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10 . WERE THE CONQU/STAPORS?

11 . WERE THE ANCIENT OREEkS?

17. . PIRST SAILEP AROUNP THE WORUP?

13 . HAP HIS REST IPEAS IN THE SATHTUB?

H . SOLVEP THE PUZZLE

OP THE LONGEST RIVER?

15 . WORkEP TO A BEAT?

16 . PISCOVEREP THAT EARTH IS ROUNP?

17 . WERE THE PIRST PEOPLE IN SPACE?

18 . TURNCP orr THE RAIN? 41 . . . WAS A TEENAGE WARRIOR?

19 . ENJOYS A MOUTHfUL Of PRICKLES? 4^ . . . RIPES A PUCKING PRONCO?

^0 . STARTEP TALKING? 43 . . . TELLS STORIES PY PANCING?

. SENT THE fIRST RAPIO BROAPCAST? 44 . . . LIVES IN THE RAINPOREST?

. WROTE IN SECRET COPE? 45 . . . WERE “WISE" HOMANS?

. WRITES WITH A PAIimRUSH? 46 . . . PUILT PALACES IN THE MOUNTAINS?

. CAN TELL TINIE WITHOUT A CLOCK? 4f . . . ARE THE GREATEST TUNNELERS?

^5 . TOOK HOURS TO take A PICTURE? 48 • . . PIRST PLUSHEP THE TOILET?

. INVEIPTEP OUR CALENPAR? 49 . . . PIRST TOOK A PATH?

. WERE THE ROMANS? 50 ... usEP tea as money?

^8 . RULEP ROME? 51 . . . COPIEP THE GREEKS?

^9 . RULEP EGYPT? 5^ . . . WERE THE PIRST PARMERS?

30 . PEET KEEP AN EGG WARM? 53 . . . REAPS PROM RIGHT TO LEPT?

31 . IS THE SEST-PRESSEP RIRP? 54 . . . SINGING WRECKEP SHIPS?

. IS AT HOME IN A SUPPLE? 55 . . . SINGS UNPERWATER?

33 . STARTS LIPE WITH A JUMP? 56 quick-quiz questions

34 . TONGUE IS LONGER THAN ITS TAIL? 58 quick-QUIZ ANSWERS

35 . HORSE HAP EIGHT LEGS? 60 tricky WORPS

36 . HOUSE IS A TRAPPOOR? 6^ WHERE TO

PINP STUpp
3? . HOUSE IS PAPER THIN?
64 PAREWELL
38 . WORE STEEPLES ON THEIR HEAPS?

39 . WERE THE MOUNTAIN MEN?

40 . WAS JOAN Of ARC?

 V

HAVE YOU - ^
EVER ASKED YOURSELF
wHo?o^

«,?,
across
"’to outer s
*’5 ttflhy trjcfcy

'’o«W ffh<i

• ‘’'’cf *ire q/go

‘^HSwe^s fo^
 An emperor penguin
can hold its breath
for 20 minutes when
diving for fish.

QUICK-QUIZ \
QUEST/o^o
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WHO WERE THE

f IRST EXPLORERS?
Some the earliest ocean
voyages were wade by the
Polynesian peoples o^ New Guinea.
Almost 3,500 years us®/
began leaving their homeland to
explore the vast Pacific Ocean
in nothing big9«»‘ canoes.
sJ^Ttb 2a'(t^'

Arab explorer Ibn ^attuta’9

adventures began in 13^5,
he set out ^row hiS hometown
Tangier, Morocco. He w<»S S®
bitten by the travel bug that he
didn't return home until 13'49.

•Hvfe': Did you know .. ■

® Ibn Battuta wrote a
but his memory was not -'ways that g
He said he had seen hippos with horse
heads and that the Egyptian pyramids
were cone shoped!

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 A

Who ran the

FIRST MARATHON?

Itt 490 B.C., the

dhcieht 6^eeks woh 0
battle at Marathon, about
know

BHrseaww.*
7-S miles (40 kilometers) ^rom Did yo^
Athens. A Greek soldier named
Fheidippides ran all the way to
Athens to tell the cititens the
good news. He was $0 exhausted
from running that he
S<, 1908 Olymp^
l„ WPdon,

collapsed and died.

WHO WERE THE CONQUISTADORS?
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When Christopher Columbus discovered

the Americas, rumors spread that they
were rich in gold. Sponish soldiers began
heading there in search o? their
fortunes. The soldiers were known as
con<iuistadors, ^rom the Sponish word
for “con<iueror,” because they were
more interested In con<iuering new lands
(and their riches) than exploring them.

Did you know...

