• 4.1.1 Saints Catholic ^Events

  ^Sixteenth century

  • 1587 : Elizabeth ^I of England signed the death sentence of Mary Stuart.

  XVII ^century

  • 1662 : the hacker Koxinga seized the island of Taiwan (which was then called Formosa ) after nine months of siege and the Dutch fighter.
  • 1669 :
    • Louis XIV took the first steps to limit the application of the Edict of Nantes.
    • The first public performance of comedy in five acts into poetry of Molire , " Tartuffe "is finally authorized.

  XVIII ^century

  • 1702 : Prince Eugene of Savoy attack Cremona.
  • 1733 : A dynastic crisis moved to Warsaw after the death of King Augustus II , this day. Elector of Saxony since 1694 , he was elected King of Poland in 1697. Long, Augustus had continued to reside in Saxony, ignore Polish affairs.
  • 1775 : Peasant uprising in Bohemia against the bondage.
  • 1793 : The Convention declares war on England and the United Provinces. The UK denies that France open to shipping the Scheldt and the Schelde , which may compete with the Dutch ports and especially it is the old tradition that prescribes provoke enemies to France on the continent, subsidies to support if necessary.
  • 1800 : France (12 Pluviose): By referendum , the Constitution was adopted: 3,011,007 votes for and 1,562 against.

  XIX ^century

  • 1810 : The Marshal Soult seized Seville.
  • 1814 : Belgium : Napoleon is defeated at the Rothiere.
  • 1858 : The lawyer Theodore Troplong Raymond , Chairman of the Senate since 1852 , is appointed by a decree Privy Councillor of Emperor Napoleon III.
  • 1861 : The Texas seceded.
  • 1871 : France : After the battles of the Lizaine (January 15 to 17), then near Pontarlier , the Army Corps of Charles Bourbaki ( 1816 - 1897 ), which was tasked to identify Belfort , is forced to flee to Switzerland.
  • 1879 : La Marseillaise is chosen as the French national anthem.
  • 1881 : Beginnings of a nationalist movement in Egypt , where officers mutinied.
  • 1887 : A real estate investor saves his ranch known as Hollywood. In 1903, Hollywood gets city status and will be annexed to Los Angeles in 1910. Early filmmakers have adopted the region because of its climate, and especially because they could work away from the powerful cartel d East Coast, who exercised control over the patents for the use of the first cinema apparatus and instruments.
  • 1893 :
    • Turin : the composer Giacomo Puccini ( in 1858 - 1 924 ), author of Manon Lescaut , represented in Turin today.
    • The first film studio in the world is built at a cost of about 650 by Thomas Edison , near his laboratory in West Orange , dns the New Jersey.
  • 1896 :
    • Turin : Premiere Opera Puccini's La Boheme. The composer uses the sentimental value of a plot that brings together, around two women, Mimi and Musette four male protagonists, a poet, musician, painter and philosopher. With La Bohme , Tosca (1900) and Madame Butterfly (1904), Puccini has undoubtedly created three masterpieces of realism.
    • The Crete , inspired by the Greek example, rose against the Turks.
  • 1898 : At Buffalo , the first automobile in history is emitted from the Traveller's a certain Dr. T. Martin. It contains a clause protecting the insured against any possible prosecution of horse owners whose animals might be frightened by automobiles.
  • 1899 :
    • The United States took possession of the island of Guam , a former Spanish colony in the Pacific.
    • Invention of aspirin.

