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Of Mice and Men

Index Of Mice and Men

Of Mice and Men is a novella written by author John Steinbeck. [1]

92 relations: Academy Awards, Actors' Equity Association, American Library Association, Animal euthanasia, Arriero, BBC, BBC Radio 4, Book of the Month Club, Broadway theatre, Broderick Crawford, Brooks Atkinson Theatre, Burgess Meredith, Burning Bright, California, Cannes, Carlisle Floyd, Censorship, Chris O'Dowd, Christopher Morley, David Susskind, David Tennant, Developmental disability, Don Gordon (actor), Donna Franceschild, Euthanasia, Fixation (psychology), Gary Sinise, General Certificate of Secondary Education, George S. Kaufman, George Segal, Great Depression, Internet Archive, Involuntary euthanasia, James Earl Jones, James Franco, Jim Norton (Irish actor), Joey Heatherton, John Malkovich, John Steinbeck, John Wiley & Sons, Kevin Conway (actor), Kirsty Williams (drama), Leigh Whipper, Leighton Meester, Lewis Milestone, Litter (animal), Lon Chaney Jr., Lynching, Migrant worker, Monte Sereno, California, ..., Moses Gunn, Mule, Music Box Theatre, Napoleon complex, New York Daily News, New York Drama Critics' Circle, Nicol Williamson, Novella, Of Mice and Men (1939 film), Of Mice and Men (1992 film), Of Mice and Men (opera), Okie, Palme d'Or, Pamela Blair, Pascal Covici, Penguin Group, Rabbit, Radio drama, Ranch, Randy Quaid, Rape, Reza Badiyi, Robert Blake (actor), Robert Burns, Sam H. Harris, Soledad, California, Soorya Manasam, Stable, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Television film, The Big Read, The Grapes of Wrath, The Moon Is Down, The New York Times, To a Mouse, Topoli (film), United States, Vaseline, Viji Thampi, Wallace Ford, Weed, California, Will Geer. Expand index (42 more) »

Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, are a set of 24 awards for artistic and technical merit in the American film industry, given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership.

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Actors' Equity Association

The Actors' Equity Association (AEA), commonly referred to as Actors' Equity or simply Equity, is an American labor union representing the world of live theatrical performance, as opposed to film and television performance (which is represented by SAG-AFTRA).

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American Library Association

The American Library Association (ALA) is a nonprofit organization based in the United States that promotes libraries and library education internationally.

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Animal euthanasia

Animal euthanasia (euthanasia from εὐθανασία; "good death") is the act of putting an animal to death or allowing it to die by withholding extreme medical measures.

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Arriero

A muleteer, or more informally a muleskinner (arriero; traginer) is a person who transports goods using pack animals, especially mules.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a radio station owned and operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history.

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Book of the Month Club

The Book of the Month Club (founded 1926) is a United States subscription-based e-commerce service that offers a selection of five new hardcover books each month to its members.

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Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre,Although theater is the generally preferred spelling in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many Broadway venues, performers and trade groups for live dramatic presentations use the spelling theatre.

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Broderick Crawford

William Broderick Crawford (December 9, 1911 – April 26, 1986) was an American stage, film, radio, and TV actor, often cast in tough-guy roles and best known for his portrayal of Willie Stark in All the King's Men and for his starring role as Chief Dan Mathews in the television series Highway Patrol (1955–1959).

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Brooks Atkinson Theatre

The Brooks Atkinson Theatre is a Broadway theater located at 256 West 47th Street in Manhattan.

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Burgess Meredith

Oliver Burgess Meredith (November 16, 1907 – September 9, 1997) was an American actor, director, producer, and writer.

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Burning Bright

Burning Bright is a 1950 novella by John Steinbeck written as an experiment with producing a play in novel format.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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Cannes

Cannes (Canas) is a city located on the French Riviera.

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Carlisle Floyd

Carlisle Floyd (born June 11, 1926) is an American opera composer.

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Censorship

Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information, on the basis that such material is considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or "inconvenient" as determined by government authorities.

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Chris O'Dowd

Christopher O'Dowd (born 9 October 1979) is an Irish actor, best known for his television roles such as Miles Daly in the Epix comedy series Get Shorty and Roy Trenneman in the Channel 4 comedy The IT Crowd.

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Christopher Morley

Christopher Morley (5 May 1890 – 28 March 1957) was an American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet.

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David Susskind

David Howard Susskind (December 19, 1920 – February 22, 1987) was an American producer of TV, movies, and stage plays and also a TV talk show host.

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David Tennant

David Tennant (born David John McDonald; 18 April 1971) is a Scottish actor and voice actor.

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Developmental disability

Developmental disability is a diverse group of chronic conditions that are due to mental or physical impairments that arise before adulthood.

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Don Gordon (actor)

Don Gordon (born Donald Walter Guadagno; November 13, 1926 – April 24, 2017) was an American film and television actor, who was sometimes billed as Donald Gordon.

