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Apollo 11 set up the Moon's first seismometer in 1969; its recorded moonquakes gave scientists the first detailed map of the lunar interior

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Meet Angus Johnstone, the Australian teacher who kept a kite in the air for more than 26 hours to raise money for Myanmar

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World - / Aug 21, 2026 - 'Baby Shark' boy returns to stage, this time as a K-pop singer - Park Geonroung, the child star of Pinkfong's "Baby Shark Dance", has made his K-pop debut a decade after appearing in the viral video. The 2016 video, in which Park appeared at the age of 7, has more than 17.2 billion views and remains the

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World - / Aug 21, 2026 - Iowa family moves a $12,000 farmhouse four miles on wheels for dream home - An adventurous Iowa family took on the challenge of rescuing an abandoned farmhouse they believed held untold stories. By moving the century-old building four miles to their land, they endeavored to preserve history while crafting their dream home. Faced with surprising renovations and repair costs, they shared their transformative journey online, earning a global audience and ultimately building a unique family haven that mingled modern life with historical charm.

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Alaska: Cessna 441 Carrying Eight Crashes Near Remote Radar Site, Rescue Operation Launched

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Ram Kapoor's approximately Rs 20 crore Mumbai home: A coffin-shaped bar, private theatre room and stunning art collection

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Hawaii fenced the summit of Haleakalā against goats and pigs; native plants recovered inside while grazing continued outside

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16-year-old ran onto a Tennessee middle-school football field during a scuffle and tackled a player; school district banned her from its properties for life

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In 1966, American folk singer Pete Seeger set out to "build a boat to save the Hudson"; his floating classroom has since reached more than 500,000 people

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In 1982, a California cheese maker donated thousands of acres from his dairy ranch; 44 years later crews removed his old cattle levees and reconnected the San Joaquin River to 220 acres of floodplain

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In 2014, New York completed the Javits Center's bird-safe renovation and green roof; bird collisions fell by more than 90%, while 65 species later used the roof

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Around 1830, America imported Japanese wisteria for its hanging purple flowers; the vigorous vines can now smother trees and compete with native vegetation

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Detroit school students can earn $100 every week just by attending all their classes as district schools bring back cash rewards for perfect attendance

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In 2016, the Burt's Bees co-founder gave the US 87,500 acres and backed it with $40 million; 10 years later the Maine wilderness is a national monument

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Why the US is deporting migrants to Liberia instead of their home countries

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8 on board killed as twin-engine Cessna charter plane crashes in remote Alaska

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In 1968, one man left modern life behind, built a remote Alaska cabin himself and spent nearly 30 years living in the wilderness

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In 1990, Utah used the world's largest rotenone treatment on Strawberry Reservoir; over 99% of fish biomass vanished and the rebuilt fishery later produced 715,000 catches a year

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Ex-Pakistan PM Imran Khan returns to Adiala Jail after medical examination at Islamabad hospital

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Red-faced Pakistan summons top diplomat over US envoy Gor's J&K remark in Srinagar

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Pakistan govt to challenge SC order to move jailed ex-PM Imran Khan to hospital

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Imran Khan's sister meets him after 9 months as Pakistan SC orders hospital transfer for jailed ex-PM

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Pakistani minister in Balochistan province escapes armed attack on convoy

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Why US is questioning Pakistan's Rs 3 trillion defence spending

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'Discontent answered with bullets': MEA slams Pakistan over PoK crackdown

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After weeks of violent protests, PoK votes in final election phase amid PTI, JAAC boycott calls

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LeT man dies in Pakistan after meal, speculation of poisoning

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BNP leader Mirza Fakhrul Alamgir wins Bangladesh presidential election with 255 votes

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Sheikh Hasina says she will return to Bangladesh in December. What awaits her back home

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Nepal Speaker orders PM Balen to face House on Aug 26; attended just 5 of 39 sittings

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Nepal: Break Agniveer hiring deadlock, Gorkha veterans press Balen government

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Break Agnipath deadlock, Gorkha veterans press Balen govt as Indian Army chief visits Pokhara

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Blast near Kabul school injures around 50 children; UN condemns 'heinous' act

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Dhaka terms UN's report on al-Qaida presence in B'desh 'assumption-driven'

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Bangladesh sets tough riders for PM Tarique Rahman's visit to India

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Bangladesh PM's proposed India visit conditional on Hasina extradition, officials say

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'Both sides interested': Bangladesh PM Tarique Rahman's first India visit likely in August 20-25 window

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Liverpool weather forecast: Sunny intervals and 19°C high on August 21, 2026

