Stanley K. Schultz, Professor of History
William P. Tishler, Producer
Shane Hamilton, Web Editor
Complete Information on Sites, Part Two
Complete Information on Sites, Part Two
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Base Site: ECON 3LL3: History of Economic Thought, McMaster University
Contact: Contact: Rod Hay
Email: rhay@odyssey.on.ca
Includes an archive of authors' works on economic thought. Those represented include Thorstein Veblen, Frederick W. Taylor, John Maynard Keynes, Karl Marx, and hundreds of others less well-known outside the field. Excellent resources!
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Base Site: New Deal Cultural Programs: Experiments in Cultural Democracy
Contact: Contact: Don Adams and Arlene Goldbard
Email: icd@wwcd.org
Essay adapted from a previously unpublished manuscript entitled "Cultural Democracy," written by Don Adams and Arlene Goldbard in 1986. Provides an excellent introduction to the cultural programs of the New Deal.
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Base Site: Fireside Chats of Franklin D. Roosevelt
Contact: None
Full text transcriptions of FDR's radio addresses from 1933 to 1944. Topics range from the Bank Crisis to the outlines of the New Deal to reorganizing the judiciary to World War II.
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Base Site: Building America: Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal
Contact: None
Created by 10th and 11th grade students in Marist College's "Summer Scholars" program, this site has images, essays, and links relating to the Great Depression.
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Base Site: The Ohio Dry Campaign of 1918
Contact: Contact: Professor K. Austin Kerr
Email: kerr.6@osu.edu
An excellent site on Prohibition by Professor K. Austin Kerr of Ohio State University. Images, essays, primary documents, and links galore!
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Base Site: Temperance and Prohibition
Contact: Contact: Professor K. Austin Kerr
Email: kerr.6@osu.edu
An excellent site on Prohibition by Professor K. Austin Kerr of Ohio State University. Images, essays, primary documents, and links galore!
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Base Site: Politics of Sex, 1923
Contact: Contact:
Email: en2k@virginia.edu
A project of an unnamed University of Virginia student, this site covers the life of blues singer Bessie Smith. Besides biographical information on Bessie Smith, the site has a collection of essays on sexism and the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s.
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Base Site: NURELWeb: Sources for the Study of Cults, Sects, and New Religions
Contact: Contact: Irving Hexham
Email: hexham@acs.ucalgary.ca
Text of "What Is Fundamentalism?" is abstracted from J.I. Packer's book FUNDAMENTALISM AND THE WORD OF GOD, London, Inter-Varsity Press, 1958.
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Base Site: Plant's Review of Books
Contact: Contact: Darrel A. Plant
Email: dplant@moshplant.com
Plant's Review of Books maintains a WWW archive of--you guessed it--reviews of books. The most popular review, according to the editors, is of T. Harry Williams' HUEY LONG, published in 1969. Conveniently enough, Huey Long's name sometimes appears on History 102 exams...
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Base Site: The H.L. Mencken Page
Contact: Contact: Gibbons Burke
Email: gibbonsb@io.com
Maintained by a marketing director for Dow Jones Markets, the H.L. Mencken Page offers quotes, essays, and links to other sites relating to the master of wit and semantics.
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Base Site: The English Server at CMU
Contact: Contact: Geoffrey Sauer
Email: webmaster@eserver.org
The English Server at CMU (Carnegie Mellon University) has so much information on every subject ranging from art to feminism to cultural logic that if you haven't visited it yet, you really should.
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Base Site: Rage Against the Machine
Contact: Contact: Krishna Nayak
Email: nayak@stanford.edu
"Bombtrack," from the hard-rock/rap group Rage Against the Machine, examines the emotions aroused by patriarchal ideas of Manifest Destiny. As Zack De La Roche, the lead singer/lyricist puts it, "Landlords and power whores / On my people they took turns".
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Base Site: Anti-Imperialism in the United States, 1898-1935
Contact: Contact: Jim Zwick
Email: http://www.boondocksnet.com/
Excerpt from Jim Zwick's introduction to the page: "Mark Twain was the most prominent literary opponent of the Philippine-American War of 1899-1902, and he served as avice president of the Anti-Imperialist League from 1901 until his death in 1910. ... The materials assembled here provide samples of his scathing satirical writings on the war and their contemporary reception within the national debate about imperialism, and document his ten-year involvement with the Anti-Imperialist League."
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Base Site: Project Gutenberg
Public domain materials, including biographies, fiction, historical documents and essays, nonfiction, poetry, reference works, and religious works. An excellent resource.
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Base Site: Anti-Imperialism in the United States, 1898-1935
Contact: Contact: Jim Zwick
Email: None
Excerpt from Jim Zwick's introduction to the page: "Mark Twain was the most prominent literary opponent of the Philippine-American War of 1899-1902, and he served as a vice president of the Anti-Imperialist League from 1901 until his death in 1910. ... The materials assembled here provide samples of his scathing satirical writings on the war and their contemporary reception within the national debate about imperialism, and document his ten-year involvement with the Anti-Imperialist League."
