A child s history of england

A Child's History of England

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Who Made England?

ItÂ’s true: just over 1,000 years ago, English people lived in several smaller countries all over the island of Britain. A Saxon king called Alfred is

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Leeds and Liverpool Canal in Yorkshire: Images of England

In The Leeds a Liverpool Canal in Yorkshire Dr Gary Firth has collected over two hundred photographs of the canal’s eastern section from Leeds to

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Childhood in Anglo-Saxon England

A fascinating in-depth study of what it was like to be a child in Anglo-Saxon times

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Priestley’S England

Priestley’s England explores the cultural, literary and political history of twentieth-century Britain through the radical critique offered by on

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History of Women's Football

A complete history of womenÂ’s football, from its Victorian roots to the Euro Finals in England 2021.

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Mrs England - Halls Stacey

Anotace: From the bestselling author of The Familiars and The Foundling comes Stacey Halls`s most compelling and ambitious novel to date.`Something`s not right here.`I was aware of Mr Booth`s eyes on me, and he seemed to hold his breath. `What do you mean?``In the house. With the family.`West Yorkshire, 1904. When newly graduated nurse Ruby May takes a position looking a...

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Historic England: Somerset

An illustrated history of one of Britain’s finest counties – Somerset. Using photographs taken from the unique Historic England Archive.

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A Child's Introduction to Pride

This new entry into the award-winning Child's Introduction series is an essential and empowering look at the history of the LGBTQIA+ civil rights move

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Sanditon, Lady Susan, & The History of England : The Juvenilia and Shorter Works of Jane Austen - Jane Austenová

<p>Sanditon, Lady Susan, &amp; The History of England: The Juvenilia and Shorter Works of Jane Austen is a rare collection and a must for all Jane-ites.Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover...

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A Child's Introduction to Hip-Hop

This definitive guide to hip-hop teaches kids about the history and world-wide cultural impact of the genre, covering everyone from early heroes like

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Persuader - Child Lee

Anotace: Never forgive, never forget. That`s Jack Reacher`s standard operating procedure. And Francis Xavier Quinn was the worst guy he had ever met. He had done truly unforgivable things. So Reacher was glad to know he was dead. Until the day he saw him, alive and well, riding in a limousine outside Boston`s Symphony Hall. Never apologize. Never explain. When Reacher wi...

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The Secret World : A History of Intelligence - Andrew Christopher

Anotace: The history of espionage is far older than any of today`s intelligence agencies, yet the long history of intelligence operations has been largely forgotten. The first mention of espionage in world literature is in the Book of Exodus.`God sent out spies into the land of Canaan`. From there, Christopher Andrew traces the shift in the ancient world from divination ...

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A Child's Introduction to the Orchestra (Revised and Updated)

This interactive, bestselling introduction to the world of classical music -- from music history and key composers to instruments and arrangements --

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A Child's Introduction to Poetry (Revised and Updated)

This delightful, interactive journey through the history of the world's poetry now includes a removable poster and access to downloadable audio, allow

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Past Tense: Jack Reacher 23 - Child Lee

Anotace: The most hotly anticipated paperback thriller of 2019 follows our hero Jack Reacher on a quest into his father's past, and climaxes in the most stomach-clenching, hair-raising, blood-curdling ticking time bomb of an adventure yet. The present can be tense . . . Two young Canadians trying to get to New York City are stranded at a lonely motel in the middl...

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The Secret History - Tartt Donna

Anotace: FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE GOLDFINCH Truly deserving of the accolade Modern Classic, Donna Tartt's bestseller The Secret History is a remarkable achievement - both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful. ______________________________________ 'What we did was terrible, but still I don't think any of us were bad, exactly;...

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Dian Hanson’s: The History of Men’s Magazines. Vol. 3: 1960s At the Newsstand

The Sexual Revolution brought France and Germany back into serious men’s magazine production, along with Italy, England and even Australia betwee

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Dian Hanson’s: The History of Men’s Magazines. Vol. 5: 1970s At the Newsstand

The newsstand reeled from the Sexual Revolution in the 1970s. â€Real sex†pioneer Peter Wolff vied with redneck Larry Flynt in the U.S.; England

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SHP History Year 9 Pupil´s Book - Banham Dale

Anotace: Develop your students` understanding and skills step by step with Schools History Project`s carefully planned approach to Key Stage 3.This textbook combines expertise in course planning with features that reflect the possibilities and requirements of the National Curriculum.It has everything you would expect from the Schools History Project, including intriguing...

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SHP History Year 8 Pupil´s Book - Culpin Chris, Culpin Chris

Anotace: SHP History is a major new book-per-year course for Key Stage 3 History. It takes the best of the old and the best of the new to create a dynamic and coherent course for a new generation of history pupils. This is the second book in the series and provides a course for Y8 continuing the big stories of Empire, Movement and settlement, Conflict, Power and Everyday...

