San Diego de la Unión

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San Diego de la Unión

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San Diego de la Unión is a Mexican city (and municipality) located in the Northwest region of the state of Guanajuato. The municipality has an area of 990.17 square kilometres (3.26% of the surface of the state) and is bordered to the north by San Luis Potosí, to the east by San Luis de la Paz, to the south by Dolores Hidalgo, and to the west by San Felipe. The municipality had 34,088 inhabitants according to the 2005 census.

The municipality of San Diego was founded in 1719 under the name of Pueblo de Bizcocho. It received its present name of San Diego de la Unión after San Diego de Alcalá, the Patron saint of Franciscan lay brothers.

The municipal president of San Diego de la Unión and its 137 outlying communities is Luis Gaudencio González Romero.

References

  1. ^ Secretaría de Desarrollo Social y Humano - Gobierno del Estado de Guanajuato
  2. ^ “2005 Census”. INEGI: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática. http://www.inegi.gob.mx/est/contenidos/espanol/sistemas/conteo2005/localidad/iter/. Retrieved 2007-03-22. 
  3. ^ Guanajuato “Mexican Municipality Encyclopedia”. Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México. http://www.e-local.gob.mx/wb2/ELOCAL/EMM_guanajuato Guanajuato. Retrieved 2007-03-22. 
  4. ^ http://v2.pan.org.mx/pics/gobierno/edo_gto/san_diego_de_la_union.htm

Coordinates: 21°28?N 100°52?W? / ?21.467°N 100.867°W? / 21.467; -100.867

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Categories: Cities, towns and villages in Guanajuato | Municipalities of Guanajuato | Settlements established in 1719

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Feilden Stakes

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Feilden Stakes

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The Feilden Stakes is a Listed flat horse race in Great Britain which is open to three-year-old thoroughbreds. It is run on the Rowley Mile at Newmarket over a distance of 1 mile and 1 furlong (1,811 metres), and it is scheduled to take place each year in mid April.

The event sometimes serves as an early trial for the Epsom Derby, and its participants often appear in another trial beforehand. The runner-up in 1994, Erhaab, went on to win that year’s Derby.

Winners since 1986

Year Winner Jockey Trainer Time
1986 Flying Trio Pat Eddery Luca Cumani 2:02.18
1987 Legal Bid Steve Cauthen Henry Cecil 1:54.09
1988 Kefaah Ray Cochrane Luca Cumani 1:54.72
1989 Greenwich Papillon John Reid Wally Carter 2:01.05
1990 Lord of the Field George Duffield James Toller 1:52.13
1991 Half a Tick Richard Quinn Paul Cole 1:49.74
1992 Twist and Turn Steve Cauthen Henry Cecil 1:51.95
1993 Placerville Pat Eddery Henry Cecil 1:51.11
1994 Cicerao Walter Swinburn Henry Cecil 1:59.83
1995 Munwar Willie Carson Peter Walwyn 1:48.53
1996 Storm Trooper Pat Eddery Henry Cecil 1:49.48
1997 Fahris Richard Hills Ben Hanbury 1:50.57
1998 Border Arrow Frankie Dettori Ian Balding 1:58.92
1999 Golden Snake Michael Hills Barry Hills 1:44.10
2000 Pawn Broker Michael Kinane David Elsworth 1:55.14
2001 Olden Times Pat Eddery John Dunlop 1:55.29
2002 Playapart Eddie Ahern Gerard Butler 1:49.40
2003 Magistretti Kieren Fallon Neville Callaghan 1:53.59
2004 Gold History Joe Fanning Mark Johnston 1:53.89
2005 Rocamadour Ted Durcan Mick Channon 1:51.81
2006 Atlantic Waves Joe Fanning Mark Johnston 1:53.35
2007 Petara Bay Dane O’Neill Terry Mills 1:49.76
2008 Campanologist Joe Fanning Mark Johnston 1:54.15
2009 Redwood Michael Hills Barry Hills 1:52.73

1  The 1999 running took place on Newmarket’s July Course over 1 mile and 110 yards (1,710 metres).

References

  • Racing Post:
    • 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997
    • 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
    • 2008, 2009

  • pedigreequery.com – Feilden Stakes – Newmarket.

See also

  • Horseracing in Great Britain
  • List of British flat horse races

Retrieved from “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feilden_Stakes”
Categories: Flat races in Great Britain | Newmarket Racecourse | Flat horse races for three-year-olds

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Mehdi Dibaj

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Mehdi Dibaj

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Mehdi Dibaj (c. 1935 - June/July 1994) was an Iranian Christian convert from Sunni Islam, pastor and Christian martyr.