The native peoples of the
Americas did not use gold as
money. Instead, they valued
it for its beauty.
 WHO WERE THE ANCIENT GREEKS?
©,

The ancieht Greeks were

people who came from Greece
almost 3,500 years oqo. They
also lived in lards that we
row call Pulsaria ard Turkey.
Others lived or small, rocky ! i

islards ir the Aesear Sea

betweer Greece ard Turkey. /

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M'ORLD

Sailed around
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you know...
While sailing around the
Americas, Magellan and his crew
ran out of food. They ate rats,
leather, and sawdust to stop
themselves from starving.
^EST ideas in tnc
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■^IVED
until the 1860S, Europeans had
no idea where the Nile, the
world's longest river, began.
Then British explorer John
Hanning Speke proved that
it flowed out o^ the vast
African lake today known
as Uake Victoria.

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Did you know

The Nile River
Is approximately
ms
4,160 miles
(6,695 kilometers)
long and flows
through as many
as ten countries
in Africa.
 WHO WORKED
TO A BEAT?

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Did you know ...

There are two types of eclipses.
A lunar eclipse is when Earth
moves between the Sun and
the Moon. A solar eclipse Is
when the Moon moves between
Earth and the Sun, blocking
the Sun’s light.

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Russian coswonaut Yuri Gasarin ^

person ever to travel into space, .n April 1961-
■n,e ^irst ».owan to get liHoH v.as also a
Russian-Valentina Tereshkova circled Earth
almost three days in June 1963-
 In Australia, a six-y
drought frpm 2003 to
2009, the worst ever
Recorded, dried out
rivers and caused

tURNED moior water shortages

A drought can occur wher hot enough

ra!h falls. This weans there is very
little drinking water and it is difficult
to grow cro|>s. Since the 19TOS/
the nunher of serious droughts
around the world has doubled.
 tNJOYS A
'itHf Ut OT
®Ves?

Did you
Most smaller lizards are
meat eaters. They eat
only insects or other
small animals.
 VUHO STARTED TALKING?

There are more than

Nobody knows how or 6 loo \ Wing languages-
when people first spoke.
Tljey wight have started by of speakers s
copying sounds around thew, such ^^andarm Ch.
as the whistling of the wind.
biWion speakers
$y communicating with wordS/
humans could more easily
help one another.

20*
^UO SENT THE
Y*rBAOio broadcast?
The first true
radio set that sent
messages usiog radio waves
was huilt by ftaliah inventor
Guglielmo Marconi, ^ut he was
not the first person to
prove the existence of
radio waves—that was
German scientist
Heinrich Hert*.

you know.. •
Radio waves can
be almost as
long as a football
field—about 330
feet (100 meters)!

21
 fh medieval times,
w Scohdihaviohs ohd Anglo-
Saxohs sometimes wrote using
runes, which were drawn with
straight lines. The word rune
means “secret.” few people could
read or write 1,000 years ago.
Some thought that anyone who
could understand the runes must
have magical powers!

The ancient
FqYPtia''S used
stalks of pupyus
p\ants to make
paper. The word
paper comes
from papyrus-
 WITH A

Did you know

There are
about 50,000
Chinese symbols.
Schoolchildren
have to learn only
about 5,000 of

Ih Chihd and Japan, people sometimes paint

words as symbols, slowly and beautifully,
using a brush and ink. The art of beautiful
handwriting is called calligraphy. Japanese
children learn calligraphy in school.
23
 CAN Inside every one o^ us there's
Something colled o body clock.
time
and

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Did you know.

Some animals sleep
through the day and
come out only at night.
This is called nocturnal
behavior. A badger
is a nocturnal animal.
 cYore?

A frehchmoh hdined Jose|>h

Ni4|>ce took the first
photogroph ih 1824. tie hod
to wait eight hours before
the picture was captured
Oh a thih metal plate Did you know ...
coated with a kihd of
The first photograph
tar. The photograph was of fariT\ buildings
showed the view from and the sky.
Niepce called It
his window.
a heliograph, after
the Greek word for
the Sur\—helios.
I

^VIO IMV^TED OUR CALeUb^j

/Aore than ^,000 years ago, a Roman ruler named

Julius Caesar invented the calendar that we use
today. He gave each year ‘JfeS days and arranged
the days into Xl months. Since then, the
calendar has hardly changed. know
The names of our
MON TUE months are taken
SUN
from the names
of Roman gods and
rulers. July 'S named ^
after Julius Caesar.
Did you know
It would hove token
almost 100 days
to ride from one end
of the Roman Empire
to the other. It
...-o n iournev of

The RoindhS were people who came from Rome. About %,000 years
ago, they became so powerful that they began to coh<(uer the lands
around them, ^y A.P. 100, they ruled a huge empire and were one
of the mightiest peoples in the ancient world.
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 RULED

Did you know.

