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W. F. H. Nicolaisen
1927 - 2016 (89 years)
Wilhelm Fritz Hermann Nicolaisen was a folklorist, linguist, medievalist, scholar of onomastics and literature, educator, and author with specialties in Scottish and American studies. Early life and education Nicolaisen was born in Halle an der Saale in east-central Germany, near Leipzig. His father was a professor of agriculture. He attended the University of Kiel in Germany from 1948 to 1950 where he studied folklore, language, and literature. In 1950 he attended King's College Newcastle in England. He returned to Germany to study at the University of Tübingen, where he received his Dr. Phil.
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Karin Friedrich
1963 - Present (62 years)
Karin Friedrich is a German historian, a professor in history at the University of Aberdeen King's College. Friedrich received an M.A. in history and political science from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in 1989 and a Ph.D. in history from Georgetown University in 1995. From 1995 to 2004, she worked as a lecturer and senior lecturer at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London/University College London. From 2001 to 2006, she was co-editor of the academic journal German History. At Aberdeen she is co-director of the Centre for Early Modern Studies. She is ...
Go to ProfileKim Ati Wagner is a Danish-British historian of colonial India and the British Empire at Queen Mary University of London. He has written a number of books on India, starting with Thuggee: Banditry and the British in early nineteenth-century India in 2007. He followed that up with a source book on Thuggee and has also written on the uprising of 1857 and the Amritsar massacre. A British citizen, Wagner feels an affinity for India.
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Charles Knickerbocker Harley
1943 - Present (82 years)
Charles Knickerbocker Harley is an academic economic historian who has written on a wide range of topics including the British industrial revolution, the late nineteenth century international economy, and the impact of technological change. He is a practitioner of the New Economic History.
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S. Kent Brown
1940 - Present (85 years)
Scott Kent Brown is an emeritus American professor of ancient scripture at Brigham Young University where he was also the director of ancient studies and for three years head of the university's Jerusalem Center.
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Kyouichi Tachikawa
1966 - Present (59 years)
is a Japanese historian specializing in international politics military history, specifically French Indochina. He was born in the Tokyo. He is a graduate of the Sophia University foreign language department. As of 1999, he lectures part-time at Sophia University and at Caritas Junior College. Currently he is working as a researcher for the Japanese Ministry of Defense where he does research on military history.
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Robert W. Thurston
1949 - Present (76 years)
Robert W. Thurston is an American historian and author. He is professor emeritus at Miami University. His most recent publication is The Body in the Anglosphere, 1880-1920: "Well Sexed Womanhood," Finer Natives," and " Very White Men 2022 from Routledge. The book examines concepts of gender, sexuality, race, and civilization as they were affected by new ideas, close interaction between races, and new technology like photography. He has an article on lynching forthcoming in the Elgar Encyclopedia of Crime and Criminal Justice'.' He has also written on coffee . Perhaps primarily known for his w...
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Moses Rischin
1925 - 2020 (95 years)
Moses Rischin was an American historian, author, lecturer, editor, and emeritus professor of history at San Francisco State University. He coined the phrase new Mormon history in a 1969 article of the same name.
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Anita Leocádia Prestes
1936 - Present (89 years)
Anita Leocádia Benário Prestes is a German-Brazilian historian. She is the daughter of political activists Olga Benário Prestes and Luís Carlos Prestes. She was born in Barnimstraße Women's Prison in Berlin and was handed over to the care of her paternal grandmother, Brazilian Leocádia Prestes, at age 14 months. Her mother Olga was sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp and from there to a former psychiatric hospital in Bernburg in 1942, where she was gassed.
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Helen Krich Chinoy
1922 - 2010 (88 years)
Helen Krich Chinoy was an American theater historian who documented the role of women in United States theater. Biography Helen Krich was born on September 25, 1922, in Newark, New Jersey. She was awarded bachelor's and master's degrees from New York University, where she majored in English. She later earned her doctorate, also in English, from Columbia University. Together with Toby Cole, she co-authored the 1949 book Actors on Acting in 1949 which was a collection of pieces about the theater from Ancient Greece to the modern stage. She wrote an essay to introduce the book, which has been used over the years as a college textbook.
