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history nerd and bookworm. into comparative religion/theology, ethnography, iran, oriental studies, architecture, linguistics, cinema, and sufi poetry. ๐จ๐ฆเฉด
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thinking about how the founder of the nation of islam was a guy who used 58 different aliases, randomly showed up in detroit one day and started preaching to the black population, then disappeared. heโs never been found and almost nothing is known about his real identity
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this picture of ayatollah khomeini exiled in france lowkey goes hard af
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baby jesus (isa) and mary (maryam).
persian miniature, c. 1550-1600 ๐
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โto sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare."
โ yoshida kenkล, medieval buddhist monk (1283-1350)
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thinking about caodaism (้้ซ่บ), a vietnamese folk religion that regards victor hugo, lenin, shakespeare, joan of arc, napoleon, churchill, muhammad, jesus, and julius caesar as prophets of god.
they have 4 million adherents worldwide.
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dravidian hindu architecture goes so hard
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lebanese christian militia holding a wedding in beirut with israeli-supplied m16s during the lebanese civil war, 1986
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arthur rimbaud was so real when he wrote in 1871 โwhat if a piece of wood discovers that it is a violin?โ (โtant pis pour le bois qui se trouve violonโ)
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thinking about how thereโs potentially a lost russian library, allegedly hidden in underground tunnels beneath the kremlin, with over 800 rare ancient manuscripts (including platoโs final dialogue about atlantis, hermocrates). people have tried locating it for centuries
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nikolai gogol, author of โdead soulsโ, was a schizo virgin unmarried self-hating homosexual who burnt all of his manuscripts after a pilgrimage to jerusalem and then starved himself to death as repentance. such an underrated and eccentric writer. his stories deserve more love
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franรงois truffaut reading โthe sorrows of young wertherโ by goethe.
(c. 1960)
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a christian and a muslim playing chess in 13th century al-andalus.
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sri lanka declared bankruptcy, boris johnson resigned, former japanese prime minister shinzo abe was assassinated, intense protests are spreading in libya, dutch farmers are also angrily protesting, and iran arrested several foreigners for espionage.
it has only been 48 hours
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the japanese idiom ichi-go-ichi-e (ๆไธไผ):
โthe term reminds people to cherish any gathering that they may take part in, citing the fact that any moment in life cannot be repeated.โ
every moment is blessed and final and will never happen again in the entire lightcone no matter how it plays out. every sacred second slipping through time is doomed and lovely
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thinking about how uzbekistan banned valentineโs day for being a โforeignโ holiday and makes everybody read the medieval poetry of babur instead (descendant of genghis khan who founded the mughal empire), born on february 14th. they host babur poetry festivals and readings
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a piano piece composed by friedrich nietzsche himself, accompanied by images of him during the final days of his life in a mental asylum in 1899. nietzscheโs music isnโt widely known and wasnโt well received back in his day, but itโs beautiful.
the piece is called โheldenklageโ
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in 1922, trumpets were found in tutankhamunโs tomb. silent for over 3,000 years, the ancient egyptian trumpets were played for a live audience on a bbc broadcast to an audience of 150 million listeners. theyโre considered the oldest operational trumpets in the world.
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sir richard francis burton spoke 29 languages, disguised himself as a muslim pilgrim (even circumcised himself) to sneak into mecca, was the first european to discover lake tanganyika while searching for the source of the nile river, and survived a spear to the jaw from somalis.
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the trifacial trinity, an early and experimental christian art style used to represent trinitarianism (father, son, holy spirit). it was banned by the catholic church.
โit was a solution halfway between greco-roman polytheism and jewish monotheismโ
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this is a painting from 1947, depicting three saints (including victor hugo) signing an accord between god and humanity.
they refer to god as โcao dร i tiรชn รดng dแบกi bแป tรกt ma ha tรกtโ (a combination of confucianism, taoism, and buddhism). they believe all religions are one
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this 11,600 year old mysterious 9 foot structure, discovered in russia in the 1800s, is twice as ancient as the pyramids and stonehedge. it has 8 different faces carved into it, covered in indecipherable code that predates the invention of writing by 7,000 years.
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16th-century russian icon of elijah cutting off the heads of the priests of baal.
