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Q28653989 The Inter-National League was an international ice hockey league that was a partnership between the national federations of Austria and Slovenia. It was created as a solution to semi-professional hockey in both Austria and neighboring Slovenia. The league merged with the Serie A to become the Alps Hockey Leag... |
Q17006808 The Girl with a Patron (German: Das Mädchen mit der Protektion) is a 1925 German silent comedy film directed by Max Mack and starring Ossi Oswalda, Willy Fritsch and Nora Gregor .It was one of a number of popular comedies released by UFA during the era alongside its more prestigious art films. |
Q16988619 Psaltoda harrisii, commonly known as the yellowbelly, is a species of cicada native to eastern Australia. It can be distinguished from the similar but larger Black prince (Psaltoda plaga), by noting the absence of a dark Z-shaped infuscation near the apex of the forewings, which is present on P. plaga. |
Q3419322 Raoul de Neuville (died March 26, 1221) was a 13th-century French cardinal, diplomat, and Bishop of Arras.Little is known of his life or episcopal work. He was born in Rhône-Alpes, France,and studied Law. Pope Innocent III made him a cardinal in the consistory of 1202, and he was elected Bishop of Arras in 120... |
Q30668906 Alpern is a surname. Notable people with the name include:Anne X. Alpern (1903–1981), American jurist and politicianAnita Alpern (1920–2006), American government administratorMatthew Alpern (1920–1996), American physiologistMerry Alpern (born 1955), American photographerRuth Alpern Madoff (born 1941), America... |
Q35829765 Stefan Zogović (Serbian Cyrillic: Стефан Зоговић; born 17 April 1990) is a Montenegrin football defender who plays for Cement Beočin. |
Q14923165 Copturus is a genus of true weevils in the beetle family Curculionidae. There are more than 190 described species in Copturus. |
Q373309 Hugo Falcandus was a historian who chronicled the reign of William I of Sicily and the minority of his son William II in a highly critical work entitled The History of the Tyrants of Sicily (or Liber de Regno Sicilie). The Latin of the work is polished. There is some doubt as to whether "Hugo Falcandus" is a re... |
Q7688792 Taunton High School (often abbreviated THS) located within a large, three-floor, interconnected, multi-block complex in the eastern section of the city of Taunton, Massachusetts. It is an urban public high school with an estimated average student enrollment of 3,000 students. It offers many student-oriented se... |
Q7509496 Sidran is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:Abdulah Sidran, a Bosnian writer and poetBen Sidran, an American jazz pianistLeo Sidran, an American musician, composer, performer, and producer, son of Ben Sidran |
Q1340974 Tachū Naitō (内藤 多仲, Naitō Tachū, 12 June 1886 - 25 August 1970) was a Japanese architect, engineer, and professor from Yamanashi Prefecture, Minami-Alps, Yamanashi. He was a father of earthquake-proof design and built many broadcasting and observation towers, including the Tokyo Tower. |
Q5099897 China Sky is a novel by Pearl S. Buck published in 1941. The story centers on love, honor, and wartime treachery in an American-run hospital in the fictional town of Chen-li, China, during the Japanese invasion.The book was the basis of a 1945 film of the same name starring Randolph Scott, Ruth Warrick, Ellen ... |
Q140553 1537 Transylvania, provisional designation 1940 QA, is a carbonaceous asteroid and long-lost minor planet from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 17 kilometers in diameter. Discovered by Gyula Strommer in 1940, it was later named after region of Transylvania, where the discoverer was born. |
Q5359711 Kosugi Station (小杉駅, Kosugi-eki) is a railway station on the Ainokaze Toyama Railway Line in Imizu, Toyama, Japan, operated by the third-sector railway operator Ainokaze Toyama Railway. |
Q32332 The Dargwa language is spoken by the Dargin people in the Russian republic Dagestan. It is the literary and main dialect of the dialect continuum constituting the Dargin languages. The four other languages in this dialect continuum (Kajtak, Kubachi, Itsari, and Chirag) are often considered variants of Dargwa. Ko... |
