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art historian researching whiteness and greco-roman mythology in british history painting. curator thinking about victorian art and global connections. views my own. 🏳️‍🌈 hardeepsdhindsa.co.uk

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Visual Culture in Britain @vcib.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
“[A]s art historians we are trained to understand how powerful the image can be”, writes @hardeepdhindsa.bsky.social, unravelling and unpacking the visual politics of Whiteness in Classical sculpture and beyond (Volume 22, Issue 1-3, 2024). www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Confronting the White Classical Body
Published in Visual Culture in Britain (Vol. 22, No. 1-3, 2024)
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Anna P. Judson @annapjudson.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
@womeninclassicsuk.bsky.social is nearly 10! Come celebrate with us and a great line-up of speakers @hardeepdhindsa.bsky.social @alicekonig.bsky.social & Katharine Piu San Russell @durhamclassics.bsky.social. Travel bursaries available, see info in QT'd link #AncientBluesky #ClassicsBluesky 🏺
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dr hardeep dhindsa (he/him) @hardeepsdhindsa.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
I’ve graduated with a PhD in Classics and History! 👨‍🎓 #c18 #classicsbluesky ‘Agents of Empire: Cultural Imperialism, White British Identity, and the Eighteenth-Century Grand Tour’ is available to download and read using the following link: kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/st...
A photograph of me standing in my graduation robes
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
2025 has been a rotten year for most early career postdoctoral researchers, especially in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. For a better 2026, check out (or repost) this short thread on a free resource for UK-based SHAPE PhDs within 10 years (excluding career breaks) of the doctorate. 1/3
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Early Career Researcher Network
An inclusive, researcher-led network for UK-based early career researchers working in the humanities and social sciences
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
"More than a third (37%) of Reform UK voters said they would be prouder of Britain if there were fewer people from minority ethnic backgrounds in a decade’s time, and 10% [compared to 3% overall] said it was important to have white skin to be a good British citizen."
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Number of people who say Britons must be born in UK is rising, study shows
Exclusive: Research finds ‘worrying’ surge in support for hard-right narratives on national identity
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Dr Emlyn Dodd @emlynkd.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Looking forward to our next @ics.bsky.social – British Museum seminar with another terrific group of speakers, incl @hardeepdhindsa.bsky.social @drmaimusie.bsky.social, Eleanor Newman & Joe Skinner. Register at link below!
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dr hardeep dhindsa (he/him) @hardeepsdhindsa.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Register for BSECS using the link below! If any PhD students and/or ECRs want to chat over coffee about postdoc applications, drop me a DM :) I'm always happy to share my experiences of post-PhD life. #c18
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Esther Wright @enwright.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
A project that started with a DiGRA23 workshop is finally, nearly out in the world! Coming May 2026 from Bloomsbury’s Writing History series, Writing Games Histories is a collection of essays on historical game studies methods&approaches. Find the ToC here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-g...
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Writing Game Histories
This book offers an accessible introduction to the dynamic intersection between history and games, and the flourishing discipline of Historical Game Studies. Fr…
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dr hardeep dhindsa (he/him) @hardeepsdhindsa.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Next time you visit the Pre-Raphaelite galleries at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, keep an eye out for more information about my project, Victorian Art & Design and the Global! More information available at: www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/about/what-w...
A museum text display with more information on upcoming redisplays at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
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dr hardeep dhindsa (he/him) @hardeepsdhindsa.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Check out my review of Paola Bertucci’s book, In the Land of Marvels: Science, Fabricated Realities, and Industrial Espionage in the Age of the Grand Tour. It’s a fascinating glimpse into the social and cultural circles of Italy’s scientific communities in the eighteenth century ⚡️
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dr hardeep dhindsa (he/him) @hardeepsdhindsa.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Hey, it's me! Check out some of the highlights from Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery's newly reopened Pre-Raphaelite galleries!👩‍🎨 www.instagram.com/reel/DQWNyhq...
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Katherine McDonald @katherinemcdon.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Little payday treat order for me! Finally got a couple of laptop stickers (with an Etruscan theme).
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Of interest for UK museum staff and those working with collections relating to migration history, an in-person Migration Network event hosted by @migrationmuseum.org at the Museum of Liverpool on Wednesday 3 September 10:00-15:30.
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Centring Migration: A Day of Dialogue on Future Museum Collecting Practices
Join the Migration Museum and National Museums Liverpool for a day-long, in-person event exploring collections and community-centred work.
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dr hardeep dhindsa (he/him) @hardeepsdhindsa.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
❗My shop is back❗Check out my illustrations of classical antiquities in all their polychromatic glory🏺 www.redbubble.com/people/Neo-C...
