Fire and Brimstone
The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917
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Michael Punke
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The author of the number-one New York Times best seller The Revenant - the basis for the award-winning motion picture starring Leonardo DiCaprio - tells the remarkable story of the worst hard-rock mining disaster in American history.
The worst hard-rock mining disaster in American history began a half hour before midnight on June 8, 1917, when fire broke out in the North Butte Mining Company's Granite Mountain shaft. Sparked more than 2,000 feet below ground, the fire spewed flames, smoke, and poisonous gas through a labyrinth of underground tunnels. Within an hour more than 400 men would be locked in a battle to survive. Within three days 164 of them would be dead.
Fire and Brimstone recounts the remarkable stories of both the men below ground and their families above, focusing on two groups of miners who made the incredible decision to entomb themselves to escape the gas. While the disaster is compelling in its own right, Fire and Brimstone also tells a far broader story striking in its contemporary relevance. Butte, Montana, on the eve of the North Butte disaster, was a volatile jumble of antiwar protest, an abusive corporate master, seething labor unrest, divisive ethnic tension, and radicalism both left and right. It was a powder keg lacking only a spark, and the mine fire would ignite strikes, murder, ethnic and political witch hunts, occupation by federal troops, and ultimately a battle over presidential power.
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- De J. A. Bowen en 05-16-16
De: Michael Punke
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The Accursed Tower
- The Fall of Acre and the End of the Crusades
- De: Roger Crowley
- Narrado por: Matt Kugler
- Duración: 8 h y 5 m
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In The Accursed Tower, Roger Crowley delivers a lively narrative of the lead-up to the siege and a vivid, blow-by-blow account of the climactic battle. Drawing on extant Arabic sources as well as untranslated Latin documents, he argues that Acre is notable for technical advances in military planning and siege warfare, and extraordinary for its individual heroism and savage slaughter. A gripping depiction of the crusader era told through its dramatic last moments, The Accursed Tower offers an essential new view on a crucial turning point in world history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another great book by Roger Crowley
- De tp en 03-13-20
De: Roger Crowley
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Enemy of All Mankind
- A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt
- De: Steven Johnson
- Narrado por: Jason Culp
- Duración: 8 h y 14 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 388
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Henry Every was the 17th century’s most notorious pirate. The press published wildly popular - and wildly inaccurate - reports of his nefarious adventures. The British government offered enormous bounties for his capture, alive or (preferably) dead. But Steven Johnson argues that Every’s most lasting legacy was his inadvertent triggering of a major shift in the global economy. Enemy of All Mankind focuses on one key event - the attack on an Indian treasure ship by Every and his crew - and its surprising repercussions across time and space.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Slow
- De Gary V Howell en 06-07-20
De: Steven Johnson
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The Unidentified
- Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession with the Unexplained
- De: Colin Dickey
- Narrado por: Will Damron
- Duración: 10 h y 10 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 265
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 233
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In a world where rational, scientific explanations are more available than ever, belief in the unprovable and irrational - in fringe - is on the rise: from Atlantis to aliens, from Flat Earth to the Loch Ness monster, the list goes on. It seems the more our maps of the known world get filled in, the more we crave mysterious locations full of strange creatures. Enter Colin Dickey, cultural historian and tour guide of the weird.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Skeptic's Analysis of Weird America
- De Adrian en 11-23-20
De: Colin Dickey
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The Enemy at the Gate
- Habsburgs, Ottomans, and the Battle for Europe
- De: Andrew Wheatcroft
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 11 h y 23 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 89
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The Great Siege of Vienna is the centerpiece for historian Andrew Wheatcroft's richly drawn portrait of the centuries-long rivalry between the Ottoman and Habsburg empires for control of the European continent. A gripping work by a master historian, The Enemy at the Gate offers a timely examination of an epic clash of civilizations.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Look elsewhere
- De Ben H. en 09-20-21
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Road to Surrender
- Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II
- De: Evan Thomas
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 7 h y 51 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 137
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 121
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So begins this suspenseful, impeccably researched history that draws on new access to diaries to tell the story of three men who were intimately involved with America’s decision to drop the atomic bomb—and Japan’s decision to surrender. They are Henry Stimson, the American Secretary of War, who oversaw J. Robert Oppenheimer under the Manhattan Project; Gen. Carl “Tooey” Spaatz, head of strategic bombing in the Pacific, who supervised the planes that dropped the bombs; and Japanese Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Why they decided to drop the atomic bombs
- De William R. Todd-Mancillas (Name includes hyphen and capitalized M). en 08-08-23
De: Evan Thomas
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One Square Mile of Hell
- The Battle for Tarawa
- De: John Wukovits
- Narrado por: Gregory Jones
- Duración: 12 h y 29 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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In November 1943, the men of the 2d Marine Division were instructed to clear out Japanese resistance on the Pacific island of Betio, a speck at the end of the Tarawa Atoll. When the Marines landed, the Japanese poured out of their underground bunkers — and launched one of the most brutal and bloody battles of World War II.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant
- De Chandler en 02-17-22
De: John Wukovits
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The Urge
- Our History of Addiction
- De: Carl Erik Fisher
- Narrado por: Mark Deakins
- Duración: 11 h y 20 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 131
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As a psychiatrist in training fresh from medical school, Carl Erik Fisher found himself face-to-face with an addiction crisis that nearly cost him everything. Desperate to make sense of his condition, he turned to the history of addiction, learning that our society’s current quagmire is only part of a centuries-old struggle to treat addictive behavior.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Nailed it
- De Paully en 11-23-22
De: Carl Erik Fisher
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Away Off Shore
- Nantucket Island and Its People, 1602-1890
- De: Nathaniel Philbrick
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 8 h y 57 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 116
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In his first book of history, Away Off Shore, New York Times best-selling author Nathaniel Philbrick reveals the people and the stories behind what was once the whaling capital of the world. Beyond its charm, quaint local traditions, and whaling yarns, Philbrick explores the origins of Nantucket in this comprehensive history. From the English settlers who thought they were purchasing a "Native American ghost town" but actually found a fully realized society, the story of Nantucket is a truly unique chapter of American history.
