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8 March 2008 - 20 December 2008
Saturday Tours
Led by Anne Bentley, MHS Curator of Art
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Free and open
to the public
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10 September 2008
Wednesday, 12:00 PM
- 1:00 PM
Brown-Bag
Len Travers, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
"Captain Hodges' Last Stand: An Incredibly Obscure Incident from the French and Indian War"
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Free and open
to the public
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20 September 2008 - 15 November 2008
Exhibition
"As Massachusetts Goes?": Two Centuries of Bay State Presidential Politics
Open 1:00-4:00 PM, Monday - Saturday
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Free and open
to the public
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24 September 2008
Wednesday, 12:00 PM
- 1:00 PM
Brown-Bag
Christine Reiser, Brown University
"Rooted in Movement: Community Keeping Practices in 18th & 19th Century Native Southern New England"
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Free and open
to the public
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24 September 2008
Wednesday, 6:00 PM
Lecture
Marc Landy, Boston College
As Massachusetts Goes...?
5:30 Refreshments; 6:00 Lecture
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Free and open
to the public
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25 September 2008
Thursday, 5:15 PM
Boston Early American History Seminar
T.H. Breen, Northwestern University
"It Rained Cats and Dogs the Day the Revolution Began: Political Ideology and Popular Mobilization on the Eve of American Independence"
Comment: Richard D. Brown, University of Connecticut
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Seminars are free and open to the public; there is a subscription for advance copies of the seminar papers
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27 September 2008
Saturday, 11:00 AM
- 2:00 PM
Open House for Educators
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Free and open
to the public
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1 October 2008
Wednesday, 12:00 PM
- 1:00 PM
Brown-Bag
Dael Norwood, Princeton University
"An Empire of Liberty on the Seas: The 'Old China Trade' and American National Development in a Global Context, c. 1784-1860"
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Free and open
to the public
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1 October 2008
Wednesday, 6:00 PM
Lecture
Daniel Walker Howe
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
5:30 Refreshments; 6:00 Lecture
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Free and open
to the public
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2 October 2008
Thursday, 5:15 PM
Boston Immigration and Urban History Seminar
Matthew Garcia, Brown University
"Nature's Candy: Grapes, Immigrants, and Race in Early 20th-Century California"
Comment: Thomas Guglielmo, George Washington University
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Seminars are free and open to the public; there is a subscription for advance copies of the seminar papers
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7 October 2008
Tuesday, 5:15 PM
Boston Environmental History Seminar
William Meyer, Colgate University
"The Making and Unmaking of a 'Natural' Resource: the Salt Industry of Coastal Southeastern Massachusetts"
Comment: David Soll, Brandeis University
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Seminars are free and open to the public; there is a subscription for advance copies of the seminar papers
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8 October 2008
Wednesday, 12:00 PM
- 1:00 PM
Brown-Bag
Shevaun Watson, University of South Carolina
"Testimony and Transformation: African American Rhetorical Performance, 1729-1829"
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Free and open
to the public
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13 October 2008
Monday, 1:00 PM
- 4:00 AM
Open House
Part of the Fenway Alliance Opening our Doors Festival
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Free and open
to the public
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15 October 2008
Wednesday, 12:00 PM
Brown-Bag
Hidetaka Hirota, Boston College
"Nativism, Citizenship, and the Deportation of Paupers in Massachusetts, 1848-1877"
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Free and open
to the public
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15 October 2008
Wednesday, 6:00 PM
Annual Dinner
Roger Mudd
"When the News Was the News"
This event will take place at the Harvard Club, 374 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston.
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Registration Required
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21 October 2008
Tuesday, 6:00 PM
Lecture
Jane Kamensky, Brandeis University
The Exchange Artist: A Tale of High-Flying Speculation & America's First Banking Collapse
5:30 Refreshments; 6:00 Lecture
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Free and open
to the public
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23 October 2008
Thursday, 5:30 PM
Boston Seminar on the History of Women and Gender
Jennifer Scanlon, Bowdoin College
"Second/Third Wave Feminism: The Case of Helen Gurley Brown"
Comment: Alice Jardine, Harvard University
Location: Schlesinger Library, Harvard University
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Seminars are free and open to the public; there is a subscription for advance copies of the seminar papers
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26 October 2008
Sunday, 3:00 PM
Lecture
Keith Stavely and Kathleen Fitzgerald
America's Founding Food: The Story of New England Cooking
This event will take place at the Fruitlands Museum in Harvard, Massachusetts.
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Free and open
to the public
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30 October 2008
Thursday, 5:15 PM
Boston Immigration and Urban History Seminar
Lisa Maya Knauer, University of Massachusetts--Dartmouth
Panel Discussion: "Maya in New Bedford: Politics, Community and Identity in the Wake of ICE"
Comment: Deborah Levenson-Estrada, Boston College; Robert Hildreth, Boston, MA; and Aviva Chomsky, Salem State College
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Seminars are free and open to the public; there is a subscription for advance copies of the seminar papers
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5 November 2008
Wednesday, 12:00 PM
- 1:00 PM
Brown-Bag
Meredith Neuman, Clark University
"Letter and Spirit: Theories of Sermon Literature in Puritan New England"
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Free and open
to the public
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12 November 2008
Wednesday, 12:00 PM
- 1:00 PM
Brown-Bag
Noam Maggor, Harvard University
"Boston's Politics of Property and the Making of the Modern American Metropolis, 1865-1917"
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Free and open
to the public
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12 November 2008
Wednesday, 6:00 PM
Conversation
Robert Gross, University of Connecticut
Splits and Resolves: Seeking Concord in Concord
Facilitated by Steve Marini, Wellesley College.
