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| − | Dhundiraj wins award in competition in Ahmedabad as best backdrop painter. Patwardhan Vinayakrao's younger brother Ramachandra also joins in this magic lantern enterprise. They start using three magic lanterns, two for showing the action and one for the background. The lenses of the Kharolika were of foreign make. The show used to start with the entry of the Sutradhar and two singer. | + | Dhundiraj wins award in competition in Ahmedabad as best backdrop painter. Patwardhan Vinayakrao's younger brother Ramachandra also joins in this magic lantern enterprise. They start using three magic lanterns[], two for showing the action and one for the background. The lenses of the Kharolika were of foreign make. The show used to start with the entry of the Sutradhar and two singer. |
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| | Raja Ravi Varma starts his famed lithographic press to mass-print pictures of popular gods and goddesses(life awakening of the still motif). | | Raja Ravi Varma starts his famed lithographic press to mass-print pictures of popular gods and goddesses(life awakening of the still motif). |
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| | One of his friends, Mahim, often went to the races. He had a large pair of binoculars. Maybe that would help? A pair of binoculars were needed because the room was at some distance. The house Mr. Chowdhury lived in was not exactly by the side of the road. There was an extension of the garden beyond the compound wall and a certain portion of the terrace had to be crossed to get to the room on the second floor. | | One of his friends, Mahim, often went to the races. He had a large pair of binoculars. Maybe that would help? A pair of binoculars were needed because the room was at some distance. The house Mr. Chowdhury lived in was not exactly by the side of the road. There was an extension of the garden beyond the compound wall and a certain portion of the terrace had to be crossed to get to the room on the second floor. |
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| | + | Ravi Varma Fine Art Lithographic Press opens in Girgaum, Bombay. There is imported machinery and also two German artists are to work with the press to help transfer Varma's drawings to lithographs. |
| | + | first high speed steam driven press which could produce 1000 oleographs per shift, installed at Ravi Varma press. |
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| | [[Image:Page14.jpg]][http://www.phalkefactory.net/wiki/index.php?title=PHALKE_BOOK] | | [[Image:Page14.jpg]][http://www.phalkefactory.net/wiki/index.php?title=PHALKE_BOOK] |
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| | + | '''Emile Reynaud''' |
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| − | '''1894''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MDCCCXCIV]]''') was a [[common year starting on Monday]] (see link for calendar).
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| − | ==Events==
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| − | ===January-April===
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| − | * [[January 7]] - [[W.K. Dickson]] receives a patent for [[motion picture]] film.
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| − | * [[January 8]] - A fire at the [[World's Columbian Exposition]] in [[Chicago, Illinois]] causes a good deal of damage.
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| − | * [[January 9]] - [[New England Telephone and Telegraph]] installs the first [[Battery (electricity)|battery]]-operated [[telephone switchboard]] ([[Lexington, Massachusetts]]).
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| − | * [[February 15]] - 04:51 [[GMT]], French [[anarchist]] [[Martial Bourdin]] attempts to destroy the [[Royal Greenwich Observatory]], [[London]], [[England]] with a bomb.
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| − | * [[March 1]] - [[Thomas McGreevy]], Canadian politician and contractor, is released from prison after serving time for defrauding the government
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| − | * [[March 4]] - The [[First Sino–Japanese War]]: Great fire in [[Shanghai]]; over 1,000 buildings are destroyed
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| − | * [[March 12]] - For the first time [[Coca-Cola]] is sold in bottles.
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| − | * [[March 15]] - Anarchist [[Jean Pauwels]] dies in a [[Madeline church]] in [[Paris]] when his bomb explodes in his pocket
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| − | * [[March 25]] - [[Coxey's Army]], the first significant American protest march, departs [[Massillon, Ohio]] for [[Washington D.C.]]
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| − | ===May-August===
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| − | * May - outbreak of [[bubonic plague]] in the [[Tai Ping Shan]] area of [[Hong Kong]]. The disease killed a total of 2,552 people in the territory that year
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| − | * [[May 1]] - Coxey's Army arrives in Washington D.C.
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| − | * [[May 1]] - [[May Day Riots of 1894]] break out in [[Cleveland, Ohio]]
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| − | * [[May 11]] - [[Pullman Strike]]: Three thousand [[Pullman Palace Car Company]] workers go on a "wildcat" (without [[trade union|union]] approval) strike in [[Illinois]].
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| − | * [[May 14]] - [[Meteor shower]] in Southern [[France]]
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| − | * [[May 14]] - [[Blackpool Tower]] opened in [[Blackpool]], [[Lancashire]], [[England]]
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| − | * [[June 22]] - [[Dahomey]] becomes [[France|French]] colony
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| − | * [[June 23]] - [[International Olympic Committee]] is founded at the [[University of Paris|Sorbonne]], [[Paris, France|Paris]], at the initiative of Baron [[Pierre de Coubertin]].
