History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)

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Recorded history is a finely-woven magic fabric of intricate lies about events predating the sixteenth century. There is not a single piece of evidence that can be reliably and independently traced back earlier than the eleventh century. This book details events that are substantiated by hard facts and logic, and validated by new astronomical research and statistical analysis of ancient sources.

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Calculations are only as good as your numbers.......2007-08-03

Yes, we can all agree that mainstream history is nearly 100% BS due to politics, economics, ego, problems with dating techniques, and various conspiracies. Agreed. But, I've been researching the distinct possibility that human history (in terms of civilizations) are much more ancient than we've been told, so coming across this book was very interesting to me. I wondered how Fomenko could be wrong (if at all) because he is very persuasive in his presentations. Then it dawned on me. If at previous times in prehistory, due to the various catastrophies that are well documented (comets, asteroids, planetary disruptions, plasma discharge, pole reversals, etc) the Earth was in a different position in relation to the sun, different tilt on its axis, different orbit, different rotation (in terms of velocity and DIRECTION), and the continents were in different positions, then would this not cause the ancients to see the sky (constellations) differently? In other words, is Fomenko making erronious assumptions about the physics of the Earth in pre-history, which then corrupt his data with regards to dating the relevant astrology? The last event to seriously disrupt our planet occured roughly 3500 years ago, according to other good researchers, so is it possible Fomenko has been confused by this? The vastly different physics of our planet in the not so distant past may explain this confusion, which is not to say the "mainstream" version of history is correct; on the contrary. I am not an expert in these fields, but wanted to see if this idea could spark discussion.

Pants on fire?.......2007-07-19

Will people ever read before spamming? Yes, Jesuits could not rewrite world history alone, they had help. Anyway, Dr Prof Acad A.Fomenko does not point to jesuits as the driving force of world wide history manipulation in published volumes 1,2,3;, actually he barely mentions the poor devils. Check it with 'Search inside' feature, please. China is rarely mentioned either, in fact, Dr Fomenko is completely eurocentric. Right, his theory contradicts all mainstream schools of history, because in their actual state they are all built on blatantly erroneus chronology. You don't need a mysterious cabal (conspiracy) to falsify history, the falsification is its modus operandi. It is inherent to history(ians) to falsify (distort) events, as it is inherent to humans to boast as it is inherent to power (authority) to legimize itself by referrring to glorious past made to its own order. Dr Prof Fomenko and team have identified scores of instances of such manipulation in Russian, European, etc.. history, and delivered valid statistical proof thereof. His own 'reconstruction' is completely another story. Forget c14 as a valid method of dating. W.Libby has initially discovered a brilliant method of INDEPENDENT dating. Too bad, c14 method has become a joke after a forced marrige with dendrochronology with consensual chronological scale inbuilt. Radiocarbon method can't stand blind tests, but is so very productive as a rubberstamp.

Accepted History & Chronology Must Be Changed. .......2007-04-09

There is no doubt that history as most know it is a sham, & institution's version of History both University & Church is fradulent & inaccurate. Everything was established with an agenda, The real "Dark Ages" are now when we have access to incredible amounts of information past authorities & more important 'common folk' didn't have but our institutions & educators are slow to evolve because of what has ignorantly & arrogantly been taught for too long. This is on many subjects not just Chronology.

For anyone to question "Why would a Mathematician have anything credible to say of History?" The answer is from Dr. Fomenko's preface in the book: "It would be worthwhile to remind the reader that in the XVI-XVII century Chronology was considered to be a subdivision of Mathematics." These volumes could possibly be some of the most important works to date & should be read by everyone with an interest in History, especially professors & educators who have a duty to the public. I have read both books & must say that 'Chronology 1' has some very eye opening & revolutionary information. Even if these volumes are part true the implications are profound & opens the doors to further investigations & questions which must be done. I speak several different lanquages & must say the logic Dr. Fomenko uses with "inflection" of words & words being read from left to right in one region & right to left in another then written backwards, the removal of vowels & get down to basics of words, or different cities & locations having the same name etc. is correct. Vowel usage has always been optional & varied, actually complicating linquistics & study. The first thing one has to understand is that words never had a fixed spelling in history like we do now, the spelling of words was mutable & regional, as well as names & titles of people were vast, varied & changed, NOTHING WAS FIXED or understood linear. Matters of Life & Death as well as financial profiteering yesterday & today were & are made with ignorant, illogical & conspiratorial views of history & reality, it's time people get closer to the Truth & society collectively grow up.