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Donna Franceschild

Donna Franceschild is a British-based television writer and dramatist, originally from the US.

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Euthanasia

Euthanasia (from εὐθανασία; "good death": εὖ, eu; "well" or "good" – θάνατος, thanatos; "death") is the practice of intentionally ending a life to relieve pain and suffering.

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Fixation (psychology)

"Fixation" (Fixierung) is a concept (in human psychology) that was originated by Sigmund Freud (1905) to denote the persistence of anachronistic sexual traits.

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Gary Sinise

Gary Alan Sinise (born March 17, 1955) is an American actor, director and musician.

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General Certificate of Secondary Education

The General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) is an academic qualification, generally taken in a number of subjects by pupils in secondary education in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

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George S. Kaufman

George Simon Kaufman (November 16, 1889 – June 2, 1961) was an American playwright, theatre director and producer, humorist, and drama critic.

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George Segal

George Segal (born February 13, 1934) is an American actor and musician.

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Great Depression

The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States.

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Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is a San Francisco–based nonprofit digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge." It provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, software applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving images, and nearly three million public-domain books.

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Involuntary euthanasia

Involuntary euthanasia occurs when euthanasia is performed on a person who would be able to provide informed consent, but does not, either because they do not want to die, or because they were not asked.

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James Earl Jones

James Earl Jones (born January 17, 1931) is an American actor.

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James Franco

James Edward Franco (born April 19, 1978) is an American actor, filmmaker, and college instructor.

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Jim Norton (Irish actor)

Jim Norton (born 4 January 1938) is an Irish stage, film and television character actor, known for his work in the theatre, most notably in Conor McPherson's The Seafarer, and on television as Bishop Brennan in the sitcom Father Ted.

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Joey Heatherton

Davenie Johanna "Joey" Heatherton (born September 14, 1944) is an American actress, dancer, and singer.

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John Malkovich

John Gavin Malkovich (born December 9, 1953) is an American actor, director, producer and fashion designer.

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John Steinbeck

John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. --> (February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was an American author.

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John Wiley & Sons

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., also referred to as Wiley, is a global publishing company that specializes in academic publishing.

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Kevin Conway (actor)

Kevin John Conway (born May 29, 1942) is an American actor and film director.

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Kirsty Williams (drama)

Kirsty Williams is a radio drama director and producer for BBC Radio Drama at Pacific Quay, Glasgow.

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Leigh Whipper

Leigh Rollin Whipper (October 29, 1876 – July 26, 1975) was an American actor on the stage and in motion pictures.

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Leighton Meester

Leighton Marissa Meester (born April 9, 1986) is an American actress, singer, songwriter, and model.

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Lewis Milestone

Lewis Milestone (born Leib Milstein; September 30, 1895 – September 25, 1980) was a Russian-born American motion picture director.

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Litter (animal)

A litter is the live birth of multiple offspring at one time in animals from the same mother and usually from one set of parents, particularly from three to eight offspringThe word is most often used for the offspring of mammals, but can be used for any animal that gives birth to multiple young.

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Lon Chaney Jr.

Creighton Tull Chaney (February10, 1906 –July12, 1973), known by his stage name Lon Chaney Jr., was an American actor known for playing Larry Talbot in the 1941 film The Wolf Man and its various crossovers, Count Alucard (Dracula spelled backward), Frankenstein's monster in The Ghost of Frankenstein, the Mummy in three pictures, and various other roles in numerous horror films produced by Universal Studios.

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Lynching

Lynching is a premeditated extrajudicial killing by a group.

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Migrant worker

A "migrant worker" is a person who either migrates within their home country or outside it to pursue work such as seasonal work.

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Monte Sereno, California

Monte Sereno (from Spanish monte, hill, and sereno, serene) is a city in Santa Clara County, California, USA.

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Moses Gunn

Moses Gunn (October 2, 1929 – December 16, 1993) was an American actor of stage and screen.

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Mule

A mule is the offspring of a male donkey (jack) and a female horse (mare).

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Music Box Theatre

The Music Box Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 239 West 45th Street (George Abbott Way) in Midtown Manhattan, NY.

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Napoleon complex

"Napoleon complex" is a theorised complex occurring in people of short stature.

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New York Daily News

The New York Daily News, officially titled Daily News, is an American newspaper based in New York City.

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New York Drama Critics' Circle

The New York Drama Critics' Circle is made up of 19 drama critics from daily newspapers, magazines and wire services based in the New York City metropolitan area.

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Nicol Williamson

Nicol Williamson (14 September 1936 – 16 December 2011) was a British actor and singer, once described by John Osborne as "the greatest actor since Marlon Brando".

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Novella

A novella is a text of written, fictional, narrative prose normally longer than a short story but shorter than a novel, somewhere between 7,500 and 40,000 words.

