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Norman Rockwell
Norman Percevel Rockwell was a 20th century Americana painters. His works enjoy a broad Popular culture appeal in the United States, where Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations he created for The Saturday Evening Post magazine over more than four decades.
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Norman Thomas
Norman Mattoon Thomas was a leading United States socialism, pacifism, and six-time President of the United States candidate for the Socialist Party of America.
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Normandy
Normandy is a geographical region in northern France. Upper Normandy consists of the French dpartement in Frances of Seine-Maritime and Eure, and Lower Normandy of the Dpartement in France of Orne, Calvados, and Manche.
The Duchy of Normandy is a formerly independent duchy situated in northern France occupying the lower Seine area, the Pays de Caux and the region to the west through the Pays d'Auge as far as the Cotentin Peninsula.
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Normans
The Normans were a people who colonized Normandy, conquered England, and played a major political, military and cultural role in the northern and Mediterranean parts of medieval Europe for centuries. Their most famous achievement was the Norman Conquest of England in 1066.
Originally they derived from the indigenous population of Neustria and Vikings originating in Scandinavia.
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Norns
The Norns of Norse mythology are three dsir by the names of Urd , Verdandi and Skuld .
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Norse mythology
Norse or Scandinavian mythology comprises the pre-Christianity religion, beliefs and legends of the North Germanic language people, including those who settled on Iceland, where the written sources for Norse mythology were assembled. However, it is important to note that Finnish mythology forms a separate creed, although it shares some similarities with Norse mythology.
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North
North is one of the 4 cardinal directions, specifically the direction that, in Western culture, is treated as the primary direction: north is used to define all other directions; the top edges of maps usually correspond to the northern edge of the territory represented, unless explicitly stated otherwise or landmarks are considered more useful for that territory than specific directions.
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North Africa
North Africa or Northern Africa is the north region of the African continent. Geopolitically, the United Nations subregion of Northern Africa includes the following seven territories:
The Spain Plaza de soberana are on the southern coast of the Mediterranean Sea, surrounded by Morocco on land.
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North America
North America is a continent in the Earth's northern hemisphere and almost fully in the western hemisphere. It is bordered on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the North Atlantic Ocean, on the southeast by the Caribbean Sea, and on the south and west by the North Pacific Ocean; South America lies to the southeast.
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North American Free Trade Agreement
The North American Free Trade Agreement is a free trade agreement among Canada, the United States of America, and Mexico, based on the model of the European Communities . NAFTA went into effect on January 1, 1994.
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North Borneo
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North Borneo was an independent state and British protectorate under the sovereign British North Borneo Company from 1882-1946, and subsequently a crown colony of the United Kingdom from 1946-1963.
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North Carolina
North Carolina is a U.S. state in the Southeast United States United States. It was one of the original Thirteen Colonies, and the home of the Roanoke Island in the Americas. It was also the location of the first successful heavier than air flight by the Wright brothers at Kill Devil Hills near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in 1903.
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North Cascades National Park
North Cascades National Park is a United States National Park Service located in Washington state.
The park complex consists of 505,000 acres of the Cascade Range in two separate sections, as well as the adjacent Ross Lake National Recreation Area and Lake Chelan National Recreation Areas which are managed together with the park.
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North Dakota
North Dakota is a Midwestern United States U.S. state in the United States. It is the northernmost of the Great Plains states and is the northern half of The Dakotas. During the 19th century, North Dakota was considered part of the American Old West.
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North Germanic languages
The North Germanic languages make up one of the three branches of the Germanic languages, a sub-family of the Indo-European languages, along with the West Germanic languages and the East Germanic languages. Derived from Proto-Norse and Old Norse, they are spoken in the three Scandinavian countries, the Faroe Islands, Iceland and Greenland, as well as by a significant Swedish minority in Finland and by immigrant groups mainly in North America and Australia.
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North Island
he North Island is one of the two main islands of New Zealand, the other being the South Island. The island is 113,729 square km in area, making it the List of islands by size.
Several important cities are in the North Island, notably New Zealand's largest city, Auckland, New Zealand, and Wellington, New Zealand, the capital, located at the southern extremity of the island.
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North Korea
North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, is an East Asian country occupying the northern half of the Korean Peninsula. Its government defines itself as a Communist-led democratic multi-party state of the Juche political ideology, although the United States and South Korean governments claim that, in practice, it functions as a dictatorship.