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simone weil read this poem by george herbert and said she felt โchrist himselfโ come down and take possession of her soul. she called it the most beautiful poem in the world, reciting it by heart to cure her headaches, even sending it to her imprisoned brother to experience it
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this is the one of the oldest animations in world history, from 3,000 BC. discovered in the 1970s on a 5,200 year old bowl in iran. when archeologists span the bowl around in circles, it resulted in this animation of a jumping goat. designed to give the illusion of movement
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one of the most beautiful concepts of all time, the japanese idiom ichi-go-ichi-e (ๆไธไผ). โthe term reminds people to cherish any gathering that they may take part in, citing the fact that any moment in life cannot be repeated.โ
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french philosopher jacques ellul found god in 1932, at the age of 17, after translating goetheโs faust alone in his house and converted to christianity afterwards.
โhe jumped on a bike and fled, concluding eventually that he had been in the presence of god.โ
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this is nezahualcoyotl (1402-1472): warrior, architect, poet, and philosopher-king.
just like akhenaten, nezahualcoyotl founded a semi-monotheistic religion in pre-columbian mexico. he banned human sacrifice and idolatry, worshipping the โunknown, unknowable lord of everywhereโ
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expelled from oxford, translated the kama sutra and the one thousand and one nights, captain in the east india company, and served in the crimean war. apparently, while preparing to secretly sneak into mecca, he also became a hafiz of the qur'ฤn.
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U will never be as cool as this rug. This is the oldest known carpet in the world, from the 5th century. This simple piece of fabric outlived empires and entire civilizations, it travelled all across the world. Found in 1949 in the grave of a Scythian nobleman from Kazakhstan
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the last surviving zoroastrian temple in china, xianshenlou (็ฅ็ฅๆจ). it was built in the song dynasty.
once prominent in china, introduced by central asian traders and even practiced by royalty, zoroastrianism was eradicated after emperor wuzongโs purge of foreign influences.
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thinking about how saddam hussein, while dictator of iraq, anonymously wrote and published a fictional romance erotica
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thinking about how this 4,600 year old ancient egyptian painting depicts an extinct species of geese, โno one realized it was an unknown speciesโฆ the egyptian artwork is the only documentation of this distinctively patterned goose, which appears now to be globally extinctโ
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thinking about caodaism (้้ซ่บ), a vietnamese folk religion that regards victor hugo, lenin, shakespeare, joan of arc, napoleon, churchill, muhammad, jesus, and julius caesar as prophets of god.
they have 4 million adherents worldwide.
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the song of songs written on an egg, mid-1700s italy ๐ฅ
ืฉึดืืืจ ืึทืฉึดึผืืืจึดืื
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pasolini, the italian director who produced the depravity of de sadeโs salรฒ, also made the most beautiful jesus film in the history of cinema.
โthe only religious movie that ever made me feel reverent without irony. pasolini definitely went to heaven for this one.โ โ john waters
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before nietzsche declared god was dead, he wrote this poem (at the age of 19), entitled โto the unknown godโ
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mainlรคnderโs notion that god committed suicide to create the cosmos, the universe being godโs corpse itself; god being an infinite being, the only way to commit suicide was to โshatter His timeless being into a time-bound and material universeโ
mainlรคnder would also end his life
What are some more cool and weird definitions of God? I like them better than the normal versions
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in turkish, a turkey is called โindianโ and in india, itโs called โperuโ
in arabic, the bird is called โroman roosterโ and in greek, itโs โfrench chicken.โ in french, itโs called โindian chickenโ
the bird itself is indigenous to neither of these places.
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@anteruina
Gilgamesh sought immortality and here we are, still discussing the story in the year 2021, centuries afterwards. In a sense, he was indeed immortalized.
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this italian girl from a 1877 painting just like me fr
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thinking about how goethe managed to sentimentalize a cabbage ๐ฅฌ
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thinking about how the supreme leader of iran is a jane austen stan
I have read English summary of Jane Austenโs books including Pride and Prejudice.
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there's a mental psychosis known as jerusalem syndrome that causes tourists to the holy land to believe they're a character from the bible and they start acting like that. this is incredibly common.
