Topics covered and contributors

• Mormonism in Historical Context – James B. Allen
  James B. Allen (historian)
  James Brown "Jim" Allen is an American historian of Mormonism and was an official Assistant Church Historian of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1972–1979.-Biography:...
  
  

• Foundation: 1820-1830 – James B. Allen
  James B. Allen (historian)
  James Brown "Jim" Allen is an American historian of Mormonism and was an official Assistant Church Historian of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1972–1979.-Biography:...
  
  
• Development: 1831-1844 – Stephen C. Taysom
• Exodus and Settlement: 1845-1869 – Ardis E. Parshall
• Conflict: 1869-1890 – W. Paul Reeve
• Transition: 1890-1941 – Thomas G. Alexander
  Thomas G. Alexander
  Thomas Glen Alexander is an American historian and academic who is professor emeritus from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, where he was also Lemuel Hardison Redd, Jr. Professor of Western History and director of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies.-Biography:Alexander was born in...
  
  
• Expansion: 1941-Present – Jessie L. Embry

• Black Hawk War
  Black Hawk War (Utah)
  The Black Hawk War, or Black Hawk's War, from 1865 to 1872, is the name of the estimated 150 military engagement between Mormon settlers in the Four Corners region and members of the Ute, Paiute, Apache and Navajo tribes, led by a local Ute chief, Antonga Black Hawk...
  
   – W. Paul Reeve
• Book of Mormon
  Book of Mormon
  The Book of Mormon is a sacred text of the Latter Day Saint movement that adherents believe contains writings of ancient prophets who lived on the American continent from approximately 2600 BC to AD 421. It was first published in March 1830 by Joseph Smith, Jr...
  
   – Stanley J. Thayne and David J. Howlett
• Colonization
  Mormon Corridor
  The Mormon Corridor is a term for the areas of Western North America that were settled between 1850 and approximately 1890 by members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , who are commonly known as Mormons....
  
   – W. Paul Reeve
• Correlation
  Priesthood Correlation Program
  In The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Priesthood Correlation Program is a program designed to provide a systematic approach to maintain consistency in its ordinances, doctrines, organizations, meetings, materials, and other programs and activities...
  
   – Blair Dee Hodges
• Exodus from Nauvoo – W. Paul Reeve
• First Vision
  First Vision
  The First Vision refers to a vision that Joseph Smith, Jr. said he received as a youth in a wooded area in Manchester, New York, which his followers call the Sacred Grove. Smith described it as a personal theophany in which he received a forgiveness of sins...
  
   – W. Paul Reeve
• Handcart Migration – W. Paul Reeve
• Haun's Mill Massacre
  Haun's Mill massacre
  The Haun's Mill massacre was an event in the history of the Latter Day Saint movement. It occurred on October 30, 1838 when a mob/militia unit from Livingston County attacked a Mormon settlement in eastern Caldwell County, Missouri, United States, after the Battle of Crooked River...
  
   – W. Paul Reeve
• Immigration
  National and Ethnic Cultures of Utah
  National and ethnic cultures are an important element of diversity in cities and states. These cultures make cities and states more cosmopolitan and better prepared for the challenges of economic globalization. -Introduction:...
  
   – Edward H. Jeter
• Kirtland Pentecost – Jonathan A. Stapley
• Manifesto
  1890 Manifesto
  The "1890 Manifesto", sometimes simply called "The Manifesto", is a statement which officially disavowed the continuing practice of plural marriage in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints...
  
   – W. Paul Reeve
• Martyrdom of Joseph and Hyrum Smith – Debra J. Marsh
• Missouri War – David W. Grua
  Grua
  Grua is a village in the municipality of Lunner, Norway. Its population is 1,477. Mining is historically important, and Norway's oldest registered iron mine is located here....
  
  
• Mormon Battalion
  Mormon Battalion
  The Mormon Battalion was the only religiously based unit in United States military history, and it served from July 1846 to July 1847 during the Mexican-American War. The battalion was a volunteer unit of between 534 and 559 Latter-day Saints men led by Mormon company officers, commanded by regular...
  
   – Bruce A. Crow
• Mountain Meadows Massacre
  Mountain Meadows massacre
  The Mountain Meadows massacre was a series of attacks on the Baker–Fancher emigrant wagon train, at Mountain Meadows in southern Utah. The attacks culminated on September 11, 1857 in the mass slaughter of the emigrant party by the Iron County district of the Utah Territorial Militia and some local...
  