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North Platte River
The North Platte River is a tributary of the Platte River, approximately 680 mi long, in the U.S. states of Colorado, Wyoming, and Nebraska. It forms the Platte at its confluence with the South Platte River in western Nebraska. The river provides the major avenue of drainage for eastern Wyoming and western Nebraska.
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North Pole
The North Pole is the northernmost point on the Earth and is on the opposite side of the Earth from the South Pole.
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North Sea
he North Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean, located between Norway and Denmark in the east, Scotland and England in the west, and Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France in the south. An offshoot of the North Sea is the Skagerrak, between Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, which connects to the Baltic Sea through the Kattegat, Oresund, the Great Belt and the Little Belt.
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North Vietnam
The Democratic Republic of Vietnam , or less commonly, Vietnamese Democratic Republic , also known as North Vietnam, was proclaimed by Ho Chi Minh in Hn?i on September 2, 1945 as a provisional government. It was recognized by the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union in 1950.
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North Yorkshire
North Yorkshire is a non-metropolitan county within the Government Office Region of Yorkshire and the Humber in northern England, United Kingdom and also a larger ceremonial county, partly in the North East England region. The non-metropolitan county is divided into the districts of Craven, Hambleton, Harrogate, Richmondshire, Ryedale, Scarborough and Selby.
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Northampton
Northampton is a large market town and a Non-metropolitan district in central England on the River Nene, and the county town of Northamptonshire, in the English East Midlands region.
The district has a population of List of English districts by population, whilst the Urban Area has a population of List of English cities by population.
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Northamptonshire
Northamptonshire is a landlocked Counties of England in central England with a population of 629,676 . It has borders with Warwickshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, Cambridgeshire , Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire , Oxfordshire, and Lincolnshire . The county town is Northampton.
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Northeast
Northeast is the ordinal direction halfway between north and east. It is the opposite of southwest. See boxing the compass.
The term "northeast" is often used by itself to refer to the northeastern sector of a geographic area, or for entities based in such a region. Some examples include:
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Northeastern United States
The Northeastern United States is a region of the United States defined by the U.S. Census Bureau. The Northeast is bordered to the north by Canada, to the west by the Midwest, to the south by the U.S. Southern States, and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. Its largest city, New York City, is also the largest city and metropolitan area in the United States.
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Norther
Norther is a heavy metal band from Helsinki, Finland whose style incorporates elements of melodic death metal, black metal and power metal. Norther's sound has been said to be similar to that of Children of Bodom, and the band has cited Children of Bodom as being an influence to them.
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Northerly
Northerly was one of Australia's champion thoroughbred horses in the early 2000's. Northerly, trained by Western Australian harness racing legend Fred Kersley, won nine Group 1 races, including the Australian Cup twice, and the Cox Plate, regarded as the Weight for Age championship of Australasia, also on two occasions.
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Northern Europe
Northern Europe is the northern part of the Europe. At various times this region has been defined variously, but today it is generally seen to include:
* the Nordic countries, including Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, as well as land, the Faroe Islands and occasionally Karelia, Kola Peninsula, Greenland and Svalbard
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Northern Flying Squirrel
The Northern Flying Squirrel is one of two species of the genus Glaucomys, the only flying squirrels found in North America. Flying squirrels are strictly nocturnal. The Northern Flying Squirrel is found in coniferous and mixed forests across the top of North America, from Alaska to Nova Scotia, south to North Carolina and west to California.
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Northern Hemisphere
The Northern Hemisphere is the half of a planet's surface that is north of the equator . On the Earth, the Northern Hemisphere contains most of the land and about 88-90% of the human population.
In the temperate regions of the hemisphere, winter lasts from December to February and Summer from June to August.
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Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom and covers 5,459 square miles in the northeast of the island of Ireland, about a sixth of the total area of the island. It has a population of 1,685,000 — between a quarter and a third of the island's total population.
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Northern Mariana Islands
The Northern Mariana Islands, officially the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands , is a commonwealth in political union with the United States at a strategic location in the western Pacific Ocean. It consists of 15 islands about three-quarters of the way from Hawaii to the Philippines, at .
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Northern Pike
The Northern Pike is a carnivorous fish of brackish water and freshwaters of the northern hemisphere. It is also known by the somewhat misleading folk-name, "Water Wolf."
Northern pikes are most often olive, shading into yellowish or whitish on belly with short, light barlike spots on body and some dark spots on the fins.
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Northern Pin Oak
The Northern Pin Oak or Hill's Oak is an oak in the List of Quercus species#Section Lobatae section Quercus sect. Lobatae. It is mainly native to the northern Midwestern United States United States, and also in the southeast and southwest of Ontario, Canada.