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Act of Oblivion - Harris Robert

Anotace: From the bestselling author of Fatherland, The Ghostwriter, Munich, and Conclave comes this spellbinding historical novel that brilliant imagines one of the greatest manhunts in history: the search for two Englishmen involved in the killing of King Charles I and the implacable foe on their trail-an epic journey into the wilds of seventeeth-century New England, a...

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If Monet Painted a Monster

A new child-friendly tour of art history.

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A Year of Last Things: From the Booker Prize-winning author of The English Patient - Ondaatje Michael

Anotace: With A Year of Last Things, acclaimed novelist Michael Ondaatje returns to poetry, looking back on a life of displacement and discovery`My life always stops for a new book by him` JHUMPA LAHIRI, author of The Namesake`Timeless... Remarkable, incomparable` TERRANCE HAYES, author of So to SpeakBorn in Sri Lanka during the Second World War, Ondaatje was sent as a c...

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The Ministry of Time - Bradley Kaliane

Anotace: `Within the first couple of pages I was gripped . . . Kaliane Bradley is a wonderful writer`KATE MOSSE, AUTHOR OF THE GHOST SHIP`Holy smokes this novel is an absolute cut above! Exciting, surprising, intellectually provocative, weird, radical, tender and moving. I missed it when I was away from it. I will hurry to re-read it. Make room on your bookshelves for a ...

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An Abundance of Katherines - John Green

Anotace: When it comes to relationships, Colin Singleton's type is girls named Katherine. And when it comes to girls named Katherine, Colin is always getting dumped. Nineteen times, to be exact. On a road trip miles from home, this anagram-happy, washed-up child prodigy has ten thousand dollars in his pocket, a bloodthirsty feral hog on his trail, and an overweight Judge...

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Helga´s Diary: A Young Girl´s Account of Life in a Concentration Camp - Helga Weiss

Anotace: 'The most moving Holocaust diary published since Anne Frank' Daily Telegraph First they led us to the baths, where they took from us everything we still had. Quite literally there wasn't even a hair left. I didn't even recognize my own mother till I heard her voice . . . In 1941, aged 12, Helga Weiss, her mother and father were forced to say goodbye to their hom...

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Chronicles of St Mary´s (9) - neuveden

Anotace: The ninth book in the bestselling Chronicles of St Mary`s series which follows a group of tea-soaked disaster magnets as they hurtle their way around History. If you love Jasper Fforde or Ben Aaronovitch, you won`t be able to resist Jodi Taylor. They say you shouldn`t push your luck. Max gives her own luck a massive shove every day - and it`s only a matter of ti...

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All The Sinners Bleed: the new thriller from the award-winning author of RAZORBLADE TEARS - Cosby S. A.

Anotace: The stunning new thriller from the international bestselling and multi-award-winning author.`S. A. Cosby is not only the future of crime fiction but of any fiction where the words are strong, the characters are strong and the story has a resonance that cuts right to the heart of the most important questions of our time` MICHAEL CONNELLY`Every once in a while a w...

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The Fall of Gondolin - Tolkien J.R.R.

Anotace: In the Tale of The Fall of Gondolin are two of the greatest powers in the world. There is Morgoth of the uttermost evil, unseen in this story but ruling over a vast military power from his fortress of Angband. Deeply opposed to Morgoth is Ulmo, second in might only to Manwë, chief of the Valar. Central to this enmity of the gods is the city of Gondolin, beautifu...

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Act of Oblivion - Robert Harris

<p>From the bestselling author of Fatherland, The Ghostwriter, Munich, and Conclave comes this spellbinding historical novel that brilliant imagines one of the greatest manhunts in history: the search for two Englishmen involved in the killing of King Charles I and the implacable foe on their trail—an epic journey into the wilds of seventeeth-century New England, an...

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Helga´s Diary: A Young Girl´s Account of Life in a Concentration Camp - Helga Weissová

<p>"The most moving Holocaust diary published since Anne Frank". (Daily Telegraph). First they led us to the baths, where they took from us everything we still had. Quite literally there wasn't even a hair left. I didn't even recognize my own mother till I heard her voice...In 1941, aged 12, Helga Weiss, her mother and father were forced to say goodbye to ...

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All The Sinners Bleed: the new thriller from the award-winning author of RAZORBLADE TEARS - S. A. Cosby

<p>The stunning new thriller from the international bestselling and multi-award-winning author.'S. A. Cosby is not only the future of crime fiction but of any fiction where the words are strong, the characters are strong and the story has a resonance that cuts right to the heart of the most important questions of our time' MICHAEL CONNELLY'Every once in a while a wr...

