Edgar May (June 27, 1929 – December 27, 2012) was an American politician who served in the Vermont House of Representatives from 1973-1983 and the Vermont Senate from 1983-1991. He was the elder brot...

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John Abner Mead (April 20, 1841 – January 12, 1920) was a Vermont physician, businessman and politician who served as 45th Lieutenant Governor of Vermont from 1908 to 1910, and the 53rd Governor of V...

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Edward Pearce Casey (1864–1940), was an American designer and architect, noted for his work in Washington, D.C. and New York City. Early life and education Edward Pearce Casey was born June 1...

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George Edmund Foss (July 2, 1863 - March 15, 1936) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois. He was a brother of Eugene Noble Foss. Biography Born in West Berkshire, Vermont, Foss attended the...

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) Thomas Gilbert White (July 18, 1877 - February 17, 1939) was an American painter, now best remembered for his murals. His brothers Stewart Edward White and Roderick White also achieved acclaim as a...

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Mary Jobe Akeley was an explorer and naturalist and the wife of Carl E. Akeley. She is famous as one of the earliest women explorers in Africa where she helped her husband hunt and photograph animals...

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Colgate Darden Colgate Whitehead Darden, Jr. (February 11, 1897 - June 9, 1981) was a Democratic Congressman from Virginia (1933-37, 1939-41), the 54th Governor of Virginia (1942-46), Chancellor of...

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) Luther Halsey Gulick (1892–1993) was an expert on public administration. Life Luther Halsey Gulick was born January 17, 1892 in Osaka, Japan. His father was congregationalist missionary Sid...

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Dan Beach Bradley M.D. (July 18, 1804 – June 23, 1873) was an American Protestant missionary to Siam from 1835 until his death. He is credited with numerous firsts, including: bringing the first Thai...

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) Lieutenant Colonel Edward Antill (April 11, 1742 – May 29, 1789) was an American soldier who participated at the Battle of Quebec in 1775. Antill was born in "Piscataqua" (Piscataway), New Jers...

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Philip Van Cortlandt (August 21, 1749–November 21, 1831) was an American surveyor, land-owner, and politician from Westchester County, New York. During the Revolutionary War, Colonel Cortlandt comman...

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William Astor was born in New York City, the only child of John Jacob Astor III (1822-1890) and Charlotte Augusta Gibbes (c. 1825-1887). He was educated in Germany and in Italy before studying at Col...

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-------------------- John Jacob Astor III (June 10, 1822 – February 22, 1890) was the elder son of William Backhouse Astor, Sr. and the wealthiest member of the Astor family in his generation. He...

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William Backhouse Astor, Jr. (July 12, 1829 – April 25, 1892) was a businessman and a member of the prominent Astor family. He was the ancestor of the U.S. branch of the Astor family, which came to a...

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Franklin Bartlett (September 10, 1847 – April 23, 1909) was a U.S. Representative from New York. Biography Bartlett was born in Uxbridge in Worcester County, Massachusetts, and graduated from t...

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Willard Bartlett (October 14, 1846 – January 17, 1925) was an American jurist. He was Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals. Biography Bartlett was born in Uxbridge, Massachusetts, the...

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Robert Grey Bushong (June 10, 1883–April 6, 1951) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Robert G. Bushong was born in Reading, Pennsylvania. He was the s...

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Truxtun Beale (March 6, 1856 – June 2, 1936) was an American diplomat. Biography Beale was born in San Francisco to Edward Fitzgerald Beale and Mary Engle Edwards; his siblings were Mary (185...

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Charles MacVeagh (June 6, 1860 – December 4, 1931) was an American lawyer and diplomat. He served as United States Ambassador to Japan from 1925 to 1928. Early life Charles MacVeagh was born ...

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William Walter Phelps (August 24, 1839 – June 17, 1894), the son of John Jay Phelps, a successful New York City merchant and financier, was born in Dundaff, Pennsylvania. During his successful bankin...

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Nathanael Greene Pendleton (August 25, 1793 – June 16, 1861) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio, and the father of George Hunt Pendleton. Born in Savannah, Georgia, August 25, 1793, he moved to ...

