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Blackmark Blackmark is a Bantam Books paperback (Bantam S5871), published January 1971, that is arguably the first American graphic novel. It was conceived and drawn by the acclaimed comic book artist Gil Kane, and scripted by Archie Goodwin from an outline by Kane.
Blackmoor Blackmoor is a fantasy role-playing game campaign setting generally associated with the game Dungeons & Dragons. It originally evolved in the early 1970s as the personal setting of Dave Arneson, the co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons, first as a setting for Arneson's miniature wargames, then as an early testing ground for what would become D&D.
Blackmoor Gate Blackmoor Gate, the western gateway to Exmoor National Park, sits on the watershed between tributaries of the rivers Yeo and Heddon nearly 305m (1000 feet) above sea level. It has long been a crossing of tracks – an ancient ridgeway following the former moorland ridge from the heights of Exmoor down to the sea at Mortehoe.
Blackmoor Gate railway station Blackmoor Gate, now at the western boundary of Exmoor National Park, was a station on the Lynton and Barnstaple Railway, a famously scenic narrow gauge line that ran through Exmoor from Barnstaple to Lynton and Lynmouth in North Devon. The station opened with the line on 11 May 1898, and closed with it after service on 29 September 1935.
Blackmore Vale The Blackmore Vale (less commonly spelt Blackmoor) is a vale, or wide valley, in North Dorset, and to a lesser extent South Somerset and southwest Wiltshire in southern England. The vale is part of the Stour valley.
Blackmouth catshark The blackmouth catshark, Galeus melastomus, is a cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae found in the northeast Atlantic from the Faeroe Islands and Trondheim, Norway southward to Senegal, at depths down to 1,900 m. Its length is up to 90 cm.
Blackness Blackness is the degree to which an individual, regardless of their ethnic background, is sympathetic to or a part of the mainstream African-American culture. A person may be thought of as "losing their blackness" by not adhering to the mainstream thoughts of the African-American community.
Blacknose shark The blacknose shark, Carcharhinus acronotus, is a requiem shark of the family Carcharhinidae, found in subtropical waters of the western Atlantic Ocean between latitudes 40° N and 37° S, from the surface to about 10 m. Its length is up to about 2 m.
Blackout (broadcasting) In broadcasting, a blackout is when certain programming, usually sports, cannot be televised in a certain media market. The purpose is theoretically to generate more money by obligating certain actions from fans, either by making them buy tickets or watch other games on TV.
Blackout (entertainer) Blackout (also credited in films as Michael Biggins) is a comedian. As an actor, singer, writer, film-maker, television, radio show host and comedian, Blackout is an all around entertainer with a philosophical theatre of the absurd slant.
Blackout (wartime) A blackout in time of war, or apprehended war, refers to the practice of collectively minimizing external light, including upward-directed (or reflected) light. This was done in the 20th century to keep the crews of enemy aircraft from being able to navigate to their targets simply by sight.
Blackpool (TV serial) Blackpool is a British television musical drama serial, produced in-house by the BBC and screened on their BBC One channel in six one-hour episodes on Thursday nights at 9pm from November 11 to December 16 2004.
Blackpool Branch Lines The Blackpool Branch Line consists of the train line from Preston to Blackpool that splits at Kirkham and Wesham going towards Blackpool's main station North and Blackpool second station Blackpool South. Services from Leeds, Manchester and Liverpool terminate at Blackpool North and go via Poulton le Fylde.
Blackpool Central railway station Blackpool Central was the largest railway station in the town of Blackpool in the county of Lancashire, England. It is long gone, and principal railway services to Blackpool now terminate at Blackpool North station.
Blackpool Dance Festival The 8-day Blackpool Dance Festival is the world's first and most famous annual ballroom dance competition of international significance, held in the Winter Gardens, Blackpool, England since 1920. It is also the largest ballroom competition: in 2003, 1539 couples from 54 countries took part in the festival.
Blackpool F.C. Blackpool Football Club is an English football club currently playing in League One, the third tier of professional football in England. Their home ground is Bloomfield Road in the seaside resort of Blackpool in north-west England.
