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আজকে ২৩ এপ্রিল আমার একমাত্র ছোটবোন মা হয়েছে।খুব ফুটফুটে "অহনা";আমার একমাত্র ভাগ্নি পৃথিবীতে এসেছে ।আজ শুধু এই কামনা ওর জীবন যেন ফুলের মত সুশোভিত হয় জগতের সকল খারাপ দিকগুলো যেন ওর জীবনের থেকে দুরে থাকে জাগতিক সমস্যামুক্তহোক ওর জীবন বন্ধুরা দুআ কর। এই দিনটি আমার জীবনে খুব গুরুত্ববহো কারন অনার্স লাইফের সবচাইতে কাছের বন্ধু Rakib Ahamed এই দিনে জন্ম লাভ করছে।এই দিনটি খুবই শুভ এবং এই দিনে অনেক গুরুত্বপুর্ণ ব্যক্তিরা জন্মলাভ করেছেন। কিছু তালিকা দিলাম যাদের অবদান আমরা অস্বিকার করতে পারবনা যেমন-
1170 - Isabelle of Hainaut, queen of France (d. 1190)
1185 - King Afonso II of Portugal (d. 1223)
1464 - Johanna van Valois, Queen of France
1464 - Robert Fayrfax, composer
1484 - Julius Caesar Scaliger, Italy, scholar (On the Subtlety of Things)
1500 - Alexander Alesius, [Aless/Alane], System theologist/physician
1500 - Alexander Ales, Scottish theologian (d. 1565)
1516 - Georg Fabricius, German poet, historian, and archaeologist (d. 1571)
1564 - William Shakespeare, Stratford upon Avon, English Poet and playwright, traditionally regarded as his birthdate
1598 - Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp, naval commander
1621 - William Penn, English admiral (d. 1670)
1623 - Jan Adam Reincken, composer
1628 - Johann van Waveren Hudde, Dutch mathematician (d. 1704)
1629 - John Commelin, director (Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam)
1649 - Andreas Kneller, composer
1676 - King Frederick I of Sweden (d. 1751)
1697 - George Baron Anson, British admiral/explorer
1708 - Friedrich von Hagedorn, German poet (Versuch einiger Poem)
1715 - Johann Friedrich Doles, composer
1720 - Vilna Gaon, Lithuanian rabbi (d. 1797)
1725 - Saint Gerard Majella, Catholic saint (d. 1755)
1728 - Samuel Wallis, explorer (Wallis Island)
1735 - Ildephons Haas, composer
1746 - Félix Vicq-d'Azyr, French physician and anatomist (d. 1794)
1747 - Alexandre-Auguste Robineau, composer
1756 - Alexander Reinagle, composer
1775 - Joseph Mallord Turner, England, landscape painter (Shipwreck)
15th US President James Buchanan15th US President James Buchanan (1791) 1791 - James Buchanan, Cove Gap PA, (Fed/Dem), 15th US president (1857-61)
1791 - W Friedrich Olivier, German landscape painter/cartoonist
1792 - John Thomas Romney Robinson, Irish astronomer and physicist (d. 1882)
1794 - Wei Yuan, Chinese scholar (d. 1856)
1803 - Jules J baron d'Anethan, Belgian minister of Justice
1804 - Guillaume Nerenburger, Belgian general (Triangulatie of Belgium)
1809 - Eugene-Prosper Prevost, composer
1810 - Thomas Wright, historian
1812 - Louis-Antoine Julien, conductor
1813 - Stephen Arnold Douglas, (Little giant), US senator (Lincoln debates)
1813 - Frédéric Ozanam, French scholar (Society of Saint Vincent de Paul) (d. 1853)
1818 - James Anthony Froude, historian
1818 - John Gill Shorter, Gov (Confederacy), (d. 1872)
1821 - Pierre Dupont, song writer
1823 - Abd-ul-Mejid, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1861)
1827 - Johann F Ritter von Schulte, German Catholic lawyer
1828 - Albert FA, king of Saxon (1873-1902)
1838 - Alfred J Verwee, Flemish painter
1852 - Edwin Markham, US, poet (1st winner of American Acad of Poets Award 1937)
1853 - Winthrop M. Crane, 40th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1920)
1857 - Ruggero Leoncavallo, Italian composer (I pagliacci/Zaza)
1858 - Max Planck, German physicist (Planck Constant, Nobel 1918) father of Quantum Physics