  XX ^century

  • 1902 : In China , women are no longer forced to foot-binding.
  • 1906 : Beginning inventories of church property.
  • 1908 : Assassination of King Carlos ^I of Portugal and Crown Prince Louis Philippe of Braganza : Manuel II ascended the throne.
  • 1915 : The British passport is one on which the picture is necessary.
  • 1916 : Beginning of the submarine war to the death by Germany.
  • 1919 : Election of the first Miss America. We learn that she is married and has two children already.
  • 1923 : The government of Germany devalues the mark , it will not last. A dollar is worth 45,500 marks, he was worth 192 a year earlier.
  • 1924 : Soviet Union : diplomatic recognition by Great Britain , soon followed by Italy , the Norwegian , the Austrian , the France and Japan.
  • 1935 :
    • The assassination of Sergei Mironovich Kostrikov said Kirov , a member of the politburo of the Soviet Communist Party and close associate of Stalin , triggers massive and bloody purges Soviet Union.
    • A conference on Anglo-German London to discuss the German rearmament.
    • The Italy sends troops to East Africa.
  • 1942 : In Norway , the Government employee of Vidkun Quisling is officially proclaimed.
  • 1942 : Jean Moulin was parachuted into France to organize resistance.
  • 1944 : London : De Gaulle brings together all the forces of the Resistance under the name of FFI.
  • 1946 : Trygve Lie , Norwegian Socialist, is elected United Nations Secretary General.
  • 1949 : The RCA Victor unveils the first drive 45 laps.
  • 1953 : Floods in south-western Netherlands. More than 1,800 dead, 160,000 hectares of land flooded.
  • 1954 : Call of the Abbe Pierre on RTL for inadequate housing.
  • 1956 :
    • The South African request to the Soviet Union to close all its consulates.
    • Madeleine Berthod is the reigning Olympic downhill.
    • Hayes Alan Jenkins was Olympic champion in figure skating.
    • Lucy is the first black student admitted to the University of Alabama. It took the federal court order for admission is accepted.
    • Edgar Faure completed a term as President of the Council under the presidency of Rene Coty.
    • Guy Mollet begins a term as President of the Council under the presidency of Rene Coty.
  • 1958 :
    • Wernher von Braun , designer of the V1 and V2 German launches for NASA satellite of 14 kg: Explorer 1.
    • The Egypt and Syria form the United Arab Republic , which lasted only 3 years.
  • 1959 : The Swiss will decide by referendum , against granting voting rights to women in consultations at the federal level.
  • 1960 : End of "Week of the Barricades" in Algiers.
  • 1966 : In France , the woman becomes the equal legal rights.
  • 1967 : Release of the musical Les Demoiselles de Rochefort of Jacques Demy with Catherine Deneuve and Franoise Dorleac.
    • Unification of the Royal Canadian Navy , Canadian Army and the Royal Canadian Air Force for the unified force, the Canadian Armed Forces.
    • In front of photographers, to Saigon , the police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan shoots a bullet to the head officer of communism.
  • 1970 : One of the worst rail disasters in the past 50 years some 235 victims in Argentina , when two trains collided at about thirty miles from Buenos Aires.
  • 1972 :
    • Bomb attack against the embassy of Great Britain in Dublin , while a wave of anti-British protests sweeping the Irish.
    • A Japanese military during the Second World War, aged 56, returns home outfits hiding for 28 years in the jungles of Guam , rather than surrender to American troops.
    • In Chicago , the funeral of Mahalia Jackson take place before some 5000 people, including Ms. Martin Luther King , Ella Fitzgerald and Sammy Davis Jr. The day before, more than 40,000 people filed past the remains of the famous interpreter of gospel music. Aretha Franklin sings Precious Lord, Take My Hand u during the ceremony.
  • 1973 : official reception of Ren de La Croix de Castries (Castries said the Duke) (1908-1986) to the French Academy.
  • 1978 : Creation of the political party UDF
  • 1979 : the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned from exile in France to Tehran.
  • 1983 : Giovanni Vigliotto , a Sicilian of 54 years accused of polygamy , says in court for marrying more dumbfounded than 100 women in 30 years in 10 different countries.
  • 1985 :
    • Vietnamese forces launched a major offensive against the Cambodia of the Khmer Rouge.
    • Ari Vatanen imposes its 205 Turbo 16 Rally Monte Carlo.
  • 1986 : Diana Ross married in Switzerland, the Norwegian millionaire Arne Naess, a passionate owner of mountaineering.
  • 1987 :
    • The Filipinos approve by referendum a new constitution, which represents a victory for President Corazon Aquino.
    • Marc Girardelli , skier, became world champion handset.
  • 1988 : The young Heather O'Rourke , aged 12, who has played the role of the girl struggling with angry spirits in the film Poltergist , succumbed to a pernicious flu during transport to hospital.
  • 1989 : The Montagnol peak and valley Angouls are classified as " natural area of ecological interest, flora and fauna , because of their flora of high mountains with limestone endemic plants and rare, and the presence of a Rich Mountain Wildlife Area.
  • 1990 : Reinforcements of Serb troops enter Kosovo , where the majority 90% Albanian independence demands.
  • 1991 :
    • President Frederik de Klerk announces the forthcoming repeal of apartheid in South Africa.
    • A plane of "U.S. Air" crashed against a smaller, on a runway at Los Angeles. There are thirty-five dead.
    • An earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale occurs in Afghanistan and Pakistan , killing over 1,500 people.
  • 1996 : A million miners went on strike in Russia and Ukraine , hoping to collect their wages.
  • 1998 :
    • Dominique Voynet , Minister of Planning and Environment, confirmed the final shutdown of nuclear breeder Superphenix of Creys-Malville , France , which will cost billions of francs and have only worked 30 months in 10 years.
  • 1999 :
    • The code Morse officially disappears all communications to be replaced by the satellite system GMDSS ( Global Maritime Distress and Safety System ).
    • in Paris , announced merger bank Paribas - Societe Generale. The new group weighs two hundred billion francs.
  • 2000 :
    • Entry into force 35 hours in companies with more than 20 employees, and 2002 in others.
    • Valeo announced a profit of 3.7 billion francs for 1999 and the elimination of six thousand jobs.
    • The National Assembly passed the bill on the modernization and development of public service electricity, gradually ending the monopoly of EDF.