Very Interesting.......2007-03-07

It is a good proposal and I believe it will mature into something even better in the future. I think it deserves to be read.

History as Science Fiction.......2007-01-10

Anatoly Fomenko has written a very intriguing book, full of pictures, charts, and computer 'proof' of his thesis: backwards of AD900 we don't really know what happened or when. Between AD900 and AD1600 there is more certainty, but there is still a lot of fuzzy ground, and things don't get reliable until we get past the 1600's where the printing press made it very difficult for the perpetrators of this timeline manipulation to change anything that had been committed to print. The Dark Ages did not happen. Books were burned for a reason. One organization has doubled the actual length of its existence by expanding the real chronology. Read why.

I had always wondered why Christ died about AD33 and yet men waited until the 11th century to form the Knights Templar, the Cathars, etc and go after the Holy Land by force. Why the 1000 year gap? Turns out there wasn't more than a 10-12 year gap and he proves it using astronomy. This also implies that the planet is not as old as we have been told, and current Christian and other creationist scientists are already championing that idea without being aware of Fomenko's book. The two groups, creationist scientists and the Russian mathematical analysts corroborate each other. Fascinating.

Of course, all this flies in the face of what we have been told traditionally is the 'proper' chronology of western civilization, and most readers will experience 'cognitive dissonance' in reading this book. It means that our history going backwards from AD1600 becomes progressively more incorrect and unreliable until it cannot be trusted at all... in the space of 700-800 years.

Naturally, the curious, open-minded reader will want to know WHO did this, WHY, and did any of the events we think of as really ancient ever happen?
Dr. Fomenko is a respected scientist/mathematician at Moscow State University who has already answered these questions to the satisfaction of his initially skeptical colleagues. Most of them are now believers, a few still refuse to believe (the usual diehards), and of course the western press has ignored Fomenko's work -- for obvious reasons when you read the book. The ones who perpetrated this chronology ruse have a lot to answer for. They are still with us. That's why this book is a well-kept secret.

I gave the book a 4-star rating because I was unable to check out some of his claims; those I checked were as he said. But if even 1/3 of his claims are true, this punches a big hole in what we think is our history, the meaning of western civilization, our educational process (for repeating the ruse as gospel), and the trustworthiness of the organization that perpetrated this ruse, well-intentioned or not.

This book relates to current research into a Young Earth paradigm, to John Keel's discoveries about our planet, and Fr Malachi Martin's insights (in his now out-of-print books). We are indeed sheep who are manipulated and kept ignorant -- for a reason. While knowing what these men have to say may be the "booby prize" (as in: 'what can you do with this knowledge?'), it will provide interesting reading. Didn't someone say: "...and the Truth will set you free."?? For you to judge if this book contains the truth.

The Magus of Freemasonry: The Mysterious Life of Elias Ashmole--Scientist, Alchemist, and Founder of the Royal Society

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The Magus of Freemasonry: The Mysterious Life of Elias Ashmole--Scientist, Alchemist, and Founder of the Royal Society
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Release Date: 2006-07-09

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A comprehensive look at the life of Elias Ashmole, who represents the historic missing link between operative and symbolic Freemasonry

â€¢ Explores the true role of occult and magical studies in the genesis of modern science

â€¢ Explains the full meaning of the term magus, which Ashmole exemplified

Elias Ashmole (1617-1692) was the first to record a personal account of initiation into Accepted Freemasonry. His writings help solve the debate between operative and â€œspeculativeâ€ origins of Accepted Freemasonry, demonstrating that symbolic Freemasonry existed within the Masonic trade bodies. Ashmole was one of the leading intellectual luminaries of his time: a founding member of the Royal Society, a fellowship and later academy of natural philosophers and scientists; alchemist; astrological advisor to the king; and the creator of the worldâ€™s first public museum. While Isaac Newton regarded him as an inspiration, Ashmole has been ignored by many conventional historians.

