460 best r/thegrittypast images on Pholder | A train near Magderburg: the moment American forces stopped a Holocaust train heading to a concentration camp, and freed it's prisoners. The little girl on this famous photo is my grandmother; her sister was holding the other hand of the woman, their aunt.

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A train near Magderburg: the moment American forces stopped a Holocaust train heading to a concentration camp, and freed it's prisoners. The little girl on this famous photo is my grandmother; her sister was holding the other hand of the woman, their aunt.

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A train near Magderburg: the moment American forces stopped a Holocaust train heading to a concentration camp, and freed it's prisoners. The little girl on this famous photo is my grandmother; her sister was holding the other hand of the woman, their aunt.

Cast of a dog found at Pompeii

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Note written by coal miner saying goodbye to his family as he suffocated to death after a mine explosion. 1902, Fraterville Mine Disaster. Briceville, TN.

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During the Rwandan Genocide, Mbaye Diagne, a UN peacekeeper, disobeyed his orders to stand down. Acting entirely on his own initiative, he embarked on rescue missions. He is credited with singlehandedly saving the lives of as many as 1000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus.

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Starving residents cut meat from horse carcasses during the Siege of Warsaw in September 1939

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Auschwitz Camp Guards on a day trip (1944), it's just astounding to look at.

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The dog tags of 58,307 US soldiers killed during the Vietnam War at the Harold Washington Library Center, Chicago

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Runaway slave Gordon, exposing his severely whipped back. Gordon had received a severe whipping for undisclosed reasons in the fall of 1862. Gordon escaped in March 1863 from the 3,000 acre plantation of John & Bridget Lyons, who held him and 40 other people in slavery at the time of the 1860 census

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Shot down Japanese pilot uses a grenade to commit suicide rather than be captured by the crew of a US vessel

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110 Years Ago Today [March 25, 1911] The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in New York City kills 146 garment workers, mostly women, due to a lack of safety regulations. The public nature of the victims' deaths (most died by jumping to death) led to sweeping safety reforms.

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A Vietnamese teenager buttons up her Mothers blouse after she was sexually assaulted by American GI's. They were gunned down moments after this photo was taken. My Lai Massacre, Vietnam. 16 March 1968

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Golden Retriever SAR dog, Riley, is transported out of the debris of the World Trade Center. 15th September 2001

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Benjamin Ferencz was the last surviving prosecutor from the Subsequent Nuremberg Trials. In 1947, he became the chief prosecutor in what was called the biggest murder trial in history. He spent his entire life fighting for justice for the victims of war crimes. He died this week.

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Lt. Karl Kellner missing his left leg bails out of his M4A1(76)W Sherman tank after it was struck twice a German Panther tank in Cologne on March 6th 1945

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Japanese women fearing abuse by US Marines commit suicide by jumping off a cliff on Saipan on July 9th 1944

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And this is considered a small nuke by modern standards...

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Irish Girl mocking a British Soldier for his height, Derry, Northern Ireland (1972)

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A family inspects their Anderson shelter with a 30-foot-deep bomb crater nearby. 1944

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Mass grave from the site of the Battle of Lutzen (November 16, 1632) in Germany, one of the most brutal episodes of the Thirty Years' War: 47 male skeletons between 14 and 50. More than half were hit by gunfire. Two of the dead still had unfired lead balls in their oral cavities, a reloading trick.

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After a bombing mission to Regensburg, Germany, the ball turret gunner of this 8th Air Force B-17 Flying Fortress was killed when his plane was forced to the ground without landing gear.

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17 year old fell two miles after being sucked out of a plane. Then proceeded to survive in the Amazon for 10 days.

