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 (Formerly) Feast
Day of St Simeon
Stylites, the Younger
(Fleabane, Inula dysenterica, was
today's plant,
dedicated to this saint.)
Born at
Antioch in 521, he died there on May 24, 597, and that is now his feast
day. He spent 69 years perched atop a pillar.
"Simeon's father died when the boy
was five years old, and he became the ward of a monk named John who lived nearby.
When Simeon was seven, the two moved onto platforms at the top of
pillars in order to ensure their solitude. Word spread about the
sanctity and wisdom of the pair; they attracted so many pilgrims and would-be disciples
that at age 20, Simeon came down from his pillar to hide in the
mountains. Ten years later there were more would-be students, and
this time Simeon decided to help them; he built a monastery for them, and in it
placed a pillar for himself. Ordained at age 35; the bishop climbed onto the platform to
impose his hands. Simeon celebrated Mass on his platform, and the monks climbed a ladder to receive Communion.
Healer and miracle worker, he spent 69 of his 76 years living
off the ground." Source
Simeon the
Younger is not the same as Simeon Stylites the Elder, feast day January 5.
And another Simeon Stylites
"Simeon Stylites III, another pillar hermit, who also bore
the name Simeon, is honoured by both the Greeks and the Copts. He is
hence believed to have lived in the fifth century before the breach
which occurred between these Churches. But it must be confessed that
very little certain is known of him. He is believed to have been
struck by lightning upon his pillar, built near Hegca in Cicilia."
Source
Slavic Pagan Day of Remembrance for the Pagan People of Novgorod
"When the people of Novgorod were notified that Dobrinja wanted to Christianize them, they held a
'Veche' (Thing) and decided to swear an oath: 'Do not let Dobrinja into town. Do not let our idols be destroyed.' Dobrinja sent word to them offering them silver, but the people refused him and would not let him enter the city.
'The highest Volvh under the direction of a Slavic Pagan Priest, named Bogomil, (also known as Nightengale or
"Solovey"), Voevoda Ugonay goes on to declare, went about the city on a horse, declaring with a loud voice:
"Better for us to die than to let our Gods see disgrace." However,
Dobrinja prevaled and each of the idols were cast into the river and
the wooden sculptures were incinerated. This, truly, was a day of
great mourning and sadness for the Pagan People ...'"
Iokimovskaja Letopis Source
Baffin Land, Canada: Feast of Atqksak
Source: The Daily Bleed
Feast day of
St Aigulf
Feast day of
St Andrew Dotti
Feast day of
St Angus MacNisse
Feast day of
St Anthony Ishida (Ixida)
Feast day of Ss Aristeus and
Antoninus
Feast day of
St Auxanus
Feast day of
St Balin
Feast day of
St Bartholomew
Gutierrez
Feast day of
St Basilissa of
Nicomedia
Feast day of
St Brigida of
Jesus
Feast day of
St Cuthberga of
Wimbourne, widow
Feast day of
St Francis Ortego
Feast day of
St Frugentius of
Fleury
Feast day of
St Gabriel of
Saint Magdalen
He was burned alive in 1632 at Nagasaki, Japan.
Feast day of
St Gregory the
Great, pope
Feast day of
St Guala
Feast day of
St Hereswitha
Feast day of
St Herman of
Heidelberg
Feast day of
St Jerome of
the Cross de Torres
Feast day of
St John of
Perugia
Feast day of
St Macanisius
(Macnisius), first Bishop of Connor, in Ireland
Feast day of
St Mansuet (Mansuetus), first Bioshop of Toul, in Lorraine
Feast day of
St Marinus of
San Marino
Tradition has it that he was
a blacksmith
or stonemason by trade who came from the island of Rab
on the other side of the Adriatic
Sea (modern Croatia).
In religious art Marinus is portrayed in art as a bearded man with a stonemason's
hammer; as a young deacon with a hammer; or with two oxen near him.