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| − | * [[June 24]] - Assassination of [[Marie François Sadi Carnot|Sadi Carnot]], [[president of France]]
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| − | * [[June 30]] - [[Tower Bridge]] in London opened for traffic
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| − | * [[July 4]] - The short-lived [[Republic of Hawaii]] is proclaimed by [[Sanford B. Dole]].
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| − | * [[August 1]] - Declaration of war between the [[Qing Empire]] of [[China]] and the [[Empire of Japan]], over their rival claims of influence on their common ally, the [[Joseon Dynasty]] of [[Korea]]. The event marks the start of the first [[Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895)|Sino-Japanese War]].
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| − | * [[August 15]] - [[Sante Jeronimo Caserio]] executed for the [[Marie Francois Sadi Carnot]] assassination
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| − | ===September-December===
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| − | * [[September 1]] - [[Great Hinckley Fire]]: A [[forest fire]] in [[Hinckley, Minnesota]] kills more than 400 people.
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| − | * [[September 4]] - In [[New York City]], 12,000 tailors [[Strike action|strike]] against [[sweatshop]] working conditions.
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| − | * [[October 15]] - [[Alfred Dreyfus]] is arrested for spying - [[Dreyfus affair]] begins
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| − | * [[30 October]] - Domenico Menegatti obtains a patent for a procedure to be applied in producing [[pandoro]] industrially.
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| − | *[[November 1]] - [[Russia]]n Tsar [[Alexander III of Russia|Alexander III]] dies and is succeeded by his son [[Nicholas II of Russia|Nicholas II]].
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| − | * [[December 18]] - Women in [[South Australia]] become the first in [[Australia]] to gain the right to vote and to be elected to Parliament.
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| − | * [[December 21]] - [[Mackenzie Bowell]] becomes [[Canada]]'s fifth [[Prime Minister of Canada|prime minister]].
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| − | * Western countries give up their [[extraterritorial right]]s in [[Japan]]
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| − | * [[Grace Kimmins]] founds the [[Guild of the Poor Brave Things]]
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| − | * [[New Zealand]] becomes the first country to pass a [[minimum wage]] law
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| − | ==Births==
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| − | ===January-March===
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| − | * [[January 1]] - [[Satyendra Nath Bose]], Indian physicist (d. [[1974]])
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| − | * [[January 20]] - [[Walter Piston]], American composer (d. [[1976]])
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| − | * [[January 30]] - King [[Boris III of Bulgaria]] (d. [[1943]])
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| − | * [[January 31]] - [[Isham Jones]], American jazz musician (d. [[1956]])
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| − | * [[February 3]] - [[Norman Rockwell]], American artist and illustrator (d. [[1978]])
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| − | * [[February 8]] - [[Ludwig Marcuse]], German philosopher (d. [[1971]])
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| − | * [[February 10]] - [[Harold Macmillan]], [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (d. [[1986]])
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| − | * [[February 11]] - [[Alfonso Leng]], Chilean composer (d. [[1974]])
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| − | * [[February 14]] - [[Jack Benny]], American actor and comedian (d. [[1974]])
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| − | * [[February 25]] - [[Meher Baba]], [[Avatar]] of the Age, was born in India (d. [[1969]])
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| − | * [[February 28]] - [[Ben Hecht]], American playwright, and film writer (d. [[1964]])
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| − | * [[March 17]] - [[Paul Green]], novelist and [[Pulitzer Prize]]-winning playwright (d. [[1981]])
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| − | * [[March 19]] - [[Moms Mabley]], American comedienne (d. [[1975]])
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| − | ===April-June===
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| − | * [[April 10]] - [[Shri Ghanshyam Das Birla]], Indian industrialist, Gandhian, and educationist (d. [[1983]])
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| − | * [[April 13]] - [[Arthur Fadden]], thirteenth [[Prime Minister of Australia]] (d. [[1973]])
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| − | * [[April 15]] - [[Bessie Smith]], American blues singer (d. [[1937]])
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| − | * [[April 17]] - [[Nikita Khrushchev|Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev]], Soviet politician (d. [[1971]])
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| − | * [[April 26]] - [[Rudolf Hess]], Nazi official (d. [[1987]])
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| − | * [[May 11]] - [[Martha Graham]], American dancer and choreographer (d. [[1991]])
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| − | * [[May 16]] - [[Walter Yust]], American encyclopædia editor (d. [[1960]])
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| − | * [[May 27]] - [[Louis-Ferdinand Céline]], French writer (d. [[1961]])
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| − | * [[May 27]] - [[Dashiell Hammett]], American author (d. [[1961]])
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| − | * [[May 31]] - [[Fred Allen]], American comedian (d. [[1956]])