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Birmingham weather forecast: Sunny intervals and mild temperatures expected August 21, 2026

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Leeds weather forecast: Sunny intervals and mild temperatures today, August 21, 2026

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Manchester weather forecast: Sunny intervals and mild temperatures today, August 21, 2026

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London weather forecast: Sunny intervals and mild temperatures expected August 21, 2026

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New UK govt booklet tells asylum-seekers rape and child sex abuse are illegal

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Manchester synagogue terror attack: Iraqi national charged over failure to disclose information

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Major UK hotel chain CEO Joanna Boydell resigns amid security failings, sexual assault cases

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In 1624, a family bought an English estate that still contains ancient oak trees from a royal hunting forest; 402 years later some are still standing

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Nathan Cofnas, who exposed Cambridge professor Jason Arday's plagiarism, suspended by Ghent University

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Harvard to pay $53 million after human remains donated to its medical school were stolen and sold on the black market

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Quote of the day by Queen Victoria: "Since it has pleased Providence to place me in this station, I shall do my utmost to..."

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Jason Arday Death: Nathan Cofnas, who exposed Cambridge scholar's plagiarism, under-fire at his university

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Reform UK councillor resigns, then withdraws after sending letter to wrong council

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In 1936, Beryl Markham took off from England alone hoping to reach New York; 20 hours later ice starved her engine and she crash-landed in Canada after becoming the first woman to fly the Atlantic solo east-to-west

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In 1927, a woman bought an English island for £125,000 to create a refuge for animals; she lived reclusively there for 34 years

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China among 'main actors' involved in transnational repression: Germany

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'Sava's Titanic,' the century-old sunken shipwreck emerges as Europe's rivers fall to record lows

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Car salesman becomes Belgian prince after DNA test confirms royal paternity

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In 2017, Germany's Freiburg opened a city hall with solar-powered walls designed to produce more energy than the building needs

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Russia unleashes ballistic, cruise, hypersonic missiles and drones on Ukraine; Kyiv main target

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Overnight Russian missile strikes leave 6 dead, 33 wounded across Kyiv

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European wild boars escaped a North Carolina hunting ranch in 1912; a century later the Smokies still removes hundreds each year to limit their damage

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Queen Camilla says she nearly revealed King Charles III's cancer diagnosis days before palace announcement

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A 2,500-year-old sacred well in Italy hid bronze offerings and two human skeletons from an ancient Etruscan ritual

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An unstable rock formation threatens the existence of an entire Swiss village of 1,300 residents as thawing glaciers destabilise the Alps

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British couple on honeymoon die in helicopter crash on Greek island; pilot also killed

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Russia warns UK over Ukraine drone supplies, says Britain will face 'consequences'

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Women were excluded from Liechtenstein's throne for more than 400 years; a new royal rule now gives the firstborn child, regardless of gender, the right to inherit, and know who'll now own the throne

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Belgian student in construction job uncovers €9m gold treasure while digging sewer trench

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An 18-year-old construction worker in Belgium uncovered a €9 million gold hoard hidden inside a former brewery cellar

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China's 16.18-km undersea high-speed rail tunnel completes 21-day cutter replacement under extreme pressure

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In China's Nizhuhe village, a 945-foot cliffside elevator has cut a dangerous 3-hour school journey to about 30 minutes

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China puts AI 'robocops' on traffic duty; one 'Superman' robot claims to be faster than Usain Bolt

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China sentences Evergrande founder Hui Ka Yan to life in prison for financial crimes

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10 dead as torrential rain lashes southwest China; over 21,000 evacuated

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Cash, gold bars by drone: China's PLA stages 'wartime' Taiwan drill

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Archaeologists find earliest physical evidence of brass-making in East Asia in southern China

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Meet Ni Jingchen: The 12-year-old Beijing student who posted a strange fossil online and helped reveal Asia's first Jurassic amphibian footprint

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From hospitals to schools: China expands scrutiny of religious beliefs in Chengdu

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China launches 24th batch of low-orbit internet satellites from Hainan site

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55,000 years ago, Neanderthals may have trekked deep into Saudi Arabia when Nefud Desert was covered by lakes and grasslands

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Iran rejects Trump's Hormuz 'total control' claim, says strait will reopen only on Tehran's terms

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Separated by Hamas in Oct 7 attack, Israeli couple reunites to marry 10 months after engagement

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US's secret Hormuz corridor: How America kept ships and oil moving despite Iran's closure

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India ramps up aid to Palestine, signs MoU for 200-bed super-speciality hospital

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Indian caregiver fatally stabbed in Israel, elderly couple's grandson indicted

