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Luke Skywalker |
This fictional planet is the birthplace of Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia Organa. This planet was once an arid, barren planetoid and the origin of a colony of resulting asteroids. It was originally the homeworld of the little-known Eellayin...
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| x Mos Eisley | Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope |
Mos Eisley is a setting in the fictional Star Wars universe. It is introduced as a spaceport on the planet Tatooine. In Star Wars, Obi-Wan Kenobi (played by Alec Guinness) describes Mos Eisley as a "wretched hive of scum and villainy." It is the...
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| x Unseen University | Sourcery | Hex |
The Unseen University (UU) is a school of wizardry in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series of fantasy novels. Located in the city of Ankh-Morpork, the UU is staffed by a faculty composed of mostly indolent and inept old wizards. The university's name...
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| x Sunnydale | Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Willow Rosenberg | Sunnydale High |
Sunnydale is the fictional setting for the U.S. television drama Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Series creator Joss Whedon conceived the town as a representation of a generic California city, as well as a narrative parody of the all-too-serene towns...
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| Angel | Xander Harris | Hellmouth | |||
| Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Jesse McNally | The Bronze | |||
| Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chaos Bleeds | Cordelia Chase | Buffy's residence | |||
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| x Arda | The Lord of the Rings | Aman |
In J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, Arda is the name given to the Earth in a period of prehistory, wherein the places mentioned in The Lord of the Rings and related material once existed. It included several seas and oceans, and the continents of...
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| x Eä | Arda |
In the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien, Eￃﾤ is the Quenya language name for the universe, as a realization of the vision of the Ainur. The word comes from the Quenya word for to be. Thus, Eￃﾤ is the World that Is, as distinguished from the World that Is...
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| x Éa |
In the fantasy world of Earthsea created by Ursula K. Le Guin, ￃﾉa is an island in the Sea of ￃﾉa, between Enlad and Havnor. According to the Earthsea creation myth, The Creation of ￃﾉa, the island of ￃﾉa was the first land raised by the creator,...
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| x Bag End |
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The Lord of the Rings |
In J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional world of Middle-earth, Bag End was a smial (or hobbit-hole) in Hobbiton, above Bagshot Row. Bag End is described in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
The name "Bag End" comes from the farmhouse in the tiny...
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| x The Shire |
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Frodo Baggins | Bag End |
The Shire is a region of J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional Middle-earth, described in The Lord of the Rings and other works. The Shire refers to an area settled exclusively by Hobbits and largely removed from the goings-on in the rest of Middle-earth. It...
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| Bilbo Baggins | Hobbiton | ||||
| Rosie Cotton | Michel Delving on the White Downs | ||||
| x Rivendell | The Lord of the Rings |
Rivendell (Sindarin: Imladris) is an Elven outpost in Middle-earth, a fictional realm created by J. R. R. Tolkien. It was established and ruled by Elrond in the Second Age of Middle-earth (four or five thousand years before the events of The Lord of...
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| x Bree | Inn of the Prancing Pony |
Bree is a fictional village in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, east of the Shire and south of Fornost Erain. It is thought to have been inspired by the Buckinghamshire village of Brill, which Tolkien visited regularly in his early years at Oxford. ...
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In the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien, Moria (Sindarin for "Black Chasm") was the name given by the Eldar to an enormous underground complex in north-western Middle-earth, comprising a vast network of tunnels, chambers, mines and huge halls or ...
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Rohan (from Sindarin Rochand) is a realm in J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy era of Middle-earth. It is a grassland which lies north of its ally Gondor and north-west of Mordor, the realm of Sauron, their enemy (see maps of Middle-earth). It is inhabited...
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| x Gondor |
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Minas Tirith |
Gondor is a fictional kingdom in J. R. R. Tolkien's writings, described as the greatest realm of Men in the west of Middle-earth by the end of the Third Age. The third volume of The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, is concerned with the...