Dibaj became a Christian as a young man and joined the Jama’at-e Rabbani Church, the Iranian branch of the Assemblies of God. After the 1979 Iranian revolution he encountered difficulties. In 1983 he was arrested and imprisoned without trial in Sari and systematically tortured. He was finally tried by an Islamic court in Sari on December 3, 1993 and sentenced to death on charges of apostasy. At his trial Dibaj declared: “I am not only satisfied to be in prison for the honour of His Holy Name, but am ready to give my life for the sake of Jesus my Lord.”


Mehdi Dibaj

Following a worldwide outcry initiated by his friend and colleague Bishop Haik Hovsepian Mehr, Dibaj was finally freed in January 1994, although the death sentence was not lifted. Just three days later Haik Hovsepian Mehr was abducted and murdered.

Dibaj was abducted on Friday, June 24, 1994. His body was found in a west Tehran park on Tuesday, July 5, 1994.

References

  1. ^ http://www.iranrights.org/english/memorial-case-12920.php

External links

  • Farsinet on Mehdi Dibaj
  • A CRY FROM IRAN. A Documentary on the Religious Persecution in Iran. Haik Hovsepian’s story, directed by his sons
  • Iran Rights Memorial

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Categories: 1935 births | 1994 deaths | Iranian murder victims | Iranian Pentecostals | Converts to Protestantism from Islam | People murdered in Iran | 20th-century Protestant martyrs | 20th-century Protestant clergy | Iranian prisoners sentenced to death | Prisoners sentenced to death by Iran | Iranian former MuslimsHidden categories: Articles needing additional references from February 2007 | All articles needing additional references

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Krikor Agopian

February 7th, 2010

















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Krikor Agopian, (Beirut, 1942) is a Lebanese painter

Over orange backgrounds, he usually shows dreamlike compositions with subtle light effects where conflicts and human vanities are excluded.

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Girl orchestra of Auschwitz

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Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz

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The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz or Girls’ Orchestra of Auschwitz was a female orchestra at Auschwitz concentration camp created in June 1943 by a Polish music teacher, Mrs. Zofia Czajkowska, by order of the SS. The members were prisoner girls, whose membership in the orchestra protected them from being gassed in the gas chamber and from being worked to death. Czajkowska was eventually replaced as conductor by Alma Rosé, the daughter of Gustav Mahler’s sister Justine and of Arnold Rosé. Rosé had been the conductor of a women’s orchestra in her hometown of Vienna.

The orchestra played at the gate when the work gangs went out, and when they returned. During the final stages of the Holocaust, when the mass deportations of Jews from Eastern Europe occurred and large numbers of Jews were sent directly to the gas chambers, the orchestra played in order to put the minds of the victims at ease. The music preserved the illusion that the Jews were being transported “to the East”, and allowed the SS to kill more efficiently. Fania Fénelon denies, in her book, the claim that the orchestra had to play certain specific selections, and calls this a myth. However, she recorded concerts for the SS, and reported that Maria Mandel was particularly fond of her rendition of Madame Butterfly.

The history of the orchestra has been told in memoirs, documentaries and one docudrama. The best known documentation is Fania Fénelon’s vivid novel-memoir, “Playing for Time” (an English translation of “Sursis pour l’orchestre”). Though there is no doubting Fénelon’s skill as a writer and her unsparing analysis of the concentration camp experience, many of the surviving members of the orchestra took issue with her portrayal of Alma Rosé, who appeared in Fénelon’s memoir as a cruel disciplinarian and self-hating Jew who admired the Nazis and courted their favor. A recent biography of Rosé, “Alma Rosé: From Vienna to Auschwitz,” by Rosé family friend Richard Newman and Karen Kirtley, strives to present a different picture of the orchestra leader. It corrects several errors in Fénelon’s account (Rosé was Austrian, not German) and subtler biases: Fénelon, for instance, was never the leader of the orchestra. As a Parisian of socialist sympathies, divorced, active in the Resistance, and formerly a student of Germaine Martinelli, she was considerably more experienced and sophisticated than most of the teenaged girls in the orchestra, to whose immaturity she condescended; but there was never any doubt that Rosé was their leader. Nor, according to Newman and Kirtley, did Fénelon’s and the other Jewish women’s mistrust of the Christian Poles in the orchestra entirely reflect the truth: not all the Poles were anti-Semitic. But most significantly, Rosé emerges in her biography as a heroine who saved the lives of nearly all the women in her care by forcing them to work their hardest even if they were marginally talented, though her dramatic temperament and her egotism do not go unremarked.

