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    Indexes and selectively abstracts periodical articles, monographs, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, collections of essays, and doctoral dissertations published anywhere in the world. Emphasis is on British, American and Commonwealth writing. Also includes links to the full text of more than 60 journals.
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    Covers past and current Christian theological themes, terms, and theologians. Theological movements and trends, such as liberation theology, feminist theology, and black theology, and theological concepts such as resurrection, miracles, and incarnation, are combined with biographies and beliefs of prominent theologians.
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    Literary Texts
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    Contains nearly 3,000 poems by African-American poets of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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    Literary Texts
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    Over 700 plays by dramatists such as Thomas Paine, Edward Hitchcock, and James Lawson.
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    Literary Texts
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    Contains over 40,000 poems by more than 200 poets, covering the Colonial period to the early twentieth century.
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    Anchor Bible Dictionary on CD-ROM contains everything from the complete and unabridged six volume, 7,200 page print edition, with illustrations. It features over 6,000 entries from 800 international scholars. Entries cover every proper name, major words, each book of the Bible, apocryphal texts, Dead Sea scrolls, and Nag Hammadi codices.
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    Provides citations to international scholarly work concerning the areas of: ancient Greek and Latin language and linguistics; Greek and Roman history, literature, philosophy, art and music, archaeology, religion, mythology, science, and more. The scholarship concentrates on the second millennium B.C. to roughly 500-800 A.D.
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    Literary Texts
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    "The Arden Shakespeare includes: the complete text of every play and poem in The Arden Shakespeare second series; facsimile reproductions of each page of early folio and quarto texts for every play and poem (where these are available); also, in some cases, such as Hamlet, a further quarto text; and five supplementary texts key to the study of Shakespeare."
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    Provides citations from over 250 publications such as periodicals, yearbooks, museum bulletins, exhibition listings, interviews, and film reviews. Also indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. Subjects covered include: advertising art, antiques, archaeology, architecture and architectural history, art history, crafts, decorative arts, folk art, graphic arts, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, motion pictures and film, museology, non-western art, painting, photography, pottery, sculpture, television, and textiles.
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    The main ARTFL database includes almost 2000 French texts. The full text may be searched and results will be displayed in context. However the complete text cannot be displayed. Other databases available through ARTFL include the first edition of Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclop
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    Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) indexes over 1,100 journals in the arts and humanities including architecture, art, Asian studies, classics, history, languages, linguistics, literature, music, philosophy, and theater. AHCI provides bibliographic data, author abstracts, and cited references and is very useful for searching for articles that cite a known author or work (citation searching). Citation searching also allows you to use a given work as a subject term in order to identify more recent articles about the same topic.
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    Profiles milestones and movements in the arts, literature, music and religion from a specific period to help students and researchers understand the various disciplines of the humanities in relation to each other.
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    Indexes and abstracts journal articles, essays in multi-author books, and book reviews, covering nearly all areas of international religious research.
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    Indexes journal articles, book and website reviews, exhibition reviews, and obituaries for architecture, architectural history, design, archaeology, interior design, landscape architecture, historic preservation, and urban planning. Includes "physical details" field, noting such items as photos, plans, drawings, and sections. International in scope.
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    Covers the current international literature on the history of art in Europe and the New World from late antiquity to the present. Includes both the fine arts (architecture, sculpture, painting, drawing and prints) and decorative and applied arts (popular art, folk art). Indexes and abstracts journals, books, conference proceedings, essays, exhibition catalogues, selected art dealers' catalogues, doctoral dissertations and microform publications.
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    Literary Texts
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    Contains twenty different versions of the English Bible from the tenth to the twentieth century, including 12 full Bibles, 5 New Testament texts, 2 versions of the Gospels only, and William Tyndale's translations of the Pentateuch, Jonah and the New Testament.
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    Intended to provide a database comprising all the Latin texts which have appeared in the Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana since its foundation.
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    indexes biographies on over 3 million people worldwide. BGMI provides name, birth and death dates, and citations. Because the citations are not edited rigorously, multiple listings for the same individual are often found with slight name and date variations.
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    Covers books and periodicals of the 19th century. Corresponds to or provides indexing for: Poole's Index to Periodical Literature, Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue, American Periodicals Series, Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, ArchivesUSA, and Palmer's Index to the Times.
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    Rights-cleared, high-quality art images for class projects, art history and studio art programs, course Web sites, lectures, presentations, and research resources.
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    Licensed streaming classical music from multiple labels. Includes contemporary music and women composers.
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    Covers communication and mass media. CMMC incorporates CommSearch and Mass Media Articles Index.
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    Covers the Reformation and post-Reformation eras. Includes the full text of theological writings, biblical commentaries, confessional documents, and polemical treatises written by more than 300 Protestant authors. Supported in part by the Paschal Library Endowment and by the Weatherspoon Library Endowment.
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    Includes papal and synodal decrees, catechisms and inquisitorial manuals, Biblical commentaries, theological treatises and systems, liturgical writings, saints' lives, and devotional works.
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    A collection of American novels and short stories written before 1875. Includes both well-known and obscure figures.