Q4549815 The 146th Field Artillery Regiment is a field artillery regiment of the Army National Guard first Constituted in 1886 as the 1st, and 2nd Regiments of Infantry. |
Q7077173 Ocypetes is a genus of beetles in the family Buprestidae, containing the following species:Ocypetes crassicollis (Laporte & Gory, 1837)Ocypetes descarpentriesi (Cobos, 1973)Ocypetes golbachi (Cobos, 1973)Ocypetes irroratus (Gory, 1840) |
Q5494094 Frazier High School is a rural, public high school. It is the sole high school in the Frazier School District. It is in the northern Fayette County, Pennsylvania, in the town of Perryopolis. In 2015, enrollment was reported as 350 pupils in 9th through 12th grades, with 43% of pupils eligible for a free lunch ... |
Q17051156 The 2014 Currie Cup qualification series was a tournament organised by the South African Rugby Union. It featured seven teams and was played in June and July 2014, with the winner qualifying for the 2014 Currie Cup Premier Division. The remaining six teams played in the 2014 Currie Cup First Division. |
Q10717261 Välkommen Hero is a 1986 studio album by Freda', released on vinyl, cassette tape. and CD. In 1993, the album was rerelased to CD. |
Q20684694 Lisa Mann is an American electric blues bassist, songwriter and singer. Her influences include Etta James, Koko Taylor, Bonnie Raitt, Sheryl Crow, and Little Milton. She writes most of her material, and has released four albums to date. In 2015 and 2016, she won a Blues Music Award. |
Q25059521 Galahi Island (also called Head Island) is an island off the northeast coast of Sariba, in Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea. |
Q9165982 Barracas Athletic Club was a football club from Lanús, Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina. The club was notable for having played several seasons in Argentine Primera División, the top division of Argentine football league system. |
Q2161677 Roger Dumas (31 December 1897 – 15 June 1951) was a French composer and conductor. |
Q839998 NGC 180 is a barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Pisces. It was discovered on December 29, 1790 by William Herschel. |
Q28823587 Keith Kulinga (born 14 April 1979) is a Zimbabwean cricketer. He played four first-class matches for Southern Rocks between 2009 and 2011. |
Q18054324 Transmembrane protein 150B is a protein that in humans is encoded by the TMEM150B gene. |
Q685117 Joseph Gerald Gallagher (born 4 May 1964) is a British-born Swiss chess grandmaster and former British Champion, as well as a chess author. |
Q936 OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a collaborative project to create a free editable map of the world. Rather than the map itself, the data generated by the project is considered its primary output. The creation and growth of OSM has been motivated by restrictions on use or availability of map information across much of the w... |
Q5120597 Cindy Shelley (born 23 March 1960 in Barnet, Hertfordshire) is an English actress, known for her roles in two high-profile BBC television dramas of the 1980s: Alice Courtenay in Tenko and Abby Urquhart in Howards' Way. |
Q20723 William Edward Collinson (4 January 1889 – 4 May 1969) was an eminent British linguist and, from 1914 to 1954, Chair of German at the University of Liverpool. Like Edward Sapir and Otto Jespersen, he collaborated with Alice Vanderbilt Morris to develop the research program of the International Auxiliary Language... |
Q4706805 Alan Wesley Hampshire (born 18 October 1950, Rotherham, Yorkshire, England) is an English first-class cricketer, who played for Yorkshire County Cricket Club in 1975.A right-handed batsman, his only first-class match came against Derbyshire at Queen's Park, Chesterfield. He scored 17 and 1 in a drawn game. H... |
Q3810290 Joseph ben Judah (Hebrew: יוסף בן יהודה Yosef ben Yehuda) of Ceuta (c. 1160–1226) was a Jewish physician and poet, and disciple of Moses Maimonides.It is as an address to Joseph that Maimonides introduces his Guide for the Perplexed. |
Q1102177 Morville-sur-Seille is a commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in north-eastern France. |
Q5276928 The Dillon County Courthouse, built in 1911, is a historic courthouse located at 301 West Main Street in the city of Dillon in Dillon County, South Carolina. It was designed in the Classical Revival style by Darlington native William Augustus Edwards who designed eight other South Carolina courthouses as wel... |