Go to ProfileStephen Church is a writer and professor of medieval history at the University of East Anglia and is regarded as an expert on King John. In 2015 his book King John: England, Magna Carta, and the Making of a Tyrant was one of the Financial Times best books of the year.
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Stephen H. Norwood
1951 - Present (74 years)
Stephen H. Norwood was a professor of history at the University of Oklahoma. He received his PhD at Columbia University in 1984. Norwood's 2009 book The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower: Complicity and Conflict on American Campuses, drew attention even before publication. According to Norwood, "Harvard was involved in active steps that helped legitimate the Nazi regime in the West", and was "indifferent to the prosecution of German Jews and indeed on numerous occasions assisted the Nazis in their efforts to gain acceptance in the West", welcoming one of Adolf Hitler's closest deputies to a r...
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David Alan Rosenberg
1948 - Present (77 years)
David Alan Rosenberg is a military historian, and was Admiral Harry W. Hill Chair of Maritime Strategy at the National War College from 1996 to 2003 and held the Class of 1957 Distinguished Chair of Naval Heritage at the United States Naval Academy in 2015–2016.
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Mark Overton
1950 - Present (75 years)
Mark Overton, FAcSS, is a British agricultural historian and formerly Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Exeter, where he was Deputy Vice-Chancellor from 2006 to 2013. Career Overton completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Exeter, graduating with a degree in economic history and geography. In 1972, he began his doctoral studies in historical geography at the University of Cambridge; the PhD was awarded in 1981 for his thesis "Agricultural change in Norfolk and Suffolk, 1580–1740." He was appointed an assistant lecturer at Cambridge in 1974 and then a Fellow at Emmanuel College.
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Nicolau Sevcenko
1952 - 2014 (62 years)
Nicolau Sevcenko was a Brazilian historian, university professor, columnist, writer, and translator. Sevcenko specialized in the history of Brazilian culture and the social development of the cities of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. He graduated from the University of São Paulo , where he also served as a professor of cultural history. He was also a member of the Center for Latin American Cultural Studies at King's College of the University of London. He also served as a visiting professor at Georgetown University, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Harvard University.
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Philippe Buc
1961 - Present (64 years)
Philippe Buc is a French/American historian concentrating on religion and politics, mainly in the European Middle Ages. Since 2021 he is Professor of Medieval History at the Leiden University. Buc did his undergraduate studies at Swarthmore College, graduating in 1982. He then attended the prestigious EHESS in Paris between 1984 and December 2011, studying History and receiving his doctorate for his dissertation entitled "Potestas: prince, pouvoir, et peuple dans les commentaires de la Bible . The work was supervised by Jean-Claude Schmitt.
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Douglas Little
1950 - Present (75 years)
Douglas Little is an American historian specializing in American diplomatic history, twentieth century America, and United States relations with the Middle East. Currently, his research focuses on the U.S. response to radical Islam between the 1967 Six-Day War and the 1979 Iranian Revolution. He teaches at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he was also the Dean of the College.
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Robert Ivany
1947 - Present (78 years)
Robert Rudolph Ivany is a retired major general in the United States Army, and was the eighth president of the University of St. Thomas in Houston. Military career Born in Austria to Hungarian war refugees, Ivany attended college at the United States Military Academy at West Point. In addition to earning a Bachelor of Science degree from the United States Military Academy in 1969, he received a Doctor of Philosophy in History from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in May 1980. His doctoral thesis was entitled The Exploited Emigres: The Hungarians in Europe, 1853-1861 and his thesis advisor was Theodore S.
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Beatrix Mesmer
1931 - 2015 (84 years)
Beatrix Mesmer-Strupp was a Swiss historian of German origin. She was one of the first female Swiss professors, being a professor of Swiss history at the University of Bern from 1973 to 1996. Her research and work on Swiss women's history has had a considerable impact on the subject.