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Base Site: Anti-Imperialism in the United States, 1898-1935
Contact: Contact: Jim Zwick
If not the best, one of the best college-level academic sites on the WWW. Presents essays, speeches, other writings, images, and links in an artful and logical manner. Full of primary sources!
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Base Site: Historical Documents Library of the Secular Web
Contact: Contact:
Email: infidel@infidels.org
"Secular Web" is a site maintained by a group known as the "Infidels" which, in their own words, "provide[s] a virtual library of information on nontheistic worldviews, including agnosticism, atheism, freethought, humanism, and secularism." Very interesting and well-designed site with nicely-indexed primary documents.
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Base Site: Inside an American Factory: The Westinghouse Works, 1904
Contact: Contact:
Email: ndlpcoll@loc.gov
Another excellent site from the Library of Congress. Documents, through photos and essays, the "progressive" attitudes about working conditions at a turn-of-the-century factory.
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Base Site: History of the Suffrage Movement
Contact: Contact:
Email: jkof@uhura.cc.rochester.edu
Maintained by the Susan B. Anthony University Center, this site contains links to other sites dedicated to the history of suffrage, a timeline of women's suffrage, as well as materials relating to the Seneca Falls Convention and the "Declaration of Sentiments."
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Base Site: Virtual Antebellum Richmond
Contact: Contact: Scott Nelson
Email: srnels@facstaff.wm.edu
An examination of the "Cult of True Womanhood," by a student in Professor Scott Nelson's History 150W-3, Antebellum Richmond" course taught at the College of William and Mary.
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Base Site: League of Women Voters of the Ann Arbor Area
Contact: Contact: Keith Stanger
Email: keith@stanger.com
A brief history of the League of Women Voters.
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Base Site: WPA American Life Histories, 1936-1940
Contact: Contact:
Email: ndlpcoll@loc.gov
Another excellent site from the American Memory project, this one contains oral histories from the Federal Writer's Project of the 1930s. Primary sources and images, as well as secondary essays and introductory materials.
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Base Site: The Main Causes of the Great Depression
Contact: Contact: Paul Alexander Gusmorino 3rd
Email: paulg53@escape.com
Written by a high school student, this essay on the causes of the Great Depression nonetheless has some very pertinent information and is well-written.
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Base Site: David Gerstein's Charlie Chaplin Home Page
Contact: Contact: David Gerstein
Email: gerstein@math.ucsb.edu
An excellent site on the master of the silent comedy film, includes essays, source materials, and images.
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Base Site: Discovery Online
Contact: Contact: H. J. Fortunato
Email: none
H. J. Fortunato's column, written for Discovery Online, claims that Hoover was "more a victim of bad timing than incompetence."
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Base Site: "The Yellow Wall-Paper" Site
Contact: Contact: Daniel Anderson
Email: anderson316@barthelme.fac.utexas.edu
Constructed by students in an American Literature survey course taught at the University of Texas-Austin, this site offers full-text versions of "The Yellow Wall-Paper" and Gilman's "Why I Wrote the Yellow Wall-Paper" on-line, as well as links, a discussion forum, student essays, and other useful information.
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Base Site: FDR Cartoons
Contact: Contact: Paul Bachorz
Email: PaulKB2T@aol.com.
A searchable site with thousands of FDR political cartoons. Topics include: Waiting For the New Deal, Foreign Relations, The First One-Hundred Days, Farm Issues, Alphabet Soup, Supreme Court Reform 1937, The War Years 1942, The War Years 1943, The Road To Pennsylvania Avenue.
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Base Site: HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES, by Jacob Riis
Contact: Contact: David Phillips
Email: davidp@minerva.cis.yale.edu
Perhaps the finest example of a primary document published online; excellent use of graphics, reliable citation of sources and faithful reproduction of the text, and a user-friendly layout. A must-see!
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Base Site: Anti-Imperialism in the United States, 1898-1935
Contact: Contact: Jim Zwick
Email: None
Jim Zwick's introduction to the essay: "John Dewey (1859-1952), whose writings on philosophy and education are still widely studied, was a vice president of the Anti-Imperialist League from 1910-1920. When he wrote this article in 1927 he was a contributing editor to The New Republic and honorary chair of the Committee on Cultural Relations with Latin America."
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Base Site: English 88, Modern & Contemporary American Poetry
Contact: Contact: Al Filreis
Email: afilreis@english.upenn.edu
Al Filreis, professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, has assembled several nice web sites, including one dealing with the American 1950s. He includes many primary sources in his work, and is obviously one of the more computer literate professors at U. Penn.
