18 March: Grover Cleveland Quotes

Former US president Grover Cleveland was born on this date in 1837. 10 quotes from the days when what presidents said made sense and weren’t just ramblings about dead people walking around with no legs.

1. In calm water every ship has a good captain.

2. A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.

3. Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters.

4. A cause worth fighting for is worth fighting for to the end.

5. Men and times change-but principles-never.

6. Above all, tell the truth.

7. What is the use of being elected or re-elected unless you stand for something?

8. Honour lies in honest toil.

9. What do you imagine the American people would think of me if I wasted my time going to the ball game?

10. Good ball players make good citizens.

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17 March: 76

 Today is the 76^th day of the year. 10 fun facts about the number 76:

1. “Seventy six trombones led the big parade, With a hundred & ten cornets close at hand.” so goes the song from the musical The Music Man. It’s basically a sales pitch to encourage parents in a small Iowa town to buy musical instruments for their kids.

2. Seventy-Six is a historical fiction novel by John Neal. Published in Baltimore in 1823, it is about the American Revolutionary War.

3. There are (or have been) at least four towns or communities in the US called Seventy-Six. Two in Iowa, one in Kentucky and one in Missouri.

4. 76 Freia is a large main-belt asteroid discovered by the astronomer Heinrich d'Arrest in 1862, in Copenhagen, Denmark. It was his first and only asteroid discovery. It is named after the goddess Freyja in Norse mythology.

5. '76, formerly Lions of '76, is a 2016 Nigerian historical fiction drama film directed by Izu Ojukwu about a young soldier mistakenly accused of taking part in a coup.

6. 76 is a chain of gas (petrol) stations in the US.

7. '76 is an eight-issue comic book series published by Image Comics, and written by B. Clay Moore and Seth Peck, and illustrated by Ed Tadem and Tigh Walker. It is set in the year 1976 and features storylines based in New York City and Los Angeles.

8. Fallout 76 is a multiplayer video game set in the post-nuclear wasteland of America.

9. 76 is the debut album of Dutch trance producer and DJ Armin van Buuren.

10. In numerology, a person influenced by this number is realistic, pragmatic, and family oriented. They are loyal and conscientious and able to focus on details. They build and plan for the future.

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16 March: James Madison Quotes

Another former US president, James Madison, was born on this date in 1751. 10 quotes from him:

1. If our nation is ever taken over, it will be taken over from within.

2. Crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant.

3. The purpose of the Constitution is to restrict the majority's ability to harm a minority.

4. If man is not fit to govern himself, how can he be fit to govern someone else?

5. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

6. Conscience is the most sacred of all property.

7. Philosophy is common sense with big words.

8. If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

9. Democracy was the right of the people to choose their own tyrant.

10. Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.

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15 March: Andrew Jackson Quotes

10 quotes from Andrew Jackson, former US President, born this date in 1767.

1. It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.

2. I was born for a storm and a calm does not suit me.

3. When the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

4. Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.

5. Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

6. The great can protect themselves, but the poor and humble require the arm and shield of the law.

7. You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessings.

8. There are only two things I can't give up; one is coffee and the other is tobacco.

9. Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.

10. People are my religion/Because I believe in them.

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14 March: Emeralds

On National Jewel Day: 10 facts about emeralds.

1. Emeralds are always Green (unlike Diamonds, Sapphires and Rubies which can be colours other than the one usually associated with them) although they might not be the exact shade of green known as emerald green. The shade of green varies according to the exact amount of the elements Chromium and Vanadium present in the stone.

2. Emeralds belong to the beryl family of stones.

3. They are actually rarer, and therefore more expensive per carat, than diamonds. An emerald is lower in density than a diamond and so would be larger than a diamond of the same carat value. Emerald measures between 7.5 to 8 on the Mohs Scale of Hardness.

