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History on the 10th of August

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10 Aug 1742 RELIGIOUS English revivalist George Whitefield observed in a letter: 'It is a very uncommon thing to be rooted and grounded in the love of Jesus. I find persons may have the idea, but are far from having the real substance.'
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10 Aug 1760 RELIGIOUS Philip Embury (1728-1773) arrived in New York the first Methodist clergyman to come over from England.in America.
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10 Aug 1841 RELIGIOUS Birth of Mary A. Lathbury, American Sunday School leader and poet. Daughter of a Methodist preacher, two of Lathbury's poems later became popular hymns: "Break Thou the Bread of Life" and "Day is Dying in the West."
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10 Aug 1855 RELIGIOUS Birth of Frederick J. Foakes-Jackson, Anglican theologian. His numerous publications centered around church history. His best-remembered work is "The Beginnings of Christianity, Part I: The Acts of the Apostles" (5 volumes, 1919-33).
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10 Aug 1911 WW2 The British Parliament passed the Parliament Act 1911 which withdrew from the Lords the right to veto any financial bill originating from the Commons, and reduced the maximum duration of any government to five years. 
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10 Aug 1911 WW2 George Brett transferred from the Philippine Scouts to the 2nd Cavalry Regiment within the US Army. 
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10 Aug 1921 WW2 USS Arizona became the flagship of Battleship Division 7's Rear Admiral Josiah McKean at Balboa, Colombia. 
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10 Aug 1925 WW2 HMS Hermes arrived at Hong Kong. 
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10 Aug 1928 WW2 Koji Miyake was named the chief of staff of the Japanese Kwantung Army in northeastern China. 
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10 Aug 1928 WW2 Kenkichi Ueda was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general. 
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10 Aug 1928 WW2 General Takashi Hishikari was named the commanding officer of the Taiwan Army. 
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10 Aug 1936 WW2 Cruiser Köln completed operations off Spain. 
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10 Aug 1937 WW2 In Spain, the Council of Aragon was dissolved by the Republican Government. 
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10 Aug 1937 WW2 Japanese Consul General in China demanded the Chinese to withdraw the Peace Preservation Corps from Shanghai due to the death of Lieutenant Isao Oyama at Hongqiao Airport on the previous day. Meanwhile, additional Japanese troops began arriving in Shanghai. 
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10 Aug 1938 WW2 The Namita Detachment of the Japanese 11th Army Group and the Japanese 9th Division attacked Ruichang, Jiangxi, China, defended by the Chinese 3rd Army Company and the Chinese 32nd Army Group. 
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10 Aug 1938 WW2 American gunboat USS Luzon, with US Ambassador Nelson Johnson on board, arrived at Chongqing, China. 
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10 Aug 1938 WW2 The main synagogue at Nürnberg, Germany was destroyed. 
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10 Aug 1939 WW2 Reinhard Heydrich ordered SS Officer Alfred Naujocks to fake an attack on a radio station near Gleiwitz, Germany, which was on the border with Poland. "Practical proof is needed for these attacks of the Poles for the foreign press as well as German propaganda", said Heydrich, according to Naujocks. 
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10 Aug 1939 WW2 Poland responded to Germany's message from the previous day, noting that should a war between the two nations start, it would be German aggression that started it, and Poland could not be blamed. 
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10 Aug 1939 WW2 Léon Henri Charles Cayla was named the Governor-General of French West Africa. 
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10 Aug 1939 WW2 Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano departed Rome, Italy for Salzburg in southern Germany (occupied Austria) to meet with his German counterpart Joachim von Ribbentrop. 
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10 Aug 1939 WW2 P-39 Airacobra fighter entered production with a US Army order for 80 aircraft. 
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10 Aug 1940 WW2 German submarine U-56 struck HMS Transylvania 20 miles north of Ireland at 0100 hours with U-56's last torpedo, killing 36. Destroyer HMS Ashanti and several trawlers rescued 300 survivors, and then attempted to tow Transylvania back to port, but Transylvania would sink during the process. 
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10 Aug 1940 WW2 German occupation government in Luxembourg deemed the French language illegal; the German occupation government in Belgium declared that listening to BBC broadcasts was illegal. 