Blackpool Gate Blackpool Gate is a settlement in the civil parish of Bewcastle, which is in the City of Carlisle in the county of Cumbria, England. It is directly on the border with Scotland in the north and has existed since Roman occupation.
Blackpool High Tide Organ The Blackpool High Tide Organ is just one in a series of sculptures situated along Blackpool's New Promenade - the whole series are known as 'The Great Promenade Show'. They are said to be unique interpretations of Blackpool's natural and man-made environments - The High Tide Organ is the musical manifestation of the sea.
Blackpool North and Cleveleys (UK Parliament constituency) Blackpool North and Cleveleys will be a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It will elect one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
Blackpool North and Fleetwood (UK Parliament constituency) Blackpool North and Fleetwood is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
Blackpool Pleasure Beach railway station Blackpool Pleasure Beach Railway Station is on the Fylde Coast Branch line from Kirkham And Wesham to Blackpool South. It is connected to the Pleasure Beach complex and provides regular train connections to and from Blackpool and Kirkham.
Blackpool tramway The Blackpool tramway serves Blackpool and Fleetwood and is the only surviving first-generation tramway in the UK, dating back to 1885. It is one of the oldest electric tramways in the world and is run by Blackpool Transport, owned by Blackpool Borough Council.
Blackpool Zoo Just two miles from the famous Blackpool sea-front in Lancashire, England, Blackpool Zoo provides a home to over 1,500 animals from all over the world. The Zoo aims to provide its visitors with a stimulating, informative and enjoyable experience that demonstrates its role in the conservation of endangered species.
Blackridge, Pennsylvania Blackridge is a community in eastern Allegheny County and is a suburb of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This community consists of about 650 private homes built in 1920-1949, Blackridge Estates was and remains one of the area's largest residential communities.
Blackrock Blackrock ('An Charraig Dhubh' in [[Irish language|Irish) is a suburb of the city of Dublin, in County Dublin, Ireland, situated 3 km north-west of DĂşn Laoghaire, and which has service and computer-programming industries.
Blackrock Mountain Blackrock mountain (also spelled Black Rock mountain) is a mountain on the eastern fringe of the Canadian Rockies, and on the north-eastern edge of Kananaskis Country almost directly west of Calgary, Alberta. The mountain is a popular hike for locals, as it offers a unimpeded view of the praries.
Blackrod Blackrod is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England. Historically part of Lancashire, it is about eight miles west of Bolton, and five miles north-east of Wigan.
Blacksad Blacksad is a French comic book series, created by writer Juan Diaz Canales and artist Juanjo Guarnido. The first volume Somewhere Within the Shadows (simply called "Blacksad" in the US) was published in November 2000.
Blackshirts The Blackshirts (Italian: camicie nere or squadristi) were Fascist paramilitary groups in Italy during the period immediately following World War I and until the end of World War II. The term was later applied to a similar group serving the British Union of Fascists before the War.
Blackshirts (India) Blackshirts are members of the Atheist quasi-political organization Dravidar Kazhagam in Tamil Nadu, founded by "Periyar" E V Ramasamy. The members wear black shirts to mock and protest the saffron vestements of Hindu religious leaders, and sadhus as black is generally associated with death and bad-luck as opposed to saffron's auspicious association.
Blacksmith (truck) Blacksmith is a monster truck that races on the USHRA Monster Jam circuit. It is currently owned by Pablo Huffaker and is driven by Ryan Huffaker and Aaron Basil, although Pablo, who normally drives Grave Digger 16 is usually invited to drive it at the Monster Jam World Finals.
Blacksmith Institute Blacksmith Institute, founded in 1999, is a New York City based organization supporting pollution-related environmental projects. One of such projects is the Polluted Places Initiative, which identifies polluted sites throughout the world by means of an on-line nomination process.
Blacksmith Lapwing The Blacksmith Lapwing (Vanellus armatus) occurs commonly from Kenya, through central Tanzania to southern and south western Africa. The vernacular name derives from the repeated metallic 'tink, tink, tink' alarm call.
Blacksmith Scene Blacksmith Scene is an early example of the Kinetoscope process, shot in Thomas Edison's Black Maria studio. It is historically significant as the first Kinetoscope film shown in public exhibition (May 9, 1893) and remains the earliest surviving complete motion picture.