This event is part of the Puzzles in Time Conversation Series
5:30 Refreshments; 6:00 Conversation
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Free and open
to the public
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13 November 2008
Thursday, 5:15 PM
Boston Early American History Seminar
Brendan McConville, Boston University
"A Deal with the Devil: Ideology, Diplomacy, and Fundamental Law in Revolutionary New England"
Comments: Pauline Maier, MIT
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Seminars are free and open to the public; there is a subscription for advance copies of the seminar papers
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18 November 2008
Tuesday, 5:15 PM
Boston Environmental History Seminar
Jennifer Light, Northwestern University
"A Science of the City: Clementsian Ecology in Urban Theory and Practice"
Comment: Clay McShane, Northeastern University
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Seminars are free and open to the public; there is a subscription for advance copies of the seminar papers
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18 November 2008
Tuesday, 5:00 PM
- 7:00 PM
Special Event
My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams
This event will take place at the Social Law Library, One Pemberton Square, Boston.
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Free and open
to the public
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20 November 2008
Thursday, 5:15 PM
Boston Immigration and Urban History Seminar
Charlene Mires, Villanova University
"Imagining the City at the End of World War II: Intersections of Anti-Urbanism and Civic Boosterism at the United Nations"
Comment: To be announced
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Seminars are free and open to the public; there is a subscription for advance copies of the seminar papers
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22 November 2008
Saturday, 9:00 AM
- 5:00 PM
Conversations with Authors
Massachusetts History Book Fair
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Free and open
to the public
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1 December 2008
Monday, 6:00 PM
Conversation
Allan M. Brandt, Harvard University
The Cigarette Century
Facilitated by Steve Marini, Wellesley College
This event is part of the Puzzles in Time Conversation Series
5:30 Refreshments; 6:00 Conversation
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Free and open
to the public
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2 December 2008
Tuesday, 6:00 PM
- 8:00 PM
Holiday Party
Members' & Fellows' Holiday Party
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Registration Required
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3 December 2008
Wednesday, 12:00 PM
- 1:00 PM
Brown-Bag
Vincent Carretta, University of Maryland
"Searching for Phillis Wheatley"
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Free and open
to the public
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4 December 2008
Thursday, 5:15 PM
Boston Early American History Seminar
Vincent Carretta, University of Maryland
"'I began to feel the happiness of liberty, of which I knew nothing before': Eighteenth-Century Black Tales of the Lowcountry"
Comment: John Thornton, Boston University
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Seminars are free and open to the public; there is a subscription for advance copies of the seminar papers
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9 December 2008
Tuesday, 5:15 PM
Boston Environmental History Seminar
George H. Vrtis, Carleton College
"'Gold! Gold!! Gold!!!': Mining and Environmental Change in the 19th-Century West"
Comments: Beth LaDow, author of "The Medicine Line: Life and Death on a North American Borderland"
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Seminars are free and open to the public; there is a subscription for advance copies of the seminar papers
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7 January 2009
Wednesday, 12:00 PM
- 1:00 PM
Brown-Bag
Margery Heffron, Marc Friedlander Fellow
"Not 'My Dearest Friend:' The Courtship Correspondence of Louisa Catherine Johnson and John Quincy Adams"
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Free and open
to the public
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13 January 2009
Tuesday, 5:15 PM
Boston Environmental History Seminar
Tish Tuttle, M. Tuttle & Associates
"Geological Record of Paleo-Earthquakes in the New Madrid Region"
Comment: Conevery Bolton Valencius, Harvard University
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Seminars are free and open to the public; there is a subscription for advance copies of the seminar papers
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22 January 2009
Thursday, 5:15 PM
Boston Early American History Seminar
Patrick Fuery, University of Newcastle (Australia)
"The Effluvia of the Sublime: The Salem Witch Trials as the Uncanny"
Comment: To be announced
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Seminars are free and open to the public; there is a subscription for advance copies of the seminar papers
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29 January 2009
Thursday, 5:15 PM
Boston Immigration and Urban History Seminar
Diana Williams, Wellesley College
"Through a Glass Darkly: Staging 'The Octoroon' in Postbellum New Orleans"
Comment: To be announced
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Seminars are free and open to the public; there is a subscription for advance copies of the seminar papers
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4 February 2009
Wednesday, 12:00 PM
- 1:00 PM
Brown-Bag
Michael Hoberman, Fitchburg State College
"New Israel/New England: Jewish Merchants in Puritan Boston, 1649-1722"
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Free and open
to the public
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10 February 2009
Tuesday, 5:15 PM
Boston Environmental History Seminar
Megan Nelson, California State University, Fullerton
"Battle Logs: The Ruins of Nature and the American Civil War"
Comment: Merritt Roe Smith, MIT
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Seminars are free and open to the public; there is a subscription for advance copies of the seminar papers