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Neo-Classicist Shop | Redbubble
Neo-Classicist is an independent artist creating amazing designs for great products such as t-shirts, stickers, posters, and phone cases.
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Dr Liam Sims @liamsims.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
My PhD thesis is now available online through the University of Leicester repository! 'Sociability, Provincial Antiquarianism and Networks of Knowledge in the Spalding Gentlemen's Society, 1710-1755'. figshare.le.ac.uk/articles/the...
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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 01/07/2025
👉NEW -- Westminster group took cash from Israeli state-owned arms firm by Martin Williams Revealed: Cross-party group of MPs accused of ‘clear breach of the rules’ over donation from weapons company controlled by Israeli government. www.declassifieduk.org/westminster-...
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Westminster group took cash from Israeli state-owned arms firm
Revealed: cross-party group of MPs accused of ‘clear breach of the rules’ over donation from weapons company controlled by Israeli government.
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Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info · 30/06/2025
It's ten years since I published this piece on my post-PhD experience of precarious employment, and I'm sad to reflect that my happy ending has become a vanishingly less likely outcome. catherinefletcher.info/2015/06/30/f...
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Five cities, seven years: my life post-PhD
It’s seven years today since I was awarded my PhD, and it’s also my last official day in the office at my current job. That’ll be the seventh job in seven years, the fifth city an…
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dr hardeep dhindsa (he/him) @hardeepsdhindsa.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Deeply honoured to say that I am one of the recipients of an Early Career Fellowship! From May 2026, I’ll be spending 3 years at Edinburgh’s Art History department (@edincollegeofart.bsky.social) to research Whiteness and Greco-Roman antiquity in eighteenth-century British history paintings
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dr hardeep dhindsa (he/him) @hardeepsdhindsa.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Super pleased to announce that I started my new job as a Curator/Researcher at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery 🎉 I’ll be working on the ‘Victorian Art & Design and the Global’ project and will get to share my expertise on all things Empire and British Art
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Peopling The Past @peoplingthepast.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
In today’s #PeoplingPodcast, we are joined by @hardeepdhindsa.bsky.social to discuss the relationship between classical culture and imperialism in the 18th and 19th centuries. Listen in to find out more about Classics, the Grand Tour, and Invented Legacies here: peoplingthepast.com/2025/06/03/p...
Hardeep stands in front of a bookcase filled with old books, with his hands in his pockets in a relaxed stance. He is wearing slacks and a checked shirt, and he also has glasses on.
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The Society of Antiquaries of London @antiquaries.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
We're excited to present the first in a series of interviews with our Fellows. We start with @profdanhicks.bsky.social, Prof of Contemporary Archaeology at @ox.ac.uk, Curator of World Archaeology at @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social & Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford. www.sal.org.uk/2025/04/meet...
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Meet the Fellows: Dan Hicks FSA - Society of Antiquaries of London
The Society of Antiquaries is proud to bring together a distinguished community of scholars, practitioners, and enthusiasts dedicated to the study and stewardship of the material past. In our new Meet...
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CAARI-Cyprus @caari-cyprus.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Very pleased that copies of our new volume with @cypriotartleeds.bsky.social & Thomas Kiely ‘Empire & Excavation. Critical perspectives on archaeology in British-period Cyprus’ have arrived! Thanks to @sidestone.bsky.social 🏺
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dr hardeep dhindsa (he/him) @hardeepsdhindsa.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Deeply honoured to have contributed to the relaunch issue of Visual Culture in Britain @vcib.bsky.social 🎨 My short essay uses my illustrations as a starting point to discuss the normalcy of Whiteness in the reception of Greco-Roman art and how Critical Whiteness Studies helps me articulate this
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Confronting the White Classical Body
Published in Visual Culture in Britain (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Peopling The Past @peoplingthepast.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
HUGE NEWS! Season 4 of #PeoplingPodcast is coming soon! In today’s preview episode, hosts Chelsea Gardner & Melissa Funke are joined by Christine Johnston (Season 4’s producer) to talk about what our listeners can expect. Listen in and find out more here: peoplingthepast.com/2025/01/14/p... /1
In the centre of the image we see an image of a reconstructed temple inside a museum space. The framing text reads "Season 4 Coming Soon! Cultural Heritage and Legacies of Colonialism"
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dr hardeep dhindsa (he/him) @hardeepsdhindsa.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Say, hypothetically, my viva is on Wednesday. What last-minute advice would you give me? Hypothetically speaking of course 🫥
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dr hardeep dhindsa (he/him) @hardeepsdhindsa.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Deeply honoured to have contributed to the relaunch issue of Visual Culture in Britain @vcib.bsky.social 🎨 My short essay uses my illustrations as a starting point to discuss the normalcy of Whiteness in the reception of Greco-Roman art and how Critical Whiteness Studies helps me articulate this
tandfonline.com
Confronting the White Classical Body
Published in Visual Culture in Britain (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
REGISTRATION FOR #BSECS2025 CLOSES AT MIDNIGHT ON SATURDAY 30 NOVEMBER!!!! We can't wait to see you all in January. #18thC #skystorians 🗃️ www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...