Tobias Churtonâ€™s compelling portrait of Ashmole offers a perfect illustration of the true Renaissance figure--the magus. As opposed to the alienated position of his post-Cartesian successors, the magus occupied a place at the heart of Renaissance spiritual, intellectual, and scientific life. Churton shows Ashmole to be part of the ferment of the birth of modern science, a missing link between operative and symbolic Freemasonry, and a vital transmitter of esoteric thought when the laws of science were first taking hold. He was a man who moved with facility between the powers of earth and the active symbols of heaven.

Secret Hero: The Life and Mysterious Death of Captain Robert Nairac

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John Parker
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The tragic story of Captain Robert Nairac's abduction and murder by the IRA in 1977 has until now been shrouded in mystery. At last, John Parker's compelling biography uncovers the truth of Nairac's secret war and heroic death. Drawing on unprecedented first-hand accounts from senior army colleagues and IRA sources, John Parker reveals the answers to the questions that have haunted the imagination for so long.

Players: The Mysterious Identity of William Shakespeare

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A nice soft cover for "cross-the-pond" reading.
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Merely Players
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Players: The Mysterious Identity of William Shakespeare
Bertram Fields
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Better than some of the reviews would suggest........2007-04-26

I almost did not read the book because of the negative reviews on this site. However, I read it and enjoyed it. Definately not for the serious scholar and the lack of any bibliography or notes is puzzling. However, it's a good, high-level review of the question regarding who wrote the works of Shakespeare.

A nice soft cover for "cross-the-pond" reading........2007-03-07

If you are a scholar, start with Brenda James' "The Truth Will Out." It is heavily footnoted and well researched.

If you are a Shakespearian novice flying to England (from the states) with time for leisurely reading, you could do worse than Bertram Fields' soft cover. It reads quickly, and you will be brought up to speed with the current arguments regarding Shakespeare's identity.

Both James and Fields come to the same conclusion: the real Shakespeare had to have been university educated, a continental traveler, multilingual, and of royal descent. It was rewarding to have first read James who identified a man who met the requirements, and then to read Fields and realize how close he came without being able to come up with a name.

It is clear that an actor with a fifth-grade education alone could not have written these plays. Reading James, Fields, and others regarding the authorship question will make you appreciate the Shakespearian plays even more. I would have enjoyed university western literature so much more (30 years ago) had I been aware there was even an authorship question. I would have read the plays more closely looking for my own clues. And that's the importance of books like Fields and James, keeping students (of all ages) excited about reading.

(By the way, it is interesting that Harold Bloom has written a book on the authorship of the Book of J, of the Bible, but has not written a book on the authorship of the Shakespearian plays. Or if he has, I am not aware of it, and I would welcome a reference.)

makes me cynical.......2006-11-19

From the the fine people who have brought us the illuminating, "If I Did It," came this earlier exercise in sleaze; this book's core deficiency is not so much its content but its exceptionally heavy lifting from previous authors, without which there would be no book at all here; this is a book which cearly would never have been published were it not for its author's dubious connections.

Merely Players.......2005-10-21

PLAYERS is a book by Bertram Fields which plunges us like a swift dive into the maelstrom, where only the brave and the foolish dare go, deep into the so-called "authorship question" of Shakespearean scholarship.

Fields, a laywer by trade, examines the possibility that the man we know as Shadespeare (the "Stratford man" as he is called here) did not write the works with which he has generally been credited. Since the 18th century, the skeptics have kept close pace with the believers, and for understandable reason. There is a paucity of known facts on the man from Stratford's CV. Surely if he was the greatest English playwright we'd have more knowledge about his life and death. And what about those signatures? He can't even spell his name the same way twice, how did that country bumpkin write HAMLET or THE WINTER'S TALE? No way! What would that hillbilly have possibly known about courtship politics in Italy and Bohemia, he never left England, and there were no books that could have filled him in. Could he have learned the Latin and Greek he needed at Stratford Junior High, I don't think so, but thousands of allusions of classical literature pepper his corpus.