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12 February 2009
Thursday, 5:30 PM
Boston Seminar on the History of Women and Gender
Lois Brown, Mount Holyoke College
"Race Work, Women's Work: African American Women and History in Massachusetts"
Comment: Susan Tomlinson, University of Massachusetts at Boston
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Seminars are free and open to the public; there is a subscription for advance copies of the seminar papers
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26 February 2009
Thursday, 5:15 PM
Boston Immigration and Urban History Seminar
Sarah Nytroe, Boston College
"Azusa Street and the Pioneer Jubilee: Public Space and the Formation of Religious Identity"
Comment: Stephanie Yuhl, College of the Holy Cross
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Seminars are free and open to the public; there is a subscription for advance copies of the seminar papers
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4 March 2009
Wednesday, 12:00 PM
- 1:00 PM
Brown-Bag
Strother Roberts, Northwestern University
"Valley of Contention: An Environmental History of the Connecticut River Valley, 1614-1788"
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Free and open
to the public
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5 March 2009
Thursday, 5:15 PM
Boston Early American History Seminar
Kevin Sweeney, Amherst College
"The Military, Political and Religious Origins of Regional Gun Cultures in Early America, 1620-1800"
Comment: Paul Finkelman, Albany Law School
Note: This session will start at 5:30 p.m.
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Seminars are free and open to the public; there is a subscription for advance copies of the seminar papers
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10 March 2009
Tuesday, 5:15 PM
Boston Environmental History Seminar
Peter Shulman, Case Western Reserve University
"Ships, Security, and the Politics of Trees: The Maritime Origins of American Forest Conservation"
Comment: Joseph F. Cullon, Dartmouth College
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Seminars are free and open to the public; there is a subscription for advance copies of the seminar papers
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19 March 2009
Thursday, 5:30 PM
Boston Seminar on the History of Women and Gender
Amy G. Richter, Clark University
"A Domestic Market: Reframing International Marriages in the Age of U.S. Expansionism"
Comment: Frank Costigliola, University of Connecticut
Location: Schlesinger Library, Harvard University
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Seminars are free and open to the public; there is a subscription for advance copies of the seminar papers
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26 March 2009
Thursday, 5:15 PM
Boston Immigration and Urban History Seminar
Jennifer Guglielmo, Smith College
"Italian Immigrant Women and Anarchist Feminism in the Industrializing U.S."
Comment: Judith Smith, University of Massachusetts--Boston
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Seminars are free and open to the public; there is a subscription for advance copies of the seminar papers
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1 April 2009
Wednesday, 12:00 PM
- 1:00 PM
Brown-Bag
Carolyn Eastman, University of Texas
"Learning to See: Gender in the 18th Century Atlantic World"
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Free and open
to the public
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2 April 2009
Thursday, 5:15 PM
Boston Early American History Seminar
James Leamon, Bates College
"The Reverend Mr. Jacob Bailey, Maine Loyalist, and the Search for Status"
Comment: John Tyler, Colonial Society of Massachusetts
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Seminars are free and open to the public; there is a subscription for advance copies of the seminar papers
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14 April 2009
Tuesday, 5:15 PM
Boston Environmental History Seminar
Blake Harrison, Southern Connecticut State University
"Mobility, Farm Work, and the New England Landscape: The Case of Connecticut Tobacco."
Comment: Matthew Garcia, Brown University
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Seminars are free and open to the public; there is a subscription for advance copies of the seminar papers
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16 April 2009
Thursday, 5:30 PM
Boston Seminar on the History of Women and Gender
Jacqueline Castledine, Empire State College, SUNY
"Anticolonial Feminism in the Cold War Era"
Comment: Margaret Burnham, Northeastern University
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Seminars are free and open to the public; there is a subscription for advance copies of the seminar papers
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30 April 2009
Thursday, 5:15 PM
Boston Immigration and Urban History Seminar
Alison Isenberg, Rutgers University
To be announced
Comment: To be announced
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Seminars are free and open to the public; there is a subscription for advance copies of the seminar papers
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6 May 2009
Wednesday, 12:00 PM
- 1:00 PM
Brown-Bag
Megan Kate Nelson, California State University, Fullerton
"Ruins and the Civil War"
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Free and open
to the public
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7 May 2009
Thursday, 5:15 PM
Boston Early American History Seminar
Eliga H. Gould, University of New Hampshire
"An Empire of Peace: The International Origins of the American Revolution"
Comment: Maya Jasanoff, Harvard University
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Seminars are free and open to the public; there is a subscription for advance copies of the seminar papers
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20 May 2009
Wednesday, 12:00 PM
- 1:00 PM
Brown-Bag
Jennifer Egloff, New York University
"Popular Numeracy in Early Modern England and British North America"
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Free and open
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