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Carthage
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Carthage as in:  the ancient city-state

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  • On McCandless's final night in Carthage, he partied hard at the Cabaret with Westerberg's crew.†   (source)
  • Later he traveled to Rome and Milan, and lived the last years of his life in the town of Hippo, a few miles west of Carthage.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, there was no human power capable of persuading him not to take along the three boxes when he returned to his native village, and he unleashed a string of Carthaginian curses at the railroad inspectors who tried to ship them as freight until he finally succeeded in keeping them with him in the passenger coach.†   (source)
  • "Carthage, the Gauls—" "And the Greeks."†   (source)
  • So superbly was it in the present that it seemed to have nothing to do with the passage of time: time might have dismissed it as thoroughly as it had dismissed Carthage and Pompeii.†   (source)
  • But the demolition of Carthage (what one should think should have established it in supreme dominion) by removing all danger, suffered it to sink into debauchery, and made it at length an easy prey to Barbarians.†   (source)
  • And our history is such that were we to follow it in making policy we should declare war not only on our former possessions in Libya, but on Britain, Spain, Germany, France, Austria, and Carthage.†   (source)
  • Everybody knows that Carthage was destroyed!†   (source)
  • The Carthaginians never forgot.†   (source)
  • All the faculty wives, downtown in New Carthage, in front of the A&P, hissing away like a bunch of geese.†   (source)
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  • The senate of Carthage, whatever its power or term in office, appears to have been elected by the people.†   (source)
  • "Carthage versus Rome, to use an Earthly metaphor," Gorku said.†   (source)
  • It occurs to me that, just as the Carthaginians hired mercenaries to do their fighting for them, we Americans bring in mercenaries to do our hard and humble work.†   (source)
  • First it was just a carnival at Carthage, and I had to let them guess my weight ...and after that ...†   (source)
  • At the age of sixteen he went to Carthage to study.†   (source)
  • "That rogue with the turkey leg in his mouth," Antinous continued, "that's Hasdrubal of Carthage.†   (source)
  • A time when Rome battled the city of Carthage, and over the course of many wars was victorious.†   (source)
  • Athens and Carthage were commercial republics, yet they often fought wars.†   (source)
  • I'm sure the city fathers of Carthage would be glad to know that.†   (source)
  • Annabeth cut down Hasdrubal the Carthaginian, and Jason made the mistake of sheathing his sword.†   (source)
  • "Mhhmm," said the Carthaginian.†   (source)
  • A teacher at a respected, conservative institution like this, in a town like New Carthage, publishing a book like that?†   (source)
  • The metaphor of Carthage.†   (source)
  • Drawing on history and literature, some fifty books altogether, he examined what he called the modern democratic republics (the little Italian commonwealth of San Marino, Biscay in the Basque region of Spain, the Swiss cantons), modern aristocratic republics (Venice, the Netherlands), and the modern monarchical and regal republics (England, Poland); as well as the ancient democratic, aristocratic, and monarchical republics including Carthage, Athens, Sparta, and Rome.†   (source)
  • The senate in Carthage is less known.†   (source)
  • After one of the wars, Rome demanded that Carthage pay them tribute, that Carthage abandon their army, and that the land of Carthage be sowed with salt.†   (source)
  • And all that was left, aside from some wart medicine, was a big fat will...A peach pie, with some for the township of New Carthage, some for the college, some for Martha's daddy, and just this much for Martha.†   (source)
  • GEORGE: And this ....(With a handsweep taking in not only the house, but the whole countryside) ....this is your heart's content—Illyria Penguin Island ....Gomorrah...You think you're going to be happy here in New Carthage, eh?†   (source)
  • We can add Carthage to these examples.†   (source)
  • Representation in Athens, Carthage†   (source)
  • MARTHA: Very funny, George .... GEORGE: ....thank you ....and settled in a town just like nouveau Carthage here .... NICK: (Threatening) I don't think you'd better go on, mister...... GEORGE: Do you not!†   (source)
  • There are always compensating factors ....as in the case of Martha and myself...Now, on the surface of it .... NICK: We sort of grew up together, you know .... GEORGE: ....it looks to be a kind of knock-about, drag-out affair, on the surface of it...... NICK: We knew each other from, oh, God, I don't know, when we were six, or something...... GEORGE: ....but somewhere back there, at the beginning of it, right when I first came to New Carthage, back then .... NICK: (With some irritation) I'm sorry.†   (source)
  • As soon as he got to Carthage, a dispirited Westerberg phoned the Alaska State Troopers to volunteer what he knew about McCandless.†   (source)
