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Lituanus is an English language quarterly journal dedicated to Lithuanian and Baltic languages, linguistics, political science, arts, history, literature, and related topics. [1]

78 relations: Adomas Galdikas, Adomas Varnas, Albert Wijuk Kojałowicz, Algimantas Kezys, Algirdas, Algirdas Julien Greimas, Anšlavs Eglītis, Žalvarinis, Baltic languages, Birutė Ciplijauskaitė, Catechism of Martynas Mažvydas, Catechism of Mikalojus Daukša, Cathedral School of Vilnius, Church of the Holy Spirit, Tallinn, Dacian language, German occupation of Lithuania during World War II, Gražina Sviderskytė, Gunārs Priede, Henrikas Radauskas, History of Lithuania, John of the Lithuanian Dukes, Jonas Kazlauskas (linguist), Jonas Puzinas, Juozas Balčikonis, Juozas Urbšys, Jurgis Baltrušaitis, Kaunas, Kaunas pogrom, Kazys Bradūnas, Kęstutis Nakas, Klemen Pisk, Knights of Lithuania, Lischke (settlement), Lithuania–Poland relations, Lithuanian Civil War (1389–92), Lithuanian dictionaries, Lithuanian encyclopedias, Lithuanian Helsinki Group, Lithuanian language, Lithuanian minority in Poland, Lithuanian name, Lithuanian National Revival, Lithuanian nobility, Lithuanian phonology, Lithuanian press ban, Lithuanian Scientific Society, Lithuanization, Mārtiņš Zīverts, Mindaugas, Mykolas Biržiška, ..., Osvaldas Balakauskas, Petras Cvirka, Polish-Lithuanian identity, Povilas Plechavičius, Pranas Čepėnas, Pranas Domšaitis, Resistance in Lithuania during World War II, Rolandas Paksas, Romualdas Marcinkus, Saint Petersburg Roman Catholic Theological Academy, Soviet–Lithuanian Peace Treaty, Stanislovas Rapolionis, Stephan Collishaw, Suwałki Agreement, Tadeusz Czacki, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, The Forest of Anykščiai, Tiesa (New York), Uliana of Tver, Valdis Zeps, Vilnius Castle Complex, Vilnius Conference, Vilnius University, Vytautas Kavolis, Walerian Protasewicz, Walter Clemens, Welles Declaration, 1926 Lithuanian coup d'état. Expand index (28 more) »

Adomas Galdikas

Adomas Galdikas (October 18, 1893 Giršinai village, near Mosėdis – December 7, 1969 New York City) was a Lithuanian painter, graphic artist, scenographer.

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Adomas Varnas

Adomas Varnas (January 1, 1879 in Joniškis, Lithuania – July 19, 1979 in Chicago, United States) was a prominent Lithuanian painter, photographer, collector, philanthropist, and educator.

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Albert Wijuk Kojałowicz

Albert Wijuk Kojałowicz (Wojciech Wijuk Kojałowicz; Albertas Vijūkas-Kojelavičius; Koialovicius-Wijuk Albertus; 1609–1677) was a PolishIncluded on the "List of the major works in philosophy of science by Polish authors" in -Lithuanian historian, theologian and translator.

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Algimantas Kezys

Algimantas Kezys (1928 – February 23, 2015) was a photographer born in Lithuania who moved to the United States in 1950.

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Algirdas

Algirdas (Альгерд, Ольгерд, Olgierd; – May 1377) was a ruler of medieval Lithuania.

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Algirdas Julien Greimas

Algirdas Julien Greimas (born Algirdas Julius Greimas; 9 March 1917 – 27 February 1992), was a French-Lithuanian literary scientist, known among other things for the Greimas Square (le carré sémiotique).

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Anšlavs Eglītis

Anšlavs Eglītis (October 14, 1906 – March 4, 1993) was a Latvian writer, journalist and painter who became a war refugee in 1944.

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Žalvarinis

Žalvarinis (English: made from brass) is a folk rock band from Vilnius, Lithuania.

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Baltic languages

The Baltic languages belong to the Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European language family.

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Birutė Ciplijauskaitė

Birutė Ciplijauskaitė (11 April 1929 in Kaunas – 19 June 2017) was a Lithuanian literary scholar and translator.

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Catechism of Martynas Mažvydas

The Simple Words of Catechism (Katekizmo prasti žodžiai) by Martynas Mažvydas is the first printed book in the Lithuanian language.