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BSECS Conference Registration
Registration for the BSECS Annual Conference is now open. Please use the form below to register for the conference.
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Cécile Fromont @cecilefromont.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
This issue of Art History I co-edited with Esther Chadwick analyzed the #earlymodern Atlantic as ‘vast’ in its complexity and its connectedness, and in its continuing effects in our world today #VastEarlyAmericas #arthistory @forarthistory.bsky.social #Americas #Africa #Caribbean #18thcentury
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The Vast Early Modern Atlantic: Art History: Vol 46, No 5
Click on the title to browse this issue
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The Society of Antiquaries of London @antiquaries.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Watch live at www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E7t...
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dr hardeep dhindsa (he/him) @hardeepsdhindsa.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Looking forward to today’s Collections and Research Day at @antiquaries.bsky.social, where I’ll be talking about racialised touch and classical sculpture in the eighteenth century #c18
My name badge in the society’s meeting room
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Richard Ansell @richardjansell.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
My edition of four travel journals by 18th-c servants is out now, including accounts of France, Italy, the Low Countries, Germany and the Ottoman Empire by three valets and a maid – the majority of people who went on the 'Grand Tour' #skystorians #18thc #c18th global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Green cover of the book 'Servants Abroad: Travel Journals by British Working People, 1765–1798'. The image shows an 18th-century caricature of a male servant carrying books and wine.
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 21/11/2024
The ICC has issued arrest warrants for two of the most prominent leaders of the US-Israeli genocide, including Netanyahu, for war crimes including “starvation as a method of warfare” & “the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts.” www.icc-cpi.int/news/situati...
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Situation in the State of Palestine: ICC Pre-Trial Chamber I rejects the State of Israel’s challenges to jurisdiction and issues warrants of arrest for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant
Today, on 21 November 2024, Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (‘Court’), in its composition for the Situation in the State of Palestine, unanimously issued two decisions rejectin...
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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Going down a rabbit hole on Iraq's Marsh Arabs (as I periodically do) and came across this fascinating piece examining normalized transgender identities in the Marshes in the early 20th century
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Recovering Arab Trans History: Masoud El Amaratly, the Folk Music Icon from Iraq's Marshes - Ajam Media Collective
Masoud El Amaratly is an Iraqi singing legend, his voice evoking the lush marshes of southern Iraq with lament, melancholy and longing. He is not only one of Iraq's most famous singers; he is also one...
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Camille Cordier @camcord.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Great news for historians of the French Empire! Moreau de Saint-Méry's private archives (series F3) have been digitised and are available online on the ANOM website. A very rich resource for anyone working on Haiti, the West Indies,Canada, the Indian Ocean, etc.
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Collection Moreau de Saint-Méry
Ce formulaire permet d'effectuer une recherche dans tous les inventaires en ligne des fonds conservés aux Archives nationales d'outre-mer.
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
New to Bluesky? Love museums? We have you covered! We're constantly adding new museums, libraries, and arts orgs to our Arts & Culture Starter Pack. Today, we welcomed the @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social, @artukdotorg.bsky.social, and many more :) bsky.app/starter-pack...
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Res_Australes: Ancient World Studies, Australasia @resaustrales.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
"[Jessica] Murtagh’s #amphorae make connections across time... scenes of quotidian life which.. communicate profound shifts in society and capture the collective culture of a time." citynews.com.au/2024/murtagh... [Jessica Murtagh at Grainger Gallery, Fyshwick, ACT until Dec 1]
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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Mood. “Death blowing bubbles,” 18th century. The bubbles symbolize life's fragility. This plaster work appears on ceiling of Holy Grave Chapel in Michaelsberg Abbey, Bamberg, Germany. After the monastery’s dissolution in 1803, the buildings were used as the city's hospital. #skystorians #history
Plaster work depicting a skeleton leaning forward and blowing bubbles. It is painted in white against a blue background.
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Medievalist.net @medievalists.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
A group of researchers have recreated the clothing of medieval Nubian royalty and clergy from the wall paintings in the cathedral of Faras, which sits at the border of modern Egypt and Sudan.
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Eduardo Fernández @apocalypsisnova.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
A couple years ago I put together a little list of yearly fellowships and applications, mostly for early modernists. It includes deadlines, salaries, and requirements. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Fellowships and Grants
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Emilio Zucchetti @emizuc.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Juan, Bertrand, Robinson and I are pleased to announce the programme of the upcoming “The Roman Republic and the 70s BCE: A Period of Uncertainty and Crises”, Stewart House, London, 9-11 January 2025.
The Roman Republic and the 70s BCE: A Period of Uncertainty and Crises”, Stewart House, London, 9-11 January 2025. 