1861 - Edmund Henry Hynman, 1st viscount Allenby of Megiddo/Fieldmarshal
1865 - Ali-Agha Shikhlinski, Russian-Azerbaijani general (d. 1943)
1867 - Simon Abramsz, Dutch teacher/writer (For the Young Ones)
1872 - Violet Gordon-Woodhouse, British musician (d. 1951)
1876 - Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, German historian (d. 1925)
1877 - Arthur Farwell, composer
1881 - Claude Carter, South African slow lefty cricketer (1912-22)
1881 - Otakar Sini, composer
1882 - Albert Coates, St Petersburg Russia, conductor/composer (Eagle)
1882 - Max [G M J] Winders Maximilien, Belgium, architect (WW II)
1888 - Georges Vanier, French-Canadian soldier and diplomat (d. 1967)
1889 - Charles Warrell, big Chief I-Spy writer/teacher
1890 - Donald Nichols Tweedy, composer
1890 - Marcel L'Herbier, French director/screenwriter (El Dorado)
1891 - Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev, Sontsovka, Ukraine, composer (Peter and the Wolf)
1892 - Minus van Looi, [Benjamin van der Voort], Flemish writer
1892 - R Huelsenbeck, writer
1893 - Frank Borzage, Salt Lake City, director (7th Heaven, Strange Cargo)
1894 - Basil Sydney, England, actor (Hamlet, Jassy, Simba, Farmer's Wife)
1894 - George Renevant, Paris, actor (Moulin Rouge, Scotland Yard, Comrade X)
1894 - Cow Cow Davenport, American pianist (d. 1955)
1895 - Ngaio Marsh, New Zealand writer (d. 1982)
1896 - Margaret Kennedy, novelist
1897 - Harold French, director (Encore)/actor
1897 - John Wengraf, actor (12 to Moon, Pride & Passion), born in Vienna, Austria
Prime Minister of Canada Lester B. PearsonPrime Minister of Canada Lester B. Pearson (1897) 1897 - Lester B. Pearson, 14th Canadian Prime Minister (1963-68) (Nobel 1957)
1897 - Lucius du Bignon Clay, US, general (WW II)/gov (West Germany)
1898 - Edwin E Dwinger, German writer (General Vlassov)
1899 - Vladimir Nabokov, St Petersburg, Russia, novelist (Lolita, Ada)
1900 - Ary Verhaar, composer
1900 - Henry Barraud, composer
1900 - Joseph Green, film maker
1900 - Jim Bottomley, American baseball player (d. 1959)
1901 - E.B. Ford, British ecological geneticist (d. 1988)
1902 - Halldór Laxness, Icelandic writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
1903 - Guy Simonds, youngest general officer in the Canadian army (d 1974)
1904 - Duncan Renaldo, Spain, actor (Cisco Kid)
1904 - Leslie French, actor/singer (More than a Miracle)
1905 - Lord Carew, Ireland, judge (dressage)
1906 - Marcel Hillaire, Cologne Germany, actor (Adv in Paradise)
1906 - Maria Arnoldo, [Adrianus Broeders], photographer/writer
1907 - Baroness Dudley
1907 - Lee (Elizabeth) Miller, Poughkeepsie New York, American photographer
1908 - Frederick Hawkins, dancer
1908 - Herbert Telley, British actuary
1908 - Myron Waldman, American animator (d. 2006)
1909 - Thomas Padmore, senior civil servant
1911 - Ronald Neame, director (1st Monday in Oct, Poseidon Adventure)
1911 - Simone Simon, France, actress (All Money Can Buy, Ladies in Love)
1913 - Jan Meyerowitz, composer
1914 - Andrew Martin, Lord-Lt (Lechestershire England)
1914 - John Hubbard, Indiana Harbor Indiana, actor (Don't Call Me Charlie)
1914 - Mitsu Suzuki, teacher of tea ceremony at SF Zen Center
1915 - Arnold Hall, CEO (Hawker Siddeley Group)
1916 - Bud Wilkinson, college football coach (Oklahoma)
1917 - Jacob Kistemaker, nuclear physicist (ultra centrifuge)
1917 - Dorian Leigh, American supermodel (d. 2008)
1918 - Anthony Craxton, British TV producer
1918 - Maurice Druon, [Kessel], French writer/journalist (Prix Goncourt)
