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| History POWERSEARCH | Searches the following
databases simultaneously: Academic Search Complete , Essay & General Literature Index, Humanities Abstracts, Humanities International Index, Military and Government Collection , Social Sciences Abstracts, World History Collection, America: History & Life, Historical Abstracts. How to Search This Database |
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Based on Joseph Sabin's landmark bibliography, this collection contains full-text works about the Americas---including Latin America and Canada--- published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900's. Included are books, pamphlets, serials and other documents that provide original accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, military actions and more. |
| Periodicals Archive Online database is the new name of PCI Full Text---an archive of hundreds of digitized journals published in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Researchers can access over 200 years of scholarship on a wide variety of subjects. How to Search This Database | |
| PIO indexes hundreds of humanities, science, and social science journals from different countries in several languages. Many full-text articles are included. Coverage for some journals begins in the 17th century. Especially useful for scholarly book reviews. How to Search This Database | |
| Bibliography
of Native North Americans |
Covers topics relating to native North Americans from the sixteenth century to the present, including archaeology, multicultural relations, gaming, governance, folklore, culture, history, and literacy. It contains more than 80,000 citations for books, essays, journal articles, and government documents of the United States and Canada. How to Search This Database |
| Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective (1907-1984) | Cites articles from English-language periodicals. Periodical coverage includes some of the best-known scholarly journals and numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines. Coverage includes a wide range of interdisciplinary fields covered in a broad array of humanities and social sciences journals. How to Search This Database |
| Arts & Humanities Citation Index / Social Sciences Citation Index | Part of ISI Web of Knowledge, the Arts and Humanities Citation Index is a broad multidisciplinary index to journals published since 1975 in the fields of art, architecture, history, literature, music, film, philosophy, dance, religion, etc. Complete bibliographies are included for each citation allowing for cited reference searching.A good place to start if you want to know which writers are citing a particular author. How to Search This Database |
| History Cooperative | This database contains full text current issues of scholarly journals published by the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, the University of Illinois Press, and the National Academy Press. In addition, the database also features conference papers, the Booker T. Washington papers, historical maps online, and links to hundreds of history websites. How to Search This Database |
| ITER (medieval and renaissance studies) | ITER is an index to articles, books, conference papers, and essays about the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (A.D. 400-1700). Written in a variety of languages, these articles are from over 1,500 international scholarly journals published since 1784. Subjects include history, literature, music, art, sociology, politics, etc. ITER is an excellent place to begin research on medieval subjects. |
| Essay & General Literature Index Retrospective (1900-1984) | This database indexes over 249,000 essays from books published between 1900 and 1984. Subjects include archaeology, architecture, art, children’s literature, classical studies, drama, economics, fiction, film, folklore, history, linguistics, music, poetry, political science, psychology, religion, and women’s studies. The database includes publications from the United States, Canada and Great Britain. How to Search This Database |
| A to Z Maps Online | This database features 146,000 maps on multidisciplinary subjects such as politics, geology, the environment, biology, and history. It includes climate change maps, hurricane maps, earthquake maps, volcano maps, fire maps, animal and plant species distribution maps, current event maps, political outline maps, and topographic maps. All these maps can be printed or downloaded for educational use. |
| ARTStor | This visual database contains over 1 million pictures, paintings, sculpture, photographs, architectural drawings, and designs. Derived from the artistic traditions of many eras and cultures, this material comes from museums, libraries, photographic archives, publishers, slide libraries, and individual scholars. How to Search This Database |
| Contains the catalog records of thousands of libraries worldwide and provides information on millions of books, newspapers, maps, periodicals, government documents, etc. One of the most important resources for determining which library owns a particular work. | |
| An international index with abstracts to books and scholarly journals of philosophy and related fields written after 1939. It covers ethics, aesthetics, epistemology, logic, and metaphysics, as well as material on the philosophy of disciplines such as law, religion, science, history, and education. It is the most important database for philosophy. How to Search This Database | |
| National Geographic Magazine has long been recognized as one of the world’ best magazines covering world cultures, nature, science, technology, and the environment, as well as having the highest quality photography and cartography. The National Geographic Magazine Archive online includes complete page-to-page coverage of every issue of the magazine from 1888 to 1994 in a high resolution color format. Even the advertising is included. The Archive is fully searchable and browsable. Maps and images can be searched separately and printed. | |
UNITED STATES HISTORY | |
