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the douglas p. cooper distinguished contemporaries...

THE ORIGINS OF THIS COLLECTIONA Childhood Spent PreparingI deem it was actually a confluence of four...

what the ebbs and flows of the kkk can tell us...

As long as the United States has existed,there's been some version of white supremacy. But over...

the forgotten history of a prison uprising in...

Jimmie Childress had been sitting in a Kansas City jail for two months,waiting to be tried for...

the power of martin luther king jr.s anger

When Martin Luther King,Jr. was in tall school, he won an oratorical contest sponsored by the Negro...

theodore roosevelt: the rough and tumble,...

Theodore Roosevelt,the United States' 26th president, found solace on the sweat-soaked...

after mlks death, coretta scott king went to...

Coretta Scott King was often referred to as the "first lady of civil rights," known primarily as the...

two political operatives walk into a bar... and...

It was only a matter of time before this presidential campaign literally came to blows.That's...

report updates landmark 1968 racism study. finds...

In 1967,over 100 cities, large and small, and exploded in fire and violence,the result of decades of...

report updates landmark 1968 racism study, finds...

In 1967,over 100 cities, large and small, or exploded in fire and violence,the result of decades of...

the night in 1968 when a nation watched an...

On the night of March 12,1968, TV audiences saw an American presidency of monumental proportions...

when nazis took manhattan

On the evening of Feb. 20,1939, the marquee of modern York's Madison Square Garden was lit up...

military victory but political defeat: the tet...

Looking back a half century,to when they were young officers, their memories of the battle of Hue...

those raised fists still resonate, 50 years later

John Carlos and Tommie Smith came to the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City with a diagram: If they...

the student strike that changed higher ed forever

nowadays,ethnic studies is an accepted part of academia. Many if not most college students own taken...

for years, anita hill was a canary in the coal...

Stories approximately sexual harassment in the workplace have dominated the news cycle this...

wreck of legendary spanish galleon is finally...

More than 300 years after it sank during an attack in the Caribbean near Cartagena's coast,a...

brazil enslaved

An enslaved woman is sitting with her white charge in her lap. She is well dressed in a pristine...

before bright lights and rapid fire, there was...

It is common knowledge that televised debates between presidential candidates began with Richard...

in one of chinatowns oldest landmarks, a new...

On a cold evening in Manhattan's Chinatown,Mei Lum sits at the front counter of her...

walter cronkite

Conversations: 1967,1971 & 1973The 1967 InterviewSherwin Harris, Douglas P. Cooper and Walter...

students identify with 50 year old supreme court...

They came by subway,and on foot. Two hundred forty middle and high school students from Washington,...

jelani cobb on his epic new yorker piece on black...

Before Black Lives Matter was a hashtag,before it was a slogan chanted by protesters in cities...

in california, a welcome home for the japanese...

Tadaima. Okaeri.Paired together,these two Japanese words are a common greeting-and-response. Tadaima...

my great grandfather narrowly escaped a lynch mob...

When I was a kid,my mom told me a story approximately her grandfather: That he got in trouble with...

in 1968, poor americans came to d.c. to protest,...

Fifty years ago,photographer and folklorist Roland Freeman hitched his hopes to a humble caravan of...

the education of bobby kennedy — on race

Back in May,1963, then-Attorney General Robert Kennedy invited a select group of black entertainers...

the smithsonian wants latino advertisers to help...

Not long ago,Kathleen Franz was sifting through the archives at the Smithsonian's National...

a brief history of the political outsider

Breaking News! Non-political,outsider candidates are shaking up the polls! Anti-establishment...

does america really need the national mall?

Just a few weeks ago,the nonprofit Trust for the National Mall staged a music festival — featuring...

npr identifies 4th attacker in civil rights era...

An NPR investigation has uncovered unusual evidence in a prominent unsolved murder case from the...

estadio centenario in montevideo, uruguay

Built to host the first-ever FIFA World Cup in 1930,Montevideo's Estadio Centenario is today...

wonder woman s ancestors? dna is revealing how...

Wonder Woman is supposed to be an Amazon,meaning whoever dreamed up her background got her ancestry...

czars and firebrands: a brief history of power in...

This fall,we have seen a sitting House speaker announce his resignation because he no longer feels...

scientists create new digital model for 2,000 year...