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3 out of 5 stars
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There once were some (wo)men in Nantucket...
- De Darwin8u en 02-03-19
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Ravenous
- Otto Warburg, the Nazis, and the Search for the Cancer-Diet Connection
- De: Sam Apple
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 12 h y 58 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 181
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 157
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The Nobel laureate Otto Warburg was widely regarded in his day as one of the most important biochemists of the 20th century, a man whose research was integral to humanity’s understanding of cancer. He was also among the most despised figures in Nazi Germany. As a Jewish homosexual living openly with his male partner, Warburg represented all that the Third Reich abhorred. Yet Hitler and his top advisors dreaded cancer, and protected Warburg in the hope that he could cure it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Highly recommended, a must read.
- De Joerg en 06-10-21
De: Sam Apple
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Blood and Fury
- The World War II Story of Tank Sergeant Lafayette "War Daddy" Pool
- De: Stephen L. Moore
- Narrado por: Johnny Heller
- Duración: 7 h y 24 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Lafayette Pool provided inspiration for Brad Pitt’s character “War Daddy” Collier in the movie Fury, but his true story is less known. Here, acclaimed author Stephen L. Moore writes the first full-length narrative to honor the valiant Texan tanker. A champion Golden Gloves boxer turned U.S. Army legend, Pool was known as the “ace of tankers” for destroying more than five enemy tanks in head-to-head combat.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding work!
- De Rodney en 01-13-23
De: Stephen L. Moore
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Fatherland
- A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family Secrets
- De: Burkhard Bilger
- Narrado por: Burkhard Bilger
- Duración: 8 h y 59 m
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What do we owe the past? How to make peace with a dark family history? Burkhard Bilger hardly knew his grandfather growing up. His parents immigrated to Oklahoma from Germany after World War II, and though his mother was an historian, she rarely talked about her father or what he did during the war. Then one day a packet of letters arrived from Germany, yellowing with age, and a secret history began to unfold.
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4 out of 5 stars
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a window into a little-explored aspect of WWII
- De Marjorie en 09-23-23
De: Burkhard Bilger
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Still Life with Bones
- Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains
- De: Alexa Hagerty
- Narrado por: Rose Akroyd
- Duración: 8 h y 8 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 40
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Throughout Guatemala’s thirty-six-year armed conflict, state forces killed more than two hundred thousand people. Argentina’s military dictatorship disappeared up to thirty thousand people. In the wake of genocidal violence, families of the missing searched for the truth. Young scientists joined their fight against impunity. Gathering evidence in the face of intimidation and death threats, they pioneered the field of forensic exhumation for human rights.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Disturbing and Hard to Listen To
- De Alain R Gardner en 06-09-23
De: Alexa Hagerty
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The Book of Not Knowing
- Exploring the True Nature of Self, Mind, and Consciousness
- De: Peter Ralston, Laura Ralston - editor
- Narrado por: Keith O'Brien
- Duración: 19 h y 44 m
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Through decades of martial arts and meditation practice, Peter Ralston discovered a curious and paradoxical fact: that true awareness arises from a state of not knowing. Even the most sincere investigation of self and spirit, he says, is often sabotaged by our tendency to grab too quickly for answers and ideas as we retreat to the safety of the known.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Painful
- De MJ en 05-09-19
De: Peter Ralston, y otros
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The Walls Have Ears
- The Greatest Intelligence Operation of World War II
- De: Helen Fry
- Narrado por: Jean Gilpin
- Duración: 11 h y 41 m
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At the outbreak of World War II, MI6 spymaster Thomas Kendrick arrived at the Tower of London to set up a top secret operation: German prisoners' cells were to be bugged and listeners installed behind the walls to record and transcribe their private conversations. This mission proved so effective that it would go on to be set up at three further sites - and provide the Allies with crucial insight into new technology being developed by the Nazis. In this astonishing history, Helen Fry uncovers the inner workings of the bugging operation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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inresting look into a secret world.