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    Full text of books, pamphlets and broadsides published in England or in English between 1475 and 1700. Includes many of the items indexed in the English Short Title Catalogue. Corresponds to the Pollard and Redgrave, and Wing Short-Title Catalogues, as well as Thomason Tracts.
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    Over 200 works of fictional prose by writers from the British Isles from the period 1500-1700.
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    Literary Texts
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    Contains 11 major editions from the First Folio of 1623 to the Cambridge edition of 1863-6, 28 separate contemporary printings of individual plays and poems, selected apocrypha, and related works. Also contains more than one hundred adaptations, sequels and burlesques from the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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    Full text of books, pamphlets and broadsides published in England or in English between 1701and 1800. Includes many of the items indexed in the English Short Title Catalogue.
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    Literary Texts
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    Contains 96 works in English prose by writers from the British Isles.
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    Corresponds to volumes 1-9 of the printed Encyclopaedia of Islam. Covers religion as well as the art, geography, history, etc. of countries where Islam has most significant presence. Please note: The electronic version is no more updated than the printed version, which has been published in stages since 1960. Therefore some content is over 40 years old. Articles are not dated, but contain bibliographies with dates.
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    Encyclopedias, Reference
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    Entries on Jewish life, culture, history, and religion, written by Israeli, American and European subject specialists.
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    Essays on the African religious tradition. Explores such topics as deities and divinities, the nature of humanity, the end of life, and the conquest of fear.
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    Includes the ethics of health professions, animal research, population control and the environment.
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    Contains thematic articles, biographies of key figures, definitions, illustrations, and maps.
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    Includes all historical religions and the religious systems of the East and the West. The entries are written by religious scholars, are signed, and include bibliographies.
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    Topics include technologies like in vitro fertilization, cloning, and continuing developments in neurophysiology against the backdrop of deeply-held religious beliefs. In addition, phenomena such as the Church of Scientology are also studied, along with more traditional issues, such as the origins of life, the nature of sin, and the philosophy of science and religion.
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    Literary Texts
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    Contains 4,000 plays by 1,200 authors from the late thirteenth century to the early twentieth century.
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    Literary Texts
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    Contains over 165,000 poems essentially comprising the complete English poetic canon from 600-1900. More than 1,250 poets are represented.
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    Literary Texts
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    Contains the works of 50 poets comprising 140 volumes of poetry. The Faber list includes Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, T.S. Eliot, and Sylvia Plath.
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    Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews.
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    An index to creative, critical and scholarly English-language literary journals and magazines (primarily American and Canadian). Most of these journals are either not indexed elsewhere or are indexed only partially in other indexing services. All publications are indexed in their entirety - including fiction and poems.
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    Covers legendary films, actors, actresses, directors, writers, and other production artists. Entries include biographies, filmographies, comprehensive credits, production information, major awards, and bibliographies.
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    Indexes and abstracts over 130 international performing arts periodicals from 9 countries, as well as performing arts articles and obituaries appearing in The New York Times and The Washington Post. Covers nearly all aspects of the world of the performing arts, from the most scholarly studies to the latest crazes.
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    A bibliography of modern scholarship concerning the European Middle Ages (c.450-1500). The entries are drawn from over 4000 periodicals and from over 5000 miscellany volumes (conference proceedings, essay collections and Festschriften).
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    Indexes books and over 1700 periodicals concerning Europe and the Middle East from 400-1700. Includes history, literature, art, politics and government, etc. The separate book database covers books, materials published in books, and collected essays.
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    Literary Texts
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    The standard English edition of the Bible for nearly three centuries, drawing heavily on previous editions and providing the principal influence for many subsequent versions. It is arguably the most influential single document for English literary studies in general.
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    Contains author biographies, literary criticism, journal articles and book reviews.
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    Literary Texts
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    Over 300,000 works of English and American literature. Includes: ABELL; African-American Poetry (1750-present); American Drama (1714-1911); American Poetry (1600-present); The Bible In English (990-1970); Early American Fiction (1789-1850); Early English Prose Fiction (1500-1700); Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare (1591-1911); English Drama (1280-1915); English Poetry (600-present); Eighteenth-Century Fiction; Faber Poetry (1925-1999); King James Bible; Nineteenth Century Fiction; and Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged.
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    Provides access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline. It covers more than 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,000 of the most-studied authors. Literature Resource Center combines Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature, and other reference sets into a single service.
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    Indexes articles, books, chapters of books, conference proceedings, dissertations, and working papers on topics relating to literature, modern languages, folklore, and linguistics.
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    Books
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    Over 14,000 electronic books. Each title is linked individually from the ZSR Online Catalog.
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    Examples of topics covered include communism, linguistics, physics, postmodernism, deconstruction, and post-colonialism.
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    Literary Texts
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    Includes 250 novels from the period 1786 to 1903, including works by all the major Victorian novelists such as Dickens, Thackeray, the Brontes, Eliot and Hardy, as well as the landmarks of Gothic and other fiction from the Romantic period.
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    Topics include antiquities, archaeology, Biblical theology, and philology.
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    Covers art and culture from prehistory to the 1990s. Its multicultural approach offers detailed analyses of civilizations from Asia, Africa, the Americas, Europe, and the Pacific. Provides a guide to the visual arts: painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, drawing, and printmaking, as well as the decorative arts.