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An index (with abstracts) to over 1,700 periodicals in more than forty languages published since 1964. The most important source for articles on United States and Canadian cultural, social, economic, diplomatic, and military history, this database covers the periods from prehistory to the present and includes some full-text articles. For European and World history, see its counterpart Historical Abstracts. How to Search This Database |
| History POWERSEARCH | Searches the following
databases simultaneously: Academic Search Complete, Essay & General Literature Index, Humanities Abstracts, Humanities International Index, Military and Government Collection, Social Sciences Abstracts, World History Collection, America: History &Life, Historical Abstracts. How to Search This Database |
| Historical Statistics of the United States | Historical Statistics of the United States is the principle source for quantitative indicators of American history. Previously published as a two volume set, this expanded online edition contains considerably more information than its printed hardback predecessor, including twice as many pages of data and documentation and a tripling of the number of data series -37,339 in the new online edition. Previously including data on population, work and welfare, economics, and other government collected data, more than a dozen new topics have been added such as American Indians, slavery, poverty, nonprofit organizations, and data on the Confederate States of America. Also, the chapters in the new online edition are preceded by essays that introduce the quantitative history of their subject, provide a guide to the sources, and offer expert advice on the reliability of the data and the limits that might be placed on their interpretation. More than eighty scholars contributed their efforts and expertise to assemble and document the data and to write the introductory essays. The data are readily available for charting, or statistical analysis, or regrouping across tables. |
| Early American Imprints, Series I (Evans, 1639-1800) and Supplement | This full-text database is based on the renowned American Bibliography first published by Charles Evans. For decades Evan's Bibliography served as a cornerstone for research into American history, literature, philosophy, religion, agriculture, witchcraft, and other aspects of American life in the 17th and 18th centuries. With Early American Imprints, Series I, every item in Evan's Bibliography has been digitized and is now available online. It contains more than 37,000 publications. Series I also has a supplement from the archives of the Library Company of Philadelphia which includes nearly 1,000 pamphlets and broadsides published from 1670 to 1800. To search Series I and the supplement together, click "Search All Imprints." How to Search This Database |
| Early American Imprints, Series II (Shaw-Shoemaker,1801-1819) and Supplement | This full-text database is based on the renowned Bibliography of Ralph Shaw and Richard Shoemaker. Containing more than 36,000 publications, the database provides access to rich primary source material for the early decades of 19th-century America, including coverage of politics, religion, war, economics, and social and cultural thought. A supplement from the archives of the Library Company of Philadelphia includes nearly 1,000 books, pamphlets, and broadsides spanning the inauguration of Thomas Jefferson to the Adams-Onis Treaty. To search Series II and the supplement together, click "Search All Imprints." |
A daily (7-day) general newspaper providing national and international news, opinion and commentary; published in a national and a New York metropolitan edition. Includes local, and state news, science, sports, arts and entertainment, and business and finance news. How to Search This Database |
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| HarpWeek | Contains the full text and scanned images of Harper’s Weekly from 1857 to 1912. It was perhaps the most influential 19th-century American magazine, and the database is especially useful for researchers of U.S. history, literature, politics, business, and advertising. How to Search This Database |
| America’s Historical Newspapers (previously known as Early American Newspapers) | America's Historical Newspapers database contains over 6,000 articles from historic American newspapers published between 1690 and 1876. How to Search This Database |
| Published in Philadelphia from 1728 through 1800, The Pennsylvania Gazette is considered The New York Times of the 18th century. It provides a first hand view of colonial America, the American Revolution and the New Republic, and offers important social, political and cultural perspectives of each of the periods. Thousands of articles, editorials, letters, news items and advertisements cover the Western Hemisphere, from the Canadian Maritime Provinces, through the West Indies and North and South America, giving a detailed glimpse of issues and lifestyles of the times. Also included is the full-text of such important writings such as: the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, Letters from a Farmer, Thomas Payne`s Common Sense, The Federalist Papers, etc. How to Search This Database | |
| Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 | This standard index to U. S. periodicals of broad, general, and popular character provides a well-balanced selection of nontechnical magazines representing all the important scientific and humanistic subject fields. The periodicals represent a detailed account of American cultural life from 1890 to 1982. How to Search This Database |
| European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750 | European Views of the Americas is based on a bibliography developed by the John Carter Brown Library. It is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe between 1493 and 1750. It contains citations (no full text) for more than 32,000 entries covering the history of European exploration. |
| Arte Publico Hispanic Historical Collection: Series 1 | Arte Publico Hispanic Historical Collection: Series 1 contains approximately 60,000 historical articles, hundreds of political and religious pamphlets and broadsides, and complete texts of over 1,100 historical books of Hispanic literature, political commentary and culture. Content is 80% Spanish and 20% English and searchable in both Spanish and English. This collection includes the Revista Chicano Riquena, a Latino journal whose mission is to promote dialogue among Latinos in the United States. While focusing on contemporary creative expression, it also considers more traditional cultural expressions. The text of Revista Chicano Riquena is 70% English and 30% Spanish. |