1918 - Gordon Hirabayshi, American civil rights activist and WWII internment opponent (Hirabayshi v. United States), born in Seattle, Washington (d. 2012)
1919 - Dorian Leigh, model, sister of Suzy Parker, born in San Antonio, Texas
1919 - Talivaldis Kenins, composer
1919 - Oleg Penkovsky, Soviet double-agent
1920 - Eric Yarrow, CEO (Clydesdale Bank)
1920 - Louis Barron, composer
1921 - Janet Blair, Altoona Pa, actress (Leave it to the Girls, Smith Family)
1921 - Warren Spahn, left-handed pitcher (Boston/Milwaukee Braves)
1922 - Boy [Segundo JA] Ecury, Aruba, resistance fighter
1922 - Diarmuid Downs, auto engineer
1923 - Avram Davidson, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Peregrine: Primus, Rork!)
1923 - James Kirkup, travel writer/poet/novelist (African in Greenland)
1923 - Nathan "Dambuza" Mdledle, singer
1923 - Antonino Rocca, professional wrestler
1923 - Dolph Briscoe, Governor of Texas
1924 - Arthur Frackenpohl, Irving NJ, composer (Natural Superiority of Music)
1924 - Colin Welch, columnist/critic
1924 - James Colin Ross Welch, journalist
1924 - Malcolm Anson, CEO (Wessex Water Authority)
1924 - Chuck Harmon, American baseball player
1926 - James P Donleavy, Brooklyn, novelist (Ginger Man, Onion Eaters)
1926 - Richard Laws, Master (St Edmunds College Cambridge)
1927 - Russell Smith, composer
1928 - Bill Cotton, CEO (Noel Gay TV)
1928 - Okke Jager, Dutch theologist/writer/poet
Actress and Diplomat Shirley TempleActress and Diplomat Shirley Temple (1928) 1928 - Shirley Temple, American actress, famous as a child star in the 1930s (Bright Eyes, Heidi) and diplomat, born in Santa Monica, California
1929 - George Steiner, professor (English)
1930 - Alan Oppenheimer, actor (6 Million Dollar Man, Eischied), born in NYC, New York
1930 - Michael Bowen, RC Archbishop (Southwark)
1932 - Halston, [R Halston Frowick], fashion designer (1972 Hall of Fame)
1932 - Jim Fixx, jogger/writer (Jim Fixx on Running)
1933 - Roger Wittevrongel, Flemish painter
1935 - David Evans, MP
1935 - Bunky Green, American musician
1936 - Elias, [Etienne Michiels], Flemish painter
1936 - Estelle Harris, actress (Estelle Castanza-Seinfeld)
1936 - John D'Arcy, cricketer (NZ Test batsman on 1958 England tour)
1936 - Joseph Willaert, Flemish painter
1936 - Roy Orbison, Vernon Tx, rocker (Pretty Woman)
1937 - Barry Shepherd, cricketer (Australian lefty bat early 60's)
1937 - Don Massengale, Jackson TX, PGA golfer (1966 Bing Crosby Celebrity)
1937 - Victoria Glendinning, author (Edith Sitwell A Unicorn Among Lions)
1938 - Leonard Ernest John Chant, social worker
1938 - Russell Hillhouse, under-sect Scottish Office
1938 - Steven D Symms, (Sen-R-ID, 1981- )
1939 - David Birney, Wash DC, actor (Brigette Loves Bernie, St Elsewhere)
1939 - Ray Peterson, Denton Tx, singer (Tell Laura I Love Her)
1939 - William Hagerty, editor (People)
1939 - Lee Majors, [Harvey Lee Yeary], Wyandotte Mich, TV actor ($6,000,000 Man, The Fall Guy)
1940 - Richard Monaco, US, sci-fi author (Grail War, Final Quest)
1940 - Michael Copps, American Federal Government official
1941 - Ed Stewart, British DJ
1941 - Hal Daub, (Rep-R-NB, 1981- )
1941 - Jacqueline Boyer, French singer
1941 - Paavo Lipponen, Prime Minister of Finland 1995-2003
1941 - Michael Lynne, American film executive
1942 - Sandra Dee, [Zuck], Bayonne NJ, actress (Gidget, Imitation of Life)
1943 - Carmen von Thyssen, Barcelona Spain, Baroness
