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“In this video we will take a look at 5 classic non-fiction books from the 19th century and earlier.”

length: thirty six minutes and eight seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvg2nHl2sFo

@bookstodon

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53% of UK Parents Don’t Buy Books for Their Children

“The survey found that 28% of parents cited affordability as a barrier to purchasing books for their children. For many families, budgeting for essential needs takes precedence over buying books, which might be seen as a non-essential expense.”

https://nen.press/2024/05/17/53-of-uk-parents-dont-buy-books-for-their-children/

@bookstodon

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Britain in Palestine 1917-1948

“Britain in Palestine 1917-1948 investigates the contradictory promises and actions which defined British Mandatory rule in Palestine and laid the groundwork for the Nakba (the catastrophe) and the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. The roots of the contemporary social, political, economic, and environmental landscape of Palestine and Israel can be traced back to this period, making it essential viewing for understanding Britain’s legacy in the region and the situation on the ground today.”

length: eighteen minutes and thrity seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOJqLTc6RkU

@histodon @histodons

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For me, it is not about apportioning blame but rather trying to understand the past.

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Britain in Palestine 1917-1948

“Britain in Palestine 1917-1948 investigates the contradictory promises and actions which defined British Mandatory rule in Palestine and laid the groundwork for the Nakba (the catastrophe) and the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. The roots of the contemporary social, political, economic, and environmental landscape of Palestine and Israel can be traced back to this period, making it essential viewing for understanding Britain’s legacy in the region and the situation on the ground today.”

length: eighteen minutes and thrity seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOJqLTc6RkU

@histodon @histodons

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Britain in Palestine 1917-1948

“Britain in Palestine 1917-1948 investigates the contradictory promises and actions which defined British Mandatory rule in Palestine and laid the groundwork for the Nakba (the catastrophe) and the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. The roots of the contemporary social, political, economic, and environmental landscape of Palestine and Israel can be traced back to this period, making it essential viewing for understanding Britain’s legacy in the region and the situation on the ground today.”

length: eighteen minutes and thrity seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOJqLTc6RkU

@histodon @histodons

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Napoleon’s Nazi Funeral

“One dark and snowy night in December 1940 in German-occupied Paris, a strange funeral took place when German soldiers carried the coffin of Emperor Napoleon II into Les Invalides. Why was a Napoleon receiving a Nazi funeral?”

length: ten minutes and three seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuZcxQzPeFw

@histodon @histodons

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Mesmerising microbes: bacteria as you’ve never seen it before – in pictures

“As a side hustle he manipulates and photographs the microbial world; his images are collected in a book, Beautiful Bacteria. Taking bacteria from substances such as wastewater, dental plaque or kimchi, Danino lets them multiply in a petri dish, adding dyes. The results are artworks differing from the digital enhancements often made in scientific photography to make images more informative.”

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/may/18/beautiful-bacteria-encounters-in-the-microuniverse-tal-danino

@science @biology @microbiology

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Origen of Alexandria and the History of Racism as a Theological Problem

“Earlier scholarly accounts that portray Origen as a champion of human equality and as engaged in anti-racist efforts therefore cannot stand up to scrutiny. Origen disparages certain ethnic groups and develops arguments that connect ethnic identity and geographical location with various degrees of sinfulness. His work offers clear evidence that theories of ethnic inferiority have a long history within the Christian matrix that stretches considerably beyond the modern and medieval periods.”

Matthijs den Dulk, Origen of Alexandria and the History of Racism as a Theological Problem, The Journal of Theological Studies, Volume 71, Issue 1, April 2020, Pages 164–195, https://doi.org/10.1093/jts/flaa025

@histodon @histodons @theology

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“The fakes created during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century tell us another story, one of the rediscovery of the ancient Near East within the Orientalism movement. This fascination about the Orient and the past led certain individuals to create some fantastic stories and theories, such as those published by the writer Zecharia Stichin (1920–2010) who took the mythological battles of gods related in the authentic Babylonian Epic of Creation to be real astronomic phenomena.”

Michel, C. 2020. Cuneiform Fakes: A Long History from Antiquity to the Present Day. In: Michel, C. and Friedrich, M. ed. Fakes and Forgeries of Written Artefacts from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern China. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, pp. 25-60. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110714333-002

@histodon @histodons @bookstodon @archaeodons

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“The fakes created during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century tell us another story, one of the rediscovery of the ancient Near East within the Orientalism movement. This fascination about the Orient and the past led certain individuals to create some fantastic stories and theories, such as those published by the writer Zecharia Stichin (1920–2010) who took the mythological battles of gods related in the authentic Babylonian Epic of Creation to be real astronomic phenomena.”