   – Richard E. Turley Jr.
• Nauvoo Legion
  Nauvoo Legion
  The Nauvoo Legion was a militia originally organized by the Latter Day Saints to defend the city of Nauvoo, Illinois, . To curry political favor with the ambiguously-political Saints, the Illinois state legislature granted Nauvoo a liberal city charter that gave the Nauvoo Legion extraordinary...
  
   – Ardis E. Parshall
• Organization of the Church – W. Paul Reeve
• Pioneering – Bruce A. Crow
• Priesthood Revelation of 1978 – Jared Tamez
• Reformation
  Mormon Reformation
  The Mormon Reformation was a period of renewed emphasis on spirituality within The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . It took place in 1856 and 1857 and was under the direction of President of the Church Brigham Young. During the Reformation, Young sent his counselor Jedediah M...
  
   – Ardis E. Parshall
• Relief Society
  Relief Society
  The Relief Society is a philanthropic and educational women's organization and an official auxiliary of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . It was founded in 1842 in Nauvoo, Illinois, USA and has approximately 6 million members in over 170 countries and territories...
  
   – Amy Tanner Thiriot
• Seagulls and Crickets – Edward H. Jeter
• Smoot Hearings
  Smoot Hearings
  The Reed Smoot hearings were a series of Congressional hearings on whether the United States Senate should seat U.S. Senator Reed Smoot, who was elected by the Utah legislature in 1903...
  
   – Jonathan H. Moyer
• Temple Work by Proxy – W. Paul Reeve
• Temples – W. Paul Reeve
• Ungathered – Christopher C. Jones
• United States v. Reynolds
  United States v. Reynolds
  United States v. Reynolds, , is a landmark legal case in 1953 that saw the formal recognition of State Secrets Privilege, a judicially recognized extension of presidential power.- Overview :...
  
   – Nathan B. Oman
• Utah War
  Utah War
  The Utah War, also known as the Utah Expedition, Buchanan's Blunder, the Mormon War, or the Mormon Rebellion was an armed confrontation between LDS settlers in the Utah Territory and the armed forces of the United States government. The confrontation lasted from May 1857 until July 1858...
  
   – William P. MacKinnon
  William P. MacKinnon
  William P. MacKinnon is the author of At Sword's Point: A Documentary History of the Utah War to 1858. MacKinnon has published over thirty articles on the history of the American West. In 2008, the Mormon History Association awarded MacKinnon its Thomas L. Kane Award. An independent historian and...
  
  
• Word of Wisdom
  Word of Wisdom
  The "Word of Wisdom" is the common name of a section of the Doctrine and Covenants, a book considered by many churches within the Latter Day Saint movement to consist of revelations from God...
  
   – W. Paul Reeve
• Youth Programs – Brett D. Dowdle
• Zion's Camp
  Zion's Camp
  Zion's Camp was a paramilitary expedition of Latter Day Saints, led by Joseph Smith, Jr., from Kirtland, Ohio to Clay County, Missouri during May and June 1834 in an unsuccessful attempt to regain land from which the Saints had been expelled by non-Mormon settlers...
  
   – Ardis E. Parshall

• Leonard James Arrington – Gary James Bergera
• Lowell L. Bennion
  Lowell L. Bennion
  Lowell Lindsay Bennion was an American educator and counselor. Early in his career, Bennion focused much of his efforts on fellow members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , but he sought to benefit all people in his reach.Bennion was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, the son of...
  
   – Mary Lythgoe Bradford
  Mary Lythgoe Bradford
  Mary Lythgoe Bradford is an editor and poet significant to Mormon literature. She was the editor of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought from 1978 to 1983, edited Mormon Women Speak , and was included on the "75 Significant Mormon Poets" list complied by Gideon Burton and Sarah Jenkins...
  
  
• Ezra Taft Benson
  Ezra Taft Benson
  Ezra Taft Benson was the thirteenth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1985 until his death and was United States Secretary of Agriculture for both terms of the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower.-Biography:Born on a farm in Whitney, Idaho, Benson was the oldest of...
  
   – J.B. Haws
• Juanita Brooks
  Juanita Brooks
  Juanita Pulsipher Brooks was an American historian and author, specializing in the American West and Mormon history, including books related to the Mountain Meadows massacre, to which her ancestor Dudley Leavitt was sometimes linked.-Biography:Born Juanita Leone Leavitt, Brooks was born and raised...
  
   – Levi S. Peterson
  Levi S. Peterson
  Levi Savage Peterson is a Mormon biographer, essayist and fictionist whose best-known works include the seminal biography of Juanita Brooks, his own autobiography and his novel The Backslider, "standard for the contemporary Mormon novel". He was born and reared in the Mormon community of...
  