  XXI ^century

  • 2001 : Brussels : A fire destroyed the royal stables.
  • 2002 :
    • It is legal in some cases, kill "civilians infidels." This is the gist of an exclusive interview with Osama bin Laden carried out by the chain of Qatar Al-Jazeera from the late October.
    • Higher prices for base consultations of general practitioners in France with a Euro.
    • The container ship Lykes Liberator accidentally loses 60 containers at 220 km west of Brittany ( France ). The boat takes two days to report the loss for which the owner said that one of them contains "empty containers of a hazardous material, alkylaluminum halides may ignite spontaneously on contact with air."
    • U.S. scientists say they have created embryos from monkeys ... without using sperm to obtain stem cells which then produces a heart , a brain and other tissues. Birth of the cloning of monkeys?
  • 2003 :
    • Chinese New Year.
    • Disintegration of space shuttle Columbia during its return flight, all crew members perished ( Rick Husband , William McCool , Michael Anderson , Kalpana Chawla , David Brown , Laurel Clark , Ilan Ramon ).
    • Entry into force of Nice Treaty , intended to prepare the enlargement of the European Union that ten new members on May ^1, 2004.
    • Women's March for Equality organized by the movement "Ni putes ni soumises," begins its tour of France in Vitry-sur-Seine ( Val-de-Marne ), where a girl of seventeen years, Sohane , had been burned a few months earlier.
    • Regina Jacobs has the world record of 1 500 m to 3 min 59.98 sec She is convinced that the doping tetrahydrogestrinone (THG) in 2003.
  • 2004 :
    • The Abbe Pierre and companions of Emmaus renew, since the esplanade of the Trocadero , the call for solidarity with the weakest launched in February 1954.
    • Initiation of an administrative fact-finding mission after reports of accusations and threats excavations made by the President of the ^15th Chamber of the Correctional Court of Nanterre ( Hauts-de-Seine ) in the trial Juppe.
    • At least 352 pilgrims were killed in a stampede during the stoning ritual in Mina , near Mecca.
    • A double suicide bombing struck the offices of the two main Kurdish political parties in Irbil , in northern Iraq , which killed 109.
    • Bart Wellens , Mario De Clercq and Sven Vanthourenhout take the top three world championship cyclo-cross.
    • Laurence Leboeuf becomes world champion in cyclo-cross (under its previous date of 2002 ).
    • Full pre-election period, Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake are the scandal USA.
    • Earlier, at the same final Super Bowl , an exhibitionist trying to cross the field before being thrown to the ground by a player. He was naked but oddly, nobody seems to apologize publicly for his remarks, everyone speaks only the few seconds that we saw in the Janet Jackson.
    • Olga Kotlyarova has the women's world record of 600 meters (indoor) at 1 minute 23 seconds and 43 hundredths.
  • 2006 : Brazil / Argentina : After almost three years of negotiations, Argentina and Brazil sign agreement to help protect the production sectors that may be too badly affected by competition from the neighboring country. Competitive Adaptation Mechanism (CAM) is used to set tariffs on products "too competitive" in the neighboring country for three years, renewable once.
  • 2009 :
    • In France , the Left Party was officially founded at its first congress.
    • Michel Desjoyeaux won the Vendee Globe for the second time.
    • The France team handball men became world champion by beating Croatia (who played at home) 24 to 19.
    • Rafael Nadal wins the Australian Open tennis in Melbourne for the first time in his career against Roger Federer in five sets 7-5 3-6 7-6 (3) 3-6 6-2. This is the sixth Grand Slam title for the Spaniard.
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  Births

