Human curiosity prints, playbills, broadsides and other printedmaterial, 1695-1937.

Magri, M. Lavinia (Mercy Lavinia), 1841-1919

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Mercy Lavinia Warren Bump was born in Massachusetts and married Charles Stratton, better known as General Tom Thumb, in 1863. For most of her life she made her living as a performer. Two years after Stratton's death she married Count Primo Magri. ...

Thumb, Tom, 1838-1883

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Charles Stratton (1838-1883), stage name General Tom Thumb, was an American showman noted for his small stature. He was the first major attraction promoted by the circus impresario P.T. Barnum. He was not quite five years old when Barnum hired him for his museum, but Barnum publicized him as General Tom Thumb, an 11-year-old dwarf from England. He quickly became a celebrated figure in the United States and abroad. In 1863 Stratton married Lavinia Warren (1841–1919)—another of Barnum’s performers...

Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, 1898-1968

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Thomas Ollive Mabbott (July 6, 1898 – May 15, 1968) was an American professor and scholar of literature, perhaps best known for his research on writer Edgar Allan Poe. He has also done studies on John Milton, Walt Whitman, Thomas Chatterton, and Edward Coote Pinkney. Mabbott was born and raised in New York City. He was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Columbia University, earning his AB (1920), AM (1921), and Ph.D. (1923) in English. After graduating from Columbia, Mabbott taught English literatu...

Bridgman, Laura Dewey, 1829-1889

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Laura Dewey Lynn Bridgman (b. December 21, 1829, Hanover, New Hampshire-d. May 24, 1889, Boston, Massachusetts), known as the first deaf-blind American child to gain a significant education in the English language, fifty years before the more famous Helen Keller. Bridgman was left deaf-blind at the age of two after contracting scarlet fever. She was educated at the Perkins Institution for the Blind where, under the direction of Samuel Gridley Howe, she learned to read and communicate using Brail...

Carl Hermann Unthan

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Dunstan, Jeffery

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Roddy, Rodgers

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Clofullia, Josephine

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Hauptman, John

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Farell, Owen

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Amanab

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Lyceum Theatre (London, England)

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"The theatre burnt down in 1830. ... Beazley designed and built a replacement, also known as the English Opera House, on the same site; it opened in July 1834" - Grove Opera. From the description of Contracts, specifications and plans for the building and rebuilding of the Lyceum Theatre, London : 1834-1860. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 612811405 ...

Dugdale, Richard

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Byrne, Charles

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Warren, Minnie

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Honeywell, Miss

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Herig, Maria

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Boebner, Catherine

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Paap, Simon

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Hudson, Jeffrey, 1619-1681

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Bell, Thomas, active 1593-1610

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Heth, Joice, -1836

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Hagar, Campbell & Co's Dime Museum

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Leo Meyer

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Sage, Laetitia

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Clark, Joseph, 1913-

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Epithet: of Newcastle British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001476.0x0000c7 Epithet: Lieutenant; RN British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001476.0x0000c6 ...

Canterbury Theatre of Varieties

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Biffin, Sarah

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Józef Borusławski

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Lalloo

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Bataillard, Aama

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Eleicegui, Miguel Joachim de

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Garnerin, André Jacques, 1769-1823

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Edson, Calvin, 1788-1833

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T. Romney

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Mary Gibbs

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Hales, Robert, b. 1820

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Taylor, Charles H., active 1874

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Nutt, George Washington Morrison

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Parr, Tom

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Giacomo Tocci, b. 1877

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Polonawsky, Madame

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Wadlow, Robert Pershing, 1918-1940

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Chang Woo Gow

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Maximo

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Cotter, Patrick, 1759 or 1760-1806

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Miller, M. Christopher

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McDonald, Samuel

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Ledgewood

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Flynn, Francis Joseph

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Wilkins, Louis

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David Dutton

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Liliputian Opera Co.

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Drasal, Joseph

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Seurat, Claude Ambroise, 1798-?

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McAvoy, Margaret

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Student at University of Maine. From the description of Folklore paper, 1965. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70945351 ...

Prichard, Benjamin B.

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Forepaugh's Dime Museum

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Worrenburg, John

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Quart, Anna

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Lolkes, Wybrand

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Gryifith, Margaret Vergh

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Ewing, Ella Kate, 1872-1913

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Shaw, Ezel Kural.

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Romondo, George

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Mary Chulkhurst.

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Lefort

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Epithet: of Add MS 42967 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001197.0x0000eb ...

Baartman, Sarah

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Sarah Baartman, a Khoikhoi woman from South Africa; the so-called 'Hottentot Venus' was brought to Europe in 1810 and exhibited in Britain and France where she died of smallpox at the end of 1815. A cast was made of her body after her death and her skeleton and organs were preserved by the anatomist Georges Cuvier; her remains were returned to South Africa in 2002....

Huaylas, Basilio

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Toller, James

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Robert Cruikshank.

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Battalia, Francis

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Margaret Gibbs.

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Britton, Thomas, 1654?-1714

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Elisa Chulkhurst

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Machnow, Feodore

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Hannema, Jan

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Bartola.

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Beffin, Miss

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Davis, Mary

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Epithet: of Bath British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000213.0x00026d Epithet: of Saughall British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000213.0x00026e ...