Michel, C. 2020. Cuneiform Fakes: A Long History from Antiquity to the Present Day. In: Michel, C. and Friedrich, M. ed. Fakes and Forgeries of Written Artefacts from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern China. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, pp. 25-60. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110714333-002

@histodon @histodons @bookstodon @archaeodons

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“The extent to which the worship of Baal and Asherah affected Israel’s understanding of Yahweh is seen in the inscriptions found at Kuntillet Ajrud. Jezebel was not fully responsible for the ongoing worship of Canaanite deities in Israel and Judah but her reign gave legitimacy to the long held tendency.”

Dolan, M. (2024) “Jezebel: A Hebrew Disaster”, Buried History: The Journal of the Australian Institute of Archaeology, 40, pp. 39–48. https://doi.org/10.62614/7d25h288

@archaeodons @antiquidons @histodon @histodons

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The Lost Roman Legion | Possible Explanations

“An exploration into the fate of the Legio IX Hispana and where exactly it drops out of the historical records.”

length: twenty three minutes and forty six seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLD6gwdcAzU

@histodon @histodons @antiquidons

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“Because a growing share of Americans hold highly unfavourable views of big corporations, we argue that the belief that large firms win from trade will provoke hostility towards trade and globalization. To test this theory, we show experimentally that informing people that large corporations benefit from trade makes them markedly more hostile towards trade compared to a treatment emphasizing that firms in exporting industries benefit.”

Menon, A. and Osgood, I. (2024) ‘The Wrong Winners: Anti-Corporate Animus and Attitudes Towards Trade’, British Journal of Political Science, pp. 1–18. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007123424000152.

@politicalscience

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"Because a growing share of Americans hold highly unfavourable views of big corporations, we argue that the belief that large firms win from trade will provoke hostility towards trade and globalization. To test this theory, we show experimentally that informing people that large corporations benefit from trade makes them markedly more hostile towards trade compared to a treatment emphasizing that firms in exporting industries benefit."

Menon, A. and Osgood, I. (2024) ‘The Wrong Winners: Anti-Corporate Animus and Attitudes Towards Trade’, British Journal of Political Science, pp. 1–18. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007123424000152.

@politicalscience

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"Focusing on classical philologists and biblical scholars in nineteenth-century Germany, it examines how Hyperkritik developed from a technical philological term into a pejorative label that was widely invoked to discredit the latest trends in classical philology and, especially, biblical scholarship."

Paul, H. (2024) ‘Hypercriticism: A Case Study in the Rhetoric of Vice’, Modern Intellectual History, pp. 1–25. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1479244324000155.

@histodon @histodons

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Found at last: long-lost branch of the Nile that ran by the pyramids

"The highest concentration of pyramids in Egypt can be found in a stretch of desert between Giza and the village of Lisht. These sites are now several dozens of kilometres away from the Nile River. But Egyptologists have long suspected that the Nile might once have been closer to that stretch than it is today.

Satellite images and geological data now confirm that a tributary of the Nile — which researchers have named the Ahramat Branch — used to run near many of the major sites in the region several thousand years ago."

https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-01449-y

@archaeodons @histodon @histodons

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Found at last: long-lost branch of the Nile that ran by the pyramids

“The highest concentration of pyramids in Egypt can be found in a stretch of desert between Giza and the village of Lisht. These sites are now several dozens of kilometres away from the Nile River. But Egyptologists have long suspected that the Nile might once have been closer to that stretch than it is today.

Satellite images and geological data now confirm that a tributary of the Nile — which researchers have named the Ahramat Branch — used to run near many of the major sites in the region several thousand years ago.”

https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-01449-y

@archaeodons @histodon @histodons

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Found at last: long-lost branch of the Nile that ran by the pyramids

“Satellite images and geological data now confirm that a tributary of the Nile — which researchers have named the Ahramat Branch — used to run near many of the major sites in the region several thousand years ago.”

https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-01449-y

@archaeodons @histodon @histodons

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"After a thorough examination, we may conclude that the item’s amateurish preparation and local origin are suggestive of a scribal exercise. The use of an available mould that was not suitable for a tablet, the child’s fingerprint on the reverse and the corrected mistakes in the script all point to an inexperienced scribe."

Fossé, C. et al. (2024) ‘Archaeo-Material Study of the Cuneiform Tablet from Tel Beth-Shemesh’, Tel Aviv, 51(1), pp. 3–17. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/03344355.2024.2327796.

@archaeodons @antiquidons

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“After a thorough examination, we may conclude that the item’s amateurish preparation and local origin are suggestive of a scribal exercise. The use of an available mould that was not suitable for a tablet, the child’s fingerprint on the reverse and the corrected mistakes in the script all point to an inexperienced scribe.”

Fossé, C. et al. (2024) ‘Archaeo-Material Study of the Cuneiform Tablet from Tel Beth-Shemesh’, Tel Aviv, 51(1), pp. 3–17. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/03344355.2024.2327796.