4. Colombia is the world’s biggest emerald producer, accounting for around 90% of the world’s emeralds. Zambia is the second largest producer. Emerald miners in Colombia get an occupational perk called “picando” in which for one day each month they can keep any emeralds they find for themselves.

5. Emeralds are the birth stone for people born in May, or under the astrological sign of Taurus. 55 years is an emerald anniversary.

6. The largest flawless emerald in the world was known as the Rockefeller Emerald until it was sold in an auction to a man called Harry Winston for $5.5 million. Since then it has been known as the Rockefeller-Winston emerald.

7. The word emerald comes to us via Old French, Vulgar Latin and Ancient Greek, and possibly even further back to Sanskrit or Persian. The Ancient Greek word simply meant “green gem”.

8. In Ancient Egypt, emeralds symbolised eternal youth and were often buried with people. Cleopatra loved emeralds so much that she took ownership of all the emerald mines in Egypt. Elizabeth Taylor was another fan. One of her emerald necklaces sold for $6.1 million in 2011. They are also a feature of the British Crown Jewels.

9. There is folklore associated with emeralds. They were once said to counteract poison to the extent that if a venomous creature so much as looked at one it would go blind. It was also said that placing an emerald under the tongue would reveal truth, and grant a person the ability to foresee the future. They protected against evil spells, cured leprosy, improved memory and eyesight and was potentially even a contraceptive as ancient alchemists believed that if a person wearing an emerald ring had sex, the emerald would break.

10. The Emerald City is the capital city of the fictional Land of Oz in L Frank Baum's Oz books.

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13 March: Pope Francis

On this date in 2013 Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio from Argentina was elected as the new pope, taking the papal name Pope Francis. 10 facts about him:

1. His birth name was Jorge Mario Bergoglio and he was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina (though his parents had emigrated there from Italy) on 17 December 1936. He was one of seven children. His father was a railway worker, his mother a housewife.

2. There were several firsts with his papacy. He was the first pope in centuries to replace another pope who was still alive, as his predecessor resigned. He was the first pope from the Western Hemisphere, the first from South America, the first from the Jesuit order and the first to take the name Francis (in honour of St Francis of Assisi).

3. Like his namesake, he was committed to helping the poor and living as simply as possible. He refused to wear the ermine-trimmed Red velvet mozzetta, the gold pectoral cross and the pair of red Shoes prepared for his inauguration. He stuck with a simple Silver cross and his own shoes. Then he chose not to live in the Vatican Palace but in an apartment, and would eat in the Vatican canteen. He would often remind his followers not to forget the poor, especially during the covid pandemic. A source in the Vatican once told the press that he’d go out at night dressed as a regular priest to help the poor of Rome in person.

4. He was first called to the priesthood on St Matthew’s day in 1953. He decided, on the spur of the moment, to attend confession and felt the call while he was there.

5. He got an education and worked at several jobs before taking up his vocation. He earned a master's degree in chemistry from the University of Buenos Aires and a liberal arts degree in philosophy. His jobs included scrubbing the floors of the company where his father worked, taught in schools and was, for a time, a bouncer at a nightclub.

6. He lost part of his lung during his youth due to a respiratory infection.

7. In his youth he was a great fan of Argentine Tango and once said, “Tango comes from deep within me.” He was also a fan of classical music as evidenced by the fact he snuck out during the pandemic to buy records of Bach and Mozart.

8. His favourite film was La Strada by Federico Fellini, winner of the Oscar for best foreign film in 1957. His favourite food was Bagna Cauda, a dish prepared with anchovies, oil, and Garlic, used as a sauce for vegetables.

9. He would say a prayer from St. Thomas More every day. The prayer goes: “Lord, give me a sense of humour. Grant me the grace to understand a joke, to discover in life a bit of joy, and be able to share it with others.”

10. Francis surpassed the record of Pope John Paul II in canonising the most new saints in a pontificate. These included: Mother Teresa, Óscar Romero, Louis Martin and Marie-Azélie Guérin (the first married couple to be named as saints together), and three of his predecessors: John XXIII, John Paul II and Paul VI.