Other potential sources of controversy were represented by Fénelon’s novelistic rendering of her experience, with reconstructed conversations and thinly veiled name changes (Violette Jacquet became “Florette,” Hélène Scheps and Hélène Rounder both became “Irene,” Anita Lasker-Wallfisch was “Marta,” and Fanny Birkenwald was “Anny”), and her frank treatment of both prostitution and lesbianism in the camps, with several alleged lesbian liaisons between orchestra members (toward which Fénelon was compassionate). Both the English and the German translations of her memoir were slightly abridged in respect to this last matter.

Rosé died in 1944 of unknown causes; poisoning was suspected by Fénelon and others, but according to Newman and Kirtley the cause was likely to be either botulism or typhus. After Rosé the orchestra was conducted haphazardly by Sonia Vinogradovna, a Russian prisoner, but in January 1945 Auschwitz was dismantled by the Nazis and the orchestra was sent to Bergen-Belsen. Two members, Lola Kroner and Julie Stroumsa, died there. The rest survived, though Ewa Stojowska was badly beaten and Fania Fénelon nearly died of typhus. Fénelon wrote that the orchestra was scheduled to be shot to death on the same day as the liberation by British troops. She was interviewed by the BBC on the day of liberation and performed “La Marseillaise” and “God Save the King.”

Contents

  • 1 Members of the orchestra
  • 2 Literature
  • 3 Media
  • 4 Films
  • 5 External links

Members of the orchestra

  • Alma Rosé, conductor and violinist, Jewish, Austrian
  • Zofia Czajkowska, conductor, Polish
  • Esther Bejarano, accordion, Jewish, German; still plays today with the group Coincidence — they play songs from the Ghetto, Jewish and anti-fascist songs
  • Fania Fénelon, piano and voice, Jewish, French
  • Ewa Stojowska, piano and voice, Polish
  • Helena Dunicz Niwinska, Polish
  • Zofia Cykowiak, violin and copyist, Polish
  • Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, violoncello, Jewish, German
  • Hélène Scheps, violin, Jewish, Belgian
  • Violette Jacquet, violin, Jewish, French, born in Romania; became a pop singer after the war
  • Flora Schrijver, accordion, Jewish, Dutch
  • Julie Stroumsa, violin, Jewish, Greek
  • Fanny Birkenwald, mandolin, Jewish, Belgian
  • Hélène Rounder, violin and copyist, Jewish, French
  • Lily Máthé, violin, Jewish, Hungarian
  • Eva Steiner, voice, Jewish, Hungarian
  • Lola Kroner, flute, Jewish, German
  • Else Felstein, violin, Jewish, Belgian
  • Sonia Vinogradovna, piano, Russian
  • Margot Anzenbacher (Wtrovcova), Jewish, Czech
  • Lotte Lebeda, Jewish, Czech, voice
  • Rachela Zelmanowicz (Olewski), mandolin, Jewish, Poland
  • Masza Pietrkowska, mandolin, Jewish, Poland
  • Hilde Grunbaum (Simha), notes copier, Jewish, German
  • Rivka Bacia (Regina Kuperberg), Alma’s maid (officially known as a notes copier), Jewish, Polish
  • Helen Spitzer Tichauer, mandolin, Jewish, Czech
  • Ruth Bassin, piccolo, Jewish, German
  • Sylvia Wagenberg, recorder, Jewish, German
  • Karla Wagenberg, recorder and piccolo, Jewish, German
  • Yvette Maria Assael (Lennon), accordion, piano, double bass, Jewish, Greek
  • Lily Assael, Jewish, Greek

As of 2005, Esther Bejarano, Violette Jacquet, Hilde Simha, Rivka Bacia (Regina Kuperberg), Masza Pietrkowska (died 1/1/09), Yvette Maria Assael-Lennon (died 7.2008) and Anita Lasker-Wallfisch are known to be among the last living survivors of the girl orchestra.

Literature

  • Playing for Time
  • Wir leben trotzdem
  • Man nannte mich Krümmel
  • Alma Rosé, Vienna 1906-Auschwitz 1944
  • Inherit the truth
  • Das Mädchenorchester von Auschwitz
  • Asszonysors
  • Les sanglots longs des violons de la mort : Avoir dix-huit ans à Auschwitz
  • Tu choisiras la vie
  • Het meisje met de accordion : de overleving van Flora Schrijver in Auschwitz-Birkenau en Bergen-Belsen
  • Crying is Forbidden Here!

