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*Categories [[Teeth]] and [[More Teeth]] and especially ''Color as a Hysterical Reaction'', ''Round Things'' and ''Tangled Things'' created by curation teams of the Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont.
 
*Categories [[Teeth]] and [[More Teeth]] and especially ''Color as a Hysterical Reaction'', ''Round Things'' and ''Tangled Things'' created by curation teams of the Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont.
  
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==[[Objects as Evidence of Human Culture]]==
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==[[Objects as Evidence of Human Culture]]; Artificialia==
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===Artifacts as Evidence of Religion; [[Relics]] and [[Comparitive Religious Studies]]===
 
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[[Image:Tattoo orange skull IMG 5887.jpg|thumb]]
 
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*[[Religious Relics]]
 
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*[[Judaica]]
 
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*[[Christian Relics]]
 
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*[[Associated Relics]]
 
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*[[Sacred Utensils]]; [[Sacred Utensils|Consecrated Objects]] designed for ceremonial Use, including [[amulets]] and [[charms]].
 
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*[[The Evil Eye]]
 
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**[[Good Luck Charms]]
 
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**[[Protection Charms]] Charms offering protection from harm.
 
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**[[Hamsas]]
 
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**[[Witchcraft/Paganism]]
 
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***[[Brooms]], and associated rituals
 
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[[Image:Basket close upIMG 6679.jpg|thumb|The intricately woven stands of sweetgrass in this antique basket still smell sweet. Tiny. Abnaki. Delicate. All categories for this artifact.]]
 
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===[[The American Indian]]===
 
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*Arrowheads (Suction Cups)
 
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*Figurines
 
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*Fragments of Things
 
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*Technology
 
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*Weapons, or Weapon-Like Objects
 
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===[[Evidences of Deconstruction in the Building and Construction Trades]]===
 
  
 
===[[Geographically Significant Artifacts]]; "Things from around the World," Archeology===
 
===[[Geographically Significant Artifacts]]; "Things from around the World," Archeology===
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===[[Historically Significant Artifacts]]===
 
===[[Historically Significant Artifacts]]===
 
*[[Secular Relics]]
 
*[[Secular Relics]]
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**[[Souvenirs]], [[Objects Associated with Places]], [[Objects Associated with People]], see: Notable People, below, [[Objects Associated with Events]]
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***[[Myth-America; Bursting the Bubble of the First Contacts]]
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***[[New Years Eve Celebrations and Millenniums]]
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***[[South of the Border, Dillon county, South Carolina]]
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***[[United States Presidential Inaugurations]]
 
**[[Good Luck; Positive Magic]]
 
**[[Good Luck; Positive Magic]]
 
**[[Protection; Negative Magic]]
 
**[[Protection; Negative Magic]]
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**[[Objects Associated with Events]]
 
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***Presidential Inaugurations
 
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***[[Millenniums]]
 
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**[[Objects Associated with Places]]
 
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**[[Objects Associated with People]], see: Notable People, below.
 
 
**[[Pieces of Wood]]
 
**[[Pieces of Wood]]
 
*[[Household Items]]
 
*[[Household Items]]
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**[[Food for the Apocalyspe]]
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**[[Food for the Apocalypse]]
 
**[[Historic Glassware and "Stand-ins" for Historic Glassware]]
 
**[[Historic Glassware and "Stand-ins" for Historic Glassware]]
 
*[[Objects Associated with Vermont or New Hampshire Artists]]
 
*[[Objects Associated with Vermont or New Hampshire Artists]]
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**[[Paperclips and Paperclip Collections]]
 
**[[Paperclips and Paperclip Collections]]
 
*[[Pictures]]
 
*[[Pictures]]
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*[[Tools]]
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*[[Tools]], see Working World
 
*[[Recreated Artifacts Denied by Dartmouth Realia]]
 
*[[Recreated Artifacts Denied by Dartmouth Realia]]
 
*[[Silt from the 1927 Flood]]
 
*[[Silt from the 1927 Flood]]
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*[[South of the Border, Dillon county, South Carolina]]
 
 
*[[Things, or Fragments of Things Once Owned by, or Associated with, Notable People—Particularly Notable Vermonters]]
 
*[[Things, or Fragments of Things Once Owned by, or Associated with, Notable People—Particularly Notable Vermonters]]
 
**[[Things Left Behind by Musicians]]
 
**[[Things Left Behind by Musicians]]
  
 
[[Image:Brick.jpg|thumb]]
 
[[Image:Brick.jpg|thumb]]
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===[[Manuscripts]] and [[Journals]]===
 
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*[[The Heather Collection]]
 
  
 
===[[Costumes and Clothing]]===
 
===[[Costumes and Clothing]]===
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*[[Agricultural Tools and Apparatus]]
 
*[[Agricultural Tools and Apparatus]]
 
*[[Cadillac Parts and Memorabilia]]
 
*[[Cadillac Parts and Memorabilia]]
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*[[Coins, Numismatics]]
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*[[Numismatics]], Coins
 
**[[Exonumia]], including Squished Pennies
 
**[[Exonumia]], including Squished Pennies
 
*[[Drugs]] Coffee and Aspirin, Drugs at the Workplace
 
*[[Drugs]] Coffee and Aspirin, Drugs at the Workplace
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*[[Evidences of Deconstruction in the Building and Construction Trades]]
 
*[[Food]]
 
*[[Food]]
 
*[[Keys]]
 
*[[Keys]]
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[[Image:Tuisfrisbee.jpg|thumb|Vinyl pet toy in the shape of a Frisbie pie tin.]]
 