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Of Mice and Men (1939 film)

Of Mice and Men is a 1939 American drama film based on the 1937 play based on the novella of the same title by American author John Steinbeck, and starring Burgess Meredith, Betty Field and Lon Chaney Jr. The supporting cast features Charles Bickford, Roman Bohnen, Bob Steele and Noah Beery, Jr. The film tells the story of two men, George and his mentally-challenged partner Lennie, trying to survive during the dustbowl of the 1930s and pursuing a dream of owning their own ranch, instead of always working for others.

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Of Mice and Men (1992 film)

Of Mice and Men is a 1992 American period drama film based on John Steinbeck's 1937 novella of the same name.

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Of Mice and Men (opera)

Of Mice and Men is an opera in three acts by the American composer Carlisle Floyd.

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Okie

An Okie is a resident, native, or cultural descendant of Oklahoma.

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Palme d'Or

The Palme d'Or (Golden Palm) is the highest prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival.

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Pamela Blair

Pamela Blair (born December 5, 1949), known as Pam, is an American actress, singer, and dancer best known for originating the role of "Val" in the musical A Chorus Line and several appearances on American soap operas.

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Pascal Covici

Pascal Avram "Pat" Covici (1885–1964) was a Romanian Jewish-American book publisher and editor.

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Penguin Group

The Penguin Group is a trade book publisher and part of Penguin Random House.

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Rabbit

Rabbits are small mammals in the family Leporidae of the order Lagomorpha (along with the hare and the pika).

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Radio drama

Radio drama (or audio drama, audio play, radio play, radio theater, or audio theater) is a dramatized, purely acoustic performance.

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Ranch

A ranch is an area of land, including various structures, given primarily to the practice of ranching, the practice of raising grazing livestock such as cattle or sheep for meat or wool.

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Randy Quaid

Randy Randall Rudy Quaid (born October 1, 1950) is an American film and television actor and Academy Award nominee known for his roles in both serious drama and light comedy.

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Rape

Rape is a type of sexual assault usually involving sexual intercourse or other forms of sexual penetration carried out against a person without that person's consent.

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Reza Badiyi

Reza Sayed Badiyi also known as Reza Sayed Badiei (Persian: رضا بدیعی; April 17, 1930 – August 20, 2011) was an Iranian-American film director.

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Robert Blake (actor)

Robert Blake (born Michael James Gubitosi; September 18, 1933) is an American former actor, having starring roles in the film In Cold Blood and the U.S. television series Baretta.

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Robert Burns

Robert Burns (25 January 175921 July 1796), also known as Rabbie Burns, the Bard of Ayrshire, Ploughman Poet and various other names and epithets, was a Scottish poet and lyricist.

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Sam H. Harris

Sam H. Harris (February 3, 1872 – July 3, 1941) was a Broadway producer and theater owner.

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Soledad, California

Soledad is a city in Monterey County, California, United States.

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Soorya Manasam

Soorya Manasam is a 1992 critically acclaimed Malayalam movie by Viji Thampi starring Mammootty in the title role.

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Stable

A stable is a building in which livestock, especially horses, are kept.

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Steppenwolf Theatre Company

Steppenwolf Theatre Company is a Chicago theatre company founded in 1974 by Laurie Metcalf, Terry Kinney, Jeff Perry, and Gary Sinise in the Unitarian church on Half Day Road in Deerfield and is now located in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood on Halsted Street.

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Television film

A television film (also known as a TV movie, TV film, television movie, telefilm, telemovie, made-for-television movie, made-for-television film, direct-to-TV movie, direct-to-TV film, movie of the week, feature-length drama, single drama and original movie) is a feature-length motion picture that is produced for, and originally distributed by or to, a television network, in contrast to theatrical films, which are made explicitly for initial showing in movie theaters.

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The Big Read

The Big Read was a survey on books carried out by the BBC in the United Kingdom in 2003, where over three quarters of a million votes were received from the British public to find the nation's best-loved novel of all time.

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The Grapes of Wrath

The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939.

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The Moon Is Down

The Moon Is Down, a novel by John Steinbeck fashioned for adaptation for the theatre and for which Steinbeck received the Norwegian King Haakon VII Freedom Cross, was published by Viking Press in March 1942.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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To a Mouse

"To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest With the Plough, November, 1785" is a Scots Language poem written by Robert Burns in 1785, and was included in the Kilmarnock volume.

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Topoli (film)

Topoli (in Persian: تپلی, literally: The Fatty) is a 1972 Iranian film directed by Reza Mirlohi.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Vaseline

Vaseline Also pronounced with the main stress on the last syllable.

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Viji Thampi

Viji Thampi is an Indian film director who works in Malayalam films.

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Wallace Ford

Wallace Ford (12 February 1898 – 11 June 1966), born as Samuel Jones Grundy, was an English-born naturalized American vaudevillian, stage, film and television actor.

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Weed, California

Weed is a city in Siskiyou County, California, United States.

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Will Geer

Will Geer (March 9, 1902 – April 22, 1978) was an American actor and social activist, known for his portrayal of Grandpa Zebulon Tyler Walton in the 1970s TV series The Waltons.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Of_Mice_and_Men

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