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| x Mordor | Orodruin |
In J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional universe of Middle-earth, Mordor or Morhdorh (pronounced [ˈmɔr̥dɔr̥]; from Sindarin Black Land and Quenya Land of Shadow) was the dwelling place of Sauron, in the southeast of northwestern Middle-earth to the East of...
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Númenor ( /ˈnuːmɛnɔr/), also called Elenna-nórë or Westernesse, is a fictional place in J. R. R. Tolkien's writings. It was a huge island located in the Sundering Seas to the west of Middle-earth, the main setting of Tolkien's writings, and was...
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| x 221B Baker Street |
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221B Baker Street is the London address of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, created by author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In the United Kingdom, postal addresses with a number followed by a letter may indicate a separate address within a larger,...
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| x Hed |
Hed is a fictional land that was created by Patricia A. McKillip in the Riddle-Master series of books. It is known for its beer and its Prince who bested Peven of Aum.
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| x Emelan |
Emelan is a fictional realm that provides the main setting of the Circle of Magic quartet by Tamora Pierce, primarily in the capital city of Summersea and the nearby temple of Winding Circle. Of the follow-up books, only Magic Steps of the quartet...
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| x Arkham |
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Arkham is a fictional city in Massachusetts, part of the Lovecraft Country setting created by H. P. Lovecraft and is featured in many of his stories, as well as those of other Cthulhu Mythos writers.
Arkham House, a publishing company started by two...
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| x Kashyyyk | Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith | Lumpawarrump | Wartaki Island |
Kashyyyk ( /kəˈʃiːk/ kə-sheek or /ˈkæʃɪk/ kash-ik), also known as Wookiee Planet C, is a planet in the Star Wars universe. It is the tropical, forested home world of the Wookiees. According to interviews given by Star Wars creator George Lucas, the...
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| x Forest moon of Endor | Star Wars: Ewoks |
The second moon of Endor, also referred to as the forest moon of Endor, or sanctuary moon, is a moon in the Star Wars universe. It appears in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi as the home to the Ewoks, and is the body over which the second...
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J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter universe contains numerous settings for the events in her fantasy novels. These locations are categorised as a dwelling, school, shopping district, or government-affiliated locale.
The Weasleys' home, known as the Burrow...
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| x Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | Forbidden Forest |
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry or simply Hogwarts is the primary setting for the first six books of the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling, with each book lasting the equivalent of one school year. It is a fictional British boarding...
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| Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | Hogwarts houses | ||||
| Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone | Ravenclaw Tower | ||||
| Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | Hagrid's Hut | ||||
| Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | The Chamber of Secrets | ||||
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| x Hogwarts houses |
The following fictional characters are staff members and denizens of Hogwarts in the Harry Potter books written by J. K. Rowling.
The following are notable teachers and staff members that do not have their own articles or that are not listed in...
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| x United Federation of Planets |
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The United Federation of Planets, also known as "The Federation" is a fictional interplanetary federal republic depicted in the Star Trek television series and motion pictures. In those episodes and films, the Federation is described as an...
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In the fictional Star Fleet Universe, the Kzinti Hegemony is a powerful stellar empire violently opposed to the Lyran Star Empire and allied with the Hydran Kingdom and eventually with the United Federation of Planets and the Gorn Confederation in...
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| x Klingon High Council |
In the fictional Star Trek universe the Klingon High Council (in Klingon tlhIngan yejquv) is the supreme ruling body of the Klingon Empire. The council meets at the Great Hall of the First City of the Klingon Empire on the planet Qo'noS (also known...
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| x Qo'noS |
In the fiction Star Trek universe, Qo'noS is the Klingon homeworld, also known as Kronos. The Klingon High Council, governing body of the Klingon Empire, is situated in the First City on Qo'noS.
Early Star Trek literature referred to Qo'noS as ...
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| x Starfleet Academy |
In the fictional universe of Star Trek, Starfleet Academy is where the future's recruits to Starfleet's officer corps will be trained. It was created in the year 2161, when the United Federation of Planets was founded. The Academy's motto is Ex...