Q7253588 Przybyłów [pʂɨˈbɨwuf] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Galewice, within Wieruszów County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies approximately 7 kilometres (4 mi) north-east of Galewice, 16 km (10 mi) north-east of Wieruszów, and 91 km (57 mi) south-west of the regional capital Łódź. |
Q213282 MS Golden Princess was a casino cruise ship owned by Eurasia International, operated on short casino cruises out of Hong Kong. She was built in 1967 by the Wärtsilä Hietalahti shipyard in Helsinki, Finland as Finlandia for the Finland Steamship Company. In 1975 she was sold to Finnlines, who converted her into ... |
Q7640313 Sunil Kothari is a noted Indian dance historian, scholar and critic. He is also former Uday Shankar Professor at Ravindra Bharti University, Kolkata. |
Q7363281 Romola Helen Louise Costantino OBE (also known as Romola Enyi) (14 September 1930 – November 1988) was a noted Australian pianist, accompanist and teacher, who also worked as a music, film and theatre critic.Romola Costantino was the daughter of Napoleone Costantino (1889–1982), an Italian civil servant in Aus... |
Q5382958 Epilandex is a genus of earwigs in the subfamily Anisolabidinae. It was cited by Srivastava in Part 2 of Fauna of India. |
Q7717272 The Best of the Beau Brummels 1964-1968, sometimes titled The Best of the Beau Brummels: Golden Archive Series, is a compilation album by American rock band The Beau Brummels. Released in 1987 by Rhino Records, the album features 18 songs, including the band's biggest hit singles—"Laugh, Laugh", "Just a Little... |
Q5113000 Christopher Orr is a Paralympic medalist from New Zealand who competed in alpine skiing. He competed in the 1984 Winter Paralympics where he won a silver medal in downhill. |
Q4908386 Bill Calder (born 28 September 1934) is a former Scottish footballer who played for Oxford United, Leicester City, Bury and Rochdale. Originally a midfielder, Calder was converted to a forward while playing for Bury.Leicester City signed Bill Calder from Port Glasgow Rovers in 1956.Bill Calder transferred from... |
Q16982875 The Ambassador of the United Kingdom to the Republic of Nicaragua is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative in Nicaragua, and in charge of the UK's diplomatic mission in Managua.Until 1945, UK envoys to Guatemala were also accredited to Nicaragua (see List of Ambassadors of the United Kingdom... |
Q18153276 Philip Goettel (September 2, 1840 – January 30, 1920) was a Union Army soldier in the American Civil War who received the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor.Goettel was born in Syracuse, New York, where he entered service. He was awarded the Medal of Honor, for extraordinary heroism shown ... |
Q3289306 Marcel César Poëte (10 October 1866 – 14 April 1950) was a French librarian, historian and urban planning theoretician. He was a co-founder of the School of Advanced Urban Studies, where he taught, and was highly influential in developing new theories of urban planning in Paris in the first half of the 20th ce... |
Q42304339 Hugh Westwood (by 1500 – 1559), of Chedworth, Gloucestershire, was an English politician. |
Q158276 Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft AG (AEG) (German: "General electricity company") was a German producer of electrical equipment founded as the Deutsche Edison-Gesellschaft für angewandte Elektricität in 1883 in Berlin by Emil Rathenau. After World War II its headquarters was relocated to Frankfurt am Main.... |
Q697690 The Election for the 6th Legislative Yuan (第六屆立法委員選舉) of Taiwan (officially the Republic of China) was held on December 11, 2004. All 225 seats of the Legislative Yuan were up for election: 168 elected by popular vote, 41 elected on the basis of the proportion of nationwide votes received by participating polit... |
Q1666311 The music of Zambia has a rich heritage which falls roughly into three categories: traditional, popular and Christian. |
Q5152643 The Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg) (Irish: An Coimisiún um Rialáil Cumarsáide) is the general communications regulator for Ireland, covering almost all possible types of communications.Founded on 1 December 2002, ComReg took over from the Office of the Director of Telecommunications Regulati... |