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10 Aug 1940 WW2 Romania passed anti-Semitic laws. 
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10 Aug 1940 WW2 German armed merchant cruiser Widder stopped Finnish sailing ship Killoran 300 miles southwest of the Azores. Most of the German crew were against sinking this old ship built in 1900, Widder's on-board surgeon wanted a dramatic finale for a film he was making, and persuaded Captain Ruckteschell to sink the sailing ship by gunfire after detaining the crew of 18. 
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10 Aug 1940 WW2 Allied convoy OA-196's Dutch ship Albula and American ship Crescent City collided just north of Scotland; Albula sank with the entire crew taken aboard by destroyer HMS Jaguar. 
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10 Aug 1940 WW2 Orion detected ship Triona off Brisbane, Australia but determined that she was not fast enough to attack this ship. 
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10 Aug 1940 WW2 Destroyers USS Walke and USS Wainwright arrived at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 
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10 Aug 1940 WW2 The Japanese naval blockade of China was expanded to cover southern China. 
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10 Aug 1940 WW2 The British government announced the withdrawal of all its forces from Shanghai and other concessions in northern China. 
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10 Aug 1940 WW2 Hans-Joachim Marseille was assigned to I. (Jagd) Lehrgeschwader 2 based in Marck on the northern coast of France. 
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10 Aug 1940 WW2 British troop ship SS Neuralia departed Gibraltar, escorted by destroyer HMS Gallant, with 2,000 civilian evacuees bound for the Portuguese island of Madeira 600 miles to the west in the Atlantic Ocean. 
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10 Aug 1940 WW2 The Italian Naval Staff issued its first operational order of WW2 for a Sep 1940 mission against Alexandria, Egypt and an Oct 1940 mission against Gibraltar. 
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10 Aug 1940 WW2 Hermann Göring's Adler Tag offensive against RAF airfields was canceled due to the weather; only reconnaissance patrols and small attacks on isolated trawlers and merchant ships were launched. Overnight, German aircraft mined the coast of Britain. No aircraft were lost by either side on this day. 
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10 Aug 1940 WW2 In the United States, President Roosevelt inspected Portsmouth Navy Yard in New Hampshire and Boston Navy Yard in Massachusetts, making the travel aboard presidential yacht Potomac. 
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10 Aug 1941 WW2 Franklin Roosevelt and his staff visited HMS Prince of Wales to attend British religious services. 
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10 Aug 1942 WW2 Jews of Lvov Ghetto in Ukraine started to be deported to concentration camps; 40,000 were deported within the following 12 days. 
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10 Aug 1942 WW2 Stranded, US Marines prepared artillery and defensive positions at Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. Meanwhile, in Japan, radio broadcast announced that Japanese air attacks had thus far sunk 28 Allied ships in the Guadalcanal area. 
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10 Aug 1942 WW2 A Mark X emergency identification flare exploded aboard USS S-1, seriously injuring her commanding officer. 
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10 Aug 1942 WW2 Kaga was removed from the Japanese Navy list. 
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10 Aug 1942 WW2 German submarine U-578 disappeared in the Bay of Biscay north of Cape Ortegal, Spain, probably sunk by a Czechoslovakian aircraft when it attacked U-135; all 49 aboard were lost. 
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10 Aug 1942 WW2 German submarine U-510 damaged British motor tanker Alexia with 3 torpedoes 50 miles east of Antigua at 0215 hours. German submarines U-660 and U-438 attacked Allied convoy SC-94 500 miles west of Ireland; at 1220 hours, U-438 damaged Greek merchant ship Condylis; at 1221 hours, U-660 sank Condylis, sank British merchant ship Empire Reindeer (all 65 aboard survived), British merchant ship Cape Race (all 63 aboard survived), and fatally damaged British merchant ship Oregon (2 were killed, 36 survived); at 1629 hours, U-438 sank the already-abandoned Oregon. At 1850 hours, U-155 sank Dutch merchant ship Strabo with her deck gun northeast of Paramaribo, Suriname; all 13 aboard survived. At 2130 hours, U-600 stopped British sailing vessel Vivian P. Smith with a warning shot from her deck gun 140 miles east of Turks and Caicos Islands; after the crew of 11 abandoned ship, Vivian P. Smith was scuttled by U-600's deck gun. Also on this day, Italian submarine Reginaldo Giuliani sank British merchant ship Medon with her deck gun 1,500 miles east of Trinidad; all 64 aboard survived. 