See also:

Pope John Paul I 
Pope John Paul II

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12 March: Jack Kerouac

Today, 10 facts about Jack Kerouac, who was born on this date in 1922.

1. He was born in Lowell, Massachusetts and given the name Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac. His father was an insurance salesman. He claimed that his family were originally from Ireland, but migrated to Cornwall and that was the origin of the name – Kernewek, meaning the Cornish language. Or it might have been a Celtic name meaning "language of the water". His ancestors would later flee to France and there was a baron among them: Baron François Louis Alexandre Lebris de Kerouac.

2. His first language was French, not English. He learned to speak English when he was six and had a French accent until his late teens.

3. When he was four, his older brother Gerard died of rheumatic fever, aged nine. Jack believed that his brother became his guardian angel and was the inspiration for his book, Visions of Gerard.

4. His best friend at school was called Sebastian Sampas, who shared his love of literature and theatre. It was Sampas who encouraged Jack to join the “Scribbler’s Club” at school, so could be responsible for getting him into writing. Sampas was killed during World War II. His sister Stella became Jack’s third wife in 1966.

5. Jack served as a merchant mariner during the war. He served on the SS Dorchester before its maiden voyage. He wasn’t, however, on the ship when it was sunk during a Submarine attack while crossing the Atlantic. Kerouac joined the Navy Reserves, but military life really wasn’t for him and he only lasted eight days in active service before being honourably discharged on psychiatric grounds. He wrote his first novel at this time, called The Sea Is My Brother, but it wasn’t published until 40 years after he died.

6. One of his friends, Lucien Carr, killed a man called David Kammerer, who Carr claimed was gay and had made advances to him. He asked Kerouac and fellow author William S Burroughs to help him dispose of the body which resulted in Kerouac being arrested as a material witness. He appealed to his girlfriend Edie Parker to get her family to post bail. She said she would on condition that he married her and got a job to pay back the loan. He kept his promise, but the marriage didn’t last.

7. His second wife was Joan Haverty, with whom he had a daughter, but by the time the child was born they had already separated. Kerouac denied paternity and refused to pay child support.

8. He liked to incorporate haiku into his works. Fellow Beat Poet Allen Ginsberg said of him, “He’s the only one in the United States who knows how to write haiku… he talks that way, thinks that way.” Kerouac was also an artist and would paint people he met, having painted his first self portrait at the age of nine.

9. Despite being famous for writing a book called On the Road, he never learned to drive and envied people who had the skill.

10. The character Hank in David Cronenberg's 1991 film Naked Lunch is based on Kerouac. He also has a crater on Mercury named after him.

See also: quotes by Jack Kerouac.

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11 March: Spanners

Today is Worship of Tools Day in India. 10 facts about the spanner, or wrench.

1. What is it? A spanner or wrench is a tool used to provide grip and mechanical advantage when applying torque to turn fasteners, such as nuts and bolts.

2. In the UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand it’s called a spanner; in the USA it’s called a wrench.

3. 'Wrench' is derived from a Proto-Germanic word meaning turning or twisting. The oldest recorded use dates to 1794.

4. The word ‘Spanner’ also derives from German, in this case from a word meaning to draw, stretch, or spin. The word was first used in the 1630s, referring to the tool for winding the spring of a wheel-lock firearm.

5. In the UK the phrase “throw a spanner into the works” means to screw things up. Americans would say "to throw a monkey wrench into (something)" to convey the same idea.

6. A common April Fool or trick played on a newbie in the workshop might be to send them to find a "left handed monkey wrench". Wrenches are ambidextrous.

