elements-have-pagan-roots/pqauiaq?q=halloween&from=en-us_msnhp&rel=msn&cpkey=03008510-b46e-472f-91a2-28fef69251af%7challoween%7cmsn%7c%7c
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Christmas continues to change every year as it has done throughout history.
Xmas is a Pagan celebration:
http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/christmas-elements-have-pagan-roots/pqauiaq?q=halloween&from=en-us_msnhp&rel=msn&cpkey=03008510-b46e-472f-91a2-28fef69251af%7challoween%7cmsn%7c%7c
Halloween Story
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The whole old story - ancient Celtic pagan ritual come commercial spooky day!
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The whole old story - ancient Celtic pagan ritual come commercial spooky day!
Monday, October 24, 2011
On Thirteen
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This week must see: THE TREASURES OF NEW YORK - PARK AVENUE ARMORY
a series on the history and renovation of one of the city's hidden jewels once home of the National Guard.
Check it out!
This week must see: THE TREASURES OF NEW YORK - PARK AVENUE ARMORY
a series on the history and renovation of one of the city's hidden jewels once home of the National Guard.
Check it out!
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Notorious Mother In Laws
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In honour of mother-in-law day the History.com has listed notorious mothers-in-law in history.
In honour of mother-in-law day the History.com has listed notorious mothers-in-law in history.
Saturday, October 22, 2011
History of Jamaican Music
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History of the big and the bad little island country.
Brand Jamaica.
The music.
History of the big and the bad little island country.
Brand Jamaica.
The music.
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Life Before Gaddafi
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First I will say the celebration of the ending of any life is ill-conceived. No matter what they did in life. The appropriate and mature stance is a deliberate and sombre acceptance of the circumstances at hand and the greater lesson learned.
Or risk becoming that which you first detested then celebrated.
Life after Gaddafi.
Fall of the Gaddafis
http://www.nytimes.com/?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1319147570-bkg5Mry6su9JKxipo3Lz0w
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2051958/Gaddafi-dead-video-Widow-demands-UN-inquiry-husbands-killing.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2031555/Gaddafi-family-album-Photos-burned-home-dictators-Tripoli-bunker.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2051503/Gaddafi-dead-Dictators-sons-Mutassim-Saif-killed-fled.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2052325/Rebel-fighter-answered-Gaddafi-daughters-desperate-phone-told-Old-Fuzzhead-dead.html
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First I will say the celebration of the ending of any life is ill-conceived. No matter what they did in life. The appropriate and mature stance is a deliberate and sombre acceptance of the circumstances at hand and the greater lesson learned.
Or risk becoming that which you first detested then celebrated.
Life after Gaddafi.
Fall of the Gaddafis
http://www.nytimes.com/?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1319147570-bkg5Mry6su9JKxipo3Lz0w
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2051958/Gaddafi-dead-video-Widow-demands-UN-inquiry-husbands-killing.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2031555/Gaddafi-family-album-Photos-burned-home-dictators-Tripoli-bunker.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2051503/Gaddafi-dead-Dictators-sons-Mutassim-Saif-killed-fled.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2052325/Rebel-fighter-answered-Gaddafi-daughters-desperate-phone-told-Old-Fuzzhead-dead.html
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Dead Sea Scrolls Online
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The famous and mysterious Dead Sea scrolls have joined the technological free-for-all.
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| another great find |
The famous and mysterious Dead Sea scrolls have joined the technological free-for-all.
10 Historic Political Protests
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Political protest is good, political protest has might. Protest matters because its right.
Political protest is good, political protest has might. Protest matters because its right.
Safety in 1932
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How times have changed ... a little paranoia goes a long way.
How times have changed ... a little paranoia goes a long way.
White House Dinners
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Guess who's coming to dinner ... natty dreadlocks ... I jest, that's an oldie but goody reggae song.
White House dinners back in time.
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Guess who's coming to dinner ... natty dreadlocks ... I jest, that's an oldie but goody reggae song.
White House dinners back in time.
Shipwreck Gallery
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Famous shipwrecks in history.
http://shipwreckexpo.com/famousshipwrecks.htm
Famous shipwrecks in history.
http://shipwreckexpo.com/famousshipwrecks.htm
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
1870 shot Jews in America
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A photo in the National Archive titled Jews in America ... not sure why but history is intriguing.
A photo in the National Archive titled Jews in America ... not sure why but history is intriguing.