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A Soldier preparing to dispose of a bomb in Northern Ireland, Circa 1970’s (Note sign on building to the left)

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A Christmas postcard from an American POW, 1944

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Hand belonging to an x-ray operator. c1900

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Charles Ferguson Jr. flung to his death from a glider under tow during an attempt to cross the Golden Gate bridge on December 8th 1929

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Kenneth Daniel Williams and his Murder Inc flight jacket

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Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels : A Native of Papuan New Guinea aids Wounded Australian Soldier in 1942. They were instrumental in Guiding and Saving the lives of Many Australian servicemen.

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A German machine gunner dead at his position in France just days before the Armistice of 11 November 1918

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Soviet citizens at the Wall of Sorrow in Moscow, learning of the victims who were killed in Joseph Stalin's Great Purge for the first time (1988)

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Officials in England examine fingerprints to see if they match a bottle they found next to a toddler's cot. The girl had been abducted, raped, and had her head smashed against a well. Over 40,000 fingerprints were examined, which was every single male in the town over the age of fifteen.

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More than 2000 skulls and bones of fallen Austrian and allied French/Italian soldiers from Battle of Solferino 1859 exposed in chapel San Martino in Italy

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A Vietnamese teenager buttons up her Mothers blouse after she was sexually assaulted by American GI's. They were gunned down moments after this photo was taken. My Lai Massacre, Vietnam. 16 March 1968.

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American soldier Turing a blind eye to Dachau prisoners preparing to execute an SS guard with a shovel. 1945

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Porkchop, a Search & Rescue dog at Ground Zero, eyes burning, paws bloody, nose full of the smell of death, after working four straight days. Here, Porkchop is getting fluids for dehydration, so he can continue to work in hopes of finding more survivors

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Wedding rings removed from Holocaust victims.

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Ernest Hemingway in 1952, posing with the gun he would later use to commit suicide

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Victims of the Indonesian genocide, including multiple children, are photographed moments before buried alive (1965).

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Frederick Fleet, 24, the lookout who first spotted the iceberg that sank the Titanic. Photographed in 1912. He went on to serve in both World Wars. In 1965, he experienced depression and later hanged himself.

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The body of Latvian Nazi war criminal Herberts Cukurs, 1965. He participated in the massacre of Jews in Riga during WWII, then fled to Brazil. The Mossad lured him to Uruguay where an execution squad killed him. They put him in a trunk along with a letter of explanation, then tipped off the press.

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Eugen Weidmann was a German criminal and serial killer who was executed by guillotine in France in June 1939, the last public execution in that country.

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Wedding rings found by U.S. Army soldiers near the Buchenwald concentration camp, Germany, May 1945.

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Buffalo Calf Road Woman is a Native American warrior who is credited with helping kill U.S. Army Colonel George Custer during the American Indian Wars. Custer was responsible for massacring Native American civilians and allowing his men to commit mass rape against indigenous women.

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On 1 May 1999, the body of British climber George Mallory is found on Mount Everest, 75 years after his disappearance in 1924.

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It doesnt get much grittier than this, does it?

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Three young Russian women and a little girl, recently liberated from a slave labour camp by the U.S army, lay flowers at the feet of four dead American soldiers

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Dieter Degowski holds his gun to the throat of Silke Bischoff during a stop in Cologne on August 18th, 1988. Degowski and Hans-Jurgen Rosner robbed a bank and hijacked a bus during the 54 hour Gladbeck hostage crisis. Two of the hostages, Emanuele de Georgi (15) and Silke Bischoff (18), were killed.

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The only existing photo of Chernobyl taken on the morning of the nuclear accident on April 26, 1986. The heavy grain was due to massive amounts of radiation that began to destroy the film the second it was exposed.

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Photo taken one ten-millionth of a second after a nuclear detonation in 1952. The diameter is about 20m. Part of the Tumbler-Snapper tests.

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A skeleton of a dead German soldier outside a dugout near Beaumont Hamel, November 1916.

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A Soviet man finds the bodies of his wife and children, who were killed by a Nazi death squad. His family were among approximately 7000 murdered civilians, mostly of Jews, whose bodies were found by Soviet troops after they retook the area (Crimea, 1942).