[[Image:Tuisfrisbee.jpg|thumb|Vinyl pet toy in the shape of a Frisbie pie tin.]]
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===Artifacts as Evidence of Religion; [[Relics]] and [[Comparitive Religious Studies]]===
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[[Image:Tattoo orange skull IMG 5887.jpg|thumb]]
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*[[Religious Relics]]
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*[[Judaica]]
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*[[Christian Relics]]
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*[[Associated Relics]]
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*[[Sacred Utensils]]; [[Sacred Utensils|Consecrated Objects]] designed for ceremonial Use, including [[amulets]] and [[charms]].
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*[[The Evil Eye]]
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**[[Good Luck Charms]]
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**[[Protection Charms]] Charms offering protection from harm.
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**[[Hamsas]]
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**[[Witchcraft/Paganism]]
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***[[Brooms]], and associated rituals
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[[Image:Basket close upIMG 6679.jpg|thumb|The intricately woven stands of sweetgrass in this antique basket still smell sweet. Tiny. Abnaki. Delicate. All categories for this artifact.]]
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===[[The American Indian]]===
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*Arrowheads (Suction Cups)
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*Figurines
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*Fragments of Things
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*Technology
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*Weapons, or Weapon-Like Objects
  
 
==[[Pet Toys]]==
 
==[[Pet Toys]]==
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==Two Dimensional Evidence [[Paper]]; [[Archive]] Collections==
 
==Two Dimensional Evidence [[Paper]]; [[Archive]] Collections==
 
===[[Lithographic Prints and Signage]]===
 
===[[Lithographic Prints and Signage]]===
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===[[Manuscripts]] and [[Letters]]===
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===[[Manuscripts]] and [[Letters]] and [[Journals]]===
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*[[The Heather Collection]]
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[[image:Boytintype08.jpg|thumb|A tin-type in the Museum collection. 20th century. Probably created at a county fair.]]
 
[[image:Boytintype08.jpg|thumb|A tin-type in the Museum collection. 20th century. Probably created at a county fair.]]
  
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==[[Sound (Audible) Artifacts]]==
 
==[[Sound (Audible) Artifacts]]==
 
*[[78-80 rpm Recordings]]
 
*[[78-80 rpm Recordings]]
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*[[Piano Roll Collection]]
 
*[[Digital Files]]
 
*[[Digital Files]]
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:''see also'' [[Sheet Music]]
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:''see also'' [[Sheet Music]] and [[The Great American Songbook]]
  
 
==[[Art]]==
 
==[[Art]]==
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[[Image:Flockedcat.jpg|thumb|Cat, or Unidentified Mammal? You decide.]]
 
[[Image:Flockedcat.jpg|thumb|Cat, or Unidentified Mammal? You decide.]]
  
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==[[Fauna]]; Living, or Apparently Once Living, Objects==
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==[[Fauna]]; [[Animalia]]; Living, or Apparently Once Living, Objects==
  
 
===[[Humans]]===
 
===[[Humans]]===
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*[[The Sea-Monster]]
 
*[[The Sea-Monster]]
  
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===[[Fish]]: Aquatic Living With Or Without Bones===
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===[[Fish]]: Aquatic Living, with or without Bones===
 
*Fresh Water Specimens
 
*Fresh Water Specimens
 
*Salt Water Speimens
 
*Salt Water Speimens
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==[[Entomology]]; Insects==
 
==[[Entomology]]; Insects==
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==[[Animalia]] according to [[John Wilkins]], according to [[Jorge Luis Borges]]==
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*[[Belonging to the Emperor]]
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*[[Embalmed]]
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*[[Tame]]
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*[[Sucking Pigs]]
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*[[Sirens]]
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*[[Fabulous]]
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*[[Stray Dogs]]
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*[[Included in the Present Classification]]
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*[[Frenzied]]
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*[[Innumerable]]
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*[[Drawn with a very fine Camelhair brush]]
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*[[Et cetera]]
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*[[Having just broken the Water Pitcher]]
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*[[That from a long way off look like Flies]]
  
 
[[image:Drawerofbugs08SM.jpg|thumb|A drawer of bugs.]]
 
[[image:Drawerofbugs08SM.jpg|thumb|A drawer of bugs.]]
  