Jared Diamond on why societies collapse | Video on TED.com
Jared Diamond on why societies collapse Video on TED.com
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Welcome to the tea party of destruction - grab a chair. Jared Diamond breaks down the aegis of collapse, history directs our steps, best suggestion ... listen.
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Welcome to the tea party of destruction - grab a chair. Jared Diamond breaks down the aegis of collapse, history directs our steps, best suggestion ... listen.
Hitler's Glasses
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Sold at auction, the glasses Hitler ensured no one would see, hiding any hint of his destructability, as his sight failed so did his invincibility.
Sold at auction, the glasses Hitler ensured no one would see, hiding any hint of his destructability, as his sight failed so did his invincibility.
Monday, October 10, 2011
Columbus Misconceptions
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The misconceptions of Christopher Columbus
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| Columbus had buccaneer qualities |
The misconceptions of Christopher Columbus
- thought the world was flat ~ the spherical earth had been uncovered for 2000 years
- discovered America ~ actually it was the archipelago of the Bahamas and Hispaniola
- introduced syphillis to Europe ~ was already a worldwide disease
- died in poverty ~ was financially comfortable but his family's successful Pleitos colombinos netted them property and Crown riches after his death
- blundered discoverer ~ actually discovered lower-latitude easterlies and higher-latitude westerlies sailing trade winds
Sunday, October 9, 2011
Pan Am
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So Pan Am has begun and I love it ... it's so good it may as well be HBO.
Playboy hit the skids but to be honest it was shallow on plot ... no oomph.
So Pan Am has begun and I love it ... it's so good it may as well be HBO.
Playboy hit the skids but to be honest it was shallow on plot ... no oomph.
It Isn't a Protest without a Cute Kid Dancing to Protest Music - Occupy ...
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Hip Wallis
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We know Wallis Simpson was a history maker in dubious ways and indeed was she an icon of fashion. Unbeautiful by her own standard she cloaked herself in all that was lovely and fashionable.
Like myself she was a lover of costume jewelry, "I hate to admit it but I am absolutley fascinated by fake jewelry, I think it is so good." and concur I do. As late in her life as the 1970s she embraced hippy chic, imagine the fun she would have had in design had she lived in later times.
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We know Wallis Simpson was a history maker in dubious ways and indeed was she an icon of fashion. Unbeautiful by her own standard she cloaked herself in all that was lovely and fashionable.
Like myself she was a lover of costume jewelry, "I hate to admit it but I am absolutley fascinated by fake jewelry, I think it is so good." and concur I do. As late in her life as the 1970s she embraced hippy chic, imagine the fun she would have had in design had she lived in later times.
The King Maker
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We know speech therapist, Lionel Logue championed Albert, Duke of York and future King in the beloved film The King's Speech but there was another great supporter of the Duke, his friend Louis Greig. A naval surgeon from Glasgow and Albert's best friend.
They met at the Royal Naval College - 'Bertie' as a desperately vulnerable boy, terrorised by his father, overshadowed by his older brother and lacking every confidence. Greig was 28, the college surgeon and a sporting hero as Scotland's rugby champion and captain - a big personality, cherished by the royal family and purveyor of colourful language. The young royal desperately needed a guide, a friend, someone to believe in him.
Irreverent and witty ... my kind of personality!
Louis Greig stood by his friend through every phase and challenge of his young life until his successful union with Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon saw her take the mantle of encouragement.
A new book documents Greig's timeless example of a true friend, having lived an altogther successful life, it is just that Louis Greig be always and fondly remembered as a beacon of friendship.
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| Louis Greig |
We know speech therapist, Lionel Logue championed Albert, Duke of York and future King in the beloved film The King's Speech but there was another great supporter of the Duke, his friend Louis Greig. A naval surgeon from Glasgow and Albert's best friend.
They met at the Royal Naval College - 'Bertie' as a desperately vulnerable boy, terrorised by his father, overshadowed by his older brother and lacking every confidence. Greig was 28, the college surgeon and a sporting hero as Scotland's rugby champion and captain - a big personality, cherished by the royal family and purveyor of colourful language. The young royal desperately needed a guide, a friend, someone to believe in him.
Irreverent and witty ... my kind of personality!
Louis Greig stood by his friend through every phase and challenge of his young life until his successful union with Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon saw her take the mantle of encouragement.
A new book documents Greig's timeless example of a true friend, having lived an altogther successful life, it is just that Louis Greig be always and fondly remembered as a beacon of friendship.