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America's Unknown Child is an unidentified 4-6 year old boy, who was found dead in a cardboard bassinet box, in the Fox Chase section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-Feb. 25, 1957. To this day, the boy's identity has never been discovered, and his case remains open still.

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100 Years Ago Today (28 June 1922) Smoke rises from the Four Courts, Dublin on the first day of the Irish Civil War. The explosion you're seeing, in the Irish Public Records Office, destroyed over 1,000 years of Irish history that still has not been recovered.

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3 USMC POWs murdered by their Chinese captives are removed from a shallow grave near Hwachon Korea on 27 April 1951.

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Execution of a german communist Munich 1919.

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The last moments of two of the crew of a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber intercepted by a Me 163 rocket fighter on august 24th 1944

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The search party for a boy who got lost in the forest returns with his body. Brunflo, Sweden in 1917.

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Rick Rescorla using a megaphone to organise the evacuation workers from the World Trade Centre in New York moments before its collapse. When one of his colleagues told him he too had to evacuate the World Trade Center, he replied, As soon as I make sure everyone else is out. September 11 2001

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Five SS men are forced to walk past the corpses of prisoners exhumed from a mass grave near Nammering. They'd changed into civilian clothes in a failed attempt to evade capture. According to the photographer, the men were shot immediately after this photo was taken (May 1945).

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Indian School, Pine Ridge, SD, 1881. Lakota Sioux camped nearby to be close to their children.

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In the 1950s it wasn’t uncommon for Los Angeles to have two sunrises — photographers and reporters observe atomic explosion in the distance in awe

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Dead Austrian soldier on a barbed wire, Piave (Italy), last days of Austro-Hungarian Empire, October 1918

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A group of about 40 Japanese soldiers who committed suicide with hand grenades who were found by U.S. troops during the Battle of Attu, Aleutian Islands, Alaska. 11 May 1943.

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A German officer poses for a photo with suffering inmates in a concentration camp. Date unknown.

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“The last Jew” in Vinnitsa, 1942.

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Journalist Hunter S Thompson in 1966 after being brutally beaten by the Hells Angels over a confrontation with one of their members

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The death mask of Maximilien Robespierre. He was one of the key figures in the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror (1914).

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A Serbian paramilitary kicks the corpse of a muslim woman in Bosnia in 1992.

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The remains of a German stormtrooper lies half submerged in a shell crater. Western Front, c.1918.

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A pair of hands still bound together found during the 1943 exhumation of the 22,000 Polish military officers and intellectuals executed in the Katyn forest.

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USMC machine gunner tears up the remains of a Japanese soldier on Tarawa in November 1943

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The last breaths - a man on his deathbed, surrounded by family. Lundby, Sweden in 1904.

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Marines of the US 6th Division fire point blank at Japanese soldiers hiding in a culvert and drag them out. They shoot one still alive and then throw a white phosphorus grenade into the culvert. June 1945.

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Japanese soldiers using members of the British Indian Army from the Sikh Regiment as target practice. Photographed in 1942.

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Roman Polanski kneeling at his door where 'Pig' is written in his wife's blood (Sharon Tate) after the Manson family murders, 1969.

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A dead Soviet medic and the infantryman that he was trying to treat while under intense fire, June 1944.

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Inspecting the New Arrivals -- Painting by Italian artist Giulio Rosati (1858-1917) depicting the lives of European sex slaves made to serve the Ottoman Empire

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Gang leader Charlie Birger prior to his execution for ordering the murder of the mayor of West City, Illi. Joe Adams. His last words It's a beautiful day.

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The remains of 20mm gunners on a US Navy Carrier are removed after a Japanese Kamikaze strike

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The bodies of Laura Nelson and her 14 year old son L.D. hang from a bridge after being lynched by the town folk of Okemah, Oklahoma. 25 May 1911.