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St Martin de Hinojosa
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the Martyrs of
September (also Sep 2)
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St Maurilius
Feast day of
St Natalis
Feast day of
St Peter of
Sassoferrato
Feast day of
St Phoebe of
Cenchreae
Feast day of
St Quenburga (Oenburga)
of Wimbourne
Feast day of
St Regulus of
Rheims
Feast day of
St Feast day of St Remaclus,
Bishop of Maestricht
Feast
day of St Sandila
Feast day of
St Vincent Carvalho
Feast
day of Ss Zeno and Chariton
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 Eve of the feast day of St Rose of
Viterbo (1235 - March 6, 1252)
The
'Macchina di Santa
Rosa', Viterbo, Italy.
Wikipedia says: The transport of the
Macchina di S. Rosa takes place every year, on September 3, at 9 o'clock in the evening. The Macchina is an artistic illuminated bell-tower with an imposing height of 30
metres. It weighs between 3.5 and 5 tonnes and is made of iron, wood and papier-mâché. At the top of the tower, the statue of the Patron Saint is enthusiastically acclaimed by the people in the streets of the town centre, where lights are turned off for the occasion. One hundred Viterbesi men (known as the
Facchini) carry the Macchina from Porta Romana through the major streets of Viterbo, concluding with a strenuous ascension up to the Piazza di Santa Rosa, its final resting place. Each
Macchina has a life span of five years, after which a new one is built.
Pictured: Progetto per la Macchina di S.
Rosa, Angelo Papini Source
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"The origin of the 'Machine' can be traced back to September 4, 1258, when St Rosa's corpse, found untouched by decay, was moved from the church where it had been buried to the monastery that, since then, became her Sanctuary.
"It was from this procession that came the tradition of carrying and transforming the altar, on the top of which an image of the saint was placed, resting under a canopy that was few metres high. It became the way in which the citizens of Viterbo commemorated the event every year, which is documented from the end of 1600.
"From the 18th century the 'Machine' began to grow in height to reach the appearance it has maintained until our day: a contraption some 30 metres high carried through the city streets by about a hundred men called
'Facchini' (porters)."
Source:
Thank you Sylvia de Vanna for translating
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Sunrise dance,
Apache (Aug 31- Sep 3)
The sunrise dance is a puberty ceremony – or na'ii'ees
('preparing her,' or 'getting her ready') – for young women.
Lakon, Hopi Indian
"Women's healing ceremony for maidens of the four directions."
Source: The Phoenix and
Arabeth 1992 Calendar
Late
August, Early September,
Freeing the
Insects, Japan
Yatsuo Kaze-No-Bon, or Wind Bon
Event, at Nei-Gun, Toyama Prefecture, Japan (Sep 1 - 3)
Jinja
Matsuri, or Shrine Festival, at Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, Japan
(Sep 1 - 3)
Ganesh
Chaturthi (Hinduism; date
varies annually, approx.
Aug 20
to Sep 15)
Independence
Day, Qatar
(from Great Britain, 1971)
Foundation, San
Marino, by St Marinus
(in 301)
Armed
Forces Day, Taiwan/Republic
of China
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Day, Australia
Callach,
Ireland
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1499 Diane de Poitiers, lover of Henry II of France
1728 Matthew Boulton
(d.
August 18, 1809), English manufacturer and engineer
who
pioneered the steam engine with James Watt.
Like Watt,
Boulton was a key member of the Lunar Society.
Other names associated with this remarkable club include
Erasmus Darwin,
Samuel
Galton, Jr, Joseph
Priestley, Josiah Wedgwood,
Sir Richard
Arkwright, John
Baskerville, Benjamin
Franklin, Thomas
Jefferson, Anna Seward and Thomas
Wedgwood.
1781 Eugène de Beauharnais
(d. 1824), son of
Napoleon's wife,
Josephine
1803
Prudence
Crandall (d.
1890), American
educator, creator of the first
racially integrated classroom in the United States
She "maintained the
nation's first private secondary school for 'Young Ladies of
Color' for over a year and a half," and "became a symbol in the
cause of African American education and abolitionism."
Source
Early progressives in the Book of Days
1810 Paul Kane,
Canadian
painter
1811
John
Humphrey Noyes (d.