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| x Q Continuum |
In the fictional televised Star Trek universe, the Q Continuum is an extradimensional plane of existence inhabited by a race of extremely powerful, hyper-intelligent beings known as the Q. Their attitude toward the affairs of the non-Q beings living...
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| x Land of Oz |
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Lucky Bucky in Oz |
Oz is a fantasy region containing four lands under the rule of one monarch.
It was first introduced in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) by L. Frank Baum, one of many fantasy countries that he created for his books. It achieved a greater popularity...
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| x Kobol | Battlestar Galactica |
Kobol is the name of a planet in the fictional Battlestar Galactica universe.
Within the context of both Battlestar Galactica stories, Kobol is the birthplace and original home of humanity, from which the civilization departed and formed the Twelve...
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| x Caprica | Battlestar Galactica | Lee Adama | Umbra, Caprica |
ﾻCaprica is a fictional planet featured in both the original and re-imagined Battlestar Galactica science fiction television series.
Caprica is devastated in the opening storyline for both the original series and the re-imagined series in a sneak...
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| Zoe Greystone | Caprica City, Caprica | ||||
| Qualai, Caprica | |||||
| x New Caprica |
New Caprica is the fictional name given to a relatively desolate but habitable planet in the reimagined Battlestar Galactica series. The capital of New Caprica is New Caprica City, the same name as the capital of the eponymous original colony.
New...
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| x Urbana, Illinois | HAL 9000 | ||||
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| x Arrakis |
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Dune Messiah | Chani |
Arrakis (pronounced /əˈrækɨs/; Arabic: الراقص, ar-rāqiṣ, "the dancer") — informally known as Dune and later called Rakis — is a fictional desert planet featured in the Dune series of novels by Frank Herbert. Herbert's first novel in the series,...
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| Children of Dune | Sheeana | ||||
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| x Baldur's Gate | Baldur's Gate series |
Baldur's Gate is a fictional city in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. It is a coastal city on the north bank of the river Chiontar, located in the Western Heartlands region of Faerûn....
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| x Berkeley |
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Way of the Peaceful Warrior |
Berkeley ( /ˈbɜrkliː/ BURK-lee) is a city on the east shore of the San Francisco Bay in Northern California, United States. Its neighbors to the south are the cities of Oakland and Emeryville. To the north is the city of Albany and the...
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| x Earth |
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Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen | Trillian |
Earth (or the Earth) is the third planet from the Sun, and the densest and fifth-largest of the eight planets in the Solar System. It is also the largest of the Solar System's four terrestrial planets. It is sometimes referred to as the world, the...
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| Stargate SG-1 | Zapp Brannigan | ||||
| Oryx and Crake | David Bowman | ||||
| The Mongoliad | Lyta Alexander | ||||
| The Transformers | Susan Ivanova | ||||
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| x Arborville | Hang Tough, Paul Mather | ||||
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| x Metropolis |
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Hush - Chapter Four: The City | Jason White | Daily Planet |
Metropolis is a fictional city that appears in comic books published by DC Comics, and is the home of Superman. Metropolis first appeared by name in Action Comics #16 (September 1939).
Within the DC Universe, Metropolis is portrayed as one of the...
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| x Vulcan | T'Pol |
In the fictional Star Trek universe, Vulcan is a reddish Minshara-Class planet orbiting the star 40 Eridani A, 16 light years from Earth, and is the original homeworld of the Vulcans. (Early references to the planet in novels and other background...
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| x Rhûn |
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Sea of Rhûn |
In the fictional world of Middle-earth created by J. R. R. Tolkien, Rhûn was a large region of eastern Middle-earth. Rhûn (which is also the Elvish word for "east") was the name used for all lands lying east of Rhovanion, around and beyond the...