Great mysteries are meant to be penetrated and one of the most fascinating is the...

do the words race riot belong on a historic marker...

A somber procession began on Sunday in the courtyard of the former Lorraine Motel in Memphis,Tenn.,...

in newly found audio, a forgotten civil rights...

He was an adviser to Martin Luther King Jr. and the organizer behind the 1963 March on Washington....

thomas mertons hermitage in new haven, kentucky

In the 1960s,Thomas Merton’s writing fame had thrust him into the public eye. A tireless critic of...

this weird, winged shark once swam prehistoric...

With wings reminiscent of manta or devil rays and a broad mouth for extended plankton feeding,a...

high chance that 2 rooms are hidden behind king...

They know something is there; they just don't know how big it is. That's the latest from...

beyond the dreidel: the songs of hanukkah — and...

Hannukah commemorates the reclaiming of the Holy Temple of Jerusalem during the Maccabean Revolt. It...

how the voting rights act came to be

nowadays the Supreme Court hears arguments in Shelby County v. Holder,the case that will determine...

wade in the water: an introduction

Wade in the Water is a 26-part series,originally released in 1994, that celebrates African American...

virginia scandals draw attention to the...

In Virginia,two of the top three statewide elected officials hold admitted to wearing blackface...

virginia governor signs law abolishing the death...

On Wednesday,Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam signed a bill into law abolishing the death penalty in the...

alphege windows in kent, england

Among the many vibrantly colored stained-glass windows of Canterbury Cathedral are three...

why president? how the u.s. named its leader

The Presidents Day holiday got us wondering: Why do we call the leader of our country...

student arrested after protesting universitys plan...

A North Carolina graduate student who led a protest against her university's contrivance to...

as isis destroys artifacts, could some antiquities...

The so-called Islamic State continues to wreak a human toll in the Middle East. And in addition to...

civil rights leader dorothy cotton dies at 88

Dorothy Cotton,a leader in the civil rights movement who educated thousands of African-Americans...

illinois holocaust museum preserves survivors...

Holocaust survivor Sam Harris has told the yarn of how he survived the Holocaust hundreds of...

pearl harbor: how a date which will live in infamy...

Seventy-four years ago,President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed December 7, 1941, and as a "date...

sculpture of eugenia martinez vallejo in aviles,...

One Sunday in 1674,Antonia de la Bodega and José Martínez Vallejo entered their church in the...

spring 1968: returning home to a smoke filled city...

Martin Luther King,Jr.'s assassination on April 4, 1968 shook the nation. For me, and it was a...

episode 7: in jesus name... we legislate

There’s been much progress for the LGBTQ community over the past decade: the legal debate over...

3 north carolina confederate monuments will stay...

As communities across the country grapple with what to conclude with their Confederate...

church of st. cajetan in velha goa, india

In spite of the surfeit of religious architecture dotting Goa’s ecclesiastical landscape,the...

al qurain martyrs museum in qurain, kuwait

In the aftermath of the Iraqi invasion in 1990,several cells of popular resistance arose throughout...

sanctuary cities fight back, may day movements,...

Coming up on today's exhibit: final week,a federal judge in San Francisco blocked President...

lynching memorial in alabama remembers the victims...

The National Memorial for Peace and Justice sits on six acres facing the Alabama state capital....

human sacrifice is linked to social hierarchies in...

Saying they found "a darker link between religion and the evolution of modern hierarchical...

with dramas on the dial, freedom made history by...

Just after the moment World War,at a time when segregation remained firmly ensconced in the U.S.,...

now is the time by melvyn bragg review -...

Fifteen years in the writing,Bragg’s novel is hamstrung by his desire for accuracy, while new...

parker dam in parker, arizona

Water has always been a point of contention in the arid U.S. Southwest. In 1922,an agreement on...

fairfax nike missile site in fairfax, virginia

This unassuming site off of the Fairfax County Parkway was once a piece of a chain of Nike missiles...

what do islamist extremists believe? salafi...

Islamist extremism is now so entrenched that it’s easy to forget how recent it is. Two books...

james garfield memorial fireplace in willcox,...