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10 Aug 1942 WW2 Japanese cruiser Kako was struck by three torpedoes from USS S-44 90 miles east of Kavieng, New Ireland at 0710 and sank at about 0715 hours; 34 were killed, 582 survived. 
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10 Aug 1942 WW2 German submarine U-77 sank Palestinian sailing vessel Kharouf with her deck gun off Palestine at 0120 hours. 
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10 Aug 1942 WW2 British anti-submarine trawler HMS Isley sank Italian submarine Scirè with depth charges 7 miles off Haifa, Palestine; 55 were killed. 
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10 Aug 1942 WW2 HMS Dianthus rescued survivors of British merchant ships Cape Race, Empire Reindeer, and Oregon in the Atlantic Ocean. 
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10 Aug 1942 WW2 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, accompanied by Generals Archibald Wavell and Alan Brooke, flew to Moscow, Russia to inform the Soviets of the Anglo-American decision to abandon Operation Sledgehammer in favour of Operation Torch. 
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10 Aug 1942 WW2 The Pedestal convoy, 13 merchantmen and the tanker Ohio (escorted by fifty-nine warships), departed from Gibraltar for Malta. Lying in wait were twenty-one Axis submarines and some 800 aircraft. 
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10 Aug 1942 WW2 Max Merten arrived in Thessaloniki for service with the German occupation administration in Thessaloniki, Greece. 
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10 Aug 1942 WW2 Police in Bombay, India opened fire on a mob rioting following the arrest, on the previous day, of Mohandas Gandhi, Pandit Nehru and Dr. Maulana Azad, and all the members of the Indian Congress Party who attended the 5 August 1942 Bombay meeting. 
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10 Aug 1942 WW2 At Hashirajima island in Hiroshima Bay, Japan, Admiral Yamamoto convened a meeting aboard Yamato with Vice Admiral Nagumo of First Air Fleet, Vice Admiral Kondo of Second Fleet, and other top Combined Fleet staff officers. Yamamoto discussed his desire to exploit Mikawa's success and the need to protect convoys carrying troops to recapture Guadalcanal. 
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10 Aug 1942 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Sasebo, Japan. 
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10 Aug 1942 WW2 Troops of the German 6.Armee crossed the Don River in southern Russia, reaching the suburbs of Stalingrad. 
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10 Aug 1942 WW2 German troops reached the Krasnodar-Pyatigorsk-Maikop line in southern Russia. Over Novorossiysk, five He 111 bombers of German Luftwaffe group KG 55 were attacked by Soviet LaGG-3 fighters; Soviet pilots claimed 3 bombers destroyed, one of which by deliberate ramming. 
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10 Aug 1943 WW2 George Patton visited the 93rd Evacuation Hospital in Sicily, Italy and berated Private Paul Bennett for cowardice. 
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10 Aug 1943 WW2 Bernard Montgomery was awarded the title of Chief Commander of the Legion of Merit of the United States. 
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10 Aug 1943 WW2 Winston Churchill arrived at Hyde Park, New York, United States to visit Franklin Roosevelt. 
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10 Aug 1943 WW2 Operational control of the US Northern Landing Group on New Georgia in the Solomon Islands was passed to the US Army 25th Division, while the US lst Marine Raider Regiment was detached from the Northern Landing Group to join other Marine Corps units at Enogai. 
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10 Aug 1943 WW2 A transport of about 3,000 arrived at Auschwitz Concentration Camp from the liquidated ghetto in Sosnowiec, Poland. 110 men and 195 were registered into the camp; the remainder were killed in the gas chambers. On the same day, Auschwitz received 754 sewing machines from the liquidated ghetto of Bedzin, Poland. 
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10 Aug 1943 WW2 USS Tunny departed Midway Atoll. 
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10 Aug 1944 WW2 USS Tang attacked but failed to hit a tanker near Omaezaki, Japan. 