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Catechism of Mikalojus Daukša

The Catechism, or Education Obligatory to Every Christian (Katekizmas, arba mokslas kiekvienam krikščioniui privalus, original Lithuanian: Kathechismas, arba Mokslas kiekwienam krikszczionii priwalvs) of Mikalojus Daukša was the first Lithuanian-language book printed in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

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Cathedral School of Vilnius

The Cathedral School of Vilnius was a cathedral school attached to the Vilnius Cathedral.

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Church of the Holy Spirit, Tallinn

The Church of the Holy Ghost or Church of the Holy Spirit is a medieval Lutheran church in the old town district of Tallinn, Estonia.

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Dacian language

The extinct Dacian language was spoken in the Carpathian region in antiquity.

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German occupation of Lithuania during World War II

The occupation of Lithuania by Nazi Germany lasted from the German invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941 to the end of the Battle of Memel on January 28, 1945.

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Gražina Sviderskytė

Gražina Sviderskytė (born March 22, 1973 in Vilnius) is a Lithuanian newscaster and author, currently working on documentary films.

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Gunārs Priede

Gunārs Priede (1928–2000) was a Latvian playwright, engineer and architect.

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Henrikas Radauskas

Henrikas Radauskas (born in 1910 in Kraków, Poland, died in 1970 in Washington, D.C.) was a Lithuanian poet and writer.

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History of Lithuania

The history of Lithuania dates back to settlements founded many thousands of years ago, but the first written record of the name for the country dates back to 1009 AD.

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John of the Lithuanian Dukes

John of the Lithuanian Dukes (Jan Ochstat de Thelnicz, Jonas iš Lietuvos kunigaikščių, Jan z Książąt Litewskich; 8 January 1499 – 18 March 1538) was Bishop of Wilno (1519–36) and of Bishop of Poznań (1536–38).

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Jonas Kazlauskas (linguist)

Jonas Kazlauskas (1 August 1930 in Matiešionys – 7 October 1970 in Vilnius) was a Lithuanian linguist, expert on the Baltic languages.

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Jonas Puzinas

Jonas Puzinas (October 1, 1905 – April 14, 1978) was Lithuanian archaeologist and specialist on the prehistory of Lithuania.

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Juozas Balčikonis

Juozas Balčikonis (24 March 1885 in Ėriškiai, Panevėžys district – 5 February 1969 in Vilnius) was a Lithuanian linguist and teacher, who contributed to the standardization of the Lithuanian language.

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Juozas Urbšys

Juozas Urbšys (February 29, 1896 – April 30, 1991) was a prominent interwar Lithuanian diplomat, the last head of foreign affairs in independent interwar Lithuania, and a translator.

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Jurgis Baltrušaitis

Jurgis Baltrušaitis (May 2, 1873 – January 3, 1944) was a Lithuanian Symbolist poet and translator, who wrote his works in Lithuanian and Russian.

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Kaunas

Kaunas (also see other names) is the second-largest city in Lithuania and the historical centre of Lithuanian economic, academic, and cultural life.

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Kaunas pogrom

The Kaunas pogrom was a massacre of Jewish people living in Kaunas, Lithuania that took place on June 25–29, 1941 – the first days of the Operation Barbarossa and of Nazi occupation of Lithuania.

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Kazys Bradūnas

Kazys Bradūnas (11 February 1917 – 9 February 2009) was a Lithuanian émigré poet and editor.

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Kęstutis Nakas

Kęstutis Nakas is an American playwright, author, performer, director, and teacher whose work has been presented at the New York Shakespeare Festival, Yale Repertory Theatre, La Mama, Dixon Place, P.S. 122, St.

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Klemen Pisk

Klemen Pisk (born 31 July 1973) is a Slovenian poet, writer, translator and musician.

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Knights of Lithuania

The Knights of Lithuania (Lietuvos vyčiai) is a Lithuanian cultural organization in the United States, established in 1913 as the Lithuanian Falcons in an effort to develop conservative and patriotic values in Lithuanian-American youth.

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Lischke (settlement)

Lischke (lisca, liske) was a type of Old Prussian settlement.

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Lithuania–Poland relations

Polish–Lithuanian relations date from the 13th century, after the Grand Duchy of Lithuania under Mindaugas acquired some of the territory of Rus' and thus established a border with the then-fragmented Kingdom of Poland.