® The first Roman
emperor was
named Augustus.
He was advised
by a group of
wealthy men
called senators.

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 1

WHO RULED EGYPT ?

The kihg
of Egypt was
called the pharaoh.
The Egyptians believed that
their Sun god Ra was the first
king of Egypt and that all of the
pharaohs after hl» were his relatives.
This wade the pharaoh very holy—and
very powerful! The people thought the
pharaoh was a
god Oh Earth.

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Did you know.
Hatshepsut was
a famous female
pharaoh. She had
m ^ ^ ( f \ ' to wear badges
\1 • i*' of royalty,
1 B t ■1 1 r including a false
k beard made of
• •
real hair.
•
•
•
WHOSE
feet /
/ Every year, in
the nidcile of the
\
\

keep winter in Antarctica,

a female em|»eror penguin
'

lays one egg and giveg it

to her mate to keep warm.
He balances the egg between
EGG his feet and his feathers
until It is ready to hatch

WARM? in the early spring.

Did you know . ■

An emperor
penguin can hold
its breath for
20 minutes when
diving for fish.
WHO IS THE best-dressed
BIRD?
Male birds of porodise
grow beautiful feathers during
the breeding season. When a
female comes by, all the males
hang u|>side down to show off their
stunning |>lumage. ft is a beauty
contest, and the female picks
the bird with the finest feathers
to be her mate.

Did you know ...

The male palm
cockatoo attracts
a mate by playing
a drumbeat. It
grasps a twig in one
foot and beats it
against a log.
 Baby froghoppers

vatto IS are offer called

SpittlebCigg because
they make a bubbly
^HO STARTS
life with
^ JUMP?

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O'*’ ^

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> 0'^' ^
®'^

*',

©There are more

mallard ducks
on Earth than
any other typa
of duck.
V«HOSETONWE
Longer than
IMIT

Did you know ■ ■ >

Many lizards can
® snap off their
tails when they're
being attacked.
A new tail grows
back after a
few weeks.
 The Ylkihgs called
their chief god Odih.
They believed he rode Oh
eight-legged horse called
Sleiphir that could gallop
across land, sea,
and sky.

35
Did you know..
All spiders can
spin silk, but they
do not all make
webs.The spitting
spider catches
insects by spitting
0 sticky gum
over them.
Did you know ■ ■ ■
There are 1,000 species
of paper wasps worldwide,
with many living in Australia
KUfth America.

n^e paper wasp's rest has

paper walls. It makes the
paper hy chewihg up strips
of wood that it tears ^rom
plants or old fence posts,
/t spreads the mixture in
thin layers to build a nest.
 WHO WORE STEEPLES
ON THEIR
HEADS?

The hats in the

Middle Ages were
sometimes shaped
like part of an
animal. Some
were shaped like
animals’ horns
and others like
butterflies' winas.
 Did you know
Women are no^
allowed to visit
Mount Athos-
the “holy mountain
—in Greece. Even
female animals
are bannedl

^iwerican exp»orer9 such as

Kit Carson became known

as mountain men during the

O O
1800s. They roamed through
WHO WERE the wildest parts o^ the
Rocky Mountains, trapping
THE MOUNTAIN heavers and other Ohimol9
for their fur.
MHO WAS
ARC? Jooh was a frehch
peosoht girl who grew up when
Chgldhd atid fratice were at war.
It) ■|•4i9, at the age of If,
she dressed up as a soldier
and helped free the city of
0rl4ans from an English army.
$ut a year later, she was
captured and burned
at the stake.

Did you know.. •

Joan of Arc is the
youngest person m
r
history to command
Q nation’s army.
 WHO
* TEEM4 A®
Temujih was the soh a
leader o? the Mohgol |>eo|>le of
central Asia. He was horn in
1%%, and he hecame a warrior
muia
when he was only 1”?, after his
father died. Tertujin took the
name Genghis khan. Under his
leadershi|>, the Mongols
attacked and won many
lands in Asia.

you kno>w
« the I

earth and had ' y\

of 100 mWon.
1
 Another rodeo event
is steer roping. A
cowhand gallops after
a steer (male bull)
and tries to catch it
with a lasso.

CowhOhcls ficle
ih coinpetitloh9 called
rodeo$. A brohco 1*9
Oh uhtomed hor9e^ and
cowhahd9 te9t their ridihg
9klll9 by trying to gtay on
a brohco^g bock for a few
9ecohd9—bareback or
^ with a 9addle. ^
 Did you know...
A three-hour ballet
performance needs
the same amount
of energy as
running 18 miles
(29 kilometers).