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10:50 - 'Message to Europe - it can receive missiles': Iran warns of wider war if Trump attacks, says report

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'Don't let them win': Netanyahu's party puts Zohran Mamdani alongside Iran, Hezbollah leaders on billboard

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'All trade, commercial exchanges halted': How UAE responded to Iran's latest ballistic missile attack

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'Ready to deal with any threats': UAE vows response after Iran fires two missiles

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'Took full advantage of ceasefire': Iran prepares for wider war with US, expands military plans

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Trump threatens to bomb Oman, tells Iran to surrender

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Iran drones target Kurdish leaders after Trump used them as backchannel to IRGC; US condemns attack

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In 2019, Bahrain sank a 70-metre Boeing 747 in 20–22 metres of water; the jumbo jet became the centrepiece of a 100,000-square-metre underwater park

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North Korea fires 10 missiles amid US scaling back military drills with the South

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Two Belgian climbers vanished in the Alps in 1992; melting ice has finally revealed their remains 34 years later

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A strange wooden log found beneath Zambia's Kalambo Falls was dismissed for decades, then archaeologists dated it to 476,000 years ago

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Express train kills 4 workers carrying out weed-control work on tracks in Japan

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For generations, Indonesia's Huaulu community hunted endangered cockatoos for a sacred ritual; now they use naturally shed feathers

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Japan installed a 1.1 MW turbine beneath the Naru Strait, using predictable tidal currents to generate clean electricity for the Goto Islands

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6.6-magnitude earthquake strikes central Peru

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In 2016, Turkey sank a retired Airbus A300 into the Aegean Sea to create an artificial reef for marine life

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At 36,000 feet, a plane carrying 153 passengers drifted off course after an unexpected 28-minute lapse by both the pilots

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Find out who your MP is: Canada's Portage College asks protesting Indian students to approach politicians for work permit woes

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In 1911, Norwegian whalers released 10 reindeer on South Georgia for food and hunting; a century later nearly 7,000 were removed after the herds damaged native vegetation

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Virgin Australia removed a wheelchair user because his mobility device would not fit under his seat; airline later admitted the device had been incorrectly assessed

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A Costa Rican mother saved for 9 years to buy land, then built her home with 7 tonnes of recycled plastic

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68-year-old Sheila Consaul bought Ohio's abandoned Fairport Harbor West Lighthouse for $71,010 in 2011, then spent 15 years and over $300,000 restoring it as an off-grid home

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In 2020, a Brazilian mother and daughter began collecting discarded bottles; years later, more than 8,000 glass bottles had become the walls of their seven-bedroom home that glows during sunrise

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In 1964, a 27-year-old woman bought an abandoned 18 acre island off Maine and built a small house to live there alone; 22 years later the island was donated to become a wildlife sanctuary

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Ex-Pak PM Imran Khan moved to private hospital from prison after SC order

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MacKenzie Scott got $1,000 from her roommate to stay in college. Years later, she donated $26 billion to charity

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Florida police officer arrested after using Flock surveillance cameras 717 times to track estranged wife

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Texas man who made his fortune selling vacuums, bought 5,500 acres in 1969 and spent 40 years restoring its grasslands, water and wildlife

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6 Indians on board hijacked cargo ship carrying Turkish weapons off Somalia's coast

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A Mexican couple bought a failed coconut farm 30 years ago; the 346-acre wasteland is now a wildlife haven for turtles, dolphins and flamingos

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In 1986, a rancher saw hundreds of wild horses crammed into a government feedlot: Two years later, he created an 11,000-acre refuge

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In 1966, a 71-year-old woman donated nearly 100 acres of her Virginia farm and money for an amphitheatre; the land became America's only national park dedicated to the performing arts

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What happened to Sonia Bellina? 29-year-old TikTok's burned body found in French vineyard as two men are arrested

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Who is Meliza Campos-Sanchez? Influencer arrested after disturbing videos allegedly show kitchen fire and hot wax incident involving children

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Candace Owens calls out Erika Kirk and TPUSA over Tyler Robinson case as accusations of "gaslighting" erupt

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'Lindsay Clancy is obviously not guilty': Candace Owens blames 'Big Pharma' for postpartum psychosis as trial nears end

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First time in 100 years, North American river otter spotted in the Bronx River: 'I could hardly believe what I was seeing'

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Ironmouse Fortnite crossover: Is Epic Games teasing a 'skin' after adding her new Sprite?

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AddyOD faces mounting backlash after 'racist slurs' in Kick livestream, insists offensive language isn't inciting violence

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