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Ralph Morgan (July 6, 1883 – June 11, 1956) was a Hollywood film, stage and character actor, and the older brother of Frank Morgan (who played the title role in The Wizard of Oz, 1939). Early lif...

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Christine Sadler (1902–1983), born in Silver Point, Putnam County, Tennessee, was an American author, journalist, and magazine editor. Biography Christine Sadler received her undergraduate de...

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The publisher and co-founder of Random House Bennette Cerf was also known for his own compilations of jokes and puns, for regular personal appearances lecturing across the United States, and for his te...

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Winifred Edgerton, the first American woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics, was born in Ripon, Wisconsin. She was a direct descendent of Elder William Brewster of Plymouth Colony. She received her...

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Frederick Ward Eastman (1883-1921). Graduated University of Missouri 1907. Graduated as MD from Columbia University 1911. Eminent Physician and Medical Writer. Conducted a Rockefeller Foundation Expedi...

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Alonzo C. Monson was a Yale and Columbia Law graduate. At the age of 23 he was a postal clerk in New York City where his brother-in-law, Robert H. Morris, was the postmaster, and his brother, marcena...

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Alexandra Styron is the youngest daughter of writer and novelist William Styron (1925-2006). She is the author of the novels All The Finest Girls and Reading My Father: A Memoir. A graduate of Barnar...

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Robert Motherwell (January 24, 1915 – July 16, 1991) American painter, printmaker and editor. He was one of the youngest of the New York School (a phrase he coined), which also included Jackson Pollo...

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Peter B. Greenough (February 6, 1917 – September 6, 2006) was an American journalist and editor. He was the husband of opera singer Beverly Sills. Greenough was born in Brookline, Massachusetts a...

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Isamu Noguchi (野口 勇 Noguchi Isamu?, November 17, 1904 – December 30, 1988) was a prominent Japanese American artist and landscape architect whose artistic career spanned six decades, from the 1920s o...

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Eudora Alice Welty was an American author of short stories and novels about the American South. Her book The Optimist's Daughter won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973. Welty was awarded the Presidential Medal...

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Peter Jeffrey Revson (February 27, 1939 – March 22, 1974) was an American race car driver who had successes in Formula One and the Indianapolis 500. Background Peter Revson was born in New Yo...

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electrogravimetric analyses, 1st -------------------- Oliver Wolcott Gibbs (February 21, 1822 – December 9, 1908) was an American chemist. He is known for performing the first electrogravimetric an...

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Richard Archbold (April 9, 1907 – August 1, 1976) was an American zoologist, explorer, and philanthropist. He was independently wealthy, being the grandson of the capitalist John Dustin Archbold. He ...

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William Seward Webb Memorial Photos Flowers Edit Birth: Jan. 31, 1851 New York New York County New York, USA Death: Oct. 29, 1926 Shelburne Chittenden County Vermont, USA Businessman, Philanthropis...

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Henry Walter Webb (1856–1900) was a journalist and United States Ambassador to Brazil. Webb was a railway executive for the New York Central Railroad under Cornelius Vanderbilt and Chauncey Depew. ...

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Met Edward Cooper at Columbia College. They became friends and traveled together before going into business together. HE met and married Edward Cooper's sister. Hewitt was elected to Congress in 1874...

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Henry Sleeper Harper was a passenger on the RMS Titanic when it sank on April 15, 1912. Mr Henry Sleeper Harper was born in New York City on 11 March 1864, the son of Joseph Wesley Harper and Abigail P...

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Amos Richards Eno Pinchot (December 6, 1873 – February 18, 1944) was an American reformist. He never held public office but managed to exert considerable influence in reformist circles and did much t...

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John Brooks Leavitt (1849–1930) was a New York City attorney, author and reformer. As member of the "Good Government" movement, Leavitt crusaded against Tammany Hall municipal corruption, demanding i...

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Lucien Carr (March 1, 1925 – January 28, 2005) was a key member of the original New York City circle of the Beat Generation in the 1940s; later he worked for many years as an editor for United Press ...

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Laurence Adolph Steinhardt (October 6, 1892 – March 28, 1950) was a United States diplomat. He served as the U.S. Minister to Sweden and U.S. Ambassador to Peru, the USSR, Turkey, Czechoslovakia, and...

