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![]() Placido Domingo Born 1941 [HHAF] ![]() |
![]() Tina Ramírez [HHAF] |
![]() Antonia Hernandez Born 1948 [HHAF] |
![]() Gary Soto Born 1951 [HHAF] |
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Teaching - there can be no finer calling requiring the clearest demonstration of moral and ethical behavior. Ira Shull, For the Love of Teaching |
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Tell Us about your most memorable teacher. |
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Today's 5-Minute Quest
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Ethiopia & Eritrea: Meskel
(Observed annually on this date (September 28 in Leap Years) to celebrate the finding of the true cross of Christ and construction of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher) |
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1924 | Bernard Waber (Pennsylvania-born Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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1933 | Paul Goble (English Children's Author, Illustrator, Native-American Folklorist) |
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1956 | Martin Handford (Pennsylvania-born Artist, Illustrator: "Where's Waldo?") |
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1871 | Grazia Deledda (Italian-born 1926 Nobel Laureate for Literature) |
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1906 | Jim Thompson (Oklahoma-born Crime Novelist) |
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1917 | Louis Auchincloss (New York-born Attorney, Novelist) |
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1935 | Joyce Johnson (New York City-born Author) |
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1942 | Mark Vinz (North Dakota-born Poet) |
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1943 | Ray DiPalma (Pennsylvania-born Poet) |
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1945 | 5Kay Ryan (California-born Poet) |
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1840 | Thomas Nast (German-born American Political Cartoonist) |
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1898 | Vincent Youmans (New York City-born Composer, Songwriter) |
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1824 | Benjamin Gould (Massachusetts-born Astronomer) |
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1876 | Earle Raymond Hedrick (Indiana-born Scientist or Mathematician) |
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1918 | Martin Ryle (English Astronomer Awarded the 1974 Nobel Prize for Physics) |
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1925 | Robert Edwards (English Physiologist Awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize for Medicine & Physiology) |
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1830 | William B. Hazen (Vermont-born Union General) |
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1840 | Alfred Thayer Mahan (New York-born Naval Strategist/Historian) |
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1696 | St. Alfonso Liguori (Italian Theologian) |
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1389 | Cosimo de Medici (Italian Florentine Ruler) |
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1722 | Samuel Adams (Massachusetts-born Patriot) |
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1822 | Hiram Rhodes Revels (North Carolina-born African-American Member of the U.S. Congress) |
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1831 | John Winans (New Jersey-born U.S. Congressman from Wisconsin) |
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1833 | Madison Davis (Georgia-born African-American Slave, Politician, State Congressman) |
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1850 | William Leake Terry (North Carolina-born Member of the U.S. Congress from Arkansas) |
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1862 | Louis Botha (First President of South Africa) |
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1896 | Sam Ervin (North Carolina-born U.S. Senator; Chairman of the Watergate Committee) |
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1950 | Gerhard Schroeder (Chancellor of Germany) |
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1885 | Harry Blackstone (Chicago-born Magician) |
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1920 | William Conrad (Kentucky-born Radio, Film and Television Actor and Producer) ) |
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1922 | Arthur Penn (Pennsylvania-born Film Producer) |
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1924 | Bud Powell (New York City-born African-American Jazz Pianist, Composer) |
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1934 | Greg Morris (Ohio-born African-American Actor); Mission Impossible |
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1947 | Meat Loaf (Texas-born Popular Musician) |
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Cheryl Tiegs (Minnesota-born Fashion Model) |
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1935 | Mamie Johnson (South Carolina-born African-American Female Professional Baseball Player) |