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| x Misty Mountains |
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In J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy world of Middle-earth, the Misty Mountains (also known by its Sindarin name of Hithaeglir—misspelled as Hithaiglin on the original Lord of the Rings map—and as the Mountains of Mist) is a mountain range, running for 795...
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| x Mirkwood |
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The Hobbit |
Mirkwood is a name used for two distinct fictional forests in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium. In the First Age, the highlands of Dorthonion north of Beleriand were known as Mirkwood after falling under Morgoth's control. During the Third Age, the...
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| x Aman |
In J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, Aman, also known as the Undying Lands or Blessed Realm, is the home of the Valar, and three kindreds of Elves: the Vanyar, some of the Noldor, and some of the Teleri.
Aman is a continent far to the west of Middle...
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| x Riverside |
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James T. Kirk |
Riverside is a city in rural Washington County, Iowa, United States, along the English River on Iowa Highway 22. It is part of the Iowa City, Iowa Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 928 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Highland...
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| x USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) | Star Trek: The Original Series |
The USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) is a fictional starship in the Star Trek media franchise. The original Star Trek series depicts her crew's mission "to explore strange new worlds; to seek out new life and new civilizations; to boldly go where no man...
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| x 23rd century | Star Trek: The Original Series |
The 23rd century is the century of the Christian Era or Common Era which, in the Gregorian calendar, begins on January 1, 2201 and ends on December 31, 2300.
Unless changes are made in the religious calendar, in 2285, the Western Easter will fall on...
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| x New York City |
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City Hall | Tom Hagen |
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art,...
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| 13 Going on 30 | Philip J. Fry | ||||
| A Death in the Family, Part Four | Val Toriello | ||||
| The Great Gatsby | Clear Rivers | ||||
| Who Dares Defy...the Demi-Men | Joseph Stabler | ||||
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| x Suldanessellar |
Suldanessellar is a fictional town in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. Located within the nation of Tethyr, the city is populated entirely by wild elves. Suldanessellar was created by the...
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| x Amn | Suldanessellar |
Amn is a fictional country in the role-playing game of Dungeons and Dragons, modeled on medieval Spain. It is the land of focus in the titular game Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn.
It is a tremendously wealthy nation, holding colonies in far away...
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| x Second Earth | Bobby Pendragon |
Second Earth is a territory of Halla in the Pendragon series by D.J. MacHale.
Bobby Pendragon - Lead Traveler of his generation, and successor to Press Tilton.
Courtney Chetwynde &Mark; Dimond
Mark Dimond's escape to First Earth, and his...
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| x Midwestern United States |
![Midwest as shown by U.S. Census Bureau official map from [3]](http://img.freebase.com/api/trans/image_thumb/m/02bvtp4?pad=1&errorid=%2Ffreebase%2Fno_image_png&maxheight=64&mode=fillcropmid&maxwidth=64)
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
The Midwestern United States as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is one of the four U.S. geographic regions. Though it is geographically in the north, and more eastern than western, the term refers to the fact that the region is midway to...
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| x Angel Island |
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Starfleet Academy |
Angel Island is an island in San Francisco Bay that offers expansive views of the San Francisco skyline, the Marin County Headlands and Mount Tamalpais. The entire island is included within Angel Island State Park, and is administered by California...
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| x Xen | Half-Life | Gargantua |
Xen is a fictional world that appears in the science fiction video game Half-Life (Valve Software, 1998); the expansion packs Half-Life: Opposing Force (Valve Software and Gearbox Software, 1999); Half-Life: Blue Shift (Valve/Gearbox, 2001); and...
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| x San Francisco |
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Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home | Hikaru Sulu |
San Francisco (/ˌsæn frənˈsɪskoʊ/), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.6 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland. The only...
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| Tales of the City | Piper Halliwell | ||||
| Unleashing Janus | Wyatt Halliwell | ||||
| Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? | Chris Halliwell | ||||
| Mr. Monk and the Two Assistants | Prue Halliwell | ||||
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