Blacksmith: The Movement Blacksmith: The Movement is a mixtape released by Talib Kweli and Blacksmith Music featuring new songs by the label's artists and a number of guest appearences. A number of previously released tracks are also available on the compilation.
Blacksmoke kjBlacksmoke are "an occasional art collective and mjuskdkjffjdhshshksdjdjusical group dedicated to the propagation of audio visual noise". The group consist of The KLF co-founder Jimmy Cauty and James Fogarty, a 24 year old heavy metal musician.
Blackspot shark The blackspot shark, Carcharhinus sealei, is a requiem shark of the family Carcharhinidae, found in the Indo-West Pacific oceans between latitudes 24° N and 30° S, from the surface to 40 m. Its length is up to about 1.
Blackspot tuskfish The green wrasse or blackspot tuskfish or Tsing Yi (Cantonese:青衣), (Choerodon schoenleinii), is a wrasse found in coral reefs in the South China Sea and Southeast Asia including Australia. It belongs to the Labridae family and its body is greenish grey.
Blackspotted catshark The blackspotted catshark, Halaelurus buergeri, is a cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae, found from Japan, Korea, China, and Taiwan between latitudes 39° N and 20° N, at depths of between 80 and 100 m. Its length is up to 49 cm.
Blackspotted grenadier The blackspotted grenadier or blackspot rattail, Lucigadus nigromaculatus, is a rattail of the genus Lucigadus, found around southern Australia, New Zealand, and Chile, at depths of between 400 and 1,400 m. Its length is between 15 to 30 cm.
Blackspotted smooth-hound The blackspotted smooth-hound, Mustelus punctulatus, is a houndshark of the family Triakidae, found on the continental shelves of the subtropical eastern Atlantic from the Mediterranean to the Western Sahara between latitudes 45° N and 20° N, from the surface to 250 m. Its length is up to 1.
Blackstar (spaceplane) Blackstar, is the reported codename of a secret United States orbital spaceplane system. The possible existence of the Blackstar program was reported in March 2006 by Aviation Week & Space Technology (Aviation Week, AWST) magazine; the magazine reported that the program had been underway since at least the early 1990s, and that the impetus for Blackstar was to allow the United States Government to retain orbital reconnaissance capabilities jeopardised following the 1986 Challenger disaster.
Blackstar (TV series) The animated television series Blackstar was a science fantasy epic, sometimes reported as a product inspired by the immense popularity of the 1980s Thundarr the Barbarian. It was produced by Lou Scheimer and Norm Prescott for Filmation.
Blackstar Airlines Blackstar Airlines is an airline based in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. It was established in 2002 and is a start-up airline which plans to launch services operating Boeing 747-400 aircraft on transatlantic routes to Germany and France.
Blackstone Fortress In the fictional universe of Warhammer 40,000, the Blackstone Fortresses were originally created as weapons in the first war against the C'tan, and were known to the ancient Eldar as the Talismans of Vaul. To capitalise on the C'tan's vulnerability to warp attacks the Fortresses were equipped with a warp-cannon that could create a devastating rip in space and an eruption of energy out of the Immaterium.
Blackstone Lake, Ontario Blackstone Lake, in The Archipelago of the Parry Sound district in Ontario, Canada, is primarily a small, boat-access lake containing nine islands. The lake is approximately three and a half miles long and a little over two miles wide, when the northwestern and southeastern bays are included.
Blackstone Memorial The Blackstone Memorial (1891) was a Zionist petition written by William Eugene Blackstone and presented to the President of the United States, Benjamin Harrison, in favor of the delivery of Palestine to the Jews, and signed by a number of leading American citizens.
Blackstripe corydoras The blackstripe corydoras or bond's catfish, Corydoras bondi, is a tropical freshwater fish belonging to the Corydoradinae sub-family of the Callichthyidae family. It originates in inland waters in South America, and is found in the Yuruari River in Venezuela and the Corantijn and Rupununi River basins in Guyana and Suriname.