Pallet is ct
way of telling d story
through music and dance. 'Ml

The sound of the music and the

movements of the dancers tell
you what's going on as clearly
^ as any story in a book.
^HO vivts Did you know
Few tribal children
go to school. Their
iM’tHt parents teach then^
how to survive in
the rainforest.

1/^ * sV.eS

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^
VsotneS
L dlS ^
^ood. 'n'* «
sort It'
they however, (it'd +V'e
,<iin^oreS+9 '« P ^^od Y*****
tribes Of* the tribes
aner year. AHer a vhrte, the
pack up and move on to another
of the tor*e9t.
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 WISE

^ Did you know

The first humanlike
creatures lived about
4.5 million years ago
They were called
/4 ustralopithecus.

Modern humcins
are intelligent/ which i$
why our scientific na»e is
Homo sopienS/ meaning "wise
human.” The first Homo
sapiens evolved in Africa
almost 7-00,000 years ago
Ml
hTli
n
ELERS?
 you know.. •
Almost 100 years
that flushed were
prized pieces of
They were
-finiAiers. and snelis.

^JIO first
rtllSHtP tHE
•^Oll-ET?

Wt 400 years cifl®' '

^Wlt a flushing toilet fo**

^en Elizabeth I
^ys, very few homes h<» ^
» or droihS/ so ordlna^Y ^
to use chamber P® ^
 0 FIRST TOOK
A BATH?
Did you know ...
© Almost 500 years ago, the
Chinese used pigs' hair to
make the first toothbrushes!

^ af»<y ^
'fJ the tdWng haths. But, ®
'^'='Wey ir, Pakistan
^ both, ««.t <«* b' ♦« “f th. V
*/)
'*<»9/>ee|. They used V
^uo USED TEA
^ money?

ih Tibet and CWnO

tea )>ressed In+o
you know /»o/)ey. before coins
, ne Chinese first used paper
The people used +o ^
money about 1,200 year
0 tAi
*'^9S like shells, beads,
the money on the bark
of mulberry trees.
9^afh fon the
they wonted.
 About 7^,000 yeor9 090, the Romons norcheci
ihto Greece. They conquered Its armies Ohd
added its lands to their own empire, ^ut Roman
people respected the Greek ways of life. They
admired Greek poetry, plays, buildings, and art.
They copied many Greek ideas and used them
to improve their own ways of life.

Did you know...

There were more
than 40 religious
Holidays in Athens
each year. There
ore paintings of
these festivals on
Oreek pottery and
wine jars.

'■X'-'i ^vwSi'',v

51
tMA vOU know

began about 10,000 Y**^**^ ^ ^

°^/e /n the Middle East began saving + *
f>hht9to 90W as their o«n crops-
own food meant that farmers couW
^ii the same place all Y****
 WHOSE SINGING
G
WRECKED
SHIPS?

9—half
ih +ki» oC«'

1^
to. '

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mPERWISI®^ <^f * " SiS,™

O o
v*' ^^uwpbac^ gi^g

• et^® 0»’o^Ae7^'®S seeto

\ thought ttve
,j,^tract ^ ^y ahJma/'j
9o/,3 /^e. No o^^^
buwpbqe^,^ 08 lotift
h«,^' and it
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of nl\«*^

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quick-quiz
QUESTlOAfo

7.
IS a dfought?

did
1 VI... ^ ...00 .e
* enp'®*^ .» a <«°'‘*
anv Which language has the greatest
8.
number o? speakers?
unscramble ftUU CHIP 6RftV to spell
9. the art o^ beautiful writing.

T”""'-.*-.«. L"'
th* S^eefe
«>''>'=*^ Pfaenes Tvet
to. What does the Greek
Ae//b^ Meat)?

5. Where does the Nile River l-ejin? \ •

e,+k ox
The »ofi+h liulV is t'^i***®**
0^ duiy
11. ^fter v^hich ^^owan ruler?
L Name the two types o?
eclipses that can occur.
n. name
Hatshepsut was a famous male +v,e
PhoMob. True or fa,*,/
^0.
ountain c*'"® . p-,ccV>a"
VlWch <«<>'»’' rt, t^achu
7.V to the 1"'“
\we-
VJhere ao ewpet'O*'

vihat w What did the Chinese

for a use to make the first
toothbrushes?