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10 Aug 1944 WW2 US 5th and French 2nd Armored Divisions moved to Alençon, France. 
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10 Aug 1944 WW2 Captain David Jamieson of the UK Royal Norfolk Regiment won the Victoria Cross. Despite being wounded in the eye and arm, he refused to be evacuated as a casualty as he was the only officer remaining functioning, and with only 100 men held off seven repeated attacks by superior forces against his bridgehead over the River Orne, Normandy, France. 
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10 Aug 1944 WW2 Amagi was commissioned into service. 
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10 Aug 1944 WW2 Dwight Eisenhower inspected paratroopers of the US 101st Airborne Division at Hunkerford, Hungerford, England, United Kingdom. 
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10 Aug 1944 WW2 USS Guitarro attacked a Japanese convoy off Luzon, Philippine Islands and sank tanker Shinei Maru; she expended eight torpedoes in this attack and claimed a total of five hits; Guitarro suffered superficial damage from the subsequent depth charging. 
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10 Aug 1944 WW2 Light carrier Ryuho was assigned to Carrier Division 4 of the 3rd Fleet. 
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10 Aug 1944 WW2 Japanese 18th Army under Lieutenant General Hatazo Adachi was wiped out by the Americans in the Aitape-New Hollandia area in New Guinea. 
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10 Aug 1944 WW2 The railwaymen of Paris, France went on strike, and hundreds of soldiers awaiting evacuation back to Germany found themselves marooned on station platforms. The acts of random sabotage quickly escalated and within two days, instead of carrying the Germans away from the perils of Paris, the strikers were actively cutting off the German retreat by pulling up rails, wrecking points and crippling locomotives. Even with replacement German drivers the trains were unable to run and all Parisian rail links to the outside world had been effectively destroyed. 
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10 Aug 1944 WW2 US forces declared Guam, Mariana Islands secured. 
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10 Aug 1944 WW2 USS Preston departed Apra harbor, Guam for Eniwetok, Marshall Islands. 
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10 Aug 1944 WW2 "Colleoni" Group of Divisione Decima (10th Division) of Italian Navy was sent to Canavese region of northwestern Italian to fight partisans. 
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10 Aug 1944 WW2 Irako departed Imari Bay, Kyushu, Japan as a part of convoy HI-71. 
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10 Aug 1944 WW2 Unryu was assigned to 7th Base Air Force Air Attack Force under operational command of Japanese 3rd Air Fleet, although officially she remained with Carrier Division 1 of Japanese 3rd Fleet. 
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10 Aug 1944 WW2 Captain Masanao Ofuji was named the commanding officer of Settsu. 
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10 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Blenny reported sinking six small Japanese craft with the deck gun in the South China Sea off Malaya. 
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10 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Caiman sank a Japanese schooner by gunfire in the southern South China Sea. 
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10 Aug 1945 WW2 Faced with the threat of more atomic bombs and the menace of the Soviets, Japan announced that it was willing to surrender provided the future status of the Emperor could be assured. 
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10 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Carbonero sank two schooners and a sampan with her deck gun in the Gulf of Siam-South China Sea area. 
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10 Aug 1945 WW2 About 50 P-47 and P-51 fighters of the US 14th Air Force attacked Japanese road and river traffic, railroads, and bridges across a large area in southeastern China. 
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10 Aug 1945 WW2 70 American B-29 bombers attacked the arsenal complex near Tokyo, Japan. 
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10 Aug 1945 WW2 Air Group 87 aircraft from USS Ticonderoga struck Hokkaido, Japan. 
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10 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Boarfish arrived at Subic Bay, Philippine Islands, ending her fourth war patrol. 
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10 Aug 1945 WW2 US B-24 bombers based in the Philippine Islands struck the city of Shinchiku (now Hsinchu), Taiwan. 
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10 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Segundo departed Midway Atoll for her fifth war patrol in the Sea of Okhotsk off the Kurile Islands. She was tasked to monitor Soviet activity in northern Japan. 
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10 Aug 1948 RELIGIOUS English apologist C.S. Lewis wrote in a letter: 'We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in us patience, humility, contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country.
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