President James Garfield was shot by an assassin only a few months into his term in 1881,and died...

cascade park in new castle, pennsylvania

New Castle,Pennsylvania, was a booming town at the turn of the 19th century, or when the local...

kigungu missionary landing site in entebbe, uganda

In 1879,two French missionaries crossed Lake Victoria and landed on the Kigungu Peninsular. They...

final solution by david cesarani review - the...

Why did the Nazi regime murder up to 6 million Jews during the second world war? This masterful...

royal malaysian police museum in kuala lumpur,...

It’s impartial to say that most travelers don’t get too excited when they see a police museum;...

last known carville house in san francisco,...

When cable cars and streetcars began replacing San Francisco's old horsecars,the Market Street...

3 generations in memphis reflect on martin luther...

As Memphis marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.,NPR...

50 years on, final documents may break the mystery...

Coming up on nowadays's show:About 80 percent of Puerto Rico’s electric grid was damaged...

alf landon

Douglas Cooper's February,1972 telephone conversation with Governor Alf Landon (1936...

fact checking trump, the hidden dangers of tasers,...

Coming up on nowadays's show:The Washington Post has been tracking counterfeit or misleading...

the bitter taste of victory by lara feigel review...

Lee Miller,Billy Wilder, Martha Gellhorn and Evelyn Waugh were among the cultural stars who...

the homes he lived in

Here on The Jonathan Channel,we're starting a new miniseries for Sinatra 100 entitled ‘The...

sas: rogue heroes by ben macintyre review -...

Having gained access to the SAS archives,Macintyre tells with flair the story of the unit during the...

joseph smith birthplace memorial in royalton,...

On December 23,1805, Joseph Smith Jr. was born in a small farmhouse in Sharon, or Vermont. Named for...

the founding father of arab american literature

Ameen Rihani (1876 – 1940),was a Lebanese Arab-American writer, intellectual and political...

guanica lighthouse ruins in guanica, puerto rico

During the late 19th century,the Spanish government in Puerto Rico built approximately 15...

el ponce in ponce, puerto rico

Overlooking the city of Ponce are the remains of a situation once synonymous with entertainment and...

the internationalists by oona hathaway and scott...

A sparkling account of how a colourful cast of lawyers and jurists changed the world order by...

dickens and little nell in philadelphia,...

Charles Dickens,in his will, stated that he did not want any statues or other representations of...

wreckage of capt. cooks hms endeavor may be in...

The vessel that British explorer Capt. James Cook used to sail to Australia in the late 1700s may...

the hundred years war, vol iv: cursed kings by...

There is no ‘God for Harry’ spin here,but this is a book packed with crazed kings, dastardly...

wade in the water ep. 9: the struggle for a new...

The struggle of African Americans seeking careers as professional classical music concert...

can only non white people be terrorists?

Coming up on nowadays's show:Over the weekend,a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville,...

an iraqi family forced to flee

Director Zaradasht Ahmed joins us to discuss his film,“Nowhere to mask,” which won Best Feature...

wade in the water ep. 5: the power of communal...

The story of African American religious music as a moral weapon,to galvanize individuals for worship...

white supremacy, domestic terrorism strikes fear...

Coming up on nowadays's explain:Over the weekend,a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville,...

on stalin s team by sheila fitzpatrick review -...

A superbly researched book details the incompetents and priapic murderers whom Stalin selected to...

history s people by margaret macmillan review -...

From Richard Nixon’s dog to the Mughal emperor who had his cook skinned alive,MacMillan’s study...

when baghdad was centre of the scientific world

Islamic science had its heyday in the ninth century,thanks to Abū Ja'far...

wade in the water ep. 13: the song ministry of...

The tale of Charles Albert Tindley,the first gospel composer, and the migration of African Americans...

wade in the water ep. 24: the story of the...

The migration and effects of geographical considerations on the sound,as African Americans moved...

yorkshire by richard morris review - englands...

This fragmented history contains a wealth of fascinating information and is at its best when the...

heyday by ben wilson review - the birth of the...

From noiseless curtain rings to the first transatlantic communication – the Victorian wonders that...

kick by paula byrne review - what if jfk had been...

Kick Kennedy,‘JFK’s forgotten sister and the heir to Chatsworth’, had as much personality and...

new york area vets react to obamas upcoming trip...