  
• George Q. Cannon
  George Q. Cannon
  George Quayle Cannon was an early member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , and served in the First Presidency under four successive presidents of the church: Brigham Young, John Taylor, Wilford Woodruff, and Lorenzo Snow...
  
   – Gary James Bergera
• Martha Hughes Cannon
  Martha Hughes Cannon
  Martha Maria Hughes Cannon was a Welsh-born immigrant to the United States, a physician, Utah women's rights advocate and suffragist, and Utah state senator...
  
   – W. Paul Reeve
• J. Reuben Clark, Jr. – Gary James Bergera
• Heber J. Grant
  Heber J. Grant
  Heber Jeddy Grant was the seventh president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . He was ordained an apostle on October 16, 1882, on the same day as George Teasdale...
  
   – W. Paul Reeve
• Gordon B. Hinckley
  Gordon B. Hinckley
  Gordon Bitner Hinckley was an American religious leader and author who served as the 15th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from March 12, 1995 until his death...
  
   – Gary James Bergera
• Howard W. Hunter
  Howard W. Hunter
  Howard William Hunter was the fourteenth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1994 to 1995. His nine month presidential tenure is the shortest in the history of the Church...
  
   – W. Paul Reeve
• Spencer W. Kimball
  Spencer W. Kimball
  Spencer Woolley Kimball was the twelfth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1973 until his death in 1985.-Ancestry:...
  
   – Jacob W. Olmstead
• Harold B. Lee
  Harold B. Lee
  Harold Bingham Lee was eleventh president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from July 1972 until his death.- Early life :...
  
   – J.B. Haws
• Amy Brown Lyman – David R. Hall
• Bruce R. McConkie
  Bruce R. McConkie
  Bruce Redd McConkie was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1972 until his death...
  
   – Ardis E. Parshall
• David O. McKay
  David O. McKay
  David Oman McKay was the ninth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , serving from 1951 until his death. Ordained an apostle and member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in 1906, McKay was a general authority for nearly 64 years, longer than anyone else in LDS Church...
  
   – Gregory A. Prince
• Thomas S. Monson
  Thomas S. Monson
  Thomas Spencer Monson is an American religious leader and author, and the 16th and current President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . As president, Monson is considered by adherents of the religion to be a "prophet, seer, and revelator" of God's will on earth...
  
   – Gary James Bergera
• Hugh Nibley
  Hugh Nibley
  Hugh Winder Nibley was an American author, Mormon apologist, and professor at Brigham Young University...
  
   – Boyd Jay Petersen
• LaVern Watts Parmley – Ardis E. Parshall
• Orson Pratt
  Orson Pratt
  Orson Pratt, Sr. was a leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and an original member of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles...
  
   and Parley P. Pratt
  Parley P. Pratt
  Parley Parker Pratt, Sr. was a leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and an original member of Quorum of the Twelve Apostles from 1835 until his murder in 1857. He served in the Quorum with his younger brother, Orson Pratt...
  
   – Matthew J. Grow
• Sidney Rigdon
  Sidney Rigdon
  Sidney Rigdon was a leader during the early history of the Latter Day Saint movement.-Baptist background:...
  
   – Ardis E. Parshall
• B.H. Roberts – Gary James Bergera
• Aurelia Spencer Rogers
  Aurelia Spencer Rogers
  Aurelia Read Spencer Rogers was the founder of Primary, the children's organization and official auxiliary of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints...
  
   – Ardis E. Parshall
• Patty Bartlett Sessions
  Patty Bartlett Sessions
  Patty Bartlett Sessions was a Mormon midwife. She was one of the wives of Joseph Smith, Jr. while still married to her first husband, David Sessions. She was the mother of Perrigrine Sessions, founder of Bountiful, Utah...
  
   – Jonathan A. Stapley
• Barbara Bradshaw Smith – Gary James Bergera
• Emma Hale Smith
  Emma Hale Smith
  Emma Hale Smith Bidamon was married to Joseph Smith, Jr., until his death in 1844, and was an early leader of the Latter Day Saint movement, during Joseph Smith's lifetime and afterward as a member of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints...
  
   – Janiece Lyn Johnson
• George Albert Smith
  George Albert Smith
  George Albert Smith, Sr. was the eighth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints .-Early life:...
  
   – Gary James Bergera
• Hyrum Smith
  Hyrum Smith
  Hyrum Smith was an American religious leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the original church of the Latter Day Saint movement. He was the older brother of the movement's founder, Joseph Smith, Jr....
  
  – Gary James Bergera
• Joseph F. Smith
  Joseph F. Smith
  Joseph Fielding Smith, Sr. was the sixth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints...
  