7. The use of such tools dates back to the 15th century. They’d be used to adjust suits of armour or to tighten or loosen wagon wheels. Adjustable wrenches for the odd-sized nuts of wagon wheels were manufactured in England and exported to North America in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

8. Why call it a Monkey wrench? Because you can monkey with it? One story goes that it was because it was invented by a man named Charles Moncky, who made enough money from selling the patent to buy himself a nice house.

9. However, there’s no evidence there ever was a Charles Moncky. There was a Charles Monk who lived at about the same time in the same area, and he did make and sell tools. However, the tools he sold were for moulders, not for mechanics, so he wouldn’t have sold spanners. In any case, he was born after the term first appeared in print.

10. Another story about the origins of the monkey wrench is that it was called that as a racial slur because it was invented by an African-American boxer called Jack Johnson while he was in prison. This isn’t the case as the first patent for a monkey wrench and the use of the name both date back to before Johnson was born. Johnson can take the credit, however, for a patent for improvements to the tool in question.

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10 March: 69

Today is day 69 of any non-leap year. Here are 10 fun facts about the number 69.

1. Flipped horizontally or vertically, the number 69 looks the same. There’s a word for that, a strobogrammatic number.

2. Because of its appearance, it has became associated in symbology with the concept of yin and yang. In numerology it’s also associated with family, compassion and harmony.

3. The square of 69 is 4761 and its cube is 328509. This makes it unique among numbers because every digit from 0-9 appears just once.

4. 69 Hesperia is a large Asteroid and the only one discovered by the Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli, in 1861 while he was looking for the recently discovered 63 Ausonia. It was named in honour of Italy, the word being a Greek term for the peninsula.

5. Summer of '69 is a song recorded by the Canadian singer Bryan Adams from his fourth album, Reckless. It is a song about a dilemma between settling down or trying to become a rock star.

6. The Roman numeral for 69 is LXIX.

7. In binary it’s 1000101.

8. Its divisors are 1, 3, 23, and 69.

9. London bus route 69 runs from Walthamstow Bus Station to Canning Town Station.

10. It has become known as the sex number because of its association with a certain sexual position. This has led, in the US, to frequent thefts of 69 mile markers. In Colorado they solved the problem by replacing them with 68.5 markers.

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9 March: Mickey Spillane

Mickey Spillane, crime writer, was born on this date in 1918. 10 facts about him:

1. His real name was Frank Morrison Spillane. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. He was an only child and his father was a bartender.

2. Before finding success as a writer, he worked as a lifeguard and also as a trampoline artist and a human cannonball. He also worked briefly for the FBI, working undercover to crack a narcotics ring.

3. In the 1940s he was writing stories for comic books. He scripted stories about Superman, Batman and Captain America.

4. He joined the army soon after the attack on Pearl Harbor and became a flight instructor. It was during his time in the army that he met his first wife, Mary Ann Pearce. The couple married in 1945 and divorced in 1962. In 1965 he married a singer called Sherri Malinou (who first came to his attention when she was a model for one of his book covers). They divorced in 1983 and in the same year he married wife number three, Jane Rogers Johnson.

5. It was wanting to buy a nice country home to live in with Mary Ann that prompted him to write his first novel, I, the Jury which was completed in just 9 days. It was also the first novel to feature the detective Mike Hammer. It did well, selling over six million copies.

6. He was an actor, too. He played himself, as a detective, in a film called Ring of Fear in 1954, and also played his character, Mike Hammer, in The Girl Hunters in 1963. He also played a writer who was a murder victim on an episode of Columbo.

7. Although his hard boiled detective novels were known for their sex and violence, Spillane also wrote a couple of novels for children. The Day the Sea Rolled Back and The Ship That Never Was. He wrote the first because his publisher dared him to write something for kids, and when it won an award, he wrote the second.

8. He became a Jehovah’s Witness in the early 1950s and at that point took ten years off from writing as he was able to live off the royalties of his books so far. Until his 80s, he was going round knocking on doors and giving out copies of The Watchtower.