Unscramble OCEAN HELf^

25.
/yi
15. it) 7^1
to spell the name of a
sticky-tongued liiard. 2-f. Ohc '’‘‘e use</ L
/an Pay a
'•/shy- - ^'‘'‘’9®* ..... ^
/eft? frOA,

74.
S'lfc. True or f
77.
Py .a/n^in th?%oos?

(Genghis khan)
How old was Temujln
when he became a w Cirri ot'^

It) which competitions do

cowhands take part?
 •• h dnousht fs 0 severe
Shortase of rafrifall.

ft »»<»'»

/n a ba^^eI.

,t «o».9 0“+
10. The 9uh.

VictorW, in

Unar and 9oiar ecUpses.

 72.
'"o'se. Hatsh«;>sut
fefnq/e
19-
^^p\en9-
Wow®
^0

1 ^. in ^nta^ctica.

'^'>*9 Mountains
"’ South rtBoMca.

A Spfttlebuj.
ha\r.

^V^e\\9j

15. OCCftN HtUIA = chameleon.

14. ■'■rue.

^ hehhih.

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II^ICVCI
WORDS
ANGLO-SAXONS
People who lived in England from the
A.P. 4009 to 1066.
Am*ARCT/CA
Earth's icy, southernmost
area around the South Pole.
BREEP/N6 SEASON
The time when male and temale animals
come together to produce ottspring.
eROAPCAST
To send out a program over radio
waves so that it can be heard on a
radio or watched on a television.
A program sent this way is also
called a broadcast.
CATAPULT
A weapon that is used
to throw something, such
as a rock, (quickly through
the air.
err/ZENs
The people who live in
a particular area, such
as a town, city, or country.
C0MMUN/CAT(N6
Sharing in^orwotloh with someone,
such as hy speaking or writing.
CONQUER
To win and take control o^ something.
COSMONAUT
The Russian word for an astronaut.
An astronaut is a person who travels
into space to find out more about it.
CROPS
Plants, such as wheat, corn,
or potatoes, that are grown over
large areas in fields for food.
PR0U6HT
A long period of time in which no rain falls.
Rivers can dry up and plants can die without
water, food and drinking water may be hard
to find in areas suffering from drought.
EMP/RE
A large area of land, usually several countries,
ruled by one government. The Romans had a
huge empire.
EXPEP/T/ON
An organized journey, such as one in which
people travel to explore part of a country.
PLEET
A group of ships sailing together.
/NCA
People who lived from 700 to
450 years ago in South America.
The center of their empire was in Peru.
/NYENTOR
A person who is the first to think of
or create something.
 LASSO
A long rope with a loop at
one end. It Is thrown so that the
loop ^alls around an animal's neck.
LUNAR
Pescribes something that Involves the Moon.
ROMANS
Ahcleht people ^row Italy who lived around
^,000 years ago in Europe, Africa, and Asia.
SCANPINAV/A
A region In northern Europe that Includes Penmark,
Norway, and Sweden.

MAJOR S/Lk
Pescrihes something that Is Important or serious. fine threads that are made by Insects
and woven together to make a so^t,
MIPPLE AGES smooth, and strong material.
The period In Europe between A.P. 476 and 1500.
These years are also called the medieval period. SOLAR
Pescribes something that Involves the Sun.
NATIVE PEOPLE
The ^Irst people who originally lived In a country, SYMBOL
before settlers arrived ^rom other countries. A shape or design that is drawn
to show an Idea o^ something,
NOCTURNAL such as a word.
Pescribes something that happens at night. Nocturnal
animals are active at night. TAR
A black, sticky substance
OLYMPIC GAMES that comes ^rom rocks.
first begun In ancient Greece, the Olympic Games Tar Is used to coat
are sporting events that take place every ^our the surface o^ roads.
years. Athletes ^rom all over the world take part
to win gold, silver, or bronze medals.
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People trom Scandinavia
POSSESS/ONS who sailed and battled
Objects that are owned.
with other people In
the world, especially
PYRAMIP In northeastern Europe,
A large, stone building with ^our triangular sides.
from the A.P. 700s
Pyramids were built as tombs ^or ancient Egyptian kings
to the 1000s.
and <^ueenS/ who were burled with all o^ their riches.

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heart rate 15
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taths 49 Earth 16 hippos 8
battles 9/ 13 eclipses 16 Homo sapiens 45
birds 30/ 31/ 33 eggs 30 horses 35/ 43
body clocks 34 Egyptians/ ancient inca 46
books 8/ 53 33/ 39 insects 19/ 53/ 34/ 36
explorers 6/ f, 6, inventors 31
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kings 38, 39 N 9
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rain 18 wars 40
rainforests 44 wasps 3f
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writing 33, 33
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