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Deng Guangming
1907 - 1998 (91 years)
Dèng Guăngmíng was a Chinese historian who specialized in the 10th to 13th century Song, Jin and Liao dynasties. Born in Linyi County, Shandong and known by the courtesy name Gongsan , Deng's principal works include:Outline of Chinese History • The Song, Liao and Jin Dynasties Wang Anshi's Political Reforms During the Northern Song Dynasty Biography of Yue Fei Biography of Xin Qiji Biography of Chen Longchuan Chronicle of Xin Qiji's Life Annotated Works of Xin Qiji Amended Institutional Function Records from the History of Song Amended Criminal Law Records from the History of Song
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Patrick Wright
1951 - Present (74 years)
Patrick Wright is a British writer, broadcaster and academic in the fields of cultural studies and cultural history. He was educated at the University of Kent and Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada.
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Piotr Łossowski
1925 - Present (100 years)
Piotr Łossowski is a Polish historian and professor. Lecturer at Collegium Civitas. Member of the Historical Committee of Polish Academy of Sciences. He specializes in the areas of foreign politics and diplomacy and history of the Second Polish Republic, military history of Poland in the years 1918–1920, history of the Baltic states and their relations with Poland. He gained major recognition for his works on the state of Polish diplomacy in the time of the Second Republic.
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Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie
1936 - Present (89 years)
Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie is an American historian of science known especially for her work on the history of women in science. She taught at Oklahoma Baptist University before becoming curator of the History of Science Collections and professor at the University of Oklahoma. She is currently Curator Emeritus, History of Science Collections and Professor Emeritus, Department of the History of Science at the university.
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Keith Taylor
1946 - Present (79 years)
Keith Weller Taylor is an American sinologist, historian and writer noted for his expertise on Vietnamese history and Vietnamese literature. He currently is Professor of Sino-Vietnamese Cultural Studies in the Department of Asian Studies at Cornell University. Unlike most Western Vietnam historians, who write primarily about the 20th century and, in particular, about the US intervention, Taylor's research focuses mostly on pre-colonial Vietnamese history before the 20th century. He is now considered one of the pioneer experts in this field. He fought in Vietnam as a soldier in the United Stat...
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Harold C. Deutsch
1904 - 1995 (91 years)
Harold Charles Deutsch was an American military historian who focused on World War II. During the Second World War, he served as head of research for the Office of Strategic Services. Life Deutsch was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and Harvard University . In Europe he studied at the University of Paris, the University of Vienna and the University of Berlin. He was a professor of history at the University of Minnesota. Deutsch joined the US Army War College's Strategic Studies Institute as a political scientist. During the Second World War he ...
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Rosemarie Zagarri
1957 - Present (68 years)
Rosemarie Zagarri is distinguished American historian who specializes in the study of the Early American political history, women's and gender history, and global history. She is University Professor and Professor of History at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. The recipient of numerous grants, awards, and national recognitions, she was President of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic from 2009 to 2010.
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Gennady Gorelik
1948 - Present (77 years)
Gennady Gorelik is a research fellow at the Center for Philosophy and History of Science, Boston University. A physicist by education and historian by occupation, he published ten books and many articles on popular science and history of science, including in-depth biographies of 20th-century Russian physicists, Matvei Bronstein, Andrei Sakharov, and Lev Landau.
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Stephen Smith
1952 - Present (73 years)
Stephen Anthony Smith, FBA, FRHistS is a British historian and academic. Since 2012, he has been Professor of History at the University of Oxford and a senior research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. Smith was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1995, and a Fellow of the British Academy, the United Kingdom's national academy, in 2014.
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Markus Mattmüller
1928 - 2003 (75 years)
Markus Theodor Mattmüller was a Swiss historian. Biography He was the son of pacifist activist Georg Mattmüller . He studied history as well as German and Italian language and literature at the universities of Basel and Perugia before he passed the Mittellehrerexamen in 1957. He qualified as a professor in 1966. From 1969 to 1992, he was an ordinary professor of General and Swiss Modern History at the University of Basel.