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) John Jay (23 June 1817 – 5 May 1894) was an American lawyer and diplomat, son of William Jay and a grandson of Chief Justice John Jay. Biography He was born in New York City, graduated at C...

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John Clarkson Jay (11 September 1808 New York City – 15 November 1891 Rye, New York) was a United States physician and conchologist. Life and career He was the son of Peter A. Jay and grandso...

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Peter Augustus Jay (January 24, 1776 - February 22, 1843) was the eldest son of New York's only native Founding Father, John Jay. Peter was one of 6 children born to John Jay and Sarah Livingston Jay...

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Thomas Edmund Dewey (March 24, 1902 – March 16, 1971) was the 47th Governor of New York (1943–1954). In 1944 and 1948, he was the Republican candidate for President, but lost both times. He led the...

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Dorothy Fosdick (born April 17, 1913- died February 5, 1997) was an American foreign affairs expert. Early life and education She was the daughter of Harry Emerson Fosdick, who was the first ...

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William Fielding Ogburn (June 29, 1886 – April 27, 1959) was an American sociologist who was born in Butler, Georgia and died in Tallahassee, Florida. He was also a statistician and an educator. Ogbu...

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Edward Livingston Trudeau, M.D., M.S., D. Hon., (1848–1915) was an American physician who established the Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium at Saranac Lake for treatment of tuberculosis. Biography Tr...

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) Dr. John Scudder (1900-December 1976) was a medical doctor and blood transfusion specialist who developed the Plasma for Britain program during the early years of World War II. He recruited Dr. Cha...

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Jesse Root Grant (February 6, 1858–June 8, 1934), the youngest son of President of the United States Ulysses S. Grant and Julia Grant, was a miner and entrepreneur. Born near St. Louis, Missouri, h...

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Hermann Joseph Muller (or H. J. Muller) (December 21, 1890 – April 5, 1967) was an American geneticist, educator, and Nobel laureate best known for his work on the physiological and genetic effects of ...

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James Lukens McConaughy (October 21, 1887 - March 7, 1948) was an American politician and the 76th Governor of Connecticut. Birth and education McConaughy was born in New York on October 21, ...

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Cornelius Van Schaack Roosevelt (January 30, 1794 – July 17, 1871) was an American businessman from New York City and a member of the Roosevelt family. Roosevelt was born in New York City, the so...

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jotham Post, Jr. (April 4, 1771 – May 15, 1817) was a U.S. Representative from the state of New York, USA. Born near Westbury, New York, Post was graduated from Co...

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Nicholas Fish (1758–1833) was an American Revolutionary soldier, born in New York City. He attended Princeton but left before graduating to pursue the study of law at King's College (now Columbia U...

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Nicholas Fish (1846–1902) was the grandson of American Revolutionary War soldier Nicholas Fish and son of the Secretary of State Hamilton Fish. He was born in New York City and educated at Columbia and...

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Stuyvesant Fish (June 24, 1851 - April 10, 1923) was president of the Illinois Central Railroad. Fish was born in New York City, the son of Hamilton Fish and his wife Julia Ursin Niemcewicz, née Ke...

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Alvin Elliot Roth (born December 19, 1951) is an American economist who is currently a visiting professor at Stanford University as well as George Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administrat...

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Nicholas Murray Butler (April 2, 1862 – December 7, 1947) was an American philosopher, diplomat, and educator. Butler was president of Columbia University, president of the Carnegie Endowment for Int...

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American economist, statistician, and economic advisor to President Ronald Reagan. Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient and Nobel laureate.

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Eugene Schuyler (Ithaca, New York, February 26, 1840 – Venice, Italy, July 16, 1890) was a nineteenth-century American scholar, writer, explorer and diplomat. Schuyler was of the first three American...

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James Watson Gerard (August 25, 1867 - September 6, 1951) was a U.S. lawyer and diplomat. Biography Gerard was born in Geneseo, N. Y. He graduated from Columbia in 1890 and from New York Law ...