April 13,
1886),
American
utopian
socialist who founded the
Oneida
Community in 1848
Early progressives in the Book of Days
CounterCulture Wiki
1827 John Ernst Worrell Keely (d. November 18,
1898),
US inventor
from Philadelphia
who invented the Keely Motor, an induction resonance motion motor,
supposedly using "etheric technology"
– but when his investors demanded
that he create a marketable product, he refused and said that he
needed to do more experiments.
KeelyNet Site of Keely supporters
Keely
Motor Company The Museum
of Unworkable Devices Main Gallery
Keely Motor
Company 1884 Perpetual
Motion Machine
The science of
Oneness The aether as spherical light and sound
Chapter
eight: Keely and the physics of vibration
Sympathetic Vibratory Physics
Eric's History of
Perpetual Motion and Free Energy Machines Museum of
Unworkable Devices
Related: Charles
Redheffer's fake perpetual motion fraud Hoaxes
and frauds, in the Scriptorium
1849 Sarah Orne Jewett, writer
1875 Ferdinand Porsche (d. 1951), German
automotive engineer
1883 Harold DeForest
Arnold, American physicist whose research led to the development of
radio communication and long-distance telephony
1887 Frank Christian (d. 1973), jazz
musician
1899 Sir Frank MacFarlane
Burnet (d. August
31, 1985), Australian virologist
who worked on such diseases as influenza, polio and cholera; awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1960,
along with Peter Brian Medawar. Australia's
favourite scientist had a very ugly side, only recently exposed:
"World-famous microbiologist Sir Macfarlane Burnet, the Nobel prize winner revered as Australia's greatest medical research scientist, secretly urged the government to develop biological weapons for use against Indonesia and other "overpopulated" countries of South-East Asia."
Burnet's solution: The plan to poison S-E Asia
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1902 Mantan Moreland (d. 1973), actor
1907
Loren
Eiseley (d. 1977),
American anthropologist
1910 Kitty
Carlisle, actress, television
personality
1913 Alan Ladd (d. 1964), American actor
(This Gun for Hire;
Shane). He
frequently teamed with sultry Veronica Lake (most
effectively in 1942's The Glass Key and
1946's The Blue
Dahlia), partly because their onscreen chemistry was good,
and partly because she was shorter than he was. In The Carpetbaggers he
played an aging, washed up movie star. He died by his own hand
shortly after his 50th birthday.
"Throughout the 1940s his tough-guy roles filled
theatres and he was one of very few males whose cover photos sold
movie magazines. In the 1950s he obtained lucrative but
unrewarding roles (exception, what many regard as his greatest
movie, "Shane" released in 1953). By the end of the fifties,
liquor and a string of so-so movies had taken their toll. In
November 1962 he was found unconscious lying in a pool of blood
with a bullet wound near his heart. In January 1964 he was found
dead, apparently due to an accidental combination of alcohol and
sedatives." Source
1918 Helen
Wagner, American soap
opera actress
1923 Mort
Walker, cartoonist
1926 Anne Jackson, actress
1927 Hugh Sidey, contributing editor at Time Magazine
1929 Irene
Papas, actress
1930 Cherry
Wilder, author
1933 Tompall Glaser, country music singer
1938 Caryl Churchill, playwright
1938 Ryoji
Noyori, Japanese chemist
1938 Eileen Brennan, actress
1942 Al
Jardine, rock and roll musician, member of the Beach
Boys
1943 Valerie Perrine, American
actress
1947 Kjell Magne Bondevik Prime Minister of Norway
1955 Steve
Jones, musician (Sex
Pistols)
1964 Adam
Curry, MTV
VJ and Internet
entrepreneur
1965 Charlie Sheen (born Carlos
Irwin Estevez),
judgement-impaired actor, Platoon; Wall Street. Son of
actor Martin Sheen
and 'Janet Estevez'; brother of actors Emilio Estevez
and Renée
Estevez and Ramon
Estevez, Jr.