Media

  • Esther Bejarano
  • Radio play The Wooden Shoes
  • Stage play “Playing For Time” available from Dramatic Publishing, written by Arthur Miller

Films

  • Esther Bejarano and the girl orchestra of Auschwitz Christel Priemer 1992
  • Bach in Auschwitz Michel Daeron (2000)
  • Playing for Time, Linda Yellen 1980, TV-movie based on Arthur Miller’s stage adaptation; the source of much controversy for its choice of Vanessa Redgrave, a PLO sympathizer, to play Fania Fénelon; Fénelon opposed the not-very-Jewish-looking Redgrave on the grounds that she was miscast as well as being anti-Israeli. Fénelon also was critical of the film’s accuracy, citing an unrealistic degree of freedom among the prisoners. Anita Lasker-Wallfisch supported Redgrave. Alma Rosé was played by Jane Alexander in a widely praised performance. The film is notable for a positive portrayal of a romantic relationship between two prisoners (played by Lenore Harris and Mady Kaplan), well ahead of its time.

External links

  • Numerous witness reports
  • Alma Rosé
  • Northwest Radio
  • Radio Bremen

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Categories: Musical groups established in 1943 | Auschwitz concentration camp | Polish orchestras | Youth orchestrasHidden categories: Articles lacking sources from April 2007 | All articles lacking sources | Articles needing cleanup from August 2007 | All pages needing cleanup

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Leyden Township, Cook County, Illinois

February 6th, 2010

















Leyden Township, Cook County, Illinois

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Leyden Township
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Location in Cook County
Coordinates: 41°56?17?N 87°52?07?W? / ?41.93806°N 87.86861°W? / 41.93806; -87.86861
Country United States
State Illinois
County Cook
Area
 - Total 19.84 sq mi (51.39 km2)
 - Land 19.84 sq mi (51.39 km2)
 - Water 0 sq mi (0 km2)  0%
Elevation 643 ft (196 m)
Population (2000)
 - Total 94,685
 - Density 4,772.4/sq mi (1,842.5/km2)
Time zone CST (UTC-6)
 - Summer (DST) CDT (UTC-5)
ZIP codes 60018, 60068, 60131, 60160, 60164, 60171, 60176, 60656, 60706, 60707
GNIS feature ID 0429252

Leyden Township is one of thirty townships in Cook County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2000 census, its population was 94,685.

Contents

  • 1 Geography
    • 1.1 Cities, towns, villages
    • 1.2 Adjacent townships
    • 1.3 Cemeteries
    • 1.4 Major highways
    • 1.5 Landmarks
  • 2 Political districts
  • 3 References
  • 4 External links

Geography

Leyden Township is located just northwest of the city of Chicago, an edge of which lies within the township but as a separate entity. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township covers an area of 19.84 square miles (51.39 square kilometers).

Cities, towns, villages

  • Bensenville
  • Elmwood Park
  • Franklin Park
  • Melrose Park
  • Norridge (west edge)
  • Northlake
  • Park Ridge (south edge)
  • River Grove
  • Rosemont (southeast three-quarters)
  • Schiller Park

Adjacent townships

  • Maine Township (north)
  • Norwood Park Township (northeast)
  • Oak Park Township (southeast)
  • River Forest Township (southeast)
  • Proviso Township (south)
  • York Township, DuPage County (southwest)
  • Addison Township, DuPage County (west)

Cemeteries

The township contains these five cemeteries: Eden Memorial Park, Elmwood, Fairview Memorial, Memorial Estates and Saint Joseph.

Major highways

  • I-90.svg Interstate 90
  • I-190.svg Interstate 190
  • I-294.svg Interstate 294
  • US 12.svg U.S. Route 12
  • Illinois 19.svg Illinois Route 19
  • Illinois 64.svg Illinois Route 64

Landmarks

  • O’Hare International Airport
  • Cook County Forest Preserve (south quarter)

Political districts

  • Illinois’ 4th congressional district
  • State House District 65
  • State House District 77
  • State Senate District 33
  • State Senate District 39

References

  • “Leyden Township, Cook County, Illinois”. Geographic Names Information System. U.S. Geological Survey. http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:0429252. Retrieved 2010-01-10. 
  • United States Census Bureau 2007 TIGER/Line Shapefiles
  • United States National Atlas
  1. ^ United States Census Bureau American FactFinder

External links

  • Leyden Township site
  • City-Data.com
  • Illinois State Archives
  • Township Officials of Illinois
  • Cool County official site

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Ficus Ruminalis

February 5th, 2010

















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The Ficus Ruminalis was a wild fig tree on the Palatine Hill in ancient Rome near the Lupercal on the Palatine. This tree was said to be sacred to the goddess Rumina. It is also the spot where tradition said the trough containing Romulus and Remus landed on the banks of the Tiber and were reared by a she-wolf.