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thinking about the development of the english letter โeโ and how it evolves from this cute little ancient egyptian guy
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PAINTED BY FRANCISCO BRUNERY (1849-1926)
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in 1654, blaise pascal had an ecstatic and dreamlike mystical experience that lasted for 2 hours.
he quickly wrote the following words, which he carefully sewed into his coat and kept for the rest of his life. the note was discovered after his death by a servant.
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thinking about charles piazzi smyth (1819-1900), a british astronomer who advocated to abolish the metric system and replace it with โthe pyramid inchโ which he posited was โa god-given measure handed down through the centuries from the time of shem (noahโs son)โ
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the dying swan, 1925. ๐ฆข
this 4-minute russian ballet revolves around a wounded swan, painfully fighting for its life and trying to resist death. eventually, the swan succumbs to its tragic fate. anna pavlova, the dancer, studied swans at parks in real life to embody their form.
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equatorial guinea, the only spanish-speaking country in africa, is underrated. it was once nicknamed the dachau of africa and despotically ruled by a drug-addled, batshit crazy, schizophrenic son of a witch doctor who slaughtered 80,000 people, calling himself a hitlerian-marxist
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thinking about the haredi burqa sect (ื ืฉืืช ืืฉึธืืึดืื), an extremist and controversial ultra-orthodox jewish group in israel where women wear full-on, taliban-styled burqas. they rarely ever go out in public and no skin is shown, the entire face concealed.
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the buddha, laozi, and confucius โ founders of buddhism, taoism (daoism) and confucianism โ in a ming dynasty painting.
c. 1368-1644
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โto sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare."
โ yoshida kenkล, medieval buddhist monk (1283-1350)
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christian liturgical procession from the ottoman empire, c. 1574
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parisฤ, a classical iranian vocalist, performing in the ฤvฤz style (concert footage from pre-revolutionary iran).
in the persian tradition, music is meant to spiritually alter the consciousness of a listener and transport the soul into a state of divine intoxication.
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โwhile the beatles were making girls swoon with their mop-top flips and youthful, cheeky grins, a different and profoundly darker performer was casting a spell on european audiences. the figure on stage wore conservative suits, howling like a turn-of-the-century delta bluesman.โ
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friedrich schiller was so real when he wrote in 1794 โlive with your century, but do not be its creature; render to your contemporaries what they need, not what they praiseโ (lebe mit deinem Jahrhundert, aber sei nicht sein Geschรถpf)
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โa pornographic trope: the half-dressed is more erotic than the totally nude. the half-concealed always implies a narrative, a second chapter that can happen at any moment.โ
โ camille paglia
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marcel proust called this โthe most beautiful painting in the worldโ
one of his characters, before dying, says about it: โthatโs how i ought to have writtenโฆ my last books are too dry, i ought to haveโฆ made my language precious in itself, like this little patch of yellow wallโ
View of Delft, 1661. Sunlight splashes through soft clouds onto weathered hardness of brick & stone. Breathtaking. Vermeer, whose birthday was today.
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NUNS
(painted by russian artist mikhail nesterov, c. 1893) ๐ท๐บ
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after hitler came to power, berlin-based journalist charlotte beradt embarked on a research project to document the dreams of random citizens and study how totalitarianism impacts dreaming.
she collected 300 dreams, secretly smuggled out of germany in code. โ3rd reich of dreamsโ
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the burning of judas iscariot, brazil (๐ง๐ท), 1909.
an old european christian easter-time tradition where an effigy of judas is burned, hanged, flogged, and exploded with fireworks.
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indiaโs only native catholic queen, begum samru. ๐ฎ๐ณ๐
she grew up as a sex slave, converted from islam, named herself after joan of arc, led an army of 4,000 male mercenaries, wore turbans, built the largest church in north india (still standing), and ruled for nearly 5 decades.
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check out my foreign music playlist. hebrew, arabic, german, yiddish, persian, italian, swedish, icelandic, french, hindi/urdu/punjabi, polish, khmer, portugese, russian, turkish, and more; all genres and decades (mostly old/vintage stuff)
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zimna wojna (cold war), 2018. directed by paweล pawlikowski.
itโs a hauntingly beautiful love story set in postwar communist poland and france, transitioning from different time periods from the late 1940s to 1960s. every single scene is a sublime piece of art.