   – Christopher C. Jones
• Joseph Fielding Smith
  Joseph Fielding Smith
  Joseph Fielding Smith, Jr. was the tenth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1970 until his death. He was the son of Joseph F. Smith, who was the sixth president of the LDS Church...
  
   – Matthew Bowman
  Matthew Bowman
  Matthew Bowman is an English football player who played once for Sheffield Wednesday. Although an Academy player he was called up to the senior squad at the start of 2006-07 season to ease the club's injury problems...
  
  
• Joseph Smith, Jr. – Jed Woodworth
• Smith Family
  Smith (family)
  The Smith family is the name of a U.S. family with many members prominent in religion and politics; this article focuses only on those with political and civic activity...
  
   – Lavina Fielding Anderson
  Lavina Fielding Anderson
  Lavina Fielding Anderson is a Latter Day Saint scholar, writer, editor, and feminist. Anderson holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Washington...
  
  
• Eliza R. Snow – Jennifer Reeder
• Lorenzo Snow
  Lorenzo Snow
  Lorenzo Snow was the fifth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1898 to his death. Snow was the last president of the LDS Church in the nineteenth century.-Family:...
  
   – Alan L. Morrell
• Belle Smith Spafford – Michele A. Welch
• James E. Talmage
  James E. Talmage
  James Edward Talmage born in Hungerford, Berkshire, England, was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1911 until his death in 1933....
  
   – Matthew Bowman
  Matthew Bowman
  Matthew Bowman is an English football player who played once for Sheffield Wednesday. Although an Academy player he was called up to the senior squad at the start of 2006-07 season to ease the club's injury problems...
  
  
• Elmina Shepard Taylor
  Elmina Shepard Taylor
  Anstis Elmina Shepard Taylor was the first general president of what is today the Young Women organization of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and was a founding member of the National Council of Women.-Biography:Elmina Shepard was born in Middlefield, New York to David Spaulding...
  
   – Gary James Bergera
• John Taylor – Ardis E. Parshall
• Emmeline B. Wells
  Emmeline B. Wells
  Emmeline Blanche Woodward Harris Whitney Wells was an American journalist, editor, poet, women's rights advocate and diarist...
  
   – Michele A. Welch
• Witnesses to the Book of Mormon – Benjamin E. Park
• Wilford Woodruff
  Wilford Woodruff
  Wilford Woodruff, Sr. was the fourth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1889 until his death...
  
   – Thomas G. Alexander
  Thomas G. Alexander
  Thomas Glen Alexander is an American historian and academic who is professor emeritus from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, where he was also Lemuel Hardison Redd, Jr. Professor of Western History and director of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies.-Biography:Alexander was born in...
  
  
• Brigham Young
  Brigham Young
  Brigham Young was an American leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and a settler of the Western United States. He was the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1847 until his death in 1877, he founded Salt Lake City, and he served as the first governor of the Utah...
  
   – John G. Turner

• Church Organization and Government – Gary James Bergera
• Divergent Churches – Jason Smith
  Jason Smith
  Jason Smith may refer to:*Jason Smith , Australian actor*Jason Smith , New Orleans Hornets power forward*Jason Smith , American football player for the St...
  
  
• Genealogy and Family History – Ardis E. Parshall
• Local Worship
  Worship services of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
  In Mormonism, worship services include weekly services, held on Sundays , in neighborhood based religious units...
  
   – Bradley H. Kramer
• Mormon Missiology – Jonathan A. Stapley
• Mormon Scripture – Julie Marie Smith
• Mormonism and Blacks – Margaret Blair Young
  Margaret Blair Young
  Margaret Blair Young is an American author, filmmaker and writing instructor affiliated with Brigham Young University.- Biography :Young is married to English professor Bruce Young...
  
   and Darius Aidan Gray
• Mormonism and Economics – Alan L. Morrell
• Mormonism and Education – Jed Woodworth
• Mormonism and Men – Jeffery O. Johnson and W. Paul Reeve
• Mormonism and Native Americans – Sondra Jones
• Mormonism and Other Faiths – J.B. Haws
• Mormonism and Race – Armand L. Mauss
• Mormonism and Science – Ardis E. Parshall
• Mormonism and Secular Government – Nathan B. Oman
• Mormonism and the Family – W. Paul Reeve
• Mormonism and Violence
  Mormonism and violence
  Mormonism, throughout much of its history, has had a relationship with violence. The effect of this violence has had an impact on the history of the Latter Day Saint movement and its doctrines....
  
   – Robert H. Briggs
  Robert H. Briggs
  Robert H. Briggs is a Fullerton, California, lawyer and independent historian. , Briggs's area of historical research related to violence in frontier Utah, in particular the Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857....
  