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Northern Pocket Gopher
The Northern Pocket Gopher, Thomomys talpoides, was first discovered by Lewis and Clark on April 9, 1805 at the mouth of the Knife River, North Dakota. These animals are often rich brown or yellowish brown, but also grayish or closely approaching local soil color and have white markings under chin.
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Northern Red Oak
The Northern Red Oak, Quercus rubra , is an oak in the List of Quercus species#Section Lobatae group . It is a native of North America, in the northeastern United States and southeast Canada. It grows from the north end of the Great Lakes , east to Nova Scotia, south as far as Georgia and northern Alabama, and west to eastern Kansas.
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Northern Rhodesia
Northern Rhodesia was a British protectorate in southern Africa, created in 1911 by combining North-West Rhodesia and North-East Rhodesia, which were controlled by the British South Africa Company. It was administered by the United Kingdom government after 1923, eventually becoming independent as the nation of Zambia on October 24, 1964.
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Northern snakehead
The northern snakehead is a fish native to China, Russia, and Korea. In the United States, the fish is considered to be a highly invasive species.
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Northern Territory
The Northern Territory is a federal territory of Australia. The capital city is Darwin, Northern Territory; the other two sizable settlements are Alice Springs, Northern Territory and Katherine, Northern Territory . Residents of the Northern Territory are often known simply as 'Territorians'.
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Northumberland
Northumberland is a Counties of England in northern England. The non-metropolitan counties of England of Northumberland borders Cumbria to the west, County Durham to the south and Tyne and Wear to the south east, as well as having a border with the Scotland Scottish Borders council area to the north, and nearly eighty miles of North Sea coastline.
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Northumbria
Northumbria is primarily the name of a petty kingdom of Angles which was formed in Great Britain at the beginning of the 7th century, from two smaller kingdoms of Bernicia and Deira, and of the much smaller earldom which succeeded the kingdom. The smaller earldom came about when part of Northumbria was taken and incorporated into the Danelaw.
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Northwest
Northwest is the Ordinal directions halfway between West and North on a compass. It is the opposite of Southeast. Some terms use the word Northwest or a varation of it:
* Northwest Airlines, a large airline headquartered in the United States
* Northwest School, arts high school in Seattle
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Northwest Passage
The Northwest Passage is a sea route connecting the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Oceans through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago of Canada. The various islands of the archipelago are separated from one another and the Canadian mainland by a series of Arctic Ocean waterways collectively known as the Northwest Passages or Northwestern Passages.
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Northwest Territories
The Northwest Territories is a provinces and territories of Canada of Canada.
Located in northern Canada, it is east of Yukon, west and south of Nunavut , and north of British Columbia, Alberta, and Saskatchewan. It has an area of 1,171,918 1 E6 m and a population of 42,944 as of January 1, 2005.
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Northwestern United States
Northwestern United States comprises the Pacific Northwest and the western Great Plains regions of the United States, and consistently includes the states of Oregon and Washington, to which Idaho, Montana, Southeast Alaska, and Wyoming are sometimes added.
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Nortriptyline
Nortriptyline is a second generation tricyclic antidepressant marketed as the hydrochloride under the tradenames AventylŪ and PamelorŪ. It is used in the treatment of clinical depression and childhood nocturnal enuresis. In addition it is sometimes used for chronic pain modification.
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Norway
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Norway is a Nordic countries on the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, bordering Sweden, Finland and Russia. Norway has a very elongated shape; the country's extensive coastline along the Atlantic Ocean is home to its famous fjords.
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Norway lobster
The Norway lobster, Nephrops norvegicus, is a slim orange-pink lobster up to 24 centimetre long found in the north-eastern Atlantic Ocean and North Sea as far north as Iceland and northern Norway, and south to Portugal and the Mediterranean Sea.
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Norway Maple
The Norway Maple is a maple native to eastern and central Europe and southwest Asia, from France east to Russia, north to southern Scandinavia and southeast to northern Iran.
It is a deciduous tree to 20-30 m tall with a broad, rounded crown and grey-brown, shallowly grooved bark; unlike many other species of maple, mature trees do not tend to develop a shaggy bark.
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Norway Spruce
The Norway Spruce is a large evergreen coniferous tree growing to 35-55 m tall and with a trunk diameter of up to 1-1.5 m.
It grows throughout northeast Europe from Norway and Poland eastward, and also in the mountains of central Europe, southwest to the western end of the Alps, and southeast in the Carpathian Mountains and Balkans to the extreme north of Greece.