| This database provides searchable full-text access to more than 2 million pages of internal memos, legal briefs, and direct action summaries from national, legal, and branch offices of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Covering the years from 1909 to 1972 and the presidencies from Taft to Nixon, these primary sources provide first-hand views into crucial racial issues such as lynching, school desegregation, and discrimination. | |
| The Vogue Archive | This database is a searchable archive of Vogue, from the first issue in 1892 to the current month, reproduced in high-resolution color page images. The Vogue Archive preserves the work of the world's commercial artists, stylists, and photographers and is a unique record of fashion, culture, advertising, and society from the dawn of the twentieth-century to the present day. It is also a rich source for other areas of modern culture, providing a record of changing social tastes and mores, encompassing literary works by Kate Chopin, Evelyn Waugh, Vladimir Nabokov, and Carson McCullers, articles by Winston Churchill and Bertrand Russell, wartime photojournalism by Lee Miller, features on popular cultural figures of the day from Marlene Dietrich and the Beatles to Nicole Kidman and Beyoncé, and on prominent American women from Jackie Kennedy to Michelle Obama. |
| Adams Papers Digital Edition | This digital collection contains John Adams's complete diaries, selected legal papers, and the ongoing series of family correspondence and state papers. All 30 volumes of the Adams Papers are fully annotated. This digital edition is fully searchable (by date, series, author or recipient), contains linked cross-references and is being constantly updated. |
| Originally published by Columbia University as a 17 volume printed set, The Papers of Alexander Hamilton are now available in online form. The letters and other papers included span three decades and cover the years 1768 – 1794. The database can be searched by keyword, personal name, state, and date range. A Cumulative Index is available. | |
| A landmark in historical scholarship, The Papers of George Washington encompasses five separate series and the complete diaries. This digital edition offers the complete Papers released through 2009 in one online publication. Researchers may search the full text and by date, author, or recipient across all volumes and series. | |
Documents the life and work of one of the most important political and constitutional thinkers in our nation’s history. As chief author of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, secretary of state during the Louisiana Purchase, and the fourth president of the United States, James Madison (1751-1836) played a central role in the American founding and the growth of the early Republic. Users may browse documents categorized by the role Madison played in American politics (Congressman, Secretary of State, President), or they may search documents by keyword or date. The collection spans the 1750s to the 1820s. |
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| Since 1950, the writings of the "author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, [and] father of the University of Virginia" have been compiled in the ongoing project, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson. This database brings together all thirty-six volumes published through 2009 into one searchable online resource. In addition, it includes the first four volumes of the Retirement Series which documents the time between Jefferson's return to private life and his death in 1826. | |
| Dolley Madison Papers (Standalone edition with special features) | A collection of all the known correspondence of Dolley Payne Madison (1788-1843), one of the most important First Ladies of the nineteenth century. Over 1,500 documents are available that may be searched or browsed by date, topic, name of sender/receiver, and place. |
| Dolley Madison Papers (document content only) | A collection of all the known correspondence of Dolley Payne Madison (1788-1843), one of the most important First Ladies of the nineteenth century. Over 1,500 documents are available that may be searched or browsed by date, topic, name of sender/receiver, and place. |
| Presidential Recordings of Lyndon Johnson Digital Edition | The presidential recordings of Lyndon B. Johnson contain nearly 400 phone conversations, beginning in July 1964 and ending in July 1965. When completed, this collection will span Johnson's entire presidency. Each conversation is presented with its transcription and corresponding audio file. In addition to introductory essays providing historical context, the editors have prepared extensive annotations for each conversation. |
| The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution | Originally published in print form as a 28 volume landmark collection of historical scholarship, The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution is now available in online form and traces the Constitution's progress from Philadelphia through each of state ratifying conventions. Including not only the official records of the conventions, The Documentary History also includes notes and commentaries about the Constitution published during and after ratification. The database can be searched by keywords, personal name, state, and date range. Alphabetical indexes are also available. |
| Clotel Digital Edition | Clotel, or The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States, by William Wells Brown Clotel, the first African American novel was published when its author was still legally a slave. This digital edition presents the full extant texts of the novel's four versions, published between 1853 and 1867. The fully searchable texts may be read individually or in parallel and are accompanied by generous biographical, critical, and historical commentary as well as line-by-line annotations and textual collation. |