Q5955300 Joakim Lindengren (born March 28, 1962) is a Swedish cartoonist, illustrator and artist. |
Q5303513 Downtown Mountain View station is an intermodal transit station located in Mountain View, California. The station is served by Caltrain regional rail service, Santa Clara VTA light rail service, VTA local buses, and local shuttles. Downtown Mountain View is the northern terminus of the Mountain View-Winchester... |
Q402100 The Biscuit Eater is a 1972 Walt Disney Productions film released by Buena Vista Distribution based on a short story of the same name by James H. Street. It is the last 'One Boy and his Animal' themed film made by Disney, as this subgenre eventually grew out of fashion. The 1972 film is a remake of a 1940 film... |
Q1757606 Leopoldo ("Pichón") Contarbio (April 29, 1927 – August 24, 1993) was an Argentine basketball player who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics and in the 1952 Summer Olympics. He was born in Buenos Aires.In 1948 he was a member of the Argentine basketball team, which finished fifteenth in the 1948 tournament. Fo... |
Q3051132 Elise Estrada (born July 30, 1987) is a Filipino-Canadian pop singer-songwriter and actress. She is known for her hit singles released in Canada such as "Insatiable", "One Last Time" and "Lipstick".She is signed to Universal Music Canada's XOXO Entertainment. |
Q4839162 The Back Sound is a large and shallow body of water in eastern North Carolina. It located between the mainland of Carteret County and Harkers Island to the north, and Shackleford Banks to the south. To the east is the Core Banks and Portsmouth Island. Beaufort and Morehead City are located to the west. |
Q23302322 St. Elisabeth Church and School is a Catholic church and elementary school located in Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California. It is one of the oldest parishes in the San Fernando Valley, having been established in 1920. When the current Church was dedicated in 1948, it was the largest Catholic Church in the Vall... |
Q16151851 Stephen Maxwell, better known as Steve Maxwell (December 3, 1952), is an American fitness coach, physical educator, and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu instructor. Maxwell was named one of the top 100 trainers in the United States by Men's Journal. |
Q4928457 Blosyris is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae. |
Q3565876 Tankový prapor (Tank Battalion) is a Czech comedy film. It was released in 1991.The movie represented the first privately produced movie in Czech Republic.It was a blockbuster.Today, the movie is persived as a classic, it is the most acclaimed movie of his creator, director Vit Olmer.Story of the movie is bas... |
Q5837891 Owzun Darreh (Persian: اوزون دره, also Romanized as Owzūn Darreh, Ozūn Darreh, Ūzondarreh, Ūzūn Darreh, and Uzun-Darrekh; also known as Azūndezeh) is a village in Eqbal-e Gharbi Rural District, in the Central District of Qazvin County, Qazvin Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 269, in 73 f... |
Q2885684 Dellamora macaria is a species of beetle in the genus Dellamora. It was discovered in 1949. |
Q15243497 Madison-Virgil USD 386 is a Unified School District serving the northern part of Greenwood County, Kansas, United States. |
Q2080724 The Polish Communist Party (Polish: Komunistyczna Partia Polski, KPP) is a Polish communist party. The party was founded on October 9, 2002 as the successor of the Union of Polish Communists "Proletariat" which was founded in 1990.The party is considered to be the historical and ideological heir of the Commun... |
Q22086673 Samuel Burtis Baker (September 29, 1882 - March 10, 1967), commonly known as Burt Baker, was an American artist and teacher, best known for his portrait paintings. |
Q28162956 The 1924 Copa Ibarguren was the 12° edition of this National cup of Argentina. It was played by the champions of both leagues, Primera División and Liga Rosarina de Football crowned during 1924.Boca Juniors (Primera División champion) faced Club Atlético Belgrano (Liga Rosarina champion) at Sportivo Barracas ... |
Q1461516 Scared Straight! is a 1978 documentary directed by Arnold Shapiro. Narrated by Peter Falk, the subject of the documentary is a group of juvenile delinquents and their three-hour session with actual convicts. Filmed at Rahway State Prison, a group of inmates known as the "lifers" berate, scream at, and terrify ... |