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Lithuanian Civil War (1389–92)

The Lithuanian Civil War of 1389–92 was the second civil conflict between Jogaila, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, and his cousin Vytautas.

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Lithuanian dictionaries

Lithuanian dictionaries, i.e., dictionaries of Lithuanian language have been printed since the first half of the 17th century.

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Lithuanian encyclopedias

Lithuanian encyclopedias are encyclopedias published in the Lithuanian language or encyclopedias about Lithuania and Lithuania-related topics.

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Lithuanian Helsinki Group

The Lithuanian Helsinki Group (full name: the Public Group to Promote the Implementation of the Helsinki Accords in Lithuania; Helsinkio susitarimų vykdymui remti Lietuvos visuomeninė grupė) was a dissident organization active in the Lithuanian SSR, one of the republics of the Soviet Union, in 1975–81.

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Lithuanian language

Lithuanian (lietuvių kalba) is a Baltic language spoken in the Baltic region.

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Lithuanian minority in Poland

The Lithuanian minority in Poland consists of 8,000 people (according to the Polish census of 2011) living chiefly in the Podlaskie Voivodeship in the north-eastern part of Poland.

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Lithuanian name

A Lithuanian personal name, like in mostly European cultures, consists of two main elements: the given name (vardas) followed by family name (pavardė).

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Lithuanian National Revival

Lithuanian National Revival, alternatively Lithuanian National Awakening (Lietuvių tautinis atgimimas), was a period of the history of Lithuania in the 19th century at the time when a major part of Lithuanian-inhabited areas belonged to the Russian Empire (the Russian partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth).

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Lithuanian nobility

The Lithuanian nobility was historically a legally privileged class in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania consisting of Lithuanians, from the historical regions of Lithuania Proper and Samogitia, and, following Lithuania's eastern expansion, many Ruthenian noble families (boyars).

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Lithuanian phonology

This article is about the phonology of the Lithuanian language.

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Lithuanian press ban

The Lithuanian press ban (spaudos draudimas) was a ban on all Lithuanian language publications printed in the Latin alphabet in force from 1865 to 1904 within the Russian Empire, which controlled Lithuania at the time.

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Lithuanian Scientific Society

The Lithuanian Scientific Society (Lietuvių mokslo draugija) was a scientific, cultural, and educational organization that was active between 1907 and 1940 in Vilnius, Lithuania.

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Lithuanization

Lithuanization (sometimes also called Lithuanianization) is a process of cultural assimilation—either forced or voluntary—adoption of Lithuanian culture or language experienced by non-Lithuanian people or groups of people.

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Mārtiņš Zīverts

Mārtiņš Zīverts (27 July 1903 in Mežmuiža, Vilce parish – 4 October 1990) was a Latvian playwright.

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Mindaugas

Mindaugas (Myndowen, Mindowe, Мендог, Міндоўг, c. 1203 – autumn 1263) was the first known Grand Duke of Lithuania and the only King of Lithuania.

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Mykolas Biržiška

Mykolas Biržiška (24 August 1882 in Viekšniai – 24 August 1962 in Los Angeles), a Lithuanian editor, historian, professor of literature, diplomat, and politician, was one of the twenty signatories of the Act of Independence of Lithuania.

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Osvaldas Balakauskas

Osvaldas Jonas Balakauskas (born December 19, 1937 in Miliūnai) is a Lithuanian composer of classical music and diplomat.

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Petras Cvirka

Petras Cvirka (March 12, 1909, Klangai, Kovno Governorate – May 2, 1947, Vilnius) was a Lithuanian author of several novels, children's books, and short story collections.

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Polish-Lithuanian identity

The Polish-Lithuanian identity describes individuals and groups with histories in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth or with close connections to its culture.

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Povilas Plechavičius

Povilas Plechavičius (February 1, 1890 – December 19, 1973) was an Imperial Russian and then Lithuanian military officer and statesman with polish roots.

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Pranas Čepėnas

Pranas Čepėnas (April 4, 1899 in Veleikiai, Kovno Governorate – December 3, 1980 in Worcester, Massachusetts) was a Lithuanian historian, encyclopedist, journalist, and lexicographer.

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Pranas Domšaitis

Pranas Domšaitis (born Franz Domscheit, 15 August 1880 – 14 November 1965) was a painter.