@archaeodons @antiquidons

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Global population growth peaked six decades ago

“The growth rate peaked in 1963 at over 2% per year, and since then, it has more than halved, falling to less than 1% by 2020.”

https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/global-population-growth-peaked-six-decades-ago

@data

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[I wonder if there is any relationship between the price of gold and monetary policy?]

Why Gold Is More Valuable Than Ever Now

“WSJ breaks down the factors driving gold’s historic rise, and what makes it different from previous rallies.”

length: five minutes and thirty three seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYu-xnjwN4Q

@economics

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[I wonder if there is any relationship between the price of gold and monetary policy?]

Why Gold Is More Valuable Than Ever Now

“WSJ breaks down the factors driving gold’s historic rise, and what makes it different from previous rallies.”

length: five minutes and thirty three seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYu-xnjwN4Q

@economics

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[I wonder if there is any relationship between the price of gold and monetary policy?]

Why Gold Is More Valuable Than Ever Now

“WSJ breaks down the factors driving gold’s historic rise, and what makes it different from previous rallies.”

length: five minutes and thirty three seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYu-xnjwN4Q

@economics

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Mapped: The 10 U.S. States With the Lowest Real GDP Growth

“Delaware witnessed the slowest growth in the country, with real GDP growth of -1.2% over the year as a sluggish finance and insurance sector dampened the state’s economy.”

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/u-s-states-by-lowest-real-gdp-growth/

@data

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How do we use the Earth’s land?

“There are a few pretty big takeaways here. For one, the fact that agriculture takes up almost half of habitable land. Humankind has, over the past 1000 years, turned 120,000 square kilometers of wild habitat into farmland — an area equal to the USA 13 times over.

That, of course, makes agriculture the absolute number one cause of deforestation and our planet’s diminishing biodiversity.”

https://blog.datawrapper.de/land-use-animal-agriculture/

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“Four factors are found to be significant predictors of the position of primary stress: endings, word complexity, the segmental structure of the final syllable, and syllable count. Moreover, this study confirms previous observations on the tendency for American English to have more final stress in French loanwords than British English.”

Dabouis, Q. and Fournier, P. (2024) ‘Stress in French loanwords in British and American English’, Journal of Linguistics, pp. 1–26. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022226724000136.

@linguistics

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John Milton’s notes discovered

"John Milton’s handwritten annotations have been identified in a copy of Holinshed's Chronicles, a vital source of inspiration for the Paradise Lost poet."

https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/john-miltons-notes-discovered-2024

@poetry @literature

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John Milton’s notes discovered

“John Milton’s handwritten annotations have been identified in a copy of Holinshed’s Chronicles, a vital source of inspiration for the Paradise Lost poet.”

https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/john-miltons-notes-discovered-2024

@poetry @literature

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How to measure the Earth

“The first known calculation of the Earth’s circumference was made 2300 years ago by a man called Eratosthenes. I remember in school, how impressed I was by how accurately the Earth’s circumference was measured such long time ago. Today we’re going to take a closer look on how his calculation was made.”

https://blog.datawrapper.de/earth-circumference-eratosthenes/

@histodon @histodons

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Glimpse of next-generation internet

“The Harvard team established the practical makings of the first quantum internet by entangling two quantum memory nodes separated by optical fiber link deployed over a roughly 22-mile loop through Cambridge, Somerville, Watertown, and Boston.”

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2024/05/glimpse-of-next-generation-internet/

@science

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From the manuscript to you: How Old Norse manuscripts are read and edited

"A case-study in how a page from an Old Norse manuscript (in this case the Codex Regius of the Poetic Edda) is edited for publication in a modern-day book. Manuscript images from the Árni Magnússon Institute at the University of Iceland (handrit.is)."

length: Thirty minutes and fifteen seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7KYyj8ed94

@poetry @medievodons

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Episode 294 - The Rise and Fall of Epirus

“Theodoros Doukas the leader of the Roman state of Epirus leads his people to ever greater heights in the 1220s. He captures Thessalonica and drives towards Constantinople itself. Doukas declares himself Emperor but does he have the resources necessary to reach the Hagia Sophia?”

https://shows.acast.com/b53d3462-8bc8-46b5-875c-99d8b173ed52/663e001a9823420012f58523

@histodon @histodons

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Episode 294 - The Rise and Fall of Epirus

“Theodoros Doukas the leader of the Roman state of Epirus leads his people to ever greater heights in the 1220s. He captures Thessalonica and drives towards Constantinople itself. Doukas declares himself Emperor but does he have the resources necessary to reach the Hagia Sophia?”

https://shows.acast.com/b53d3462-8bc8-46b5-875c-99d8b173ed52/663e001a9823420012f58523

@histodon @histodons

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5 Ancient Roman Medical Practices Still in Use Today

“The Romans developed Roman Medicine by leaning on the knowledge of the Greeks, the Egyptians, the Etruscans, and others. Many of their medical practices are still in use today.”