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Heinz Magenheimer
1943 - Present (82 years)
Heinz Magenheimer is an Austrian military historian known for advancing the now discredited theory of a preemptive strike by the Wehrmacht against the Soviet Union. Education and career Magenheimer joined the Austrian Army as an officer candidate in 1961 after his matura at the Bundesrealgymnasium Wien V in Margareten. From 1962 to 1965, he was enrolled in officer's training at the Theresian Military Academy but did not graduate with a degree. Magenheimer then enrolled at the University of Vienna in 1965 and, four years later in 1969, wrote his dissertation at the Department of Contemporary H...
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John A. Petropulos
1929 - 1999 (70 years)
John Anthony Petropulos was an American historian of Modern Greek history. Petropulos was born in 1929 in Lewiston, Maine to Greek immigrants. He received his B.A. from Yale in 1951 and his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1963. He joined the faculty of Amherst College in 1958, where he taught Balkan and Middle Eastern history. He died in his office on May 3, 1999, allegedly while correcting student papers.
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Jan-Otmar Hesse
1968 - Present (57 years)
Jan-Otmar Hesse is a German historian of economics. Life Born in Göttingen, Hesse did his community service from 1987 to 1989. From 1989 to 1995 he studied history, economics, political science, film and television studies at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum. His academic teacher was . Hesse was awarded his doctorate in Bochum by Petzina in 1999 with a thesis on the history of the Reichspost and telegraph administration from 1876 to 1914. Hesse was a doctoral fellow of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation from 1997 to 2000. From 2000 to 2008, Hesse was a research assistant at the History Department of the Goethe University Frankfurt with .
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Richard Billows
2000 - Present (25 years)
Richard A. Billows is a professor of history at Columbia University. His specialty is the Classical Mediterranean, especially the Hellenistic World post-Alexander. He holds an undergraduate degree in history from Oxford University , where he was a member of Balliol College. He earned an M.A. from King's College, University of London and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley . His scholarly works include Antigonos the One-Eyed and the Creation of the Hellenic State , Kings and Colonists: Aspects of Macedonian Imperialism and Marathon - How One Battle Changed Western Civilization .
Go to ProfileDominique Clément is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Alberta and a member of the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists. He is a Canadian historical sociologist who specializes in human rights and social movements including the use of digital tools for research in the humanities and social sciences. He is an Adjunct Professor in the Departments of History, Clasics & Religion and as well as Educational Policy Studies at the University of Alberta and the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology] at Dalhousie University. He has also been a ...
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Peter Jupp
1940 - 2006 (66 years)
Peter Jupp was a British historian who specialised in British politics during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. His work was characterised by its basis in archival research. He was for a time the chairman of the Northern Ireland branch of The Historical Association.
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Rolf Wilhelm Brednich
1935 - Present (90 years)
Rolf Wilhelm Brednich is a German Europeanist ethnologist and ethnographer and folklorist. Biography Brednich studied Volkskunde, German studies, history, and theology at the Universities of Tübingen and Mainz, in Germany, getting his doctorate from the latter with a dissertation entitled Volkserzählungen und Volksglaube von den Schicksalsfrauen.
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Anthony Tuck
1940 - Present (85 years)
Anthony Tuck is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at the University of Bristol. He was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle upon Tyne and at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he received his BA and PhD degrees. From 1965 to 1978 he was Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at Lancaster University. He was then appointed Master of Collingwood College at the University of Durham, remaining in that role until 1985. His published work focuses on the relationship between the king and nobility in late medieval England. His younger brother is the historian Richard Tuck.
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Cai Shaoqing
1933 - 2019 (86 years)
Cai Shaoqing was a Chinese historian and professor at Nanjing University, considered a leading authority on the history of Chinese secret societies. He pioneered the research of Tiandihui and other secret societies using Qing dynasty archives and overturned the findings of earlier Republican-era scholars. He also studied the links between the Warlord Era and banditry during the late Qing dynasty and early Republic of China. He received the Frederic Milton Thrasher Award for his research on Chinese secret societies.