1943 - Herve Villechaize, France, "Da Plane! Da Plane!" (Fantasy Island)
1943 - Hugh Davies, composer
1943 - Tony Esposito, Ontario, NHL goalie (Chicago Blackhawks)
1943 - [Gerardus] Bob van Toll, actor/interpreter/director (Pastorale 1943)
1944 - Niklaus Schilling, Basel Germany, director (Dormire, Atem, Rheingold)
1947 - Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, Ireland, political activist [or 1940]
1947 - Saskia, [Trudy van den Berg], singer (S & Serge, Spinning Wheel)
1947 - Glenn Cornick, English rock bassist (Jethro Tull-Thick as a Brick), born in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, (d. 2014)
1948 - Richard Day, engineer/development expert
1948 - Tessa Wyatt, actress (Beast in the Cellar, Wedding Night)
1948 - Pascal Quignard, French author
1948 - Serge Thériault, French-Canadian comedian and actor
1949 - Blair Brown, Wash DC, actress (Altered States, Molly Dodd)
1949 - John Miles, vocal/guitar/keyboards (John Miles Band-Rebel, Zaragon)
1949 - Joyce DeWitt, Wheeling WV, actress (Janet Wood-Three's Company)
1949 - Walter Sweeney, MP
1951 - Loek M L H A Hermans, Dutch MP (VVD)
1952 - Lionel Johnston, Augusta Ga, actor (Sons & Daughters)
1952 - Narada, [Michael Walden], Mich, rocker (Don't Want Nobody Else)
1952 - Terry Moor, Hartford Conn, tennis star
1952 - Tony Maselli, (fictional character on "Who's the Boss")
1953 - Fred Upton, (Rep-R-Michigan)
1953 - James Russo, actor (My Own Private Idaho, China Girl), born in NYC, New York
Documentary Filmmaker Michael MooreDocumentary Filmmaker Michael Moore (1954) 1954 - Michael Moore, Flint, Michigan, American filmmaker (Fahrenheit 9/11, Bowling for Columbine, Sicko)
1955 - Captain Sensible, [Ray Burns], UK, rock bassist (Women & Capts 1st)
1955 - Judy Davis, Perth Australia, actress (Husbands & Wives)
1955 - Mike Smith, British DJ
1955 - Su Ingle, British TV hostess
1955 - Tony Miles, chess player
1956 - Peter Teravainen, Plymouth MA USA, Australian golfer
1957 - Jan Hooks, Decatur Georgia, comedienne actress (SNL, Designing Women)
1957 - Kathleen Lynch, Motueka NZ, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1957 - Kenji Kawai, Japanese composer
1958 - Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, Icelandic music composer
United States, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
1965 – George Adamski, Polish-American ufologist and author (b. 1891)
1975 – William Hartnell, English actor (b. 1908)
1979 – Blair Peach, New Zealand-English educator and activist (b. 1946)
1981 – Josep Pla, Catalan journalist and author (b. 1897)
1983 – Buster Crabbe, American swimmer and actor (b. 1908)
1984 – Red Garland, American pianist (Miles Davis Quintet) (b. 1923)
1985 – Sam Ervin, American lawyer and politician (b. 1896)
1986 – Harold Arlen, American composer (b. 1905)
1986 – Jim Laker, English cricketer and sportscaster (b. 1922)
1986 – Otto Preminger, Ukrainian-American actor, director, and producer (b. 1906)
1990 – Paulette Goddard, American actress and philanthropist (b. 1910)
1991 – Johnny Thunders, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (New York Dolls and The Heartbreakers) (b. 1952)
1992 – Satyajit Ray, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1921)
1992 – Tanka Prasad Acharya, Nepalese politician, 27th Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1912)
1993 – Cesar Chavez, American activist, co-founded the United Farm Workers (b. 1927)
1995 – Douglas Lloyd Campbell, Canadian politician, 13th Premier of Manitoba (b. 1895)