Blacksun Research Facility The BlackSun Research Facility (BSRF) is a security community focused on the teaching of computer security. At inception, BSRF was an information site containing tutorials, software, and other material broadly focused on computing, networking, and in particular, Security, but the site was also notable for the active forums, vibrant IRC community, and several pieces of software released by members.
Blackthorn City Blackthorn City, also known as the Dragon City, is the birthplace of Pokémon League Elite Four (and Johto Champion) Lance. It is located in northeast Johto, and west of the city is Mahogany Town and the Ice Path.
Blackthorn, Oxfordshire Blackthorn is a village and civil parish in the Cherwell district of Oxfordshire, England. It is situated close to the A41, the River Ray and the border with Buckinghamshire about four miles south-east of Bicester.
Blacktip sawtail catshark The blacktip sawtail catshark, Galeus sauteri, is a cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae found in the western Pacific from Japan, Taiwan and the Philippines, at depths of between 60 and 90 m. Its length is up to 38 cm.
Blacktip tope The blacktip tope, Hypogaleus hyugaensis, is a hound shark of the family Triakidae, the only member of the genus Hypogaleus, found in deep water on the continental shelf in the Indo-West Pacific from East Africa and the Persian Gulf to Taiwan and Japan, and reported from Australia, at depths of between 40 and 230 m. Its length is up to 1.
Blacktop corydoras The blacktop corydoras, Corydoras acutus, is a tropical freshwater fish belonging to the Corydoradinae sub-family of the Callichthyidae family. It originates in inland waters in South America, and is found in the Amazon River basin in Ecuador and Northern Peru.
Blacktop Guerillas The Blacktop Guerillas are the rock street promotions arm of Universal Music Canada. They were created in 2004 in Toronto, where Universal Music Canada's head offices are, following the successful creation of the company's urban promotions arm.
Blacktown (Lapinot) Blacktown is a comic strip in the series The spiffy adventures of McConey (Les formidables aventures de Lapinot in the original French language), by the popular French cartoonist Lewis Trondheim. It was released in 1995 as volume 1 in the series.
Blacktown City Demons Blacktown City Demons are an Australian football (soccer) club based in Blacktown, New South Wales, Australia. The club was formed in 1953 as Toongabbie Soccer Club and changed their name to Blacktown City in 1979.
Blacktown City Sun The Blacktown City Sun is an Australian local newspaper, serving the community of Blacktown and surrounding western suburbs of Sydney. One of the 18 Fairfax communities newspapers in New South Wales, it is available for free every Tuesday.
Blacktown Hospital Blacktown Hospital is an acute care hospital in Blacktown, New South Wales, Australia. Together with Mount Druitt Hospital and associated community health centres, it forms Blacktown-Mt Druitt Health, which is a unit within the Sydney West Area Health Service.
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Blacktress The term Blacktress is used to describe any of a number of African American women who were pioneers of the film industry. Because of segregation, slavery and racism it was very difficult for people of colour (specifically women) to break into the film industry as actresses.
Blackwall Frigate Blackwall Frigate was the colloquial name for a type of three-masted fully-rigged merchant ship built between the late 1830s and the mid 1870s. They were originally intended as replacements for the British East Indiaman in the trade between England, the Cape of Good Hope, India and China, but from the 1850s were also employed in the trade between England, Australia and New Zealand.
Blackwall Tunnel The Blackwall Tunnel is a pair of road tunnels underneath the River Thames in east London, linking the London Borough of Tower Hamlets with the London Borough of Greenwich. The northern portal lies just south of the East India Dock Road (A13) in Blackwall; the southern entrances are just south of the Millennium Dome on the Greenwich Peninsula.
Blackwall, London Blackwall is an area of the East End of London, situated in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is perhaps most well-known for having given its name to the Blackwall Tunnel, which passes under the adjacent River Thames to north Greenwich.
Blackwall, Tasmania Blackwall is a small town located at Gravelly Beach on the western side of the Tamar River, north of Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. Named after Blackwall on the River Thames in England, it was likewise a noted shipbuilding centre.
Blackwater fever Blackwater fever is a complication of malaria characterized by intravascular haemolysis, haemoglobinuria and kidney failure. Blackwater fever is caused by heavy parasitization of red blood cells with Plasmodium falciparum.