President Obama will visit Vietnam this weekend on his way to the G-7 Summit in Japan. Memories of...

dynasty by tom holland review - the soap opera...

Orgies,sadism, matricide … this overblown account is ancient Rome for the age of Donald...

wade in the water ep. 7: the fisk jubilee singers...

The sound,history and legacy of the concert or arranged spiritual, and the role of the black...

wade in the water ep. 19: the many ways of the...

The connecting lines between sacred and secular,explored through performances, texts, and...

people and landscape of michoacan mural in...

In the city of Morelia,concealed behind the stone walls of the governmental palace, lies a courtyard...

why the response to the centenary is muted - the...

One hunded years after the Bolshevik revolt,books by Masha Gessen, Serhii Plokhy, or Yuri Slezkine...

shakespeare and company, paris review - the famous...

Sylvia Beach’s store,where Hemingway, Joyce and others gathered, or was closed down by the Nazis....

forgotten heroes - the true story of india

In his history of the people who helped make India nowadays,Sunil Khilnani set out to complicate...

barney family mausoleum in springfield,...

In 1884,Springfield residents Orick Greenleaf and Everett Barney donated 65 and 178 acres of land,...

puerto hermina ruins in quebradillas, puerto rico

The island of Puerto Rico,like the rest of the Caribbean, was no stranger to piracy during the...

civilisations by david olusoga review - a riposte...

A subversive response to Kenneth Clark’s series deconstructs the notion of civilisation and charts...

enver hoxha: the iron fist of albania by blendi...

Hoxha proclaimed Albania the world’s first atheist state,and oversaw much economic progress, but...

lyme regis museum in dorset, england

Collecting natural history treasures was all the rage in 19th-century Britain. Among the most...

kamerlingh onnes laboratory plaque in leiden,...

When thinking of the coldest place on the planet,the Netherlands is probably not what comes to...

the german war: a nation under arms, 1939 45 by...

This vivid history of everyday life captures the complex feelings of ordinary Germans under the Nazi...

1606: william shakespeare and the year of lear by...

An incredible burst of creative labour was the playwright’s response to an era of ‘troubled...

wade in the water ep. 6: lined hymn shaped note...

Two musical traditions,originating from Europe and adapted by African American converts to...

wade in the water ep. 16: the gospel song legacy...

The "father of gospel music," whose efforts led to an innovative performance style and refashioned...

tjelvars grave in boge, sweden

Gotland is a beautiful island in the middle of the Baltic Sea with a pleasant and temperate climate...

naacp honors memphis sanitation workers who went...

In 1968,1300 black men from the Memphis Department of Public Works went on strike after a...

crusoe s island by andrew lambert review -...

Lambert is fine on naval history,but less good on imaginative literature. He has an unhealthy...

kenneth goldsmith capital: new york, capital of...

From sex and the subway to loneliness and gentrification,Goldsmith’s collage of many voices...

wade in the water ep. 17: the music of roberta...

The contributions made by composer-musicians Roberta Martin and Kenneth Morris,who continued Thomas...

the garden of dreams in kathmandu, nepal

The Garden of Dreams (Swapna Bagaicha) was the idyllic vision of Kaiser Sumsher Rana,a field marshal...

tackling lack of ethnic diversity in the oxford...

The criticisms of who has been included in the 241 unusual Oxford Dictionary of National Biography...

the last royal rebel by anna keay review - the...

The Duke of Monmouth,illegitimate son of Charles II, led the illustrious rebellion in 1685 against...

netanyahu and the holocaust: distorting history...

Click on the audio player above to hear this interview.A recent wave of violence in the Middle East...

moot hall in wirksworth, england

In the lead mining districts of Derbyshire,once the most productive in the world, a series of mining...

grave of philibert aspairt in gennevilliers,...

The Paris Catacombs are a massive maze of tunnels running under the city in all directions for...

monument to the indigenous people in santiago,...

In Santiago's main square stands a striking sculpture called the Monument to the Indigenous...

brolliology by marion rankine review - thinking...

Mary Poppins used one to fly but for most people they are merely ‘portable roofs’. maintain...

kl: a history of the nazi concentration camps by...

A huge and necessary contribution to our understanding of this chilling subjectA common belief...

1956: the world in revolt; 1956: the year that...