He took a
cameo in his brother's parody film
National Lampoon's Loaded
Weapon I,
and starred in
The
Three Musketeers (1993, as Aramis),
Deadfall,
Major League II,
Terminal Velocity
and The Chase
(all 1994).
1972
Anu Singh,
Australian who, in 1997, while a law student at the
Australian National University, killed her boyfriend,
Joe Cinque,
lacing his coffee with
Rohypnol, then
injecting him with heroin. Her case is famous in Australia due to
her sentence for manslaughter and her light sentence (she left
prison after 4 years), and a book by Helen Garner, Joe Cinque's
Consolation (2004).
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36 BCE
In the battle
of Naulochus, Marcus
Vipsanius Agrippa, admiral of Octavian,
defeated Sextus
Pompeius, son of Pompey,
thus ending Pompeian resistance to the Second
Triumvirate.
301
San Marino,
one of the smallest
nations in the world and the world's oldest republic
still in existence, was founded by St Marinus, whose feast day this is (see
above).
590 St
Gregory I became Pope.
1189 Richard I of England ('Lionheart') was
crowned, at Westminster.
1260 The Mongols
were defeated by the Mameluks (Marmelukes) at the Battle of Ain Jalut.
1390 English poet Geoffrey
Chaucer was robbed of 20 pounds belonging to the King, at the 'foul oak'
in Kent.
1650 The English under Oliver Cromwell defeated the Scots at
the Battle of Dunbar.
 1651 English Civil War: After the Battle of Worcester, in which
Oliver Cromwell defeated the royalist
forces, King
Charles II of England (1630 - '85) hid himself
in an oak-tree with Colonel William Careless (whose name Charles changed to
Carlos after the Restoration, to be more in line with his own), at Boscobel,
near Shifnal, Shropshire.
Because of the oak tree, the 'oak-apple',
or shick-shack, an insect gall found on oak trees, became a symbol of King
Charles. Each anniversary of his May 29, 1660 coronation was long called Oak-Apple Day, or Shick-shack
Day.
"The wearing of
a sprig of oak on the anniversary of Charles' crowning showed that a
person was loyal to the restored king. Those who refused to wear an
oak-sprig were often set upon, and children would challenge others
to show their sprig or have their bottoms pinched. Consequently,
this day became known as Pinch-Bum-Day. In parts of England where
oak-apples are known as shick-shacks, the day is also known as
Shick-Shack Day. It is also likely that the royal association
conceals a pagan tradition of tree worship." Source
Oliver's big day
English
military leader, politician and dictator Oliver Cromwell
had
appointments with destiny on September 3 on at least three occasions. On this
day in 1650, he defeated the Scots at the Battle of Dunbar, and the Royalist
forces in 1651 at the Battle of Worcester. He died on September 3 in
1658.
1658 Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of
England from 1653, died in London, of pneumonia, or a gallbladder infection,
depending on sources.
"Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, died in 1658 of a gallbladder
infection. The embalming of the body went wrong – the smell came through the
double coffin – and the state funeral was held two months later using a wax
effigy. Three years later, the body as exhumed and decapitated by the Royalists.
The head was stuck on a pole at Tyburn, the public execution spot, and remained
there until a stiff breeze blew it off. It was then stolen and bought and sold
for three centuries until it was finally laid to rest at his old college, Sydney
Sussex in Cambridge, in 1960." Source
1666 The Great Fire of London continued (see September 2). It burned
itself out on September 6.
1777 The Flag of the United States flew in battle
for the first time, at Cooch's Bridge in Maryland.
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1783 American Revolutionary War ended: Treaty of Paris – A treaty between the
United
States and the Kingdom of Great Britain was signed in Paris, ending the
war. Britain
recognised the independence of the former colonies.
1826 The USS Vincennes,
commanded by William Finch, left New York City to become first United
States warship to circumnavigate globe.
1838 Dressed in a sailor's uniform and carrying
identification papers provided by a free Black seaman, future abolitionist
Frederick Douglass boarded a train in Maryland on
his way to freedom from slavery.