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==[[Flora]]; [[Living, or Apparently Once Living, Objects]]==
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==[[Flora]]; [[Vegetalia]]==
  
 
===[[Trees; The Animistic Perspective]]===
 
===[[Trees; The Animistic Perspective]]===
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*[[Barnacle Geese]]
 
*[[Barnacle Geese]]
 
*[[Borametz]] (Lamb Tree)
 
*[[Borametz]] (Lamb Tree)
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*[[Mushrooms and Fungus]]
  
 
==[[References and Archive]]==
 
==[[References and Archive]]==
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[[category:Categories]]
 
[[category:Categories]]
 
[[category:Naming]]
 
[[category:Naming]]
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[[category:Celestial Empire of Benevolent Knowledge]]

Latest revision as of 16:51, 16 May 2021

What we do with things is more important than things.
Limulus polyphemus. The Horseshoe Crab is considered a living fossil.

Contents

History of the Catalog

Categories including Series and Subseries and Vinculum Categories

Categories are often both overlapping (vinculum) and mutable. At the Main Street Museum they include, but are not limited to: Flora; Fauna; Exotica (geographically significant objects); Shoes and Feet (and Tiny Shoes and Feet); Fiber, Textiles and Costumes; Tangled Things; Objects Associated with Famous People; Round Things; Objects with Orifices; Bad Art; Bad Craft; Recreated Artifacts Refused by Dartmouth Realia; Amulets and Sacred Objects; Judæica; Vermontiana; Relics from the Civil War/War Between the States; and Unidentified Mammals or “Flocked Pets.”

The Main Street Museum Catawiki

Vinculum Categories

Carbon

Color as a Hysterical Reaction

Flocking; an Industrial Process

The Human Head

Oxidization

Round Things

Tangled Things

  • Categories Teeth and More Teeth and especially Color as a Hysterical Reaction, Round Things and Tangled Things created by curation teams of the Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont.

Objects as Evidence of Human Culture; Artificialia

Geographically Significant Artifacts; "Things from around the World," Archeology

Tumbler which may—or may not—have come to America on the Mayflower.

Historically Significant Artifacts

Brick.jpg

Costumes and Clothing

Shoes and more shoes.

Tramps and Hobos

The Working World

Vinyl pet toy in the shape of a Frisbie pie tin.

Artifacts as Evidence of Religion; Relics and Comparitive Religious Studies

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The intricately woven stands of sweetgrass in this antique basket still smell sweet. Tiny. Abnaki. Delicate. All categories for this artifact.

The American Indian

  • Arrowheads (Suction Cups)
  • Figurines
  • Fragments of Things
  • Technology
  • Weapons, or Weapon-Like Objects

Pet Toys

Two Dimensional Evidence Paper; Archive Collections

Lithographic Prints and Signage

Manuscripts and Letters and Journals

A tin-type in the Museum collection. 20th century. Probably created at a county fair.

Photographs

Postcards

Sheet Music

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The History of Armaments and Military Technology

Actual Miltary Technology

Substitutes or Stand-ins for Weaponry and Munitions

(For World War II items see The Leroy Short Sporting and Wild Game Memorial)

The United States Civil War

The Rensselaer William Foote Memorial

Sound (Audible) Artifacts

see also Sheet Music and The Great American Songbook

Art

Two Dimensional Pieces

Three Dimensional Art, Sculpture

Modern Art Created By Accident (MACBA)

Elvis Aaron Presley Visual Art Amalgam

Dogs and cats made of wax.

Bad Craft

Cat, or Unidentified Mammal? You decide.

Fauna; Animalia; Living, or Apparently Once Living, Objects

Humans

The Ossuary; Bones

I Squeak!

The Hall of North American Mammals

The Leroy Short Sporting and Wild Game Memorial

Teeth and More Teeth

Heads (Capitis; Verticis)

This will eventually become the label, and attendant subsidiary labels, delineating the marvels of the Main Street Museum's famed collection of HEADS (We use the Latin terms to distinguish between CAPITIS, the plural of Caput, or head, and VERTICIS, the plural of Vertex, or top, crown, peak, high point).

Research on this point of terminology was generously provided by Daniel Baker.

Specimens of (or Objects relating to) Birds of the Americas

Reptiles Amphibians and Serpents

Fish: Aquatic Living, with or without Bones

  • Fresh Water Specimens
  • Salt Water Speimens
  • Other
  • Seashells
El Tiburón.

Entomology; Insects

Animalia according to John Wilkins, according to Jorge Luis Borges

A drawer of bugs.

Flora; Vegetalia

Trees; The Animistic Perspective

Guatemalan Vegetation, unknown type, from the Farrow Collection.

Exotic, Tropic and Sub-tropic Vegetable Samples

Corn; Taxanomic Theories relevant to Zea mays

Small flowers that are, probably, some type of violet. 19th century, c.e.

Flowers and Fruits

Camellias, Edelweiss, Roses, Violets Unidentified Flowers and Oranges

Vines

Ferns

Mosses and Lichens

Poison Ivy. Banks of the Potomac River.

Native and Non-Native Botany of Windsor County; Invasive and Non-Invasive Species of White River Junction, Vermont

Nuts, Pods and Seeds

Minerals; Inanimate, or Apparently Inanimate Objects

Other

References and Archive

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