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Base Site: Hull House Gallery
Contact: Contact: Scott Wellman
Email: swrk@unix.csbsju.edu
Images from the University of Illinois at Chicago's collection include a typing class, a women's cooking class, the library, gypsy girls, the staff, and a few more.
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Base Site: Background Briefing
Contact: Contact: Neil Weiner
Email: nweiner@mcs.com
Neil Weiner, the author of "The Bull Moose Election," is a graduate of Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. The article, like the rest of the articles contained in his "Background Briefing" site, provides a brief overview and introduction to the topic at hand. Very useful site.
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Base Site: Keeping The Faith: The Career of William Jennings Bryan
Contact: Contact: Eric L. Miller
Email: dreric@mindspring.com
A relatively brief essay on William Jennings Bryan's life and role in various political causes ranging from Populism to woman's suffrage to temperance to the fight against evolutionism.
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Base Site: H-SHGAPE Home Page
Contact: Contact: Patrick D. Reagan
Email: pdr6239@tntech.edu
H-SHGAPE, a member of the H-NET Humanities OnLine initiative, encourages scholarly discussion of the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era. Features include a discussion list, book announcement policy, reviews of books and software, announcements of academic conferences and calls for papers, and links to other Internet sites of interest.
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Base Site: Al Filreis's Home Page
Contact: Contact: Al Filreis
Email: afilreis@english.upenn.edu
Al Filreis, professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, has assembled several nice web sites, including one dealing with the American 1950s. He includes many primary sources in his work, and is obviously one of the more computer literate professors at U. Penn.
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Base Site: History of Money from Ancient Times to the Present Day by Glyn Davies
Contact: Contact: Roy Davies
Email: Roy.Davies@exeter.ac.uk
Based on the book: A HISTORY OF MONEY FROM ANCIENT TIMES TO THE PRESENT DAY, by Glyn Davies, rev. ed. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1996. Site includes the chronology of money and a collection of essays on the theme of historical monetary issues.
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Base Site: Photocollect: Virtual Photography Gallery
Contact: Contact:
Email: Photocol@interport.net
"Photocollect" is a company offering various photographs for sale. Not too educational, but their biography of Lewis Hine, the anti-child labor crusading photographer of the early 20th century, is probably the best available on the WWW.
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Base Site: Rearview Mirror, from the DETROIT NEWS
Contact: Contact:
Email: rayj@detnews.com
The DETROIT NEWS offers photographs and stories from their archives, including photo essays on Father Charles Coughlin and his speeches at auto plants and hundreds of other brief essays.
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Base Site: The Grange Connection
Contact: Contact: John Ebert
Email: John_Ebert@comptools.com
Established by the National Grange, this website features a brief history of the organization as well as links to state organizations.
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Base Site: Flapper Culture and Style: Louise Brooks and the Jazz Age
Contact: Contact: THOMAS GLADYSZ
Email: louisebrookssociety@pandorasbox.com
Constructed by Thomas Gladysz, the infatuated founder of the Louise Brooks Society, this site contains a great deal of archival photographs and other documents relating to the "flapper" phenomenon of the 1920s. Includes vintage articles and interviews, a chronology, picture gallery, rare memorabilia, trivia, and of course, links to related pages.
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Base Site: Inherit the Wind
Contact: Contact: Lyndsey McCabe
Email: none
Lyndsey McCabe of the American Studies Program at the University of Virginia edited this site dedicated to INHERITING THE WIND, the 1955 play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee dealing with the issues presented at the Scopes Trial.
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Base Site: Academic Resources by Topic at the University of Maryland
Contact: Contact:
Email: inform-editor@umail.umd.edu
The University of Maryland has put some excellent material on the WWW, including "Biographies of Historical Women" and other women's resources, as well as documents relating to United States and world culture, politics, and history.
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Base Site: Office of Management and Budget
Contact: None
The Office of Management and Budget makes the shocking claim that the "federal budget was not always so big." They back it up with numbers, too!
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Base Site: Fireside Chats of Franklin D. Roosevelt
Contact: None
Email: Full text transcriptions of FDR's radio addresses from 1933 to 1944. Topics range from the Bank Cris
Full text transcriptions of FDR's radio addresses from 1933 to 1944. Topics range from the Bank Crisis to the outlines of the New Deal to reorganizing the judiciary to World War II.
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Base Site: Cocktail
Contact: Contact:
Email: cocktail@hotwired.com
"A Celebration of the Cocktail Culture," from HotWired.com, claims to be a "modern-day speakeasy. Join us in an uninhibited celebration of potent potables - the cocktail culture. Straight up or on the rocks, Cocktail serves everyone: the highbrow, the lowbrow, and even the browbeaten." Includes a surprising amount of useful and interesting historical information on drinking and alcohol.