Early
progressives in the Book of Days
1847 Gold was discovered in California.
1849 Citizens at Cape Town, South Africa, pledged to boycott
the British colonial government after a cargo of convicts arrived on the Neptune.
1855 Indian Wars: In Nebraska, USA,
700 soldiers under American General William Harney avenged the Grattan Massacre by attacking a Sioux village
killing 100 men, women, and children.
1861 American Civil War: Confederate General Leonidas
Polk invaded neutral Kentucky, prompting the state legislature to ask for Union
assistance.
1864 Count Leo Tolstoy,
Russian author, mystical anarchist,
was seized with terror in a country inn in an episode that became the basis for Notes of a
Madman.
1878 More than 640 died when the crowded pleasure boat Princess
Alice collided with the Bywell
Castle in the River
Thames.
1882
Llandudno,
Wales: "About three P.M. on Sunday, September 3, 1882, a party of
gentlemen and ladies were standing at the northern extremity of
Llandudno pier, looking towards the open sea, when an unusual object
was observed in the water near to the Little Orme's Head, travelling
rapidly westwards towards the Great Orme. It appeared to be just
outside the mouth of the bay, and would therefore be about a mile
distant from the observers. It was watched for about two minutes,
and in that interval it traversed about half the width of the bay,
and then suddenly disappeared. The bay is two miles wide, and
therefore the object, whatever it was, must have travelled at the
rate of thirty miles an hour. It is estimated to have been fully as
long as a large steamer, say two hundred feet; the rapidity of its
motion was particularly remarked as being greater than that of any
ordinary vessel. The colour appeared to be black, and the motion
either corkscrew-like or snake-like, with vertical undulations.
Three of the observers have since made sketches from memory, quite
independently, of the impression left on their minds, and on
comparing these sketches, which slightly varied, they have agreed to
sanction the accompanying outline as representing as nearly as
possible the object which they saw. The party consisted of W.
Barfoot, J.P., of Leicester, F. J. Marlow, solicitor, of Manchester,
Mrs. Marlow, and several others. They discard the theories of birds
or porpoises as not accounting for this particular phenomenon.
F. T. MOTT.
Birstall Hill, Leicester,
January 16th, 1883."
Source
1894 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi),
Indian leader and proponent of civil disobedience, was admitted to Natal Supreme
Court despite opposition by Natal Law Society.
1901 Australia's flag was chosen following a competition
open to the public.
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1902 Popular author Sarah Orne Jewett was thrown out of a carriage,
virtually ending her writing career.
1915 Australia: Tom Barker, a Wobbly (member of the IWW, or Industrial
Workers of the World, a radical labour organization) was arrested for his
anti-war poster:
"To
ARMS! Capitalists, Parsons, Politicians, Landlords, Newspaper Editors, and other
Stay-at-home Patriots. Your Country needs you in the trenches! Workers, Follow
your masters!!. stay at home."
Anti-recruiting efforts finally got him 12 months hard labour. He was released
after only three months, following a series of fires in stores and factories.
Donald
Grant is reported to have told the crowd at the Sydney Domain that for
every day that Barker is in gaol, it will cost the capitalists 10,000 pounds.
These fifteen words formed the large part of the case against him in 1916 when
he was arrested and charged as part of the Sydney Twelve with arson, conspiracy
to prevent justice and incitement to sedition. He received a sentence of fifteen
years, which inspired Henry
Boote, editor of The Worker to write The case of Grant, Fifteen
years for Fifteen Words.
Source: The Daily Bleed WWI
anti-conscription struggle
Tom Barker in New Zealand,
where he was charged with sedition
Website of history of
Australasian radical/anarchist
movements
Lawson & Co:
associations with Henry and Louisa Lawson
1916 England was raided by German
zeppelins.
1925 The crash, in a storm, of
the USS Shenandoah
(ZR-1), the
first in a line of four United States Navy rigid airships. Thirteen crewmen lost their lives in the disaster, which led Army Colonel Billy
Mitchell to criticize the military's incompetence, leading directly to his
court-martial
and the end of his military career. Many thousands of people turned up to witness the wreck and took away whole girders, gas cells and other keepsakes with the bodies of the dead crew
in situ.