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Norwegian Elkhound
The Norwegian Elkhound is a Spitz-type dog breed of dog, specifically a member of the scent hound family. The dog is the national dog breed of Norway.
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Norwegian krone
Krone is the name of the currency used in Norway. The plural form is kroner. One krone is divided into 100 re, singular and plural. The ISO 4217 code is NOK, although the common abbreviation is "kr".
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Norwegian Sea
The Norwegian Sea is part of the North Atlantic Ocean northwest of Norway, located between the North Sea and the Greenland Sea.
It adjoins the Iceland Sea to the west and the Barents Sea to the northeast. In the southwest, it is separated from the Atlantic Ocean by a submarine ridge running between Iceland and the Faroe Islands.
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Norwich Terrier
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Nose
Anatomically, a nose is a protuberance in vertebrates that houses the nostrils, or nares, which admit and expel air for Respiration.
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Nose cone
The term nose cone is used to refer to the forwardmost section of a rocket, guided missile or aircraft. The cone is shaped to offer minimum aerodynamic resistance. Nose cones are also designed for travel in and under water and in high speed land vehicles.
On a rocket vehicle it consists of a chamber or chambers in which a satellite, instruments, animals, plants, or auxiliary equipment may be carried, and an outer surface built to withstand high temperatures generated by aerodynamic heating.
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Nose flute
The nose flute is a popular musical instrument played in Polynesia and the Pacific Rim countries. Other versions are found in Africa, China, and India.
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Nostalgia
Nostalgia describes a longing for the past, often idealism and unrealistic.
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Nostoc
Nostoc is a genus of fresh water cyanobacteria that forms spherical colony composed of filaments of moniliform cells in a gelatinous sheath. When on the ground, a Nostoc colony is ordinarily not seen; but after a rain it swells up into a conspicuous jellylike mass, which was once thought to have fallen from the sky, whence the popular names, fallen star and Star Jelly.
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Nostradamus
Nostradamus , Latinized name of Michel de Nostredame, was one of the world's most famous publishers of prophecy. He is best known for his book Les Propheties, the first edition of which appeared in 1555.
Since the publication of this book, which has rarely been out of print since his death and has always been hugely popular across the world, Nostradamus has attracted an almost cult following.
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Nostril
A nostril is one of the two channels of the nose, from the point where they bifurcate to the external opening. In birds and mammals they contain branched bones or cartilages called turbinates whose function is to warm air on inhalation and remove moisture on exhalation. Fish do not breathe through their noses, but they do have two small holes used for olfactioning which may be called nostrils.
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Notary public
A notary public is an officer who can administer oaths and statutory declarations, witness and authenticate documents and perform certain other acts varying from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. Generally speaking, a notary public in the United States of America has powers that are far more limited than the role of a Civil law notary in the rest of the world, with the exception of Louisiana.
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Notch
A notch is a small hole, gap or defect, which may be caused accidentally or deliberately. For example, an axe or other blade may become notched when it hits something harder. Notches are often used as a tally. Notch may also refer to a hole in a belt, and is used figuratively in expressions such as notch up.
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Note
A note is a sign used in music to represent the relative duration and pitch of sound. The word note is also used for the graphic representation of that pitch in a musical notation system or a specific instance of either.
The general and specific meanings are freely mixed by musicians, although they can be initially confusing: one can speak of "the second note of Happy Birthday to You" for example.
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Note value
In music notation, a note value indicates the relative duration of a note, using the color or shape of the note head, the presence or absence of a stem, and the presence or absence of flags.
A Rest indicates a silence of an equivalent duration.
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Notebook
A notebook is a virgin book of paper on which notetaking may be writing. It was invented in 1920 by Australian J. A Birchall, who first stuck paper together and added a cardboard backing, rather than leaving it to be loose leaf. The paper may be blank or include pre-printed horizontal and/or vertical lines to assist the writer in keeping the text straight.
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Notechis
Notechis is a genus of highly venomous snake Elapidae snakes found in Australia. They are commonly known as tiger snakes. There are two species.
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Notepad
Notepad is a simple text editor included with all versions of Microsoft Windows since Windows 1.0 in 1985.
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Nothofagus
Nothofagus, the southern beeches is a genus of about 35 species of trees native to the temperate oceanic to subtropical Southern Hemisphere in southern South America and Australasia.
In the past they were commonly treated in the family Fagaceae, but genetic tests by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group revealed them to be genetically distinct, and they are now treated in a family their own, the Nothofagaceae.
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