Three books about the postwar era – by Simon corridor,Francis Beckett and Tony Russell, and Jon...

of beards and men: the revealing history of...

Is a fashion for beards just a fashion? Or does it say something about gender politics,youth versus...

tom holland interview: caligula, vampires and...

The bestselling historian talks Islam,Twitter storms and the lurid (shocking; sensational) world of...

wade in the water ep. 1: songs and singing as...

The relationship between song and singing,and worship and belief in both the organized and...

wade in the water ep. 18: i am a soldier in the...

Shout songs,drums, clapping, and horns and choral chants that fed the evolution of 20th century...

what does religious freedom look like in 2016?

All this week,we've been examining the legacy and current state of President Roosevelt's...

heroic failure and the british by stephanie...

From the Charge of the Light Brigade to the failed explorations of Scott and David Livingstone,a...

the burning question - how cremation became our...

From 18th century devout battles over the revival of cremation to colouring tattoo ink with...

how to plan a crusade by christopher tyerman...

‘Medieval’ is often associated with barbarism and bigotry,but this fascinating study suggests it...

incarnations: india in 50 lives by sunil khilnani...

Khilnani is by no means to blame for the global ‘India racket’,but even well-meaning...

carl e schorske obituary

main US historian who won the Pulitzer prize in 1981 for his book Fin-de-siècle Vienna: Politics...

wade in the water ep. 26: pushing the boundaries...

The composers who pioneered the current era,with their specific blend of traditional gospel music...

truth politics power: the wall

Truth Politics & Power is a weekly series where host Neal Conan engages with...

the great british dream factory by dominic...

From James Bond to the Beatles to Bowie … but where’s Alice? This clear and amusing survey of...

east west street by philippe sands and a passing...

Where did the terms ‘genocide’ and ‘crimes against humanity’ approach from? And what is...

mein kampf: eine kritische edition review - taking...

It is entirely appropriate to republish the Nazi leader’s autobiography now out of copyright –...

severed by frances larson review - a head on look...

From the guillotine to more recent decapitations,this thought-provoking history of lost heads both...

the silk roads by peter frankopan review - a...

An ambitious Persian-centric rewrite of world history is full of insight but let down by factual...

black earth by timothy snyder review - a new...

The Nazi genocide serves as a warning we should heed in facing nowadays’s crises,Snyder claims....

wade in the water ep. 15: william herbert...

The first gospel drama playwright,producer and composer, whose compositions were the first...

the 100 best nonfiction books: no 99 - the history...

Raleigh’s book,packed with veiled political advice and suppressed soon after publication, is a...

luc sante: money doesn t kill people, but it...

The cultural historian on 19th-century New York lowlife,jazz age Paris and how cities are tamed by...

listen to the joys and frustrations of subway...

In this 1964 episode of Around unusual York,the inimitable Tony Schwartz presents an aural portrait...

the guardians: the league of nations and the...

The League of Nations may have been imperfect,but it changed the face of international...

latino usa: 21st century pope

In this special from Latino USA,celebrate Pope Francis’ visit to the United States by learning...

wade in the water ep. 4: sacred songs as history

The sinking of the Titanic,the Depression, World Wars I and II and the civil rights movement, or the...

wade in the water ep. 10: the legacy of the golden...

The legacy of this internationally renowned ensemble,innovators of the "jubilee" singing style which...

wnyc vintage microphone slide show

"This microphone is not an ordinary instrument,[br]For it looks out on vistas wide indeed:My voice...

directorate s by steve coll review - the us v al...

This sequel to Ghost Wars might well become the definitive account of the CIA and America’s secret...

the house of the dead by daniel beer review - was...

An excellent study of Siberian exile under the tsars tells of punishments,executions and visitors...

jacobites by jacqueline riding review - the myths...

Too many books about the 1745 rebellion and Culloden are full of false parallels or dripping in...

empire of things by frank trentmann review - a...

This history of consumption is fascinating and broad in scope,from Ming-era China to the pleasures...

marriages are made in bond street by penrose...

‘Terrible. Looks like hell’,‘Rather like a ferret, though friends of the Coxes’, or were two...

i hart k pop

First,we peer back at the moment when poking into the private lives of political figures became...

john bossy obituary

Historian whose work transformed understanding of the transition from medieval to modern...

dynasty: the rise and fall of the house of caesar...