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1939 | Kathy Whitworth (Texas-born Member of the Golf Hall of Fame) |
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1949 | Mike Schmidt (Ohio-born Member of the Baseball Hall of Fame) |
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1959 | Beth Heiden (Wisconsin-born Olympic Speed Skater) |
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1660 | St. Vincent de Paul (French-born Catholic Saint) |
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1871 | James H. Clanton (Georgia-born Confederate General) |
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1876 | Braxton Bragg (North Carolina-born Confederate General) |
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1921 | Engelbert Humperdinck (German Composer) |
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1944 | Aimee Semple McPherson (Canadian-American Pentecostal Evangelist) |
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Aristide Maillol (French Sculptor) |
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1956 | Babe Didrikson Zaharias (Texas-born Professional Golfer, Member of the Track & Field Hall of Fame) |
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1960 | Sylvia Pankhurst (English Women's Rights Advocate) |
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1991 | Oona Chaplin (English-born Wife of Charlie Chaplin/Daughter of Eugene O'Neill) |
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2009 | William Safire (New York City-born Columnist, Author Awarded the 1978 Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Commentary) |
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2011 | Wilson Greatbatch (New York-born Inventor of the Pacemaker, Member of the Inventors Hall of Fame) |
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1514 | Spanish Crown Grants Juan Ponce de Leon Title of Military Governor of Florida |
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1777 | A Company of Militia from Hampshire County, Virginia Is Ambushed by Native Americans in the "Narrows," South of Wheeling |
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1779 | John Adams Chosen to Negotiate Revolutionary War's Peace Terms with Britain |
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1787 | Text of the Proposed U.S. Constitution Is Printed for Public View in New York Journal |
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1791 | Jews in France Are Given French Citizenship |
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1804 |
![]() Clark: I rose early aftr a bad nights Sleep found the Chief all up, and the bank as usial lined with Spectators we gave the 2 great Cheifs a Blanket a peace, or rethr they took off agreeable to their Custom the one they lay on and each one Peck of Corn after Brackfast Capt. Lewis & the Chiefs went on Shore, as a verry large part of their nation was Comeing in, the Disposition of whome I did not know one of us being Suffcent on Shore, I wrote a letter to Mr. P. Durion & prepared a meadel & Some Comsns. [Certificates] & Sent to Capt. Lewis at 2 oClock Capt. Lewis returned with 4 Chiefs & a Brave man named War cha pa or on his Guard. when the friends of those people die they run arrows through their flesh above and below their elbous as a testimony of their Greaf
after Staying about half an hour, I went with them on Shore, Those men left the boat with reluctience, I went first to the 2d Chiefs Lodge, where a Croud Came around after Speeking on various Subjects I went to a princpal mans
Capt. Lewis came on Shore and we Continued untill we were Sleepy & returned to our boat, the 2nd Chief & one principal man accompanid us, those two Indians accompanied me on board in the Small Perogue, Capt. Lewis with a guard Still on Shore, the man who Steered not being much acustomed to Steer, passed the bow of the boat & Perogue Came broad Side against the Cable & broke it |
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![]() Clark: all the men able to work comened building 5 Canoes, Several taken Sick at work, our hunters returned Sick without meet. J. Colter returned he found only one of the lost horses, on his way killed a deer, half of which he gave the Indians the other proved nourishing to the Sick
The day verry hot, we purchase fresh Salmon of them Several Indians Come up the river from a Camp Some our Shoshonee Indian Guide employed himself makeing flint points for his arrows
Gass:
A fine warm morning. All the men, who were able were employed in making canoes.
About 10 o'clock the man came in who had gone to look for the horses, he had found one of them and killed a deer.
In the evening the greater part of the war party came in, and some of the principal men came down to our camp. We could not understand what they had done, as we could only converse by signs. Medals were given by the Commanding Officers to 3 or 4 of them as leading men of their nation; and they remained about our camp.
The river below the fork is about 200 yards wide; the water is clear as crystal, from 2 to 5 feet deep, and abounding with salmon of an excellent quality. The bottom of the river is stony and the banks chiefly composed of a round hard species of stone.