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The Betrayal of Anne Frank - Rosemary Sullivan

<p>‘Hums with living history, human warmth and indignation’ New York Times</p> <p>Less a mystery unsolved than a secret well kept</p> <p>The mystery has haunted generations since the Second World War: Who betrayed Anne Frank and her family? And why?</p> <p>Now, thanks to radical new technology and the obsession of a retired FBI ag...

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The Women of Troy - Barkerová Pat

Anotace: Following her bestselling, critically acclaimed The Silence of the Girls, Pat Barker continues her extraordinary retelling of one of our greatest myths. 'Myth for a MeToo age. Pat Barker returns to Homer in this gory but unexpectedly uplifting novel' Sunday Times Troy has fallen. The Greeks have won their bitter war. They can return home as victors -...

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Belonging : The Story of the Jews 1492-1900 - Simon Schama

<p>A passionate history of Judaism; a world unfolding across many continents and five centuries by one of our greatest and internationally bestselling historians.Belonging is a magnificent cultural history abundantly alive with energy, character and colour. From the Jews’ expulsion from Spain in 1492 it tells the stories not just of rabbis and philosophers but of a ...

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The Fall of Gondolin - John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

<p>Painstakingly restored from Tolkien’s manuscripts and presented for the first time as a standalone work, the epic tale of The Fall of Gondolin will reunite fans of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings with Elves and Men, Balrogs, Dragons and Orcs and the rich landscape and creatures unique to Tolkien’s Middle-earth.</p> <p>In the Tale of The Fall of G...

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The Song of Middle-earth: J. R. R. Tolkien´s Themes, Symbols and Myths, 1. vydání - David Harvey

<p>Available for the first time in paperback, this is the pre-eminent critical study, and exploration, of how myth and legend played such a significant role in the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. The Song of Middle-earth takes a fresh look at The Lord of the Rings, digging deep into the foundations of Tolkien's world to reveal the complex tapestry of history and ...

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The Song of Middle-earth: J. R. R. Tolkien´s Themes, Symbols and Myths, 1. vydání - David Harvey

<p>Available for the first time in paperback, this is the pre-eminent critical study, and exploration, of how myth and legend played such a significant role in the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. The Song of Middle-earth takes a fresh look at The Lord of the Rings, digging deep into the foundations of Tolkien's world to reveal the complex tapestry of history and ...

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Going Dutch - Jardine Lisa

Anotace: In Going Dutch, renowned writer Lisa Jardine tells the remarkable history of the relationship between England and Holland, two of Europe`s most important colonial powers at the dawn of the modern age. Jardine, the author of The Awful End of Prince William the Silent, demonstrates that England`s rise did not come at the expense of the Dutch as is commonly thought...

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Congo - Van Reybrouck David

Anotace: FINALIST FOR THE CUNDILL PRIZE FOR HISTORY `Not only deserves the description "epic", in its true sense, but the term "masterpiece" as well` Independent This gripping epic tells the story of one of the world`s most critical failed nation-states: the Democratic Republic of Congo. Interweaving his own family`s history with the voices of a diverse range of individu...

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Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations - Simon Schama

<p>Cities and countries engulfed by panic and death, desperate for vaccines but fearful of what inoculation may bring. This is what the world has just gone through with Covid-19. But as Simon Schama shows in his epic history of vulnerable humanity caught between the terror of contagion and the ingenuity of science, it has happened before. Characteristically, with...

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James I’s Tumultuous First Year as King

This is the story of a crucial year in the history of England, brimming with great political and social upheaval: the year 1603.

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Little Women (Oxford World´s Classics New Edition) - Alcottová Louisa May

Anotace: Little Women has remained enduringly popular since its publication in 1868, becoming the inspiration for a whole genre of family stories. Set in a small New England community, it tells of the March family: Marmee looks after daughters in the absence of her husband, who is serving as an army chaplain in the Civil War, and Meg, Jo,Beth, and Amy experience domestic...

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Little Women & Good Wives - Alcottová Louisa May

Anotace: Little Women is one of the best-loved children`s stories of all time, based on the author`s own youthful experiences. It describes the family life of the four March sisters living in a small New England community, Meg, the eldest, is pretty and wishes to be a lady; Jo, at fifteen is ungainly and unconventional with an ambition to be an author; Beth is a delicate...

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Just Another Manic Mum-Day - Elliottová Mink

Anotace: Roxy, Jack and daughter Joey, three, are building a new life for themselves in sunny Sydney, Australia, but Roxy`s finding it hard to settle down. When she discovers she`s pregnant again, things become even more complicated - how will she cope with a second child? Frustrated at the lack of places for stressed-out mums to go, Roxy and her new friend, Shoshanna, s...

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The Mosquito - Winegardner Mark

Anotace: A pioneering and groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction that offers a dramatic new perspective on the history of humankind, showing how through millennia, the mosquito has been the single most powerful force in determining humanity`s fate. Why was gin and tonic the cocktail of choice for British colonists in India and Africa? What does Starbucks have to tha...