Bakic, Marijana. “5 Ancient Roman Medical Practices Still in Use Today” TheCollector.com, https://www.thecollector.com/ancient-roman-medical-practices-use-today/ (accessed May 13, 2024).

@histodon @histodons

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What causes the aurora borealis?

length: fifty nine seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ez7K0DCbOF4

@science

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Backstabbing, bluffing and playing dead: has AI learned to deceive? – podcast

“Dr Peter Park, an AI existential safety researcher at MIT and author of the research, tells Ian Sample about the different examples of deception he uncovered, and why they will be so difficult to tackle as long as AI remains a black box.”

https://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2024/may/14/backstabbing-bluffing-and-playing-dead-has-ai-learned-to-deceive-podcast

@science

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2023 was the northern hemisphere’s hottest summer in 2,000 years

“Looking back at the past 2,000 years, the team searched for the warmest summers on record to see how they compared to 2023. They found that the hottest June to August in the pre-industrial era was in 246 CE when temperatures were around 0.88⁰C above average.

This record stood for over 1,000 years, before being broken repeatedly since the late 1990s.”

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2024/may/2023-northern-hemisphere-hottest-summer-2000-years.html

@climatechange @geography

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2023 was the northern hemisphere’s hottest summer in 2,000 years

“Looking back at the past 2,000 years, the team searched for the warmest summers on record to see how they compared to 2023. They found that the hottest June to August in the pre-industrial era was in 246 CE when temperatures were around 0.88⁰C above average.

This record stood for over 1,000 years, before being broken repeatedly since the late 1990s.”

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2024/may/2023-northern-hemisphere-hottest-summer-2000-years.html

@climatechange @geography

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2023 was the northern hemisphere’s hottest summer in 2,000 years

“Looking back at the past 2,000 years, the team searched for the warmest summers on record to see how they compared to 2023. They found that the hottest June to August in the pre-industrial era was in 246 CE when temperatures were around 0.88⁰C above average.

This record stood for over 1,000 years, before being broken repeatedly since the late 1990s.”

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2024/may/2023-northern-hemisphere-hottest-summer-2000-years.html

@climatechange @geography

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[Not an entirely absurd proposition]

‘Treat food companies like cigarette companies who are trying to get us addicted’

“Ultra-processed foods are designed to make us overeat and are causing both the obesity and mental health crises in the UK, says scientist and author Tim Spector.”

length: eleven minutes and four seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWECK-3DN40

@science

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[Not an entirely absurd proposition.]

‘Treat food companies like cigarette companies who are trying to get us addicted’

“Ultra-processed foods are designed to make us overeat and are causing both the obesity and mental health crises in the UK, says scientist and author Tim Spector.”

length: eleven minutes and four seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWECK-3DN40

@science

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Vowels and consonants by design

“Some alphabets have been developed intentionally and purposefully to be exactly what the earliest alphabets became: efficient psychotechnologies for enhanced learning, communication and community building.”

https://www.biblonia.com/p/vowels-and-consonants-by-design

@histodon @histodons

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Thomas Willis (1621-1675) : Neurologist, Chemist, Physician

“Willis is not only credited to be the founder of neurology, but he is also seen as the father of comparative neuroanatomy, as his work, in particular Cerebri anatome and De anima brutorum, compare the human brain with that of other species in ‘search for specific human abilities in cognitive functions’ (Molnár, p. 334).”

https://stjohnscollegelibraryoxford.org/2024/05/13/thomas-willis-1621-1675-neurologist-chemist-physician/

@science @earlymodern @histodon @histodons

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Unfortunately, I cannot take credit for it.

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Thomas Willis (1621-1675) : Neurologist, Chemist, Physician

“Willis is not only credited to be the founder of neurology, but he is also seen as the father of comparative neuroanatomy, as his work, in particular Cerebri anatome and De anima brutorum, compare the human brain with that of other species in ‘search for specific human abilities in cognitive functions’ (Molnár, p. 334).”

https://stjohnscollegelibraryoxford.org/2024/05/13/thomas-willis-1621-1675-neurologist-chemist-physician/

@science @earlymodern

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"A Bayesian analysis showed that participants had high expectations and performed descriptively better irrespective of the AI description when a sham-AI was present. Using cognitive modeling, we could trace this advantage back to participants gathering more information."

Agnes Mercedes Kloft, Robin Welsch, Thomas Kosch, and Steeven Villa. 2024. "AI enhances our performance, I have no doubt this one will do the same": The Placebo effect is robust to negative descriptions of AI. In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 299, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642633

@science @technology

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