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An index (with abstracts) to more than 2,000 journals published in over 80 countries in more than 50 languages. Fields include all branches of world history, including, political, diplomatic, religious, economic, social, cultural, and military history. Some full text is included. This is the best place to begin research in modern history (from 1450 to the present). For U.S. and Canadian history, use America: History and Life. How to Search This Database |
| History POWERSEARCH | Searches the following
databases simultaneously: Academic Search Complete, Essay & General Literature Index, Humanities Abstracts, Humanities International Index, Military and Government Collection, Social Sciences Abstracts, World History Collection, America: History & Life, Historical Abstracts. How to Search This Database |
| Inter-Play | Inter-Play indexes individual plays published in collections, anthologies, and periodicals. Inter-Play is a more current index than the otherwise useful Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections (REF PN1655 .O8 1988). |
| European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750 | European Views of the Americas is based on a bibliography developed by the John Carter Brown Library. It is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe between 1493 and 1750. It contains citations (no full text) for more than 32,000 entries covering the history of European exploration. |
| An excellent starting point for students and scholars of British life and world affairs in the nineteenth century, this database indexes the Times of London from 1790 to 1905. It also provides the full text of this newspaper from 1800 to 1870. It is especially useful for researchers in the fields of history, politics, economics, business, the arts, and genealogy. For a step-by-step demonstration. How to Search This Database | |
| Latin American Newspapers [from Readex/NewsBank] | Latin American Newspapers includes the full text of more than 35 nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin American newspapers, featuring titles from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela and elsewhere. |
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World Scholar: Latin America & the Caribbean features primary source documents about Latin America and the Caribbean, academic journal articles, newspapers, maps and statistics. World Scholar covers topics such as politics, economics, religion, culture, international affairs, the environment, science, and technology. The topics are presented on a country and continent level, and the collection includes manuscripts, signed letters, expedition records, reports, maps, diaries, descriptions of voyages, etc. |
| British Periodicals | British Periodicals' Collections I and II consist of the full text of more than 460 journals published from the 1680s to the 1930s. These online collections include scholarly and professional journals, art periodicals, penny weeklies, and illustrated family magazines. Among the works included in British Periodicals are titles founded, edited or regularly contributed to by a host of important figures: Walter Bagehot, Aubrey Beardsley, Annie Besant, Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Henry Fielding, Oliver Goldsmith, Samuel Johnson, Harriet Martineau, John Henry Newman, W. M. Rossetti, and many others. Topics covered include literature, philosophy, history, science, the fine arts and the social sciences. |
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Letters and Diaries from 1500-1900 provides a collection of primary sources from journal articles, pamphlets, newsletters, monographs and conference proceedings. The personal experiences of more than 500 women are represented and include all age groups and life stages, all ethnicities, many geographical regions, the famous, and the not so famous. How to Search This Database |
| FRANCIS | Francis is created by the Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France. This multilingual, multidisciplinary database is especially useful for the humanities and social sciences. Francis covers thousands of journals, books, and conference papers in many languages. How to Search This Database |
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The Times Literary Supplement (TLS) Historical Archive (1902-2005) contains every page of every copy of the TLS published from 1902 through 2006. Since 1902, The Times Literary Supplement has scrutinized and reviewed the work of leading writers and thinkers. It offers comprehensive coverage of the latest and most important publications in every subject and in several languages. It also reviews current theatre, cinema, music, and exhibitions. The TLS's authority is acknowledged world-wide, and its writers and reviewers include Italo Calvino, Milan Kundera, Mario Vargas Llosa, Orhan Pamuk, and Julian Barnes. In all areas, the TLS, as Le Monde put it, "has no rivals". |
| Financial Times Historical Archive 1888-2006 |
This database contains a facsimile edition of the London edition of the Financial Times from the first issue in 1888 till 2006. Every article, advertisement and market listing is included and shown in the context of the full page and issue of the day. This database is fully searchable with more than 800,000 pages. |
| The Economist Historical Archive 1842-2006 |
Full-text content of more than 8,000 issues of the weekly news magazine, The Economist, which presents the world's political, business, scientific, technological, and cultural developments and the connections between them. Each issue of this editorially-rich publication is fully searchable, and includes full-color images, exportable financial tables, and a gallery of front covers highlighting a key topic of each week. The many Supplements, Special Reports and Surveys which appear regularly in The Economist are also included as part of the archive. |
| The Sunday Times Digital Archive 1822-2006 |
Enables users to easily search, retrieve and share articles from The Sunday Times electronic archive. Containing close to 600,000 pages, the Sunday Times archive is a gateway to analysis and commentary on news and society, including murder, theatre, sport and politics. World famous for its cutting-edge investigative journalism, the newspaper broke many of the key stories of the twentieth century, including the thalidomide scandal in the 1960s, the exposure of Kim Philby as a Soviet double-agent, and the revelations about the Israeli nuclear program in 1986. |