Besides, there were literally dozens of brilliant, upper class and good looking men all over Elizabethan England who might have written those works with more probability than the Stratford schlub. These include Francis Bacon, the eccentric philosopher; the Earl of Oxford, Edward de Vere; the playwright Christopher Marlowe, who was known to have written for the theater and whose murder might have been faked to allow him the psychic space to go on and improve his craft as "Shakespeare." Even Elizabeth herself might, everything else being equal have been the playwright, for she was well known as a stylist and could wield a pen with the best of them; perhaps only sexism has kept her towards the bottom of the bookies' chart of suspects.

Fields picks up each piece of evidence and examines it, both pro and con. The First Folio gets most of his respect, and he comes down hard on the point that, if someone else was Shakespeare, why did the First Folio, published shortly after the death of the man from Stratford, credit him with having written all the plays and poems? Were its editors in on some hoax? Wouldn't that be a little weird, indeed Masonically extravagant? If they were just patsies, innocent dupes, why prolong the charade past the point of the death of the real author? (Oxford, for example, died in 1604 for sure.) Nobody really knows what happened, and you'll have fun with Fields as he tries to make sense out of a confusing mass of facts, fictions, fallacies and far-fetched Tomfoolery. Along the way you might learn something you never knew before. I know I did.

Amateurish, but universities are to cowardly to touch subject.......2005-10-09

There are better works on "alternative Shakespeares" out there, but this one is presented as a lawyer's argument, and makes interesting reading.

Since Shakespeare studies are finally in the safe-keeping of the major universities, and since the academicians therein lack the courage to pursue this obviously pressing question, we have to read works like this and those by other amateurs like Sobran. Don't hold your breath for Alison Weir or anyone with a literature Ph.D. to take the leap, and start losing their grants.

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Mysterious Scotland
Michael Balfour
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A fantastic collection of the myriad myths and mysteries of Scotland’s past, from unsolved murders to ghosts, ghoulies, and long–forgotten prophecies.

The Mysterious William Shakespeare: The Myth & the Reality

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Who done it? Oxford done it!

The Mysterious William Shakespeare: The Myth & the Reality
Charlton Ogburn
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Fun Fun Fun!.......2006-04-30

Read this book, and a couple more. The Truth Will Out, by Brenda James - who claims that Sir Henry Neville wrote the plays, and Oxford: Son of Queen Elizabeth I by Paul Streitz.

Then ponder this. Elizabeth was highly sexed - had an extraordinary upbringing - for example her father publicly killed her mother - and lived in extraordinary times, when neither she nor her advisors wanted her to marry. It was in EVERYBODY's interest in England that she did not marry - which in those days would mean staying a virgin. The state at that time had extraordinary powers, and censorship was a basic part of the control of the state.

Did she have children? I think so. Three of her children were probably Oxford - born 1549?, Neville (Shakespeare) born 1563? and Southampton born 1573. All three had red or auburn hair as far as I know - curly too! Like Elizabeth and Henry VIII. All three children are strongly connected to Nevilles, and to Cecil - who controlled everything - Oxford married Cecil's daughter. All three were really well educated, and Oxford and Neville did the European tour. Neville spent four years on the continent with Sir Henry Saville, top Oxford Scholar, visiting all the places mentioned in the plays. Neville was really fat in middle age, like Henry VIII. His friends called him Falstaff. The first line of Ben Jonsons two page dedicatory poem to him in the first folio of Shakespeare's works that he put together in 1623 is "To draw no envy, Shakespeare, on thy name" To Draw No Envy? No NV. Ne Ville - get it? Neville sometimes signed himself Ne Ville.