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1809 | Canadian Explorer David Thompson First non-Indian to Reach Pend Oreille River Region |
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1825 | England's George Stephenson Engineers the First Train to Haul Passengers |
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1829 | Dr. J. J. Parrot Is First Person to Climb Turkey's Mount Ararat in Modern Times |
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1830 | Choctaw Indians Sign "Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek" Ceding All Land East of the Mississippi |
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1842 | Milwaukee Wisconsin's First Public Music Hall Opens |
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1851 | Land Is purchased for a Poor Farm to be Located in the Town of Yorkville, Near Racine, Wisconsin |
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1854 | The Arctic Is First Ocean Liner to Sink in the Atlantic: 300 Die |
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1858 | Britain's William Usherwood Takes First Photograph of a Comet (Donati's) |
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1862 | First Federal Black Regiment Mustered in at New Orleans |
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Minnesota's Legislature Passes the State's First Absentee Ballot Law to Allow Civil War Soldiers to Vote |
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1864 | Jesse James & Others Massacre 20 Unarmed Union Soldiers in Centralia, Missouri |
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1867 | Worcester, Massachusetts Announces the Opening of a Freedman's Bureau to Help White Employers Hire African Americans Newly Arrived from the South |
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1880 | Rutherford B. Hayes Is the First U.S. President to Visit Oregon |
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1888 | John Ireland Is Named Archbishop of Minnesota |
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1892 | Czech Composer Antonin Dvorák Arrives in New York City to Take Up a Position at the National Conservatory |
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1894 | Aqueduct Race Track Opens in New York City |
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1902 | New Orleans Streetcar Employees Go on Strike for an 8-Hour Work Day and a 25-Cent-per-Hour Minimum Wage |
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1906 | A Powerful Hurricane Kills Dozens in the Mobile, Alabama Area |
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1909 | Earthquake Centered in Southwest Indiana Is Felt in 30,000 Square Mile Area |
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1918 | Allied Troops Break through German Fortifications at the Hindenburg Line |
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1925 | Construction Begins on the 13-mile Nurburgring Racing Circuit |
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William Faulkner Publishes "Yo Ho and Two Bottles of Rum," in New Orleans Times Picayune |
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1929 | Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms Is Published - First Run of 31,500 Copies |
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1930 | Bobby Jones Wins the U.S. Amateur and Golf's Grand Slam |
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1935 | Judy Garland Signs Contract with MGM |
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1939 | Warsaw, Poland Is Surrendered to the Nazis after Weeks of Resistance |
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1940 | Germany, Italy, Japan Form the Axis Powers Signing Tripartite Pact in Berlin |
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1942 | Japanese Begin Withdrawal from New Guinea |
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Glenn Miller and His Orchestra Perform Together for Last Time |
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1943 | Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters Record Jingle Bells |
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1948 | Texas' First Television Station, WBAP-Fort Worth, Begins Broadcasting |
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William Faulkner's Intruder in the Dust Is Published |
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1950 | U.S. Forces Take Seoul, Korea |
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Heavyweight Champ Ezzard Charles Knocks Out Joe Louis in 15 rounds in New York City for the Heavyweight Boxing Championship |
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1951 | William Faulkner's Requiem for a Nun Is Published |
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1954 | In Delaware, the First 11 African-American Students Enter Milford High School |
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The Tonight Show Debuts with Steve Allen |
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1956 | U.S. Bell X-2, World's Fastest Highest-flying Plane Crashes |
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1957 | The Richfield Oil Company Completes Its Well No. 1 Near the Swanson River on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula |
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1959 | Soviet Leader, Nikita Khrushchev, Ends His Visit to the U.S. |
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Typhoon Vera Batters Japan's Honshu Island: Almost 5,000 Die |
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1960 | Igor Stravinsky Conducts the Premiere of His "Monumentum pro Gesualdo di Venosa ad CD annum" in Venice, Austria |
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1962 | Rachel Carson's Silent Spring Is First Published |
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1964 | Warren Commission Report Concludes Lee Harvey Oswald Acted Alone Assassinating JFK |
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"The Beach Boys" Appear on "The Ed Sullivan Show" for First Time |
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1966 | Santa Fe Junior College Opens for First Classes in Gainesville, Florida |
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1970 | Jordan and the PLO Agree to Ceasefire |
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1977 | Anacleto Montero Sanchez Receives Patent for a Hypodermic Syringe |
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1983 | A Chorus Line Becomes the Longest-running Broadway Musical |
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1985 | Hurricane Gloria Shuts Down Wall Street |
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1988 | Canadian Sprinter Ben Johnson Fails Drug Test, Stripped of Olympic Gold Medal |
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1989 | SONY Buys Columbia Pictures |
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1990 | Senate Judiciary Committee Approves Supreme Court Nomination of David H. Souter |
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1991 | Senate Judiciary Committee Votes 7-7, on Nomination of Clarence Thomas to U.S. Supreme Court |
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1995 | U.S. Treasury Issues New $100 Bills |
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1996 | The Taliban Islamic Conservatives Take Control of Kabul, Afghanistan |
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U.S. Postal Service Issues an F. Scott Fitzgerald Commemorative Stamp |
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A Statue of Author F. Scott Fitzgerald Is Unveiled in St. Paul, Minnesota's Rice Park |
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1998 | Social Democrat Gerhard Schroeder Is Elected Chancellor of Germany |
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Mark McGwire Becomes First to Hit 70 Home Runs in One Season |
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1999 | Detroit's Tiger Stadium Closes After 87 Years |
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2001 | President Bush Announces Increased Security Measures for Air Travel |
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