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Millicent Hammond Fenwick (February 25, 1910 – September 16, 1992) was an American fashion editor, politician and diplomat. A four-term Republican member of the United States House of Representatives...

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Richard Charles Rodgers (June 28, 1902 – December 31, 1979) was an American composer of music for more than 900 songs and for 43 Broadway musicals. He also composed music for films and television. He...

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An shy, slender actor whose name became virtually synonymous with legendary screen Psycho Norman Bates despite numerous solid performances in films outside the Hitchcock originated series, Anthony Perk...

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Canadian-born New Zealand actress Anna Paquin's first critically successful film was The Piano, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1994 at the age of 11 – the second you...

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Perhaps the most influential lyricist and librettist of the American theater, Oscar Hammerstein II reversed the process of musical writing, writing the lyrics first and then the score. Major musicals f...

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Margaret Ruth "Maggie" Gyllenhaal is an American stage and screen actress. She made her screen debut when she began to appear in her father's films. Gyllenhaal later achieved recognition in a supportin...

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Jacob Benjamin "Jake" Gyllenhaal is the offspring of producer/writer Naomi Foner and director Stephen Gyllenhaal so it's not surprising that he's been acting since the age of ten. Gyllenhaal has appear...

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Born in New York City in 1899, James Cagney was an American actor best known for playing "tough guys," notably as a gangster in the 1931 film, The Public Enemy. He also starred in Angels with Dirty Fac...

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) David Brown (July 28, 1916 – February 1, 2010) was an American film and theatre producer; he was also a writer. Early life and education He was born in New York City, New York, the son of L...

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Sorrell Booke (January 4, 1930 – February 11, 1994) was an American actor who performed on stage, screen, and television. He is best known for his role as the corpulent, corrupt politician "Boss" Hogg ...

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Director Kathryn Bigelow's small but impressive body of work has consistently dealt with issues of violence and tension. With The Hurt Locker , Bigelow became the first woman to win the Academy Award f...

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Casey Affleck is an American actor. He has acted in films such as Good Will Hunting, Ocean's Eleven, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, and Gone Baby Gone. He has been nomina...

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Nathaniel Weyl (July 20, 1910 – April 13, 2005) was an American economist and author who wrote on a variety of social issues. A member of the Communist Party of the United States from 1933 until 1939...

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William Walter Remington (October 25, 1917 – November 24, 1954) was an economist employed in various federal government positions until his career was interrupted by accusations of espionage made by ...

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Juliet Stuart Poyntz (1886–1937) was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), and a founding member of the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA). After resigning from ac...

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Elizabeth Terrill Bentley (January 1, 1908 – December 3, 1963) was an American spy for the Soviet Union from 1938 until 1945. In 1945 she defected from the Communist Party and Soviet intelligence a...

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General John William Vogt, Jr. (March 18, 1920 – April 16, 2010) was commander, Allied Air Forces Central Europe, and commander in chief, U.S. Air Forces in Europe at Ramstein Air Base, Germany. ...

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General William Sebastian Stone (January 6, 1910 – December 2, 1968) was an American United States Air Force Major General and the third Superintendent of the United States Air Force Academy. His fin...

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Brent Scowcroft, KBE (born March 19, 1925) was the United States National Security Advisor under Presidents Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush and a Lieutenant General in the United States Air Force. ...

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Rutgers University in New Jersey is named for Hendrick (Henry) Rutgers. Henry Rutgers (October 7, 1745 – February 17, 1830) was a United States Revolutionary War hero and philanthropist from New Yo...

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Mina Spiegel Rees (2 August 1902 - 25 October 1997) was an American mathematician. She was the first female President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1971) and head of t...

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Robert Abbe (April 13, 1851 – March 7, 1928) was an American surgeon and pioneer radiologist in New York City. He was born in New York City and educated at the College of the City of New York (S.B., ...

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Brigadier General Frederick Fuller Russell (1870, Auburn, New York, USA – December 29, 1960) was a U.S. Army physician who developed a typhoid vaccine in 1909. In 1911, a typhoid vaccination program ...

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Rudolph Douglas Raiford was a decorated World War II combat officer who trained and commanded the United States Infantry Buffalo Division in Italy. Raiford served for five years in the European Theat...

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