A formidable account of Rome’s terrifying first dynasty doesn’t skirt the cruelty and...

wade in the water ep. 2: in search of the sacred

One woman's search for the broader meanings of the African American interpretations of...

wade in the water ep. 3: steal away, songs ...

African American oral tradition rich with memories,testimonies and songs from the tough days of 19th...

students helped end the vietnam war. can they help...

Here's what you'll find on today's note:— A national movement is brewing. After...

the great british dream factory by dominic...

Britain has become a cultural superpower by exporting Top Gear,Del Boy and Andrew Lloyd Webber …...

preston martyrs memorial in lancashire, england

The economic depression that hit England in the early 1800s resulted in wage cuts of over 25...

fort ross in jenner, california

When people think of California many things come to intellect,and 19th-century Russia is generally...

the shortest history of germany review - probing...

James Hawes’s brief yet rewarding history of Germany examines its station in a continent in the...

wade in the water ep. 12: from local community to...

The networks that helped to unify the African American community as a people and bring the music to...

wade in the water ep. 25: pushing the boundaries...

The massive increase of gospel singing practiced in the church and on the wider concert stage.Song...

october by china mieville review - a brilliant...

Miéville returns to the dazzling reality of the events of 1917 and sees nothing inevitable about...

asa briggs obituary

Social historian best known for his work on the Victorian era who played a key role in the...

gordon bennett and the first yacht race across the...

Gordon Bennett’s extravagances were so famous that his name became an exclamation of incredulity....

west of eden: an american place by jean stein...

A sweeping history of Tinseltown lays bare its murky,hellish originsWhen John Steinbeck relocated...

japan, s. korea reach resolution on wwii sex...

Click on the audio player above to hear this interview.More than 70 years after the end of World...

smile my ass

Candid Camera is one of the most original and one of the most impish – TV shows of all time....

wade in the water ep. 8: african american...

Composers like Harry T. Burleigh,Nathaniel Dett and William Dawson, who applied Western classical...

six minutes in may: how churchill unexpectedly...

Nicholas Shakespeare’s flair as a novelist makes a gripping legend of Churchill’s unlikely rise...

american heiress by jeffrey toobin review - was...

The author of The People v OJ Simpson examines another ‘trial of the century’,which hinged on...

memories: from moscow to the black sea by teffi...

The memoir of a refugee from the Bolsheviks brings humour and warmth to some of the bleakest years...

to hell and back: europe, 1914 1949 by ian kershaw...

We all know what happened,but could it have been prevented? An admirable analysis of a continent’s...

colin platt obituary

Historian whose many books changed our perception of the middle agesAt times,the homicide rate in...

wade in the water ep. 20: beyond text: instruments...

Music without words,an experience of the power of instrumental African American sacred music.Song...

andrew young crossing in st. augustine, florida

In a city with as much colonial history as St. Augustine,Florida, it's easy to forget that some...

the house by the lake by thomas harding review -...

The author of the bestselling Hanns and Rudolf has taken a slice of family history and made it all...

the murty classical library of india review -...

As debates over culture and nationalism rage in India,these unusual translations of classic early...

wade in the water ep. 14: lucie campbell, gospels...

The prolific composer and teacher who encouraged new talent,created the repertoire and expanded...

wade in the water ep. 23: sing till the power ...

Virtuoso performances created by masters and documented through audio recordings that set the mold...

podcast: 2019 05 07 celebrating one year of...

One year ago today, Tanzina Vega made her debut as the host of The Takeaway. At the time,...

berzelius park in norrmalm, sweden

Jöns Jacob Berzelius is Sweden's most well-known chemist and is considered one of the founders...

the making of the british landscape by nicholas...

This magnificent book,ranging from the ice age to the present, considers the influence on the...

how civil rights activists risked their lives to...

1964’s voter registration drive mobilised black people in Mississippi,using skills quickly adopted...

kathmandu by thomas bell - review

Nepal’s earthquake,a year ago this week, is just one chapter in the country’s tragic historyWhen...

urine deflectors of fleet street in london,...

Just off of London’s famous Fleet Street runs a small,unassuming alleyway named Cliffords Inn...

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