  • We talked for hours about books; there aren't that many people in Carthage who like to talk about books.†   (source)
  • On April 21, just six days out of Carthage, he arrived at Liard River Hotsprings, at the threshold of the Yukon Territory.†   (source)
  • The chill Westerberg sensed between Alex and his parents stood in marked contrast to the warmth McCandless exhibited in Carthage.†   (source)
  • Across the top of the first one, dating from McCandless's initial visit to Carthage, in 1990, he had scrawled"EXEMPT EXEMPT EXEMPT EXEMPT" and given his name as Iris Fucyu.†   (source)
  • On April 15, 1992, Chris McCandless departed Carthage, South Dakota, in the cab of a Mack truck hauling a load of sunflower seeds: His "great Alaskan odyssey" was under way.†   (source)
  • An all-points bulletin turned up a missing person named McCandless from eastern South Dakota, coincidentally from a small town only twenty miles from Wayne Westerberg's home in Carthage, and for a while the troopers thought they'd found their man.†   (source)
  • On September 13, he was rolling down an empty ribbon of blacktop outside Jamestown, North Dakota, leading his harvest crew home to Carthage after wrapping up the four-month cutting season in Montana, when the VHP barked to life.†   (source)
  • He liked Carthage.†   (source)
  • He thought of the Carthaginian slaves down in the darkness blinded and chained and he thought they were lucky guys.†   (source)
  • A down-and-out called Flyte, who people said was an English lord, whom the fathers had found starving and taken in at a monastery near Carthage.†   (source)
  • He remembered from some time way back in the past how he had read of the Carthaginian slaves and what they did and how they were treated.†   (source)
  • How the great Carthaginian lords wanting someone to guard their treasure stores would find a healthy young man and put out his eyes with sharp sticks so he wouldn't be able to see where they took him and thus learn the location of their treasures.†   (source)
  • Babylon has no ideal; Carthage has no ideal.†   (source)
  • the red shambles of the Circus, and then, in a litter of pearl and purple drawn by silver-shod mules, been carried through the Street of Pomegranates to a House of Gold, and heard men cry on Nero Caesar as he passed by; and, as Elagabalus, had painted his face with colours, and plied the distaff among the women, and brought the Moon from Carthage, and given her in mystic marriage to the Sun.†   (source)
  • la la To Carthage then I came 307 Burning burning burning burning 308 O Lord Thou pluckest me out 309 O Lord Thou pluckest burning Title Page IV.†   (source)
  • A major sea nearly unknown to the ancients, except perhaps the Carthaginians, those Dutchmen of antiquity who went along the west coasts of Europe and Africa on their commercial junkets!†   (source)
  • And here Bartleby makes his home; sole spectator of a solitude which he has seen all populous—a sort of innocent and transformed Marius brooding among the ruins of Carthage!†   (source)
  • The amount saved, being sums I drew from Rome, Alexandria, Damascus, Carthage, Valentia, and elsewhere within the circle of trade, was one hundred and twenty talents Jewish money.†   (source)
  • Thus, in order to enunciate here only summarily, a law which it would require volumes to develop: in the high Orient, the cradle of primitive times, after Hindoo architecture came Phoenician architecture, that opulent mother of Arabian architecture; in antiquity, after Egyptian architecture, of which Etruscan style and cyclopean monuments are but one variety, came Greek architecture (of which the Roman style is only a continuation), surcharged with the Carthaginian dome; in modern times, after Romanesque architecture came Gothic architecture.†   (source)
  • Besides though New Bedford has of late been gradually monopolising the business of whaling, and though in this matter poor old Nantucket is now much behind her, yet Nantucket was her great original—the Tyre of this Carthage;—the place where the first dead American whale was stranded.†   (source)
  • In childhood I must have felt with the energy of a man what I now find stamped upon memory in lines as vivid, as deep, and as durable as the exergues of the Carthaginian medals.†   (source)
  • Tom, therefore, in his well-brushed broadcloth suit, smooth beaver, glossy boots, faultless wristbands and collar, with his grave, good-natured black face, looked respectable enough to be a Bishop of Carthage, as men of his color were, in other ages.†   (source)
  • In the same way, there were at Rome Carthaginian prisoners who refused to salute Flaminius, and who had a little of Hannibal's spirit.†   (source)
  • A strapper — a real strapper, Jane: big, brown, and buxom; with hair just such as the ladies of Carthage must have had.†   (source)
  • Thus he learned that, after long persecutions, Smith reappeared in Illinois, and in 1839 founded a community at Nauvoo, on the Mississippi, numbering twenty-five thousand souls, of which he became mayor, chief justice, and general-in-chief; that he announced himself, in 1843, as a candidate for the Presidency of the United States; and that finally, being drawn into ambuscade at Carthage, he was thrown into prison, and assassinated by a band of men disguised in masks.†   (source)