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| − | * [[June 4]] - [[Gabriel Pascal]], Hungarian Film Producer (d. [[1954]])
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| − | * [[June 5]] - [[Roy Thomson]], Canadian publisher (d. [[1976]])
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| − | * [[June 9]] - [[Nedo Nadi]], Italian fencer (d. [[1940]])
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| − | * [[June 14]] - [[Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg]] (d. [[1924]])
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| − | * [[June 23]] - King [[Edward VIII of the United Kingdom]] (d. [[1972]])
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| − | ===July-September===
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| − | * [[July 9]] - [[Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa]], Russian physicist, [[Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1984]])
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| − | * [[July 18]] - [[Isaac Babel]], Ukrainian writer (d. [[1940]])
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| − | * [[July 19]] - [[Khawaja Nazimuddin]], second [[Prime Minister of Pakistan]] (d. [[1965]])
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| − | * [[July 26]] - [[Aldous Huxley]], English author (d. [[1963]])
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| − | * [[August 3]] - [[Harry Heilmann]], baseball player (d. [[1951]])
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| − | * [[August 28]] - [[Karl Böhm]], Austrian conductor (d. [[1981]])
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| − | * August 28 - [[Elisha Scott]], footballer (d. [[1959]])
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| − | * [[September 2]] - [[Joseph Roth]], Austrian writer (d. [[1939]])
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| − | * [[September 13]] - [[J. B. Priestley]], English novelist and playwright (d. [[1984]])
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| − | * [[September 13]] - [[Julian Tuwim]], Polish poet (d. [[1953]])
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| − | * [[September 15]] - [[Jean Renoir]], French film director (d. [[1979]])
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| − | * [[September 24]] - [[Tommy Armour]], Scottish golfer (d. [[1968]])
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| − | * [[October 5]] - [[Bevil Rudd]], South African athlete (d. [[1948]])
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| − | * [[October 7]] - [[Del Lord]], Hollywood director (d. [[1970]])
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| − | * [[October 14]] - [[E. E. Cummings]]<!-- Please don't change this to e. e. cummings. Read the article to see why this form is correct. -->, American poet (d. [[1962]])
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| − | * [[October 15]] - [[Moshe Sharett]], second [[Prime Minister of Israel]] (d. [[1965]])
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| − | * [[October 25]] - [[Claude Cahun]], French photographer and writer (d. [[1954]])
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| − | * [[November 2]] - [[Alexander Lippisch]], German aerodynamics engineer (d. [[1976]])
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| − | * [[November 24]] - [[Herbert Sutcliffe]], English cricketer (d. [[1978]])
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| − | * [[November 26]] - [[Norbert Wiener]], American mathematician (d. [[1964]])
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| − | * [[November 29]] - [[Lucille Hegamin]], American singer and entertainer (d. [[1970]])
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| − | *[[December 17]] - [[Arthur Fiedler]], American conductor (d. [[1979]])
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| − | * [[December 20]] - [[Robert Menzies]], twelfth [[Prime Minister of Australia]] (d. [[1978]])
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| − | * [[December 26]] - [[Jean Toomer]], Poet (d. [[1967]])
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| − | * [[December 31]] - [[Pola Negri]], Polish actress (d. [[1987]])
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| − | * [[Chaim Soutine]], Russian-born painter (d. [[1944]])
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| − | * [[Edwin Linkomies]], Finnish Prime Minister
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| − | *[[January 1]] - [[Heinrich Rudolf Hertz]], German physicist (b. [[1857]])
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| − | *[[February 4]] - [[Adolphe Sax]], Belgian instrument maker, inventor of the saxophone (b. [[1814]])
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| − | *[[February 6]] - [[Maria Deraismes]], French feminist (b. [[1828]])
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| − | *[[February 11]] - [[Pasqual Juan Emilio Arrieta y Corera]], composer
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| − | *[[June 3]] - [[Karl Eduard Zachariae]], German jurist and expert on Byzantine law (b. [[1812]])
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| − | *[[October 24]] - Tsar [[Alexander III of Russia]] (b. [[1845]])
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| − | *[[November 20]] - [[Anton Rubinstein]], Russian pianist and composer (b. [[1829]])
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| − | *[[November 25]] - [[Solomon Caesar Malan]], Swiss-born orientalist (b. [[1812]])
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| − | *[[December 3]] - [[Robert Louis Stevenson]], Scottish author (b. [[1850]])
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| − | *[[December 9]] - [[Pafnuty Chebyshev]], Russian mathematician (b. [[1821]])
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| − | *[[December 12]] - [[John Sparrow David Thompson]], [[Prime Minister of Canada]] (b. [[1845]])
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| − | [[Sherlock Holmes]] returns to London from "The Great Hiatus".
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