Blackwater Falls State Park Blackwater Falls State Park is located in the scenic Potomac Highlands of Tucker County, West Virginia. The park is named after the Blackwater River, the tannic acid-darkened water of which flows over the cascade.
Blackwater railway station Blackwater railway station is a railway station in Blackwater, a town on the borders of Hampshire, Surrey and Berkshire in England. The station is managed by First Great Western, who provide services on the North Downs Line) from Reading to Guildford, Redhill and Gatwick Airport.
Blackwater River (Florida) The Blackwater River of Florida is a 49-mile (79 km) long river arising in southern Alabama and flowing through the Florida Panhandle to the Gulf of Mexico. The river enters Florida in Okaloosa County and flows through Santa Rosa County to Blackwater Bay, an arm of Pensacola Bay.
Blackwater River (Missouri) The Blackwater River is a tributary of the Lamine River, about 55 miles (90 km) long, in west-central Missouri in the United States. Via the Lamine and Missouri Rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River.
Blackwater River (Virginia) The Blackwater River of southeastern Virginia flows from its source near the city of Petersburg, Virginia for about 105 miles (170 km) through the Inner Coastal Plain region of Virginia (part of the Atlantic Coastal Plain). The Blackwater joins the Nottoway River to form the Chowan River, which empties into Albemarle Sound.
Blackwater USA Blackwater USA is a private military contractor and security firm founded in 1996 by Erik Prince and based in North Carolina. The company describes itself as a "military, law enforcement, security, peacekeeping, and stability operations company".
Blackwater, New Mexico Blackwater, New Mexico is the designation of a HVDC back-to-back facility for the power exchange between the asynchronous power grids of Texas and New Mexico. It was built by Brown Boveri in 1985 and can transfer a power up to 200 megawatts.
Blackwater, Queensland Blackwater () is the major town of a significant coal mining area in Central Queensland, Australia. The town is the administrative centre of the Duaringa Shire, which covers an area of approximately 18200 square kilometres.
Blackwatch Blackwatch is the artist name for progressive electronic music artist Michael Thomas. Michael Thomas has a background in classical music, but got into electronic music in the early 90's rising electronica culture in New York.
Blackwell Publishing Blackwell Publishing was formed in 2001 from two Oxford-based academic publishing companies, Blackwell Science and Blackwell Publishers and is the world's leading society publisher. Blackwell is partnered with 665 academic and professional societies.
Blackwell Rural District Blackwell was a rural district in Derbyshire, England from 1894 to 1974. It was created under the Local Government Act 1894 based on that part of the Mansfield rural sanitary district which was in Derbyshire (the Nottinghamshire part forming Skegby Rural District).
Blackwell's Blackwell UK is a national chain of bookshops, online retail, mail order and library services which has an annual turnover of ÂŁ74 million. The Blackwell family owns two separate companies: Blackwell Publishing and Blackwell UK Limited.
Blackwell, Ontario Blackwell is a quiet, affluent neighbourhood in Sarnia, Ontario near to the Wiltshire and Twin Lakes subdivisions and outside of Bright's Grove. The Howard Watson nature trail runs directly through the neighbourhood, and there is much open space in the area, as most residents have homes on large lots and others run small farms within the neighbourhood.
Blackwells Mills Canal House The Blackwells Mills Canal House is located at Blackwells Mills Road & Canal Road in Franklin Township, Somerset County, New Jersey on the Delaware and Raritan Canal. Across the canal is Blackwells Mills, New Jersey.
Blackwood Blaze Inline Hockey Club In-line hockey commenced at Blackwood in June 1993 when a group of ice hockey players started playing to refine their skills. A number of young children who were at the centre for other reasons watched in amazement at a sport unlike anything they had ever seen.
Blackwood class frigate The Type 14, Blackwood, class were a twelve ship class of second rate anti-submarine warfare (A/S) frigates of the Royal Navy, designed and built during the increasing threat from the Soviet Union's large fleet of submarines that roamed the Atlantic Ocean.
Blackwood convention The Blackwood convention is a popular bidding convention in contract bridge that was developed by Easley Blackwood Sr. It is intended to be used in cases where the combined hands of a partnership are so strong that a slam is a possibility.