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David Washbrook
1948 - 2021 (73 years)
David Anthony Washbrook was a British historian and author who studied modern India with a specific focus on the socio-political and economic conditions of South India between the 18th and 20th centuries. He was the director of the Centre for Indian Studies and a member of the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford and later a research professor and fellow of South Asian history at Trinity College, Cambridge.
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Helen G. Edmonds
1911 - 1995 (84 years)
Helen Grey Edmonds was an American historian, scholar, and civic leader. She was the first African-American woman to earn a doctorate from Ohio State University, to become a graduate school dean and the first to second the nomination of a United States presidential candidate.
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Jean-Michel Roddaz
1948 - Present (77 years)
Jean-Michel Roddaz is a French academic and historian, a specialist of ancient Rome, particularly of the Republican and Augustan periods. Biography Roddaz became an agrégé d'histoire in 1972 then a doctor . He was assistant of ancient history at the University of Pau between 1974 and 1979. He has an habilitation to direct research after he was a residing member of the École française de Rome between 1979 and 1981. He was a lecturer and professor at the University of Pau from 1982 to 1988 and then became Professor of Ancient History at the Bordeaux Montaigne University in 1988.
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Sara B. Pritchard
1972 - Present (53 years)
Sara B. Pritchard is an American historian of technology and environmental historian. She has written books on environmental technology and history. Pritchard is an associate professor of science and technology studies at Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences.
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Angelika Schaser
1956 - Present (69 years)
Angelika Schaser is a German historian. Life and career Born in Munich, Schaser studied history, geography and library science in Munich and Berlin. In 1985, she became a research assistant to Ilja Mieck at the Friedrich Meinecke Institute of Freie Universität Berlin. In 1987, she received her doctorate from the FU Berlin with the thesis Josephinian Reforms and Social Change in Transylvania. Her doctoral supervisor was Mathias Bernath. The topic was suggested by Harald Zimmermann. In 1999, she habilitated at the FU Berlin with the thesis Helene Lange and Gertrud Bäumer. A Political Life Community.
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William D. Metz
1914 - 2013 (99 years)
William DeWitt Metz was an American historian specializing in Rhode Island History. He served as chairman of the Department of History at the University of Rhode Island, retiring after 45 years at the university in 1982. He was especially noted for promotion of heritage conservation and historical preservation activities throughout Rhode Island.
Go to ProfileEllen Muehlberger is an American scholar of Christianity and late antiquity, Professor of History and Middle East Studies at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor with appointments in Classical Studies and the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies.
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Kim Yong Seob
1931 - 2020 (89 years)
Kim Yong Seob was a South Korean scholar, historian, and honorary professor at Yonsei University. Kim is known for influencing change in Korea. Korea was seen as a country whose development was due to colonization, he showed how capitalism was already changing Korea. Through nine books and over fifty years, his research on agricultural history from the late Joseon period to modern Korea explores how Joseon could develop and sustain a capitalist society.
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Peter Clemoes
1920 - 1996 (76 years)
Peter Alan Martin Clemoes was a British historian. Born in Southend-on-Sea and educated at Brentwood School, he originally wished to become an actor and won a scholarship to RADA but the Second World War intervened and he served with the Royal Corps of Signals. After the war he took a degree in English from Queen Mary College, London, which was followed by postgraduate work on Anglo-Saxon at King's College, Cambridge, gaining a PhD in 1956. He then held a research fellowship at the University of Reading until 1961 when he returned to Cambridge under Dorothy Whitelock, whom he replaced as Elri...
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Nechama Tec
1931 - 2023 (92 years)
Nechama Tec was a Polish-American historian who was Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of Connecticut. She received her Ph.D. in sociology at Columbia University, where she studied and worked with the sociologist Daniel Bell, and was a Holocaust scholar. Her book When Light Pierced the Darkness and her memoir Dry Tears: The Story of a Lost Childhood both received the Merit of Distinction Award from the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. She is also the author of the book Defiance: The Bielski Partisans on which the film Defiance is based, as well as a study of women in the Holocaust.
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