- De Christopher Daniels en 05-22-20
De: Helen Fry
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The Rising
- The Twenty-Year Battle to Rebuild the World Trade Center
- De: Larry Silverstein
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 9 h y 50 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 13
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After the terrorist attacks of 9/11 destroyed the World Trade Center, New Yorkers and Americans faced a critical set of questions: What should be done with the site? Could the towers be replaced? And how best to memorialize those lost on that day? For Larry Silverstein, a lifelong New Yorker who had signed a lease for the properties just a few months before the attacks, the answer was clear: America had to rebuild as quickly as possible.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Starts great before it morphs quickly into Larry Silverstein paying homage to himself
- De Xj517 en 10-11-24
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What You Have Heard Is True
- A Memoir of Witness and Resistance
- De: Carolyn Forché
- Narrado por: Carolyn Forché
- Duración: 12 h y 17 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 338
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What You Have Heard is True is a devastating, lyrical, and visionary memoir about a young woman’s brave choice to engage with horror in order to help others. Written by one of the most gifted poets of her generation, this is the story of a woman’s radical act of empathy, and her fateful encounter with an intriguing man who changes the course of her life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful story
- De Norhilda en 05-09-19
De: Carolyn Forché
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Money for Nothing
- The Scientists, Fraudsters, and Corrupt Politicians Who Reinvented Money, Panicked a Nation, and Made the World Rich
- De: Thomas Levenson
- Narrado por: Dan Bittner
- Duración: 12 h y 12 m
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In the heart of the Scientific Revolution, when new theories promised to explain the affairs of the universe, Britain was broke, facing a mountain of debt accumulated in war after war it could not afford. But that same Scientific Revolution - the kind of thinking that helped Isaac Newton solve the mysteries of the cosmos - would soon lead clever, if not always scrupulous, men to try to figure a way out of Britain’s financial troubles.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Financial innovation's first song of the siren.
- De Michael Barnett en 09-06-20
De: Thomas Levenson
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Fire and Brimstone
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- yy
- 07-17-24
Interesting
A well written timely book. Not just 2024 has politics been rocky. So informative about life in Montana and America from 1917 to 1945 about. I enjoyed the listen very much.
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- Joshua Rogers
- 02-23-20
Great detail
Listening to the audio of this story was amazing in great interesting information about what happened in the mine the stories inside this story.
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- gianna
- 06-26-23
Great
Informative, Entertaining. Well read. Local history with national implications. Nothing else to add. A rating.
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- Mark Murawski
- 04-04-22
Excellent narration. Riveting story
While one might say that history is 'dry', this story of the worst mining disaster is anything but. The surrounding details of the political situation at the time help give perspective on the day to day. The details from survivors are heroic, sobering and vivid.
The narrator is smooth and engaging.
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- Todd
- 05-03-20
A Must Read
Exceptional book of history, human spirit, and the crushing weight of history on us all. Once you know this story you will understand all others.
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- Lenny Patterson
- 06-21-21
A must for western America and political history.
A author with experience and great research brings a miners story of struggle and survival.
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- Elaine McCollough
- 11-14-21
Great story and performance
Some very interesting Montana history beyond the fire in the mine. Some of the current political issues are apparently not NEW!
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- Jerry Stauffer
- 11-01-22
A tale of work, fire, war and politics
In 1917 an attempt to run an electric cable led to a fire that killed 163 men. That's only a small part of the story. It is hard for us to understand maze of tunnels that ran in all directions at different levels down to 2600 feet and the men who fought for life in the dark, heat and smoke of that underworld.
The story then turns to greed, corruption, WW1, unconstitutional laws, the new deal, strike breaking, labor unions, FDR and WW2. I'm not sure if these other items are needed to tell the story or if they detract from the heroism of building bulkheads to hide from gas during the fire as their air slowly ran out.
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- June Huckeba
- 10-07-20
Great history
Listened to this on our road trip through Montana. We were captivated by every detail. The details of the mining disaster was gruesome but fascinating. Really appreciate the cultural, religious, and political atmosphere of the area.
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- Jennifer
- 05-02-17
History & Politics
Fire and Brimstone is a well-written summary of the event that greatly impacted 1917 Butte, America and many of the political situations surrounding it.
I rate the performance at 5 stars, although if I'm being entirely honest I may not be the most qualified to judge that. I listen to the majority of the book on 3x as I read along with a physical copy. Cramming for a book report... oops.
Still quite glad I chose this book.
Cheers! And a "thank you" to Michael Punke for sharing your research with the world.
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