9. In 1983, Spillane received the lifetime achievement award from the Private Eye Writers of America, and in 1995 he received an Edgar Allan Poe Grand Master Award.

10. He died of cancer in 2006 at the age of 88.

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8 March: Saint John of God

Today is the feast day of St John of God. 10 facts about this saint.

1. A saint’s feast day is generally the date he or she died, and St John of God did indeed die on 8 March 1550, but 8 March was also his birthday. He was born on this date in 1495.

2. His birth name was João Duarte Cidade.

3. He is the patron of Booksellers, hospitals, nurses, the mentally ill, heart patients, and the dying.

4. When he was eight years old, he disappeared. It’s not known whether he was kidnapped or ran away for a bit, but he was gone long enough that his mother died of grief and his father became a monk, so when he did reappear, he was a homeless orphan. He lived on the streets of Spain until he managed to get a job looking after Sheep.

5. His boss was fond of him and found him a diligent worker, and wanted to make John his heir. The catch was he’d have to marry the farmer’s daughter and he wasn’t interested in her, so he joined the army.

6. He almost died in the military, not from the fighting but because a pile of treasure was stolen on his watch and he was condemned to death. One of the officers managed to get him pardoned, at which point John went back to farming for four years. He still didn’t marry, and presumably missed the military life, for when another bunch of soldiers passed through his home town, he joined up again, this time remaining a soldier for 18 years.

7. Then he decided to go to Africa to help Christians enslaved there, willing to die as a martyr if need be. On the way, he met up with a Portuguese knight and his family with whom he became friends. When all their possessions were stolen and they were ill, John nursed them and helped financially. However, he became disillusioned with Africa and decided to go back to Spain.

8. When he was about 42, a religious conversion while listening to a sermon by John of Avila. He also had a mental breakdown and was sent to a hospital for the mentally ill where the treatment was frequent beatings. John of Avila visited him and told him he should think of helping others rather than feeling sorry for himself. He set up a house where he could care for the poor and sick but at first his history of mental health issues went against him, but eventually gained the sympathy of priests in the area. It’s also said that Angels visited his house and assisted as well.

9. He began to gain followers and in due course they organised to become the Brothers Hospitallers of Saint John of God, with a mission to care for the sick all over the world. Today the order has a presence in 53 countries, and operates more than 300 hospitals.

10. He died of pneumonia after plunging into a river to save a young man from drowning. He was 55 years old. His body was moved a few times but now rests in a basilica which was originally built as a church especially to house his relics.

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7 March: Sir Edwin Landseer

Born on this date in 1802 was Sir Edwin Landseer, artist known for his paintings of animals – particularly Horses, Dogs and stags. 10 facts about him.

1. He was born in London and was the son of an engraver, who encouraged Landseer’s talent by taking him on country walks and encouraging him to sketch the animals he saw, when he was just five years old.

2. So nature and nurture combined to produce a young art prodigy. At 11 Edwin won the Royal Society of Arts’s silver palette for his animal drawings. At 13 he exhibited two drawings at the Royal Academy in London.

3. When he was a teenager, an older artist called Benjamin Robert Haydon suggested that Edwin dissect the carcass of a Lion to help him understand its muscle structure.

4. It was said he could draw with both hands at once and therefore could work on a horse’s tail with one hand and its head with the other.

5. Queen Victoria commissioned many portraits from him; at first, her pets, later members of her staff and ultimately, herself and her children. Landseer often included a dog in the children’s portraits. He even gave Victoria and Albert art lessons.

6. There is a breed of dog named after him – a black and white Newfoundland breed known as the Landseer.

7. While on the subject of dogs, he is probably responsible for the myth that Saint Bernard dogs carry a small barrel of something alcoholic round their necks when they go out to rescue someone. A Saint Bernard thus equipped appeared in one of his paintings.