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Aegypt - Crowley John

Anotace: There is more than one history of the world. Before science defined the modern age, other powers, wondrous and magical, once governed the universe, their lore perfected within a lost capital of hieroglyphs, wizard-kings, and fabulous monuments. In the 1970s, a historian named Pierce Moffett moves to the New England countryside to write a book about AEgypt, driv...

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Escape to the River Sea - Carroll Emma

Anotace: Beautiful and full of adventure, Escape to the River Sea is Emma Carroll`s compelling novel inspired by Eva Ibbotson`s bestselling, classic masterpiece, Journey to the River Sea.`A joyously animal-packed adventure.` - Hilary McKay, Costa Award-winning author of The Skylark`s WarIn 1946, Rosa Sweetman, a young Kindertransport girl, is longing for her family to cl...

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Little Women: Including Good Wives - Alcottová Louisa May

Anotace: Little Women is one of the best-loved children`s stories of all time, based on the author`s own youthful experiences. It describes the family life of the four March sisters living in a small New England community. Meg, the eldest, is pretty and wishes to be a lady; Jo, at fifteen, is ungainly and unconventional with an ambition to be an author; Beth is a delicat...

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THE DA VINCI CODE - Dan Brown

Anotace: Harvard professor Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call while on business in Paris: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been brutally murdered inside the museum. Alongside the body, police have found a series of baffling codes. As Langdon and a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, begin to sort through the bizarre riddles, they are stunn...

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Amongst Our Weapons - Aaronovitch Ben

Anotace: There is a world hidden underneath this great city...The London Silver Vaults - for well over a century, the largest collection of silver for sale in the world. It has more locks than the Bank of England and more cameras than a celebrity punch-up. Not somewhere you can murder someone and vanish without a trace - only that`s what happened.The disappearing act, th...

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The Breakfast Club Adventures: The Phantom Thief - Rashford Marcus

Anotace: Marcus and the Breakfast Club Investigators are back and better than ever, just in time for for a brand new investigation!The Breakfast Club Adventures: The Phantom Thief is the third book in an exciting mystery series by England International footballer, child food-poverty campaigner and bestselling author Marcus Rashford MBE, inspired by Marcus`s own experienc...

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Will - Smith Will

Anotace: Will Smith`s transformation from a fearful child in a tense West Philadelphia home to one of the biggest rap stars of his era and then one of the biggest movie stars in Hollywood history, with a string of box office successes that will likely never be broken, is an epic tale of inner transformation and outer triumph, and Will tells it astonishingly well. But it`...

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Ooku: The Inner Chambers 3 - Yoshinaga Fumi

Anotace: In Eisner-nominated Fumi Yoshinaga`s alternative history of Edo-era Japan, the men of Japan are dying out, and the women have taken up the reigns of power-including the shogun`s seat!In Edo period Japan, a strange new disease called the Redface Pox has begun to prey on the country`s men. Within eighty years of the first outbreak, the male population has fallen b...

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Seduced - Singleton Opal

Anotace: Opal Singleton is President and CEO of Million Kids and Training and Outreach Coordinator for Riverside County Anti Human Trafficking Task Force. Opal trains thousands of government agencies, school administrators, corporations, civic groups and faith based organizations about how to prevent human trafficking. She sits with parents of missing kids and talks with...

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Orphan Train - Baker Kline Christina

Anotace: 1 New York Times Bestseller Available in a special hardcover edition, Christina Baker Kline`s smash bestseller that is "a lovely novel about the search for family that also happens to illuminate a fascinating and forgotten chapter of American history" (Ann Packer). Between 1854 and 1929, so-called orphan trains ran regularly from the cities of the East Coast to ...

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How to Stop Time - Haig Matt

Anotace: 'I am old. That is the first thing to tell you. The thing you are least likely to believe. If you saw me you would probably think I was about forty, but you would be very wrong.' Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but owing to a rare condition, he's been alive for centuries. From Elizabethan England to Jaz...

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How to Stop Time - Matt Haig

Anotace: 'I am old. That is the first thing to tell you. The thing you are least likely to believe. If you saw me you would probably think I was about forty, but you would be very wrong.' Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but owing to a rare condition, he's been alive for centuries. From Elizabethan England to Jazz-Age Paris, ...

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The Daily Dad: 366 Meditations on Fatherhood, Love and Raising Great Kids - Holiday Ryan

Anotace: `Make this book a morning ritual.` - Matthew McConaughey`A simple way to ground us, to force a reflection on the choices we`re making, and the ones we want to make. And it`s not just for dads.` - Emily Oster, author, CribsheetWhat does it mean to be a great father? And how do you become one? Parenting is a role filled with meaning and purpose, but every dad need...

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