Q5302541 The Dover transmitting station is a facility for broadcasting and telecommunications, located at West Hougham, near Dover, Kent (grid reference TR274397). It has a 243.2 metres (798 ft) high guyed steel lattice mast of triangular cross section. The station is owned by Arqiva. The recommended UHF aerial group i... |
Q2292966 The untitled Apocalyptica album is overall the eighth release and fifth studio album by Apocalyptica. |
Q737304 Relative Values is a 2000 British comedy film adaptation of the 1950s play of the same name by Noël Coward. It stars Julie Andrews, Colin Firth, William Baldwin, Edward Atterton, Stephen Fry and Jeanne Tripplehorn, and was directed by Eric Styles.It was filmed on location in the Isle of Man, mainly at The Nunne... |
Q1123240 Kanianka (Hungarian: Kányahegy) is a village and municipality in Prievidza District in the Trenčín Region of western Slovakia. |
Q5105660 Chris Taylor, known as "The Glove", is a DJ and producer on the West Coast hip hop scene in the 1980s and 1990s. Taylor is known for his appearance in the film Breakin' alongside Ice-T. Taylor is credited on "Phone Tap" (Nas) as producer. Other production credits include "Reckless" (Ice T & Dave Storrs) "Tibet... |
Q5407999 Eugenia eperforata is a species of plant in the family Myrtaceae. It is endemic to Jamaica. |
Q5613513 Guan Linzheng (simplified Chinese: 关麟征; traditional Chinese: 關麟徵; pinyin: Guān Línzhǐ; Wade–Giles: Kuan Lin-cheng; 1905–1980) was a highly successful Chinese general in the Kuomintang who fought against both the Communists and the Imperial Japanese Army, and was a recipient of Order of Blue Sky and White Sun, ... |
Q6559933 This is a list of films which have placed number one at the weekend box office in Chile during 2009. |
Q7706549 Tetrahydrofolate riboswitches are a class of homologous RNAs in certain bacteria that bind tetrahydrofolate (THF). It is almost exclusively located in the probable 5' untranslated regions of protein-coding genes, and most of these genes are known to encode either folate transporters or enzymes involved in fol... |
Q5310540 Dubai Fashion Week (DFW) is a fashion week which was held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It was launched in 2005 and has presented its last runway on the 24 October 2011. It is owned and organised by a private company; Capital Marketing FZ LLC, an event management company. It was co-founded by Marc Robinson, ... |
Q5346549 Edwin J. Prindle (1868-1948) contributed to the development of the current U.S. patent law system. He worked in the US Patent Office until 1899, then set up his own patent practice in 1905. Held posts of the Secretary of the Patent Committee of the National Research Council and later Chairman of the Patent Com... |
Q6008283 Imre Bíró (born 1959) is a Hungarian handball player. He participated at the 1988 Summer Olympics, where the Hungarian national team placed fourth, and at the 1992 Summer Olympics, where the team placed seventh.He has later coached the Hungarian women's club DVSC. |
Q7146698 General Patrick Henry Brittan was born in Thornton Gap, Virginia on September 21, 1815. |
Q7686010 Tariccoia is a genus of small to average size (between 2.5 centimetres (0.98 in) and 6 centimetres (2.4 in) long) marine arthropods in the Liwiidae Family, that lived during the late Ordovician period. Fossil remains of Tariccoia were collected from Sardinia, Italy. Tariccoia looks like a large, soft agnostid... |
Q7520626 Simple.com was an Application Service Provider founded by Sandro Pasquali and Carolynne Tilga in 1998. Pasquali created a Web application compatible with the Internet Explorer 4 browser and Netscape Navigator 3 and 4 which gave users the tools to launch desktop, web portal, or general web applications with th... |
Q7315457 Residential Care Centre, Seyyed Abbas (Persian: منازل مسكوني مركزخدمات – Menāzl Masḵūnī Marḵaz Khodmāt) is a village in Seyyed Abbas Rural District, Shavur District, Shush County, Khuzestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 376, in 56 families. |
Q16225464 Captain Hiram Cox (1760–1799) was a British diplomat, serving in Bengal and Burma in the 18th century. The town of Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh is named after him. |