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bottles of water collected in 1930 from the river jordan, at the site where jesus christ was believed to have been baptized
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reading gogol for the first time.
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rip mikhail gorbachev fr; thinking about that time Ayatollah Khomeini wrote him a letter trying to convert him to Islam. gorbachev politely declined and the Soviet Union collapsed 2 years later
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dalidaโs rendition of the hava nagila is so beautiful. the egyptian-born italian naturalized french icon sang in 11 different languages and committed suicide in 1987.
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โthe most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.โ
โ hannah arendt (september 12, 1970)
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@theweeknd
this is what you wrote about david lynch on your tumblr in 2010. i'm so inspired and proud you king
@theweeknd
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This is my friend in Chile. The mainstream media is NOT covering this. For the first time since a dictatorship in the 1980s, the military has returned to the streets and they're sanctioning violence against protesters. A simple retweet could save lives. Make the media cover this.
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adolf hitlerโs sketches of dogs.
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recently learned that alexander pushkinโs great-grandfather was an african slave taken to constantinople as a gift to the ottoman sultan, but then smuggled to russia and given to tsar peter the great. the tsar freed him and raised him as his godson. he would go on to have 11 kids
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during the battle of berlin, hildegard knef dressed up as a male soldier to stay with her nazi lover. the soviets caught them both and she was sent to an all-male prison camp. the prisoners helped her escape and return to berlin, where she became a star. her lover was executed
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thinking about ฤjฤซvika, a now extinct major ancient religion that once rivalled buddhism and jainism in south asia. none of their texts have survived. they were naked ascetic nihilists who believed in extreme fatalism, rejecting the idea of karma.
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feeling like this decadent young woman from an 1899 spanish painting today
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thinking about the development of the english letter โeโ and how it evolves from this cute little ancient egyptian guy
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โthe sentinelโ
painted by jean-jules-antoine lecomte du nouรฟ, c. 1877
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iโm so happy franรงoise hardy is still alive on this earth. her 2018 album was sublime, her voice still beautiful at the age of 78โฆ a relic of a bygone era. i understand why bob dylan, miles davis, mick jagger, and david bowie all had a crush on her back in the day, i really do
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judeo-malayalam (เดฏเตเดนเตเดฆเตเดฏเดฎเดฒเดฏเดพเดณเด), an ENDANGERED language with less than 50 speakers left. itโs the only known dravidian jewish language and, contrary to other jewish languages, doesnโt use the hebrew alphabet. the traditional mother tongue of indiaโs oldest jewish community
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@insectbrah
in 1976, the sex pistols swore on live television and it caused a full-on nationwide controversy. nowadays, nobody would bat an eye because itโs so normalized. profanity loses its profaneness when used in excess, language is a gift of god and we abuse it
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โi am the poet of the poor, because i was poor when i loved; since i could not give gifts, i gave words.โ
โ ovid (ars amatoria 165-166)
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eartha kittโs rendition of a turkish folk song, 1953.
the wife of a turkish naval officer taught her the words. she self-taught herself 7 different languages and sung in them fluently, including japanese. conceived by rape on a cotton plantation, her life is so fascinating.
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thinking about the alternate timeline where napoleon bonaparte creates israel in 1799
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the deuce on
@hbo
was one of the most STYLISH and underrated shows on television, the best show nobody watched: it takes place in 1970s new york and tackled the rise of pornography as a legitimate business, created by the mastermind behind the wire (2002-2008)
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thinking about how schizophrenic voices are shaped by social environment and how schizo patients in america hear evil voices that ask them to do violent things, but in africa and india they usually hear dead relatives or nice voices that offer them comfort
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this is a painting from 1947, depicting three saints (including victor hugo) signing an accord between god and humanity.
they refer to god as โcao dร i tiรชn รดng dแบกi bแป tรกt ma ha tรกtโ (a combination of confucianism, taoism, and buddhism). they believe all religions are one.
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three jain monks discussing scripture
(india, mid-18th century)
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reposez en paix, jane birkin
(1946-2023)
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