Event organised by Emilio Zucchetti, Juan García González, Bertrand Augier, and Robinson Baudry.

Registration and contact: conf70sbce@gmail.comThursday 09/01/25

 

13.00-14.00: Welcome.

 

14.00-15.15: First Session.

 

Bertrand Augier & Gaelle Perrot: ‘What is a Crisis in the 70’s BCE? The CRRITIC Project and its first Results’.

Edward Bispham: ‘Uncertainty seen through Dust: the 70s as constructed in the Pro Cluentio of Cicero’.

 

15.45-17.00: Second Session.

 

Christel Muller: ‘Central Greece after Sylla: A Decade (a Century...) of Roman Plundering?’.

Julie Bothorel: ‘The Drawing of Lots in the 70s’.

 

17.30-18.45: Third Session.

 

Lucia Carbone: ‘Lucullus and the Poleis of the Provincia Asia: A Tale in Coins’.

Clara Berrendoner: ‘The Roman World in the 70s: Financial Shock and Attempted Solutions’.Friday 10/01/25

 

10.00-11.15: Fourth Session.

 

Kit Morrell: ‘Reform in the 70s’ (online).

Antonella Bellantuono: ‘Political and Religious Crisis in Judea: The Roman Presence in Jewish Politics’.

 

11.45-13.00: Fifth Session.

 

Dominic Machado: ‘Italian Integration in the 70s BCE: A View from the Army’.

Benjamin Howland: ‘The Exemplary Spartacus: Spartacus as exemplum in Roman Republican & Imperial Literature’.

 

14.00-15.15: Sixth Session.

 

Emilio Zucchetti: ‘The Multitude in the 70s’.

Olga Liubimova: ‘Marcus Crassus and Tribunicial Agitation in the 70s BCE’ (online).

 15.45-17.00: Seventh Session.

Silvia Lacorte: ‘”Ein unbesonnenerKopf?” A Politico-Ideological Analysis of Lepidus’ Consulship in 78 BCE’.

Juan García González: ‘Hispaniae armis sollicitae. The Provincial Strategy of Lepidus and Sertorius (78-77 BCE)’.
 
17.30-19.00: Eighth Session.

Gregory Coates: ‘After Victory: The nobilitas in the 70s BCE’.

Robinson Baudry: ‘Cursus honorum in the 70s’.

Bertrand Augier: ‘Domi nobiles and noui senatores: Italy and the Roman Aristocracy’.
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Antiquipop @antiquipop.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Released in 2021, Lizzo and Cardi B's #Rumors is one the most generous and intelligent music video to cite Antiquity and its reception. 🌿 Read our article by @hardeepdhindsa.bsky.social and Vanessa Stovall : 🏛️ antiquipop.hypotheses.org/eng/10015eng 🏺 #AncientBlueSky 💿 #PopCulture
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“Give ‘em something to talk about” – a breakdown of Lizzo and Cardi B’s “Rumors”
“Give ‘em something to talk about” – a breakdown of Lizzo and Cardi B’s “Rumors” On August 13, pop sensation Lizzo released her newest single with rapper Cardi B called “Rumors”. The lyrics of the son...
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