  
• Mormonism and Women – Andrea G. Radke-Moss
• Mormonism as a World Religion – David Clark Knowlton
• Mormonism as Restoration – Samuel Brown
  Samuel Brown
  Samuel Brown may refer to:* Samuel Brown , English inventor of early internal combustion engine* Samuel Brown , English pioneer suspension bridge engineer and inventor...
  
  
• Mormonism's Contested Identity – J.B. Haws
• Non-Mormon Views of Mormonism – Jan Shipps
  Jan Shipps
  Jo Ann Barnett "Jan" Shipps is an American historian specializing in Mormon History, particularly in the latter half of the 20th century to the present. Shipps is generally regarded as the foremost non-Mormon scholar of the Latter Day Saint movement, having given particular attention to The...
  
  
• Polygamy – Kathryn M. Daynes
  Kathryn M. Daynes
  Kathryn M. "Kathy" Daynes is a professor of history at Brigham Young University and a historian of Mormonism, specializing in Mormon polygamy. She was president of the Mormon History Association in 2008-2009....
  
   and Lowell C. "Ben" Bennion

• Chronology
• Articles of Faith
  Articles of Faith
  Articles of faith are sets of beliefs usually found in creeds, sometimes numbered, and often beginning with "We believe...", which attempt to more or less define the fundamental theology of a given religion, and especially in the Christian Church....
  
  
• Beehive
• Brigham Young University
  Brigham Young University
  Brigham Young University is a private university located in Provo, Utah. It is owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , and is the United States' largest religious university and third-largest private university.Approximately 98% of the university's 34,000 students...
  
  
• Church Publications
  Deseret Book
  Deseret Book is the largest Latter-day Saint book publisher and also owns a chain of LDS bookstores in the western United States. Over 150 people work in its Salt Lake City headquarters...
  
  
• City of Zion
• "Come, Come Ye Saints"
• Deseret Alphabet
  Deseret alphabet
  The Deseret alphabet is a phonemic English spelling reform developed in the mid-19th century by the board of regents of the University of Deseret under the direction of Brigham Young, second president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.In public statements, Young claimed the...
  
  
• Emigration Agents
• Extermination Order
  Extermination order
  An Extermination order is an order given by a government sanctioning mass removal or death. The term is often associated with genocide.Extermination orders were issued in conjunction with the following events:* Armenian genocide...
  
  
• Richard L. Evans
  Richard L. Evans
  Richard Louis Evans was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , the president of Rotary International , and the writer, producer, and announcer of Music and the Spoken Word for forty-one years .He received a BA and MA from the University...
  
  
• Family History Library
  Family History Library
  The Family History Library is a genealogical research facility in downtown Salt Lake City. The library is open to the public free of charge and is operated by FamilySearch, the genealogical arm of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints .-History:The origins of the Family History...
  
  
• Gathering
  Zion (Latter Day Saints)
  Within the Latter Day Saint movement, Zion is often used to connote a utopian association of the righteous. This association would practice a form of communitarian economics called the United Order meant to ensure that all members maintained an acceptable quality of life, class distinctions were...
  
  
• Granite Mountain Records Vault
• Thomas L. Kane
  Thomas L. Kane
  Thomas Leiper Kane was an American attorney, abolitionist, and military officer who was influential in the western migration of the Latter-day Saint movement and served as a Union Army colonel and general of volunteers in the American Civil War...
  
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• Mormon Money
• Mormon Tabernacle Choir
  Mormon Tabernacle Choir
  The Mormon Tabernacle Choir, sometimes colloquially referred to as MoTab, is a Grammy and Emmy Award winning, 360-member, all-volunteer choir. The choir is part of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . However, the choir is completely self-funded, traveling and producing albums to...
  
  
• "O, My Father"
• Perpetual Emigrating Fund
• Orrin Porter Rockwell
• Sam Brannan and the Brooklyn
• Silk Culture
• Reed Smoot
  Reed Smoot
  Reed Owen Smoot was a native-born Utahn who was first elected to the United States Senate from Utah in 1903, and served as a Senator until 1933...
  
  
• State of Deseret
  State of Deseret
  The State of Deseret was a proposed state of the United States, propositioned in 1849 by Latter-day Saint settlers in Salt Lake City. The provisional state existed for slightly over two years and was never recognized by the United States government...
  
  
• Temple Square
  Temple Square
  Temple Square is a ten acre complex located in the center of Salt Lake City, Utah, owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . In recent years, the usage of the name has gradually changed to include several other church facilities immediately adjacent to Temple Square...
  
  
• Whistling and Whittling Brigade
• White Salamander Letter **
• ZCMI

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