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Resistance in Lithuania during World War II

During World War II, Lithuania was occupied by the Soviet Union (1940–1941), Nazi Germany (1941–1944), and the Soviet Union again in 1944.

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Rolandas Paksas

Rolandas Paksas (born 10 June 1956) is a Lithuanian politician who was President of Lithuania from 2003 to 2004.

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Romualdas Marcinkus

Romualdas Marcinkus (22 July 1907 – 29 March 1944) was a Lithuanian pilot.

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Saint Petersburg Roman Catholic Theological Academy

The Imperial Roman Catholic Theological Academy (Императорская Римско-Католическая Духовная Академия) was an institution of higher education preparing Roman Catholic theologians in the Russian Empire.

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Soviet–Lithuanian Peace Treaty

The Soviet–Lithuanian Peace Treaty, also known as the Moscow Peace Treaty, was signed between Lithuania and Soviet Russia on July 12, 1920.

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Stanislovas Rapolionis

Stanislovas Svetkus Rapolionis (Stanislaus Rapagel(l)anus, Stanislaus Lituanus, Stanisław Rafajłowicz; – May 13, 1545) was a Lutheran activist and Protestant reformer from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

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Stephan Collishaw

Stephan Collishaw is an author from Nottinghamshire.

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Suwałki Agreement

The Suwałki Agreement, Treaty of Suvalkai, or Suwalki Treaty (Umowa suwalska, Suvalkų sutartis) was an agreement signed in the town of Suwałki between Poland and Lithuania on October 7, 1920.

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Tadeusz Czacki

Tadeusz Czacki (28 August 1765 in Poryck, Volhynia – 8 February 1813 in Dubno) was a Polish historian, pedagogue and numismatist.

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Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

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The Forest of Anykščiai

The Forest of Anykščiai (Anykščių šilelis), written by Antanas Baranauskas and published in 1861 by Laurynas Ivinskis, is a landmark poem in the history of the Lithuanian literature.

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Tiesa (New York)

Tiesa (truth) was a Lithuanian-language newspaper published by the Association of Lithuanian Workers (Lietuvių darbininkų susivienijimas), a fraternal benefit society, from 1930 to 2006 when the association merged into the Supreme Council of the Royal Arcanum.

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Uliana of Tver

Uliana Alexandrovna of Tver (Ульяна Александровна Тверская; – 17 March 1391) was a daughter of Prince Alexander of Tver and Anastasia of Halych (daughter of Yuri I of Galicia).

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Valdis Zeps

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Vilnius Castle Complex

The Vilnius Castle Complex (Vilniaus pilių kompleksas or Vilniaus pilys) is a group of cultural, and historic structures on the left bank of the Neris River, near its confluence with the Vilnia River, in Vilnius, Lithuania.

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Vilnius Conference

The Vilnius Conference or Vilnius National Conference (Vilniaus konferencija) met between September 18, 1917 and September 22, 1917, and began the process of establishing a Lithuanian state based on ethnic identity and language that would be independent of the Russian Empire, Poland, and the German Empire.

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Vilnius University

Vilnius University (Vilniaus universitetas; former names exist) is the oldest university in the Baltic states and one of the oldest in Northern Europe.

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Vytautas Kavolis

Vytautas Kavolis (October 8, 1930 in Kaunas – June 25, 1996 in Vilnius) was a Lithuanian-born American sociologist, literary critic, and culture historian.

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Walerian Protasewicz

Walerian Protasewicz (also: Protaszewicz-Szuszkowski, Valerijonas Protasevičius; born around 1505, died 31 December 1579 in Vilnius) was bishop of Lutsk (1549–1555) and Vilnius (1555–1579).

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Walter Clemens

Walter C. Clemens, Jr. (born April 6, 1933 in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States) is an American political scientist best known for advancing complexity science as an approach to the study of international relations and comparative politics.

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Welles Declaration

The Welles Declaration was a diplomatic statement issued on July 23, 1940 by Sumner Welles, the United States' acting Secretary of State, condemning the June 1940 occupation by the Soviet Union of the three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, and refusing to recognize their annexation as Soviet Republics.

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1926 Lithuanian coup d'état

The 1926 Lithuanian coup d'état (Lithuanian: 1926-ųjų perversmas) was a military coup d'état in Lithuania that resulted in the replacement of the democratically elected government with a conservative authoritarian government led by Antanas Smetona.

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References

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

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