| The Founders Early Access | The Founders Early Access is an online database of personal and official correspondence and other papers written by three of our Founding Fathers. With The Founders Early Access, researchers now have online access to the Presidential papers of George Washington for 1794, the papers of James Madison from 1823 - 1836, and the papers of John Adams from 1785 - 1798. The database can be searched by keyword, personal name, state, and date range. |
| Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange- Nineteenth Century Collections Online | Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange features primary source material related to international relations between Asian countries and the West during the latter half of the 19th century. The documents in the database include government reports, diplomatic correspondence, periodicals, newspapers, treaties, trade agreements, and more. Documents are sourced from both U.S. and British consulates in Asian countries, from Christian missionary organizations in Asian countries, and from the official records relating to the Philippine Insurrection from 1988 - 1903. The content allows researchers explore the history of British and U.S. foreign policy and diplomacy, Asian political, economic, and social affairs, the Philippine Insurrection, the Opium Wars, the Boxer Rebellion, missionary activity in Asia, and many other topics. Asia and the West also includes personal letters and diaries, as well as nautical charts, maps, shipping ledgers, company records, and expedition and survey reports from the 19th century. |
E-BOOK COLLECTIONS
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| ACLS Humanities E-Book | Digital collection of over 1,700 full-text titles offered by the American Council of Learned Societies in collaboration with twelve learned societies, nearly 95 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan's Scholarly Publishing Office. The result is an online, fully searchable collection of high-quality books in the humanities, recommended and reviewed by scholars. How to Search This Database |
| Early English Books Online | An online collection of more than 100,000 books and pamphlets published in England and its colonies from 1473-1700. An extremely important database of primary sources for this time period, EEB is especially useful for research in the areas of English history, literature, philosophy, linguistics, and the fine arts. Users can search the texts and illustrations by keywords, authors, and titles. How to Search This Database |
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Provide access to digital images of every page of 150,000 books published during the 18th Century. With full-text searching of approximately 26 million pages, the product allows researchers new methods of access to critical information in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more. How to Search This Database |
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Consists of approximately 1,482 authors and over 100,000 pages of letters, diaries, memoirs and accounts of these early encounters. This database focuses on the description of the natural features of North America as well as the interactions among various culture groups. The time period covered by this database starts in c. 1500 and ends around c. 1850. How to Search This Database |
| Gerritsen Collection - Women's History Online | An electronic collection of books and periodicals reflecting the evolution of feminist consciousness and women's rights. These books and articles span four centuries and fifteen languages. This is the best place to begin research on any aspect of women's history. How to Search This Database |
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Produced by Alexander Street Press, North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories (IMLD) includes 2,162 authors and approximately 100,000 pages of information, providing a unique and personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada between 1800 and 1950. Composed of contemporaneous letters and diaries, oral histories, interviews, and other personal narratives, the series provides a rich source for scholars in a wide range of disciplines. How to Search This Database |
| Provides access to large-scale maps of Texas towns and cities, published by the Sanborn Map Company, the primary American producer of fire insurance maps for nearly 100 years. The maps include information such as the size, shape and construction materials for urban buildings; heights and functions of structures; and the location of windows and doors. Street names, street and sidewalk widths, property boundaries, building use, and house and block numbers are also provided. Database coverage includes maps published between 1867 - 1970. Can be searched by city and date. How to Search This Database | |
| Handbook of Texas Online | A multidisciplinary encyclopedia of Texas history, geography and culture. Includes more than 23,000 full-text articles on people, places, events, historical themes, institutions and a variety of other topics. Articles may be searched or browsed by subject. Sponsored by the Texas State Historical Association and the General Libraries at The University of Texas at Austin. |
| World History Collection offers a global look at history with content from Africa, Asia, North and South America, Europe and the Middle East. World History Collection contains cover-to-cover full text for nearly 150 titles, including many peer-reviewed journals. Full text dates as far back as 1964. These hand-selected information sources cover a wide range of historical topics including anthropology, art, culture, economics, government, heritage, military, politics, regional issues, and more. Searchable cited references are also included in this database. How to Search This Database | |
| British Politics and Society - Nineteenth Century Collections Online | A part of Nineteenth Century Collection Online, British Politics and Society contains a variety of primary documents chronicling the history and politics of nineteenth century Britain. The collection includes manuscripts, maps, drawings, newspapers, periodicals, government correspondence, letters, diaries, photographs, poster, pamphlets and more. |
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