  • That Royal port and watering place, if truly mirrored in the minds of the heath-folk, must have combined, in a charming and indescribable manner, a Carthaginian bustle of building with Tarentine luxuriousness and Baian health and beauty.†   (source)
  • I hate Carthage.†   (source)
  • This service Plautus rendered, consciously or unconsciously, by making two Carthaginian soldiers talk Phoenician; that service Moliere rendered, by making so many of his characters talk Levantine and all sorts of dialects.†   (source)
  • The Romans, in order to hold Capua, Carthage, and Numantia, dismantled them, and did not lose them.†   (source)
  • The Carthaginians, reduced to extreme necessity, were compelled to come to terms with Agathocles, and, leaving Sicily to him, had to be content with the possession of Africa.†   (source)
  • And although he was twice routed by the Carthaginians, and ultimately besieged, yet not only was he able to defend his city, but leaving part of his men for its defence, with the others he attacked Africa, and in a short time raised the siege of Syracuse.†   (source)
  • Of ancient mercenaries, for example, there are the Carthaginians, who were oppressed by their mercenary soldiers after the first war with the Romans, although the Carthaginians had their own citizens for captains.†   (source)
  • Being established in that position, and having deliberately resolved to make himself prince and to seize by violence, without obligation to others, that which had been conceded to him by assent, he came to an understanding for this purpose with Amilcar, the Carthaginian, who, with his army, was fighting in Sicily.†   (source)
  • What shall I say of Hasdrubale's wife,
    That at Carthage bereft herself of life?†   (source)
  • And would to Heav'n, the Storm, you felt, would bring On Carthaginian coasts your wand'ring king.†   (source)
  • Sparta, Rome, and Carthage are, in fact, the only states to whom that character can be applied.†   (source)
  • who declare The Scipios' worth, those thunderbolts of war, The double bane of Carthage?†   (source)
  • You make me study of that; she was of Carthage, not of Tunis.†   (source)
  • The rising city, which from far you see, Is Carthage, and a Tyrian colony.†   (source)
  • Eliza shall a Dardan lord obey, And lofty Carthage for a dow'r convey.†   (source)
  • Then Carthage may th' Ausonian towns destroy, Nor fear the race of a rejected boy.†   (source)
  • Not less the clamor, than if —ancient Tyre, Or the new Carthage, set by foes on fire—†   (source)
  • till I found it to be true, I never thought it possible or likely; But see, while idly I stood looking on, I found the effect of love in idleness; And now in plainness do confess to thee, That art to me as secret and as dear As Anna to the Queen of Carthage was, Tranio, I burn, I pine, I perish, Tranio, If I achieve not this young modest girl.†   (source)
  • I swear to thee by Cupid's strongest bow, By his best arrow, with the golden head, By the simplicity of Venus' doves, By that which knitteth souls and prospers loves, And by that fire which burn'd the Carthage queen, When the false Trojan under sail was seen,— By all the vows that ever men have broke, In number more than ever women spoke,— In that same place thou hast appointed me, Tomorrow truly will I meet with thee.†   (source)
  • The fate of the Romans, Carthaginians, and Syrians, and many other nations and cities, which were both overturned and quite ruined by those standing armies, should make others wiser; and the folly of this maxim of the French appears plainly even from this, that their trained soldiers often find your raw men prove too hard for them, of which I will not say much, lest you may think I flatter the English.†   (source)
  • In such a night Stood Dido with a willow in her hand Upon the wild sea-banks, and waft her love To come again to Carthage.†   (source)
  • Had I fallen in with those gentlemen, Troy would not have been burned or Carthage destroyed, for it would have been only for me to slay Paris, and all these misfortunes would have been avoided.†   (source)
  • Carthage, though a commercial republic, was the aggressor in the very war that ended in her destruction.†   (source)
  • Of which we wish we could give our readers a more adequate translation than that by Mr Creech— When dreadful Carthage frighted Rome with arms, And all the world was shook with fierce alarms; Whilst undecided yet, which part should fall, Which nation rise the glorious lord of all.†   (source)
  • This Tunis, sir, was Carthage.†   (source)
  • Lusitania had a Viriatus, Rome a Caesar, Carthage a Hannibal, Greece an Alexander, Castile a Count Fernan Gonzalez, Valencia a Cid, Andalusia a Gonzalo Fernandez, Estremadura a Diego Garcia de Paredes, Jerez a Garci Perez de Vargas, Toledo a Garcilaso, Seville a Don Manuel de Leon, to read of whose valiant deeds will entertain and instruct the loftiest minds and fill them with delight and wonder.†   (source)
  • * *he drowned his
    But of his craft to reckon well his tides, prisoners*
    His streames and his strandes him besides,
    His herberow*, his moon, and lodemanage**, *harbourage
    There was none such, from Hull unto Carthage **pilotage<35>
    Hardy he was, and wise, I undertake:
    With many a tempest had his beard been shake.†   (source)
  • I assure you, Carthage.†   (source)
  • But sov'reignly* Dame Partelote shright,** *above all others
    Full louder than did Hasdrubale's wife, **shrieked
    When that her husband hadde lost his life,
    And that the Romans had y-burnt Carthage;
    She was so full of torment and of rage,
    That wilfully into the fire she start,
    And burnt herselfe with a steadfast heart.†   (source)
  • Sparta, Athens, Rome, and Carthage were all republics; two of them, Athens and Carthage, of the commercial kind.†   (source)
  • The senate of Carthage, also, whatever might be its power, or the duration of its appointment, appears to have been ELECTIVE by the suffrages of the people.†   (source)
  • Carthage?†   (source)
  • Hannibal had carried her arms into the heart of Italy and to the gates of Rome, before Scipio, in turn, gave him an overthrow in the territories of Carthage, and made a conquest of the commonwealth.†   (source)
  • To these examples might be added that of Carthage, whose senate, according to the testimony of Polybius, instead of drawing all power into its vortex, had, at the commencement of the second Punic War, lost almost the whole of its original portion.†   (source)
  • The mighty Thund'rer heard; Then cast his eyes on Carthage, where he found The lustful pair in lawless pleasure drown'd, Lost in their loves, insensible of shame, And both forgetful of their better fame.†   (source)
  • Against the Tiber's mouth, but far away, An ancient town was seated on the sea; A Tyrian colony; the people made Stout for the war, and studious of their trade: Carthage the name; belov'd by Juno more Than her own Argos, or the Samian shore.†   (source)
  • A lawful time of war at length will come, (Nor need your haste anticipate the doom), When Carthage shall contend the world with Rome, Shall force the rigid rocks and Alpine chains, And, like a flood, come pouring on the plains.†   (source)
  • I know not, if by stress of weather driv'n, Or was their fatal course dispos'd by Heav'n; At last they landed, where from far your eyes May view the turrets of new Carthage rise; There bought a space of ground, which (Byrsa call'd, From the bull's hide) they first inclos'd, and wall'd.†   (source)
  • Yet she had heard an ancient rumor fly, (Long cited by the people of the sky,) That times to come should see the Trojan race Her Carthage ruin, and her tow'rs deface; Nor thus confin'd, the yoke of sov'reign sway Should on the necks of all the nations lay.†   (source)
  • He calls Cyllenius, and the god attends, By whom his menacing command he sends: "Go, mount the western winds, and cleave the sky; Then, with a swift descent, to Carthage fly: There find the Trojan chief, who wastes his days In slothful not and inglorious ease, Nor minds the future city, giv'n by fate.†   (source)
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  • And McCandless stayed in touch with Westerberg as he roamed the West, calling or writing Carthage every month or two.   (source)
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  • "New Carthage, you mean?" she'd replied.   (source)
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  • Now they're calling for that whisky-dealing tyrant from Carthage City to come up here and take over.   (source)
  • The attachment McCandless felt for Carthage remained powerful, however.   (source)
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  • I was back in Carthage before dinnertime.   (source)
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  • Better if it's someone in Carthage, though.   (source)
  • I have been working up here in Carthage South Dakota for nearly two weeks now.   (source)
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  • Westerberg, in his mid-thirties, was brought to Carthage as a young boy by adoptive parents.   (source)
  • The downfall of the mall basically bankrupted Carthage.   (source)
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  • McCandless quickly became enamored of Carthage.   (source)
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  • Amy was conceding Carthage, finally forgiving me for moving back here.   (source)
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  • Postcard received by Wayne Westerberg in Carthage, South Dakota   (source)
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  • Amy was thirty-seven when we moved to Carthage.   (source)
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  • Thanks to Armor here, we got no stockade and we got no U.S. Army fort closer than Carthage City.   (source)
  • Down here's Fort Carthage, it's got a square, cause it's a town.   (source)
  • Carthage City's gone and turned into a river town, a saloon town.   (source)
  • You really are from Fort Carthage, aren't you.   (source)
  • With the Reds gone, why wasn't Carthage City prosperous, full of White settlers?   (source)
  • Since these folks came from Carthage country, the cellar door had a lock, as well as the bar.   (source)
  • But you sure didn't get drunk at Fort Carthage and then walk all this way without sobering up.   (source)
  • In fact Lolla-Wossiky never saw such a man in Carthage City.   (source)