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    Corresponds to the 2nd (1989) edition of the printed OED. The online version will be updated quarterly with new and revised definitions. Includes extensive coverage of word etymologies. This version is also searchable by the date that a word entered the English language.
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    Covers all aspects of music worldwide, including composers, performers, other persons involved with music, terminology, musical genres and forms, orchestras, institutions, and cities and towns with significant musical traditions.
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    "PHI CD ROM #5.3 from the Packard Humanities Institute contains Latin literature from earliest beginnings to 200 AD, plus Justinian's Digest, Servius' Commentaries on Virgil, Porphyry's Commentary on Horace, and the following Bible versions: Septuagint, Hebrew Bible, Greek New Testament, Coptic New Testament, Latin Vulgate, King James Version, Revised Standard Version, and Milton's Paradise Lost."
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    "Philosopher's Index provides indexing and abstracts from books and over 270 journals published in the U.S. and the Western World. Covers philosophy and related interdisciplinary fields."
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    Provides access to the full text of over 100 scholarly journals in the arts and humanities and social sciences.
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    Full text coverage of religious affairs and theology.
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    "The Repertoire d'Art et d'Archeolgie (RAA) database includes abstracts and indexes on all aspects of European and American art and architecture. European art is covered from late Antiquity (4th c.) to 1989. American art is covered from the European discoveries (16th c.) to 1989. Art reflecting the Western tradition in other parts of the world is also included. All types of publication are covered: books, periodical articles, reviews, conference proceedings, Festschriften, collected essays, exhibition catalogues, museum publications, and doctoral dissertations. RAA merged with the International Repertory of the Literature of Art (RILA) to form BHA." - Database information provided by the J. Paul Getty Trust
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    The first section profiles the authors and offers personal and career details, as well as complete bibliographical information. Section two helps readers gain deeper understanding of the authors and the genre with critical essays discussing 402 important works.
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    "The International Repertory of the Literature of Art (RILA) is the predecessor of BHA. BHA and RILA together cover literature published since 1973. RILA includes abstracts and indexes on all aspects of European and American art and architecture. European art is covered from late Antiquity (4th c.) to 1989. American art is covered from the European discoveries (16th c.) to 1989. Art reflecting the Western tradition in other parts of the world is also included. All types of publication are covered: books, periodical articles, reviews, conference proceedings, Festschriften, collected essays, exhibition catalogues, museum publications, and doctoral dissertations." - Database information provided by the J. Paul Getty Trust
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    RILM is a comprehensive music bibliography featuring citations, abstracts, and indexes. Publications originate from 151 countries and are in 214 languages. There are currently over 550,000 records in RILM on traditional music, popular music, and classical music. Coverage of all document types begins in 1967. Coverage of Conference Proceedings goes back to 1835.
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    Series A/II of the RISM project, documenting music manuscripts written after 1600, in libraries and archives in 31 countries. Includes bibliographic description, music incipit, provenance, and holding library.
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    Multiple resources for the study of Shakespeare, including criticism, the Arden full-text annotated editions, journal articles, prompt books, and other reference material.
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    A continually updated free encyclopedia that is maintained by philosophy scholars.
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    Streaming video of definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries. Users can bookmark specific scenes, monologues and staging. Includes the BBC Shakespeare Collection.
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    "The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae CD ROM E contains virtually all ancient Greek texts surviving from the period between Homer (8th century B.C.) and A.D. 600, and a large number of Medieval texts deriving from the period between A. D. 600 and the fall of Byzantium in 1453. Scholia and Byzantine historigraphical and lexicographical works have already been digitized and are included in this disk. In addition to its extensive collection of texts, the TLG contains the canon of Greek authors and works, a comprehensive database of all known ancient Greek and Byzantine authors. Complete bibliographical information about all works in the CD ROM is included. Software allows one to locate and tabulate linguistic phenomena and to undertake lexical, grammatical and stylistic studies that would have been immensely time-consuming, if not impossible, in earlier eras."" TLG users include researchers, educators and students from a wide range of disciplines such as Classics, archaeology, Byzantine studies, history, art history, philosophy, linguistics, theology, and religious studies."
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    Literary Texts
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    A collection of poetry written by the most important and influential African American poets of the twentieth century. Includes over 10,000 poems by around 70 poets, including Rita Dove, Robert Hayden, Sherley Anne Williams, Bob Kaufman, and Langston Hughes.
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    Includes over 50,000 poems by over 300 poets, including Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Denise Levertov, Wallace Stevens, Langston Hughes, and Cathy Song.
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    Literary Texts
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    Over 500 volumes of poetry including W. B. Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Graves, A. E. Housman, John Betjeman, Fleur Adcock, Tony Harrison, Benjamin Zephaniah and Carol Ann Duffy.
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    Literary Texts
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    "Women Writers Online contains the full text of hundreds of pre-Victorian English-language works written by women. Works are both fiction and non-fiction. The text of each work is fully searchable. A special subset, Renaissance Women Online, contains 100 works from this period as well as critical commentary."
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