1995 – Howard Cosell, American lawyer and journalist (b. 1918)
1995 – Riho Lahi, Estonian journalist (b. 1904)
1995 – John C. Stennis, American lawyer and politician (b. 1904)
1996 – Jean Victor Allard, Canadian general (b. 1913)
1996 – P. L. Travers, Australian-English author and actress (b. 1899)
1997 – Denis Compton, English cricketer and footballer (b. 1918)
1998 – Konstantinos Karamanlis, Greek politician, 172nd Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1907)
1998 – James Earl Ray, American assassin of Martin Luther King, Jr. (b. 1928)
1998 – Thanassis Skordalos, Greek singer-songwriter and lyra player (b. 1920)
2003 – Fernand Fonssagrives, French photographer (b. 1910)
2005 – Joh Bjelke-Petersen, New Zealand-Australian politician, 31st Premier of Queensland (b. 1911)
2005 – Robert Farnon, Canadian-English trumpet player, composer, and conductor (b. 1917)
2005 – Al Grassby, Australian journalist and politician (b. 1928)
2005 – John Mills, English actor (b. 1908)
2005 – Romano Scarpa, Italian illustrator (b. 1927)
2005 – Earl Wilson, American baseball player, coach, and educator (b. 1934)
2006 – Phil Walden, American record producer and manager, co-founded Capricorn Records (b. 1940)
2007 – Paul Erdman, Canadian-American economist and author (b. 1932)
2007 – David Halberstam, American journalist, historian, and author (b. 1934)
2007 – Peter Randall, English sergeant (b. 1930)
2007 – Boris Yeltsin, Russian politician, 1st President of Russia (b. 1931)
2011 – Tom King, American guitarist and songwriter (The Outsiders and The Starfires) (b. 1943)
2011 – Geoffrey Russell, 4th Baron Ampthill, English businessman (b. 1921)
2011 – John Sullivan, English screenwriter and producer (b. 1946)
2012 – Lillemor Arvidsson, Swedish politician, 34th Governor of Gotland (b. 1943)
2012 – Billy Bryans, Canadian drummer, songwriter, and producer (The Parachute Club and Downchild Blues Band) (b. 1947)
2012 – Chris Ethridge, American bass player and songwriter (The Flying Burrito Brothers and International Submarine Band) (b. 1947)
2012 – Tommy Marth, American saxophonist (b. 1978)
2012 – Raymond Thorsteinsson, Canadian geologist and paleontologist (b. 1921)
2012 – LeRoy T. Walker, American football player and coach (b. 1918)
2013 – Colonial Affair, American race horse (b. 1990)
2013 – Shamshad Begum, Indian singer (b. 1919)
2013 – Bob Brozman, American guitarist (R. Crumb & His Cheap Suit Serenaders) (b. 1954)
2013 – Robert W. Edgar, American politician (b. 1943)
2013 – Tony Grealish, English footballer (b. 1956)
2013 – Norman Jones, English actor (b. 1932)
2013 – Antonio Maccanico, Italian politician (b. 1924)
2013 – Frank W. J. Olver, English-American mathematician and educator (b. 1924)
2013 – Kathryn Wasserman Davis, American philanthropist and scholar (b. 1907)
2014 – Benjamín Brea, Spanish-Venezuelan saxophonist, clarinet player, and conductor (Los Cañoneros) (b. 1946)
2014 – Michael Glawogger, Austrian director, screenwriter, and cinematographer (b. 1959)
2014 – Connie Marrero, Cuban baseball player and coach (b. 1911)
2014 – F. Michael Rogers, American general (b. 1921)
2014 – Mark Shand, English conservationist and author (b. 1951)
2014 – Patric Standford, English composer and educator (b. 1939)
Events
215 BC – A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene.
599 – Maya king Uneh Chan of Calakmul attacks rival city-state Palenque in southern Mexico, defeating queen Yohl Ik'nal and sacking the city.