Early in 1601 Neville and Southampton were put in the Tower of London for the part they played in the Essex plot to depose Elizabeth. Four plotters were executed with Essex - but not Neville and Southampton, who had been sentenced to death. They stayed in the Tower until Elizabeth died two years later. Hamlet was written while they were in the Tower. There is a fantastic portrait of Southampton in the Tower with his cat - one of my all time favorites. You will find it on Google images.

Why did Elizabeth let them live? Because they were her children? Cecil 2 (son of Cecil 1) got the sentences changed to life imprisonment.

A note about the Cecils. If William Cecil found homes for Elizabeths children it is no surprise that she became her top man when she became queen - and stayed in that position until he died - or that his son took over his position, until she died. He was in charge of spying, and state security.

It is interesting to note that she made Cecil a Baron when his daughter married Oxford - her first son.

Look up the 46th Psalm in the King James Bible. The 46th word from the top is "Shake". The 46th word from the bottom is "Spear" That does not happen in the other 18 translations I searched on the internet.

Neville played an important part in the setting up of the Second London Virginia Company. That became America. Look it up - there were more than 600 subscribers - one of the first great "capitalist shareholder" ventures. Oliver Cromwell's uncle is two names down the list from Sir Henry Neville! He set up the first humanitarian business to bring clean water into London. Under James he tried, with his cousin Bacon, to get the finances of the King brought under the control of Parliament. They failed. Neville was one of the first "party" parliamentarians, and an MP all his life.

In short - Neville was not just the writer of the plays - but a key pivot in the last 1000 years of Anglo Saxon History - related to most of the Kings of the previous 500 years - directly related to a chap that was murdered by Macbeth - you can look it up on thepeerage.com - and partially responsible for the King James Bible, for the USA, for modern parliamentary democracy, and for modern shareholder capitalism.

It is what you might hope and expect from someone with the breadth of knowledge that the plays demonstrate. Will Shakespeare from Stratford did not even bother to make sure that his own daughter could read. But he played his part - or he would have lost everything, including his head, as a great number did in the 16th century.

With Cecil orchestrating everything, and considering the importance of the (national) secret, it is not surprising that very little evidence survives. We need to dig the bones up, and do the dna analysis! Everything I have written could be pure fantasy! There you are - ideas for a 1000 phd studies. Go go go.

This is a Question that Matters!.......2006-01-17

I keep hearing people drone on about how the authorship question doesn't matter....but it DOES matter. The fact that so many in academia defend the Stratford man's position as author shows what hypocrites they are. If it doesn't matter, then declare de Vere author and move on, eh?? Why can't they do it? Because they prefer propoganda.

This book reads like a detective novel! I went to it as a Stratfordian with a degree in English literature. I took every Shakespeare class I could in college. I came out the other end convinced that, regardless of who it might be, it ISN'T the Stratford man.
I keep buying copies of this for friends and family and am grateful for Amazon.com because it beats doing book searches the OLD way!!!

I gave up a long time ago expecting the mainstream to tell the truth about anything. This is just another instance of laziness in academia (like we needed one more). Colleges and Universities and badly educated high school English teachers will continue selling the Stratford man propoganda to students because it beats having to do any research or learn a new thing. In the meantime, people who want to know things have to find them out for themselves.

This book is an opportunity to open up your mind. Whether you agree or not with the conclusion, you will at least realize that it is a much more complex historical question than what any English teacher you ever had has led you to believe.

Not Scholarly? I Beg to Differ.......2005-01-23

It's funny that this book would be described as non-scholarly, when in fact the Foreward is written by one of the great living history scholars, David McCullough, who wrote the best sellers JOHN ADAMS, TRUMAN, and GREAT BRIDGE. And what is McCullough's verdict on this book?

"[T]his brilliant, powerful book is a major event for everyone who cares about Shakespeare. The scholarship is surpassing--brave, orginal, full of surprise--and in the hands of so gifted a writer it fairly lights of the sky."

That is a real scholar's judgment on the scholarship in this book. Enjoy. It is one of the best and addictive mysteries ever written.