Saturday, October 8, 2011
Check out this great MSN video: Most Innocent Kitten Alive
Check out this great MSN video: Most Innocent Kitten Alive
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Cutest kitten ever ...
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Cutest kitten ever ...
Friday, October 7, 2011
Before the War
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In those critical years before the war, the men predictably played with power and guns. All ... so tiresome.
Pictures at the link document the years of conflict ahead of the war. We never forget the lessons of history.
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| Hitler youth |
In those critical years before the war, the men predictably played with power and guns. All ... so tiresome.
Pictures at the link document the years of conflict ahead of the war. We never forget the lessons of history.
The BMW family and the Nazis
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After decades of silence the Quandt family are giving up the goods.
An in-depth study has expectedly revealed that Guenther Quandt used forced labour from Nazi concentration camps in his factories in the production of ammunition, rifles and artillery for Germany in the war. The family also acquired companies through Aryanisation, a Nazi program that seized Jewish owned firms for the enrichment of Nazi allies.
The family bought into BMW 15 years after the war therefore BMW is not implicated in the focus of the research project, 1933-1945.
Quandt joined the party on 1st May 1933 a month after Hitler rose to power in Germany.
Guenther and his wife Magda Behrend Rietschel divorced in 1929. She later married Nazi propagandist Jospeh Goebbels - they famously poisoned their 6 children and then committed suicide in Hitler's bunker days before the Fuhrer and Eva Braun in 1945.
An unscrupulous opportunist, he visciously turned his back on the Jewish business associates he had before the war. An investigation commissioned by the family confirmed that Guenther Quandt and family members were inseparably connected to the crimes of the National Socialists. The family was forced to own its history after a 2007 German documentary, The Silence of the Quandt Family, insisted on the public admittance that their fortune was built on blood.
After decades of silence the Quandt family are giving up the goods.
An in-depth study has expectedly revealed that Guenther Quandt used forced labour from Nazi concentration camps in his factories in the production of ammunition, rifles and artillery for Germany in the war. The family also acquired companies through Aryanisation, a Nazi program that seized Jewish owned firms for the enrichment of Nazi allies.
The family bought into BMW 15 years after the war therefore BMW is not implicated in the focus of the research project, 1933-1945.
Quandt joined the party on 1st May 1933 a month after Hitler rose to power in Germany.
Guenther and his wife Magda Behrend Rietschel divorced in 1929. She later married Nazi propagandist Jospeh Goebbels - they famously poisoned their 6 children and then committed suicide in Hitler's bunker days before the Fuhrer and Eva Braun in 1945.
An unscrupulous opportunist, he visciously turned his back on the Jewish business associates he had before the war. An investigation commissioned by the family confirmed that Guenther Quandt and family members were inseparably connected to the crimes of the National Socialists. The family was forced to own its history after a 2007 German documentary, The Silence of the Quandt Family, insisted on the public admittance that their fortune was built on blood.
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Earl of Oxford not Shakespeare
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Coming to a theatre near you ...
The film, Anonymous posits that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford and Shakespeare of Stratford pulled off the greatest literary scam in history. Edward de Vere and not Shakespeare wrote those timeless English plays.
Scandalously it also suggests the Earl was the illegitimate son of Queen Elizabeth, the Virgin Queen when she was 15.
Folks are scandalised and postively ticked off!.
The idea of Shakespeare's scam was first raised in 1856 by Delia Bacon and in 1920 by Thomas Looney.
It may be true it may be not but part of history's fascination are the stories with which it surprises us.
British ask why does America rubbish our history with trash films
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2053944/Why-does-Hollywood-hate-English.html
Critics weigh in:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/reviews/article-2054014/ANONYMOUS-review-Pretentious-preposterous--Tudor-turkey.html
Coming to a theatre near you ...
The film, Anonymous posits that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford and Shakespeare of Stratford pulled off the greatest literary scam in history. Edward de Vere and not Shakespeare wrote those timeless English plays.
Scandalously it also suggests the Earl was the illegitimate son of Queen Elizabeth, the Virgin Queen when she was 15.
Folks are scandalised and postively ticked off!.
The idea of Shakespeare's scam was first raised in 1856 by Delia Bacon and in 1920 by Thomas Looney.
It may be true it may be not but part of history's fascination are the stories with which it surprises us.
British ask why does America rubbish our history with trash films
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2053944/Why-does-Hollywood-hate-English.html
Critics weigh in:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/reviews/article-2054014/ANONYMOUS-review-Pretentious-preposterous--Tudor-turkey.html
Steve Jobs
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RIP to a great mind, unparalleled genius.