711 – Dagobert III is crowned King of the Franks.
1014 – Battle of Clontarf: Brian Boru defeats Viking invaders, but is killed in battle.
1016 – Edmund Ironside succeeds his father Æthelred the Unready as king of England.
1343 – St. George's Night Uprising commences in the Duchy of Estonia.
1348 – The founding of the Order of the Garter by King Edward III is announced on St. George's Day.
1516 – The Bayerische Reinheitsgebot (regarding the ingredients of beer) is signed in Ingolstadt.
1521 – Battle of Villalar: King Charles I of Spain defeats the Comuneros.
1635 – The first public school in the United States, Boston Latin School, is founded in Boston.
1655 – The Siege of Santo Domingo begins during the Anglo-Spanish War, and fails seven days later.
1660 – Treaty of Oliva is established between Sweden and Poland.
1661 – King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland is crowned in Westminster Abbey.
1815 – The Second Serbian Uprising: A second phase of the national revolution of the Serbs against the Ottoman Empire, erupts shortly after the annexation of the country to the Ottoman Empire.
1910 – American President Theodore Roosevelt makes his "The Man in the Arena" speech.
1914 – First baseball game at Wrigley Field, then known as Weeghman Park in Chicago.
1918 – World War I: The British Royal Navy makes a raid in an attempt to neutralise the Belgian port of Bruges-Zeebrugge.
1920 – The Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM) is founded in Ankara, Turkey. It denounces the government of Sultan Mehmed VI and announces the preparation of a temporary constitution.
1927 – Cardiff City defeat Arsenal in the FA Cup Final, the only time it has been won by a team not based in England.
1932 – The 153-year-old De Adriaan Windmill in Haarlem, Netherlands burns down. It is rebuilt and reopens exactly 70 years later.
1935 – The Polish Constitution of 1935 is adopted.
1940 – The Rhythm Club fire at a dance hall in Natchez, Mississippi, kills 198 people.
1941 – World War II: The Greek government and King George II evacuate Athens before the invading Wehrmacht.
1942 – World War II: Baedeker Blitz – German bombers hit Exeter, Bath and York in retaliation for the British raid on Lübeck.
1945 – World War II: Adolf Hitler's designated successor Hermann Göring sends him a telegram asking permission to take leadership of the Third Reich, which causes Hitler to replace him with Joseph Goebbels and Karl Dönitz.
1946 – Manuel Roxas is elected the last President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines.
1949 – Chinese Civil War: Establishment of the People's Liberation Army Navy.
1951 – American journalist William N. Oatis is arrested for espionage by the Communist government of Czechoslovakia.
1955 – The Canadian Labour Congress is formed by the merger of the Trades and Labour Congress of Canada and the Canadian Congress of Labour.
1961 – Algiers putsch by French generals.
1967 – Soviet space program: Soyuz 1 (Russian: Союз 1, Union 1) a manned spaceflight carrying cosmonaut Colonel Vladimir Komarov is launched into orbit.
1968 – Vietnam War: Student protesters at Columbia University in New York City take over administration buildings and shut down the university.
1971 – Bangladesh Liberation War: The Pakistan Army and Razakars massacre approximately 3,000 Hindu emigrants in the Jathibhanga area of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).
1985 – Coca-Cola changes its formula and releases New Coke. The response is overwhelmingly negative, and the original formula is back on the market in less than three months.
1990 – Namibia becomes the 160th member of the United Nations and the 50th member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
1993 – Eritreans vote overwhelmingly for independence from Ethiopia in a United Nations-monitored referendum.
1993 – Sri Lankan politician Lalith Athulathmudali is assassinated while addressing a gathering, approximately four weeks ahead of the Provincial Council elections for the Western Province.
1997 – Omaria massacre in Algeria: Forty-two villagers are killed.
2005 – First YouTube video uploaded, titled "Me at the zoo".
2013 – Violence in Bachu County, Kashgar Prefecture, of China's Xinjiang results in death of 21 people.
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