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Base Site: Quality Resources Online
Contact: Contact: Bill Casti
Email: help@quality.org
"Quality Resources Online" offers Information, groups, discussion lists and resources for those interested in "Quality." (Q: What is Quality? A: You've got me.) The only resource I found worthwhile was the undergraduate thesis posted by a Mr. Vincenzo Sandrone, an Australian engineer, who writes about Scientific Management and the attempt to maximize worker efficiency.
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Base Site: Eugenics Watch
Contact: None
Email: none
Eugenics is a highly emotional topic; this site is a vent for some incredibly vitriolic anti-eugenics viewpoints. Includes background information and current updates on the status of the American Eugenics Association, including a database of current and former members. Perhaps not terribly educational, but interesting nonetheless.
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Base Site: USA TODAY Politics
Contact: None
An article written during the 1996 presidential election, outlining the issue of returning to a gold standard.
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Base Site: History Text Archives at Mississippi State University
Contact: Contact: Don Mabry
Email: djm1@ra.msstate.edu
Provides primary sources , links to other sites, and electronic reprints of books and images and is organized by geography/nations and topics.
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Base Site: The Bruce Barton Homepage
Contact: Contact: Peter Chia,Sze-Siong
Email: pchia@mail.utexas.edu
Created by a student in Advertising 382: Theories of Advertising, taught at the University of Texas at Austin. Contains brief biography, bibliography, "notable clients and campaigns," links to BBDO sites, and selected works by Barton.
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Base Site: The Age of Imperialism
Contact: Contact: Small Planet Communications
Email: planet@smplanet.com
Recommended by the History Channel (if that tells you anything), this site is put together very well with some excellent graphics. Text on topics ranging from expansion in the Pacific to the "splendid little war" to the building of the Panama Canal is concise and compact. Good introduction to the topic of American globalism.
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Base Site: The Henry Ford Museum
Contact: Contact:
Email: webmaster@hfmgv.org
The Henry Ford Museum "seeks to demonstrate the process of change and innovation as a continuing value in American life by providing unique educational experiences based on authentic objects, stories, and lives from America's traditions of ingenuity, resourcefulness, and innovation." Their site includes online histories and essays dealing with such subjects, as well as many photographs and archival materials.
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Base Site: The Theodore Roosevelt Site
Contact: Contact: Jim Wiedman
Email: jwiedman@clark.net
Maintained by a first-year law student at Washington College of Law who aspires to be Teddy Roosevelt some day, this site contains biographies, quotes, stories, links, and images and sounds for fans of the big TR. Not the most beautiful page, nor is it terribly easy to navigate, but it houses some good information. NOTE - site is down - 2/9/2000
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Base Site: Puerto Rico Statehood Web Site "Puerto Rico 51"
Contact: Contact: Samuel Quir—s
Email: jibarito@puertorico51.org
Essays, reviews, and other material relating to Puerto Rico's drive to become the 51st state of the Union.
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Base Site: Yesterday USA
Contact: Contact: Bill Bragg
Email: bill@otr.uwsp.edu
"Old Time Radio Shows and Vintage Music" broadcasted via RealAudio technology. Check it out!
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Base Site: Al Capone
Contact: Contact:
Email: stevie@tincat.demon.co.uk
A short biography and some pictures of America's most famous gangster.
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Base Site: Inventure Place
Contact: Contact:
Email: index@invent.org
Inventure Place is a website created by a museum which labels itself as the "National Inventor's Hall of Fame." Contains short biographies of famous inventors, along with pictures and other interesting goodies.
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Base Site: Website Boileau
Contact: Lowell Boileau
Email: lbnewhome@bhere.com
Lowell Boileau, a graphic artist, painter, and website developer, has set aside some space on the Web for a virtual tour of the ruins of Detroit, a virtual tour of the Civil War from the eyes of a horse, and a virtual tour of Swaziland. What he does with his spare time is anybody's guess.
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Base Site: Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1830-1930
Contact: Contact: Thomas Dublin
Email: tdublin@binghamton.edu
This website is intended to introduce students to a rich collection of primary documents related to women and social movements in the United States between 1830 and 1930. It is organized around editorial projects completed by undergraduate and graduate students at the State University of New York at Binghamton. Each project poses a question and provides 15-20 documents that address the question.
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Base Site: History of Chicago from Trading Post to Metropolis
Contact: Contact: Arny Reichler
Email: mailto:areichle@acfsysv.roosevelt.edu
From Roosevelt University, a site dedicated to the history of Chicago, including several papers written by students in Roosevelt's history of Chicago course.
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Base Site: History Dept. of Univ. of San Diego
Contact: Steve Schoenherr
Email: ses@acusd.edu
Contains full text of Versailles Treaty as well as links to related documents, images, etc.
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Base Site: Famous American Trials, by Doug Linder
Contact: Doug Linder
Email: Linderd@umkc.edu
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