Tradition said that this tree was removed by the augur Attus Navius and thenceforth stood on the Comitium. Ovid states that only vestigia remained on the original spot in his day, but Livy, in telling the story of the twins, says that the Ogulnii, aediles in 296 B.C., erected a monument that represented the twins and wolf, ad ficum ruminalem. It has also been suggested that the Plutei of Trajan are from a small enclosure wall built around the Ficus Ruminalis and a statue of Marsyas.

It is possible that the site continued to be called Ficus Ruminalis, after the tree itself had disappeared. Ruminalis, according to one view, is to be connected with Ruma the Etruscan, the name from which Rome and Romulus are derived.

The Romans themselves, however, derived it from ruma, rumis, breast; and Herbig has put forward the view that “Roma” is the Latinised form, and as a proper name means “large-breasted,” i.e. strong or powerful.

When the tree began to droop in 58AD it was seen as a bad portent for Rome.

1911 Encyclopedia Entry for Romulus

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Dix’s Grant, New Hampshire

February 4th, 2010

















Dix’s Grant, New Hampshire

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Coordinates: 44°54?12?N 71°11?51?W? / ?44.90333°N 71.1975°W? / 44.90333; -71.1975 Dix’s Grant is a township located in Coos County, New Hampshire, United States. As of the 2000 census, the grant had a total population of 0. In New Hampshire, locations, grants, townships (which are different from towns), and purchases are unincorporated portions of a county which are not part of any town and have limited self-government (if any, as many are uninhabited).

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the grant has a total area of 20.2 square miles (52 km2), none of which is covered by lakes or rivers. The grant’s highest point is 3,279 feet (999 m) above sea level, along the ridge of Crystal Mountain.

Demographics

As of the census of 2000, there are no people living in the grant.

References

  1. ^ “American FactFinder”. United States Census Bureau. http://factfinder.census.gov. Retrieved 2008-01-31. 

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Categories: Townships in Coos County, New Hampshire | Berlin micropolitan area

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Ambresbury Banks

February 3rd, 2010

















Ambresbury Banks

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Ambresbury Banks in Epping Forest

Ambresbury Banks is the name given to the remains of an Iron Age hill fort in Epping Forest, Essex, England. According to legend, it is the site of the last stand by Boudica against the Romans in the year 61. There is no evidence to support this; other theories for the location of the battlefield include Mancetter in Warwickshire and Kings Cross in London.

The fort encircles an area of 4.5 hectares (11 acres) and is surrounded by a single bank of 2 m (6 ft) in height, together with a ditch. There is a small counterscarp bank on the outside lip of the ditch. The defences now have 6 major breaks in their circumference; only one appears to be original. This is approached from the north west by a trapezoidal causeway. The ends of the bank at this point were revetted with coursed puddingstone blocks. The width of the passageway was sufficient to suggest double gates, but no central postholes were found. Finds at the site have included shards of red, grey and black pottery, flints and flint arrow heads, and lumps of baked clay. These suggest a construction date of around 700 BC and occupation until 42 AD.

The area within and around the fort is now completely wooded, although in Iron Age times it would have been cleared of trees to enable a better field of view, and for agriculture. This has been suggested by evidence of Wild Service trees, which are an indicator of regrown forest.

The Ambresbury Banks site has been examined archeologically 9 times; the first excavation was by Augustus Pitt-Rivers in 1881.

References

  1. ^ http://www.indigogroup.co.uk/edge/boudica6.htm
  2. ^ http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/B1A67933-0535-4439-805C-365E8305C05A/0/OS_EF_AncientEarthworks.pdf
  3. ^ http://unlockingessex.essexcc.gov.uk/custom_pages/monument_detail.asp?kids=1&monument_id=301

Coordinates: 51°41?01?N 0°04?42?E? / ?other data for this location”>51.6835°N 0.0784°E? / 51.6835; 0.0784

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Categories: Hill forts in Essex | History of Essex | Epping Forest

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