Not Worth The Paper It's Printed On.......2004-08-26

This is not a 'scholarly work.' It is a considerable and exhaustive supply of sound and fury, all of it signifying nothing. If one simply takes time to closely examine the host of Elizabethan records and books concerning Shakespeare and Oxford, the merits of Ogburn's brazen conjectures plummet like a stone.

I will not delve too deeply into the debate here (for that, see instead my review of Alan Nelson's "Monstrous Adversary: the Life of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford"), but I will poke a few holes in Ogburn's research:

1. Contrary to Ogburn's claim that the name "Shake-speare" is unique in its hyphenation and thus must be a pseudonym, many English surnames--including such mundane ones as Campbell and Waldgrave--were often hyphenated.

2. George Puttenham did call Oxford "the best for comedy among us." He also listed several other obscure names under this same category, and only a few lines later, mentions an entirely separate author named Shakespeare as the best for both tragedy and comedy.

3. The Stratford Monument always depicted a writer and was never dedicated to a grain merchant. Poems as early as Leonard Digges' 1623 tribute to the Bard call him a poet and friend and reference "thy Straford moniment." The only source for Ogburn's erroneous claims about the Monument is William Dugdale's illustration of the bust, drawn in 1656, over 30 years after Digges' poem. Dugdale was even commended by others for depicting the monument of the great poet Shakespeare, and it is worth noting that many of the monuments he transcribed are done so inaccurately.

5. Augustine Phillips, in the spring of 1605, bequeathed a sum of gold to one "William Shakespeare," never mind that Oxford was a year dead by then and never knew Phillips, nor did the Earl know either Heminges or Condell, the two actors named in Shakespeare's will who later edited the First Folio.

6. When Ogburn mentioned the "Operation Clean Sweep" needed to conceal Oxford's authorship, I went into convulsive fits of laughter. Ogburn thinks that conspirators erected the Stratford Monument, published the First Folio, and even succeeded in destroying fictional letters related to Oxford's literary interests (thus leaving us only with a host of the Earl's letters, 1/4 of which are laborious discussion of the tin-mining industry). Furthermore, if any reader is familiar with Stephen May's "Renaissance Papers," they will know that the 'stigma of print' that was the alleged motivation behind Oxford's concealment is a fictional creation crafted by those who know little about Elizabethan politics and poetry.

7. Ogburn says that the death of Shakespeare in 1616 "went entirely unremarked." It was, save for a considerable number of poetic tributes (including one by William Basses that includes the line "William Shakespeare, he died in April 1616"), the erection of the Stratford Monument, and the rapid assembly and publication of the First Folio. Oxford's death, on the other hand, DID go entirely unremarked. No will, no eulogies, no monument, nothing.

8. Ogburn weaves many blatant myths, which incorporate strands such as William Cecil's nickname "Polus" (for which there is no evidence; Oxfordians obviously have not read much of Gabriel Harvey), and a "contemporary" account of Edmund Spenser's funeral that does not even exist.

9. Ogburn, an amateur historian, ridicules super-scholar E.K. Chambers for his interpretation of Chettle's "Kind-Harts Dreame," which is vigorously researched and involuntarily harmful to Oxford's candidacy.

10. Ogburn desperately tries to paint William of Stratford as a man of no learning, never mind his almost-certain attendance at the rigorous King's New School in Stratford. If one reads Alan Nelson's "Monstrous Adversary" biography, they will discover that Oxford--so frequently referenced by Ogburn as a man of tremendous learning--was never a dedicated student, and all of his degrees are honorary. His spelling habits and clumsy grammar reflect a wholesale lack of learning on the Earl's part.

In short, Ogburn's book is an arrogant, misinformed attempt to alter the authorship of Shakespeare. He offers not a shred of solid evidence, and often contrives things to better support his weak case. To turn one of his own arguments against him: Oxfordianism is like Creationism, built upon fantasy and absurdity; Stratfordianism is like Science, well-researched, flexible, and entirely believable.

Who done it? Oxford done it!.......2003-04-25

Long, well-written, scholarly, informative, but is it definitive? Nah. But it comes close. And it asks all the right questions, and answers a slew of 'em. Shine forth, thou star of poets.

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