  • No, you're the smartest governor Carthage ever had, I'm surprised you ain't King.   (source)
  • So Hooch was about as happy a man as you ever saw when they tied up at the Carthage City Wharf.   (source)
  • They were new folks, just come up from the area around Carthage.   (source)
  • Carthage had gone bust; its sister city Hannibal was losing ground to brighter, louder, cartoonier tourist spots.   (source)
  • Before McCandless and Westerberg went their separate ways, Westerberg told the young man to look him up in Carthage if he ever needed a job.   (source)
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  • I headed through our complex, then forty-five minutes out along River Road, then onto the highway that shot right through the middle of Carthage.   (source)
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  • He'd heard from Wayne Westerberg that a job was waiting for him at the grain elevator in Carthage, and he was eager to get there.   (source)
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  • There, outside Cut Bank, he crossed paths with Wayne Westerberg and by the end of September was working for him in Carthage.   (source)
  • When we'd been back home for a year, I'd asked her faux gallantly: "And how are you liking North Carthage, Mrs. Dunne?"   (source)
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  • Nick Dunne, a onetime magazine writer still pride-wounded from a 2010 layoff, agreed to teach a journalism class for North Carthage Junior College.   (source)
  • Seven months earlier, on a frosty March afternoon, McCandless had ambled into the office at the Carthage grain elevator and announced that he was ready to go to work.   (source)
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  • …Westerberg's house in Carthage,   (source)
  • Shawna Kelly, North Carthage resident: "I found it really, really strange how totally unconcerned he was at the search for his wife."   (source)
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  • During those four weeks in Carthage, McCandless worked hard, doing dirty, tedious jobs that nobody else wanted to tackle: mucking out warehouses, exterminating vermin, painting, scything weeds.   (source)
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  • Nick was my professor at North Carthage Junior College, and we became friendly, and then the relationship became more.   (source)
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  • Contrite, he copped a plea to a single felony count and on October 10, 1990, some two weeks after McCandless arrived in Carthage, began serving a four-month sentence in Sioux Falls.   (source)
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  • Hell, I had to love her hungry-kid chutzpah: Just fly me to Carthage—the major networks haven't gotten him, but I'm sure I can!   (source)
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  • See, I misread this, thinking that bringing me here meant Carthage, but again, she's referring to my father's house, and—   (source)
  • If McCandless felt estranged from his parents and siblings, he found a surrogate family in Westerberg and his employees, most of whom lived in Westerberg's Carthage home.   (source)
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  • Carthage, South Dakota, population 274, is a sleepy little cluster of clapboard houses, tidy yards, and weathered brick storefronts rising humbly from the immensity of the northern plains, set adrift in time.   (source)
  • You all really need to try Houston's, my mom had said when we moved back, thinking it was Carthage's unique little secret, hoping it might please my wife.   (source)
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  • Carthage was, until a year ago, a company town and that company was the sprawling Riverway Mall, a tiny city unto itself that once employed four thousand locals—one-fifth the population.   (source)
  • Soon after McCandless returned to Carthage that spring, Westerberg introduced him to his longtime, on-again, off-again girlfriend, Gail Borah, a petite, sad-eyed woman, as slight as a heron, with delicate features and long blond hair.   (source)
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  • Westerberg, a hyperkinetic man with thick shoulders and a black goatee, owns a grain elevator in Carthage and another one a few miles out of town but spends every summer running a custom combine crew that follows the harvest from Texas north to the Canadian border.   (source)
  • The media followed us as if we were a royal wedding procession, the two of us whizzing through the neon, fast-food-cluttered streets of Carthage to our McMansion on the river.   (source)
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  • CARTHAGE   (source)
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  • Carthage had a bigger drug epidemic than I ever knew: The cops had been here just yesterday, and already the druggies had resettled, like determined flies.   (source)
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  • Riordan was asking me for the second time if I'd seen any strangers in the neighborhood lately, was reminding me for the third time about Carthage's roving bands of homeless men, when the phone rang.   (source)
  • CARTHAGE   (source)
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