1930 Dieudonné
Costes and Maurice Bellonte made the first
non-stop flight from Europe to the USA.
1935 Sir Malcolm
Campbell reached 304.331 miles
per hour on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, becoming the
first person to drive a car over 300 mph.1939 World
War II: France,
the United
Kingdom, New Zealand, and Australia
declared war on Germany
after
the September 1 invasion of Poland.
The War (PBS)
1943 World War II: Mainland Italy was invaded by Allied forces for
the first time in the war.
1943 Australia's churches were filled on the day of prayer
called by King George VI
of the United Kingdom on the fourth anniversary of the outbreak of World War
II.
1944 British forces liberated Brussels, Belgium.
1951 The first long-running American television soap opera,
Search for Tomorrow, aired its
first episode on the CBS
network.
1954 USA: The last new episode of the Lone
Ranger was aired on radio after 2,956 episodes over a period of 21 years.
1954 The People's Liberation Army began shelling
the ROC-controlled islands of Quemoy and Matsu.
1966 USA: The last new episode of the television
series The Adventures of Ozzie and
Harriet aired.
1966 Chay Blyth and Captain John Ridgway completed
their 91-day rowing journey across the Atlantic, arriving on the Isle of Aran in
Ireland.
1967 American folk
singer Woody Guthrie, aged only 52,
died of Huntington's
Disease in New York City.
As I went walking,
I saw a sign there,
And on the sign it said
NO TRESPASSING.
But on the other side
It didn't say nothing,
That side was made for you and me!
Woody Guthrie
1967 USA: The last telecast of the television
game show What's My Line? aired on CBS after a 17-year run.
1967 Nguyen Van Thieu was elected President of South
Vietnam.
1967 'Dagen H'
in Sweden:
traffic changes from driving on the left to driving on the right of the road.
1969 North Vietnamese authorities said that President Ho Chi
Minh died on this day, but he actually died on September 2, the 24th
anniversary of Ho's declaration of the nation's independence.
1971 Qatar
regained independence from the United
Kingdom.
1976 Viking
program: The Viking 2 spacecraft landed at Utopia
Planitia on Mars taking the first close-up, colour photos of the
planet's surface.
1981 The Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, adopted in 1979 by
the UN General Assembly, entered into force. The convention outlawing gender
discrimination (against women) world-wide.
1991 Hamlet, North Carolina, USA: A grease fire broke out at the Imperial Foods chicken processing plant, killing 25
people.
1994 Sino-Soviet Split: Russia and the People's Republic of China agreed to
stop aiming their nuclear weapons at each other.
1997 USA: Arizona Governor Fife
Symington was convicted of various crimes tied to his real estate
business, effectively forcing him out of office.
2001
USA: The Federal Aviation Authority made an emergency ruling to prevent novelist
Salman Rushdie from flying
in the USA.
" THE author Salman Rushdie believes that US authorities knew of an imminent terrorist strike when they banned him from taking internal flights in Canada and the US only a week before the
attacks ...
"The FAA told the author's publisher that US intelligence had given warning of
'something out there' but failed to give any further details"
Source
"'Do you see those two buildings?' he asked while pointing toward the World Trade Center. 'They won't be standing there next week.' It was noon, Sept. 6, 2001."
Prior Knowledge of Sept. 11 Not Just Urban Legend
Myths of the 'War on
Terrorism' and Iraq September
11 Prior Knowledge Archive
2004 The
Beslan
school massacre ended in the deaths of approximately 344 teachers and
children.
2005
Hurricane Katrina: News
broke that the Red Cross had been kept out of New Orleans by the Department of
Homeland Security – Media reports and an announcement on the American Red
Cross's own website
(page created Friday, September 2) explained that the Red Cross had stayed out
of New Orleans and not provided food and water to New Orleans residents dying of
heat exhaustion and hunger, on orders of the Department
of Homeland Security.
Hurricane
Katrina timeline http://del.icio.us/almanac/katrina
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