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Villagers grieving three brothers who all drowned on the same day, in the same lake. Greningen, Sweden in 1946. More info in comments.

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French traitors that collaborated with the Vichy government executed by firing squad in October 1945

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Palestinian boy throwing rocks at an Israeli tank (2000)

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Bryant Bowles holds his daughter at a pro-segregation protest. Bowles, the founder of the National Association for the Advancement of White People, said his daughter would never attend a school with Negroes as long as there is breath in my body and gunpowder will burn (Delaware, 1954).

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Student survivors head to a library near Columbine High School where students and faculty members were evacuated after two gunmen went on a shooting rampage in the school. Tuesday, April 20, 1999.

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A U.S. soldier is tended to after stepping on a land mine. 10 January 1966. South Vietnam.

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100 Years Ago Today [March 20, 1921] Leaked photo from the Soviet Union showing some bodies of Kronstadt Sailors (10,000 of whom rebelled against Bolshevik rule earlier in March) who were summarily executed following the suppression of their revolt.

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Omaima Nelson was a former model who married her husband Bill Nelson days after meeting him. Just one month later on Thanksgiving day, she murdered him by stabbing him with a pair of scissors and cut his head and hands off boiling them in a pot. She then cut his penis off and said she ate his ribs.

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This is U.S. General Jacob Smith. During the Philippine-American War, he ordered his troops to kill everyone after being ambushed. He told his Major I wish you to kill and burn. When the officer asked for an age limit, Smith replied 10 years. His troops would massacre at least 2000 civilians.

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A U.S. corpsman tries to keep a wounded Marine alive while another Marines lies dead in the background after the lead platoon of Bravo Company, 1st Battery, 26th Marines was ambushed near the DMZ, South Vietnam. September 1966. The Marine would later die.

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The public hanging of female camp guards from the Stutthof concentration camp on July 4, 1946.

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German student Kalistros Thielecke has his mugshot taken after murdering his mother, whom he stabbed 17 times. He later joined the Dirlewanger Brigade, an SS unit composed of convicted violent criminals. They committed atrocities so brutal that even other SS units were horrified (1930).

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A watch stopped at 08:15 AM found in Hiroshima [Aug 1945] credit: Universal History Archive

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Klaus Grabowski's blood lies on the floor of the District court in Lubeck after being fatally gunned down by Marianne Bachmeier, the mother of a girl he raped and murdered. 1981

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Eugene Sledge, a marine who served on Peleliu and Okinawa during World War II, recalls digging into the mud and hitting a Japanese corpse.

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My great uncle (6th Armored Division) took this at Buchenwald when it was liberated. On the back of the picture, it reads, “This was a Russian that was a prisoner at Buchenwald. He was slowly starving to death. April 1945”

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This man, who looks traumatized, was photographed on Oct. 2 at a branch of a hospital in Hiroshima. He had been exposed to radiation at Senda-machi. Burned on his right arm, he received skin transplants from his buttocks.

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A photo of Englishmen Peter Poole after his arrest for murdering his black houseboy in Kenya. Poole was one of countless Kenya cowboys, young British men who moved to Kenya so they could hunt and kill black people for sport (British Kenya, 1960).

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An Indian woman suffering from leprosy. Srinagar, India. 1969.

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Iraqi-American, Samir, 34, pinning deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein to the ground during his capture in Tikrit, on Saturday, 13 December 2003. Samir was the translator for the U.S. Special Forces that helped find Hussein and pull him from his hiding place.

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February 24, 1970 - 14 year old Keith Sapsford, from Australia, died when he fell 200 ft out of the wheel-well of a DC-8, as it took off from Sydney, Australia on a flight to Tokyo, Japan. Australian photographer John Gilpin, inadvertently snapped a photo of Sapsford in mid-air as he was falling.

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A pair of bound hands and a breathing hole in the melted snow reveal the body of a Korean civilian shot and left to die by retreating communist forces. Yangji, South Korea. 27 January 1951.

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