Blackwood High School Blackwood High School is a co-educational secondary school located in Eden Hills, a south-eastern suburb of Adelaide, South Australia offering the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme with six nearby primary schools as the Mitcham Hills College and Diploma Programme. It is also a Special Interest High School offering Netball.
Blackwoods (film) Blackwoods is a direct to DVD pscyhological thriller film starring Patrick Muldoon and Clint Howard set in the titular Blackwoods. Blackwoods is Uwe Boll's sixth feature length film and his second film in English.
Blackwyche Blackwyche is a video game for the Commodore 64 developed and released by Ultimate Play The Game in 1985. It is a sequel to The Staff of Karnath and Entombed, and features the same aristocrat adventurer, Sir Arthur Pendragon.
Blacula Blacula is the name of a fictional character that appeared in two blaxploitation horror films produced for American International Pictures in 1972 and 1973, respectively. The character was portrayed by William Marshall.
Bladder sphincter dyssynergia Bladder sphincter dyssynergia or more correctly detrusor sphincter dyssynergia (DSD)is a consequence of a neurological condition such as spinal injury or MS whereby the micturition reflex is disordered. Instead of the urethra relaxing completely during voiding it dyssynergically contracts causing the flow to be interrupted and the detrusor pressure to rise.
Bladder stone (animal) Bladder stones in animals or uroliths are a common occurrence, especially in domestic animals such as dogs and cats. The stones form in the urinary bladder in varying size and numbers secondary to infection, dietary influences, and genetics.
Bladder wrack Bladder wrack (Fucus vesiculosus) is a seaweed found on the coasts of the North Sea, the western Baltic Sea, and the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. It was the original source of iodine, discovered in 1811, and was used extensively to treat goitre, a swelling of the thyroid gland related to iodine deficiency.
Bladdernut Staphylea (Bladdernut) is a small genus of 10 or 11 species of flowering plants in the family Staphyleaceae, native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. The highest species diversity is in China, where four species occur.
Bladderpod oil Bladderpod oil is a seed oil, extracted from the seeds of the Lesquerella fendleri and other species of genus Lesquerella, Native to the plains and mesas of southwestern United States, eastward to Kansas and southward into northern Mexico. Bladderpod oil is rich in lesquerolic acid (C20:1-OH) which is a hydroxy acid.
Bladderwort Bladderwort is the common name given to the plants of the genus Utricularia, the largest genus of carnivorous plants. There are over two hundred species found in fresh water and wet soil across every continent other than Antarctica.
Blade A blade is the flat part of a tool or weapon that normally has a cutting edge and/or pointed end typically made of a metal, most recently, steel intentionally used to cut, stab, slice, throw, thrust, or strike an animate or inainimate object.
Blade (comics) Blade (Eric Brooks) is a fictional superhero. Created in 1973 for Marvel Comics by writer Marv Wolfman and artist Gene Colan, Blade was originally a supporting character in the 1970s comic Tomb of Dracula, and has starred in several comic books of his own.
Blade (rapper) Blade is a British rapper, born in the Armenian quarter of Iran and came to London when he was 7. His first single, Lyrical Maniac (Raw Bass) recorded in 1989, soon brought Blade to prominence in the fledgling British hip hop scene.
Blade (Street Fighter) Blade is a character from Capcom's fighting game Street Fighter: The Movie. He and his 'clones' were the only characters besides Sawada included in the roster that were not in any way shape or form based off an existing Street Fighter II character.
Blade connector A blade connector is a type of single wire connection using a flat blade which is inserted into a receptacle. Often the blade is part of a component (such as a switch or a speaker unit) and the receptacle is attached to the wire although blades that attach to wires are also seen.
Blade Dancer: Lineage of Light Blade Dancer: Lineage of Light is a video game made exclusively for the PlayStation Portable. It is a turn-based RPG in which players take on the role of the boy Lance who must save the world with the help of his friends.
Blade element theory Blade element theory is a mathematical process originally designed in the nineteenth century to determine the behaviour of propellers. It involves breaking an airfoil down into several small parts then determining the forces on them.

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