8. He was a sculptor, too. His best known sculptures are the lions in Trafalgar Square.

9. In 1828, he was commissioned to produce illustrations for the Waverley Edition of Sir Walter Scott's novels.

10. He died in 1873 aged 71 after suffering ill health for years. He’d been so popular that shops in London lowered their blinds and flags flew at half mast; and thousands lined the route at his funeral. He was buried in St Paul's Cathedral. He left behind several unfinished paintings, which, as per his dying wish, were finished by John Everett Millais.

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6 March: Cyrano de Bergerac Quotes

Born this date in 1619 was Cyrano de Bergerac, French dramatist and duellist best remembered for the many works of fiction about his life. 10 quotes:

1. I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.

2. A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man.

3. A kiss is a rosy dot over the 'i' of loving.

4. This veridic nose arrives everywhere a quarter of an hour before its master. Ten shoemakers, good round fat ones too, go and sit down to work under it out of the rain.

5. We must believe then, that as from hence we see Saturn and Jupiter; if we were in either of the Two, we should discover a great many Worlds which we perceive not; and that the Universe extends so in infinitum.

6. A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.

7. Most men judge only by their senses and let themselves be persuaded by what they see.

8. The angel had told me in my dream that if I wanted to acquire the perfect knowledge I desired, I would have to go to the Moon.

9. You are now bearing the punishment for the shortcomings of your world. Here, as in your world, there are benighted people who cannot tolerate thinking about things they are not accustomed to.

10. The people of your world became so stupid and rude that my companions and I no longer enjoyed teaching them. You must surely have heard of us: we were called oracles, nymphs, spirits, fairies, household gods, lemures, larvas, lamias, sprites, water-nymphs, incubi, shades, spirits of the dead, specters and ghosts.

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5 March: Leila Name Day

In Finland, today is the name day for people called Leila.

Leila is a feminine given name which can be spelled multiple ways, including Leila, Layla, Laylah, Laila, Leyla, and Leylah. In Finland, the name is derived from a Sami name meaning holy. It’s also common in Arabic speaking countries where it derives from the Arabic word for night. In the Middle East often given to girls born during the night, signifying "daughter of the night". 10 famous people with this name:

1. Laila Ali: boxer and daughter of Muhammad Ali.
2. Laila Hirvisaari: Finnish author.
3. Layla Moran: British Liberal Democrat politician who has been Member of Parliament for Oxford West and Abingdon since 2017.
4. Leyla Harding: character in the British soap opera Emmerdale.
5. Leyla Kazim: English writer and media personality. She gained prominence through her food and travel blog before joining The Food Programme on BBC Radio 4 as a presenter.
6. Layla Anna-Lee: English television presenter, specialising in sports.
7. Laila Rouass: British actress known for her portrayals of Amber Gates in Footballers' Wives and Sahira Shah in Holby City.
8. Laila Lewin: character in the book series The Wheel of Time.
9. Leila Khan: English actress known for her role as Sahar Zahid in the coming-of-age romantic comedy drama series Heartstopper.
10. Leila Hyams (pictured): American actress whose film career began in 1924 during the era of silent films and ended in 1936.

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4 March: Julia Cameron Quotes

Born on this date in 1948 was Julia Cameron, US writer, film maker, composer, and journalist most famous for her book The Artist's Way. 10 quotes:

1. In creativity, as in running, you have to start where you are.

2. We tend to think being hard on ourselves will make us strong. But it is cherishing ourselves that gives us strength.

3. As you move toward a dream, the dream moves toward you.

4. What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do.

5. Leap, and the net appears.

6. The next time you are restless, remind yourself it is the universe asking 'Shall we dance?

7. Procrastination is not Laziness. It is fear. Call it by its right name, and forgive yourself.

8. Possibility is far more frightening than impossibility.

9. Answered prayers are scary. They imply responsibility. You asked for it. Now that you've got it, what are you going to do?

10. Creativity is God's gift to us. Using our creativity is our gift back to God.

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