Personal life
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2046031/Steve-Jobs-death-His-mysterious-family-huge-battle-8-3-billion-fortune.html
Stanford Commencement
http://www.people.com/people/package/article/0,,20534714_20534674,00.html
"Simple can be harder than complex; You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple."
Steve Jobs
RIP to a great mind, unparalleled genius.
Personal life
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2046031/Steve-Jobs-death-His-mysterious-family-huge-battle-8-3-billion-fortune.html
Stanford Commencement
http://www.people.com/people/package/article/0,,20534714_20534674,00.html
"Simple can be harder than complex; You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple."
Steve Jobs
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
LGBT History Month
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Let's celebrate our rainbow of differences.
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Let's celebrate our rainbow of differences.
Daily Thought
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"We did not change as we grew older;
we just became more clearly ourselves."
Lynn Hall
"We did not change as we grew older;
we just became more clearly ourselves."
Lynn Hall
Monday, October 3, 2011
Thirteen does Prohibition
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Thirteen explores the true story of America's "Great Experiment" - Prohibition - going beyond the rum-runners, gangsters and speakeasies and tying it all to the 18th Amendment of the US Constitution.
To pass a law means nothing. To enforce a law means everything.
You cannot legislate morality. Once government begins forbidding things some one comes along and says - I got it, step around the corner.
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Thirteen explores the true story of America's "Great Experiment" - Prohibition - going beyond the rum-runners, gangsters and speakeasies and tying it all to the 18th Amendment of the US Constitution.
To pass a law means nothing. To enforce a law means everything.
You cannot legislate morality. Once government begins forbidding things some one comes along and says - I got it, step around the corner.
Religulous
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JUSTICE!
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AMANDA KNOX has been freed ... and justice has been done. As for the Italians who have vilified her and spat and cursed at her family as they struggled to gain their girl's freedom - they remain stoic to the end in their stupifying ignorance.
She was innocent. They were innocent. The media and Italian public tarnished the names of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito. The Italian police railroaded them into prison in an unprofessional and unforgivably unjust investigation. The prosecutor was criminally vicious and insane.
The family of Meredith Kercher deserve justice but not on the souls of innocent lives.
And thank God evidence and intellect prevailed. Amen
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| overwhelming relief |
AMANDA KNOX has been freed ... and justice has been done. As for the Italians who have vilified her and spat and cursed at her family as they struggled to gain their girl's freedom - they remain stoic to the end in their stupifying ignorance.
She was innocent. They were innocent. The media and Italian public tarnished the names of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito. The Italian police railroaded them into prison in an unprofessional and unforgivably unjust investigation. The prosecutor was criminally vicious and insane.
The family of Meredith Kercher deserve justice but not on the souls of innocent lives.
And thank God evidence and intellect prevailed. Amen
53 Years Ago
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Video at the LINK
The fist international hijacking case in American history.
The plane later crashed and lives were lost as the plane approached Cuba.
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| I jest |
Video at the LINK
The fist international hijacking case in American history.
The plane later crashed and lives were lost as the plane approached Cuba.
Saturday, October 1, 2011
More Civil War Celebrity Look-a-likes
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Curiously more of these Civil War era images keep popping up ... take a gander at the link.
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| Cage |
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| Travolta |
African American Poverty as old as Slavery
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The Loop explains why history reveals the $107,772 average wealth gap between black and white Americans.
Recognizing that US national policy has traditionally been at the root of poverty.
In America's earliest days white Americans were bestowed the right to property ownership - the standard for transferring and trading wealth was then and is still property. White wealth passed from generation to generation.
Enslaved black Americans were not allowed property ownership and were themselves property. A Supreme Court decision 45 years ago finally endowed their right to own, sell, hold, lease and transfer property.
A key causation of poverty in black American communities.
Read on .... at the link.
The Loop explains why history reveals the $107,772 average wealth gap between black and white Americans.
Recognizing that US national policy has traditionally been at the root of poverty.
In America's earliest days white Americans were bestowed the right to property ownership - the standard for transferring and trading wealth was then and is still property. White wealth passed from generation to generation.
Enslaved black Americans were not allowed property ownership and were themselves property. A Supreme Court decision 45 years ago finally endowed their right to own, sell, hold, lease and transfer property.
A key causation of poverty in black American communities.
Read on .... at the link.
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