Jacques, Louis

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Cook, Mrs.

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Jarvis, John, QC

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John Jarvis is an American cartoonist. John Jarvis, an Illinois native, sold his first cartoon while still in high school for five dollars to Health and Strength magazine. After graduating high school in 1936, Jarvis studied at the Academy of Fine Arts and the Chicago School of Professional Art. Javis taught at the Chicago School of Professional Art before serving over three years with the Air Force during World War II. While in the military, several of his cartoons were...

Everitt, Thomas Hill

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G. Handy.

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Tripp, Susan

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Tocci, Giovanni Battista, 1877-

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Krao

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Borusławski, Józef, 1739-1837

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Buchinger, Matthew, d. 1739

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Madame Teresa

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George Nutt.

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Goshan, Routh

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French, Elizabeth, 1925-

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Elizabeth Curtis French, M.D. was born in Picabo, Idaho on November 7, 1907. She enrolled as a pre-med student at the University of Idaho and continued her studies at the University of Oregon Medical School in Portland, Oregon. She graduated in 1931 at the age of 23, one of four women medical students in a class of 75. She served an internship at Illinois Research Hospital in Chicago becoming proficient in child delivery. After a year she completed a residency at the Women's and Children's Hospi...

Peter the Wild Boy

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Wano

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Ali, Hassan

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Tripp, Charles.

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Epithet: Rector of Silverton British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000353.0x00026b ...

Bunker, Eng, 1811-1874

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Chang and Eng Bunker (1811-1874), the original Siamese twins, were born in Meklong, Siam, and were brought from Bangkok to Boston in 1829. After extensive tours in North America and Europe, they settled in Wilkes County (later Surry County), N.C., were naturalized, and received the surname Bunker by act of the legislature. In 1843, Chang and Eng Bunker married Sarah and Adelaide Yates, daughters of David Yates of Wilkes County, N.C. Chang had ten children; Eng had nine c...

Meyer family;

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Millie-Christine, 1851-1912

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Public Domain, Link Millie-Christine McCoy, Siamese twins, were born in Welches Creek Township near Whiteville, the daughters of Jacob and Monemia, slaves of Jabez McCoy, a local farmer. Their potential show value was recognized early, and between 18 May 1852 and 1860 they passed through several hands. Their first real promoter was W. J. L. Millar, a professor turned showman, who picked them up in Boston when they were four and took them to Canada, Great Britain, and the Continent. Their las...

Hidalgo, Francisco, Don

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Inglefield, Thomas

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Barclay, Captain (Robert), 1779-1854

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Atkinson, Miss

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Bunker, Chang, 1811-1874

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Original Siamese twins. From the description of Journal of Chang and Eng [manuscript] 1834. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647938667 Chang and Eng Bunker (1811-1874), the original Siamese twins, were born in Meklong, Siam, and were brought from Bangkok to Boston in 1829. After extensive tours in North America and Europe, they settled in Wilkes County (later Surry County), N.C., were naturalized, and received the surname Bunker by act of the legisl...

Klopstoff

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Biddenden Maids

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George Biggin.

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Jeftichew, Fedor

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Simon Paap

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Perwich, Susanna, 1636-1661

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Wilson, George.

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Epithet: of Add MS 43003 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000300.0x000304 Epithet: of Add MS 37520 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000300.0x000301 Epithet: of Add MS 15945 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000300.0x0002fe Epithet: Captain ...

Constantine

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Dimond, John

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Magrath, Cornelius

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Miller, Joe

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Joe Miller was most well-known for being a pioneer in implementing the bar code system in retail stores. He was born in Richmond, VA and served in the Navy during the second World War. After the war, he took a job at Thalhimer's Department Stores in Richmond where he helped to create a computer system to track inventory. Later, he took a job working for the National Retail Merchants Association(NRMA) as the director of retail standards and technology. There Miller worked on the implementation of...

Macallame, Anna

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Wright, Patience Lovell

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Flegen, Eve

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Urslerin, Barbara

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Worden, Frank

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Platt's Music Hall

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Plutano.

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J. Bullock.

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Howard's Grand Pavilion of Living Wonders

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Royal Acquarium

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Col. Joseph H. Wood’s Museum and Art Gallery

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Grand Museum, Menagerie & Moral Theatre

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Buling, Hans

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Love, John, active 1688

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Epithet: of Add MS 12496 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000630.0x000237 Epithet: of Add MS 32689 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000630.0x000238 Epithet: of Add MS 38152 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000630.0x000239 ...

Zink, Adolf

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Ives, John, 1751-1776

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John Ives (1751-1776) was an antiquarian and officer of arms at the College of Arms in London. In 1771 he was elected as a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, and made a fellow of the Royal Society in 1773. From the description of Memoir & letters of John Ives Esq. F.R. & A.S. : Suffolk Herald together with portions of his journal & album & the sale catalogue of his library, 1771-1804. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702184202 From the description ...

Blacker, Henry

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English dwarf

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Weis, Caspar

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Fletcher, Jack

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Epithet: Officer in the Marines British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001242.0x00003b ...

Oliver Caswell.

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Osborn, R. W.

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Nannette Stocker.

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Dinsdale, Henry

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Jeanne Weis

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