Q16851029 JudoScotland is the national governing body for judo in Scotland. It was founded in 1988 to represent Scottish judoka, coaches, referees and officials, clubs and the Scottish National Judo Team. JudoScotland is the sportscotland recognised governing body for the Olympic sport of Judo within Scotland. It is cu... |
Q2689629 Edward H. "Bebbers" Melvin (February 13, 1916 – July 30, 2004), born Edward H. Milkovich, was an American professional basketball player of Serbian origin. He played in the Basketball Association of America for the Pittsburgh Ironmen during the 1946–47 season.After his playing career, Melvin coached the St. Bo... |
Q3444748 Uhuru Park is a 12.9 hectare recreational park adjacent to the central business district of Nairobi, Kenya. It was opened to the general public by the late Mzee Jomo Kenyatta on 23 May 1969. It contains an artificial lake, several national monuments, and an assembly ground which has become a popular skateboard... |
Q7100032 Orbit was an American long-running series of anthologies of new fiction edited by Damon Knight, often featuring work by such writers as Gene Wolfe, Joanna Russ, R. A. Lafferty, and Kate Wilhelm, who was married to Knight. The anthologies tended toward the avant-garde edge of science fiction, but by no means ex... |
Q584053 The Wales Social Partners Unit was established in 2001 to act as an information conduit between the National Assembly for Wales and the social partners. The Unit is based in Cardiff and provides:a monitoring and information service, providing weekly summaries of the activities of the Welsh Government and the N... |
Q939510 Kosovo Telecom (Albanian: Telekomi i Kosovës, Serbian: Телеком Косова), formerly known as Post and Telecommunications of Kosovo (commonly abbreviated as PTK; Albanian: Posta dhe Telekomi i Kosovës, Serbian: Пошта и телекомуникације Косова / Pošta i telekomunikacije Kosova) is the postal and telecommunications a... |
Q12060526 The Hoover Building is a Grade II* listed building of Art Deco architecture designed by Wallis, Gilbert and Partners located in Perivale in the London Borough of Ealing. The site opened in 1933 as the UK headquarters, manufacturing plant and repairs centre for The Hoover Company. The building is now owned by ... |
Q2452456 Wisła Wielka [ˈviswa ˈvjɛlka] (German: Groß Weichsel) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Pszczyna, within Pszczyna County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It lies approximately 8 kilometres (5 mi) south-west of Pszczyna and 35 km (22 mi) south of the regional capital Katowice. The v... |
Q16197432 Michael Lee White (born August 2, 1967) is an actor, writer and producer. He starred in the 1987 TV series, Summer Breeze and several episodes of the 1993 TV Series, Spirit of Television. Behind the scenes, he was a co-writer and producer on the 1992-1993 TV Series, Computer Doctor and executive producer for ... |
Q17014996 In mathematics, a fundamental matrix of a system of n homogeneous linear ordinary differential equations x ˙ ( t ) = A ( t ) ... |
Q3572575 Yordan Gospodinov (Bulgarian: Йордан Господинов; born 15 June 1978) is a former Bulgarian footballer who played as a goalkeeper.He had previously played for Neftochimic Burgas, Litex Lovech, Slavia Sofia, Greek Panserraikos FC, Kaliakra Kavarna, Romanian Concordia Chiajna and Lokomotiv Plovdiv. |
Q4036034 Challenge ProMode Arena (CPMA, formerly Challenge ProMode [CPM], unofficially Promode) is a freeware modification for id Software's first-person shooter computer game Quake III Arena (Q3A). CPMA includes modified gameplays that feature air-control, rebalanced weapons, instant weapon switching and additional ju... |
Q7308727 Reginald Hackforth, FBA (17 August 1887 – 6 May 1957) was an English classical scholar, known mainly for his work on Plato, and from 1939 to 1952 was the second Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Cambridge University. |
Q4909417 William Douglas Hewitt (31 October 1930 – 23 November 2016) was an Australian politician. He was a Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly. |
Q529980 The XXIX World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships was held in Ise, Mie, Japan, September 7–13, 2009, at the Sun Arena.Evgenia Kanaeva from Russia, has won all possible medals in a world championship (in individual events), a historic achievement. |
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