  • 1462 : Johannes Trithemius , German religious, crypto-analyst.
  • 1659 : Jakob Roggeveen , Dutch explorer (discovered the Easter Island ) ( 31 January 1729 ).
  • 1800 : Brian Houghton Hodgson , colonial administrator and anthropologist British naturalist ( 23 May 1894 ).
  • 1801 :
    • Emile Littre , lexicographer and French philosopher, known for his Dictionary of the French Language, commonly called Littr ( 2 June 1881 ).
    • Theodore Lacordaire , entomologist Belgian, French origin ( 1870 ).
  • 1860 : Michel Zvaco , novelist, socialist revolutionary and anarchist and anticlerical French.
  • 1882 : Louis St. Laurent ^, 12th Prime Minister of Canada.
  • 1884 : Yevgeny Zamyatin , Russian writer.
  • 1894 :
    • James P. Johnson , a pianist of jazz and Afro-American composer ( 17 November 1955 ).
    • John Ford , American film director ( 31 August 1973 ).
  • 1901 : Clark Gable , American actor ( 16 November 1960 ).
  • 1902 : Langston Hughes , American writer.
  • 1904 : Joseph Asjiro Satowaki , Japanese Cardinal, Archbishop of Nagasaki ( 7 August 1996 ).
  • 1905 : Emilio Gino Segr , Italian physicist ( 22 April 1989 ).
  • 1916 : Peter Dudas , singer, author and Swiss composer ( 1984 ).
  • 1922 : Renata Tebaldi , soprano Italian.
  • 1931 : Boris Yeltsin , Russian politician, former President of the Russian Federation ( 23 April 2007 ).
  • 1935 : Vladimir Askyonov , Soviet cosmonaut.
  • 1937 : Audrys Juozas Backis , Lithuanian cardinal, archbishop of Vilnius.
  • 1938 : Niculita Secrieriu , painter Romanian ( 3 August 2002 ).
  • 1939 : Claude Franois , French singer ( 11 March 1978 ).
  • 1942 : Terry Jones , actor, director, screenwriter and writer, member of Monty Python.
  • 1945 : Gilles Servat , singer-songwriter Breton.
  • 1947 : Mike Brant (Moshe Michael Brand), Israeli singer ( 25 April 1975 ).
  • 1952 : Jean Roucas , French impersonator and humorist.
  • 1955 : William Lustig , American director.
  • 1957 : Gilbert Hernandez , author of comic American.
  • 1961 : Daniel M. Tani , NASA astronaut.
  • 1965 :
    • Brandon Lee , American actor ( 31 March 1993 ).
    • Sherilyn Fenn , American actress.
    • Stephanie of Monaco , Princess of Monaco and singer.
  • 1966 : Laurent Garnier , DJ and music producer techno French.
  • 1968 : Lisa Marie Presley , daughter of Elvis Presley.
  • 1969 :
    • Brian Krause , American actor.
    • Gabriel Batistuta , former Argentine footballer.
  • 1971 : Jill Kelly , American pornographic actress.
  • 1972 : Christian Ziege , a former German footballer.
  • 1973 : Yuri Landman , Experimental luthier, maker cartoon, Dutch musician and singer.
  • 1975 : Gilles Roussel , aka Boulet, French author of comics.
  • 1976 : Phil Ivey , American poker player.
  • 1979 : Rachelle Lefevre , actress Quebec.
  • 1982 : Ruki, vocalist of Japanese band The GazettE.
  • 1983 : Andrew VanWyngarden , American guitarist member of MGMT.

  Deaths

  • 656 : Siegbert III , Frankish king of Austrasia.
  • 772 : Pope Stephen III.
  • 1248 : Henry II of Brabant (b. 1207 ).
  • 1328 : Charles IV the Fair , at the age of 34, d son Philip the Fair and d brother Philippe V thus ending the reign of the Capetian line (b. 18 June 1294 ).
  • 1501 : Olivier de la Marche , steward of the Duke of Burgundy.
  • 1563 : Menas , Negus of Ethiopia (b. 1559 ).
  • 1691 : Pope Alexander VIII (Ottoboni Pierre) (b. 22 October 1610 ).
  • 1733 : Augustus II , King of Poland (b. 12 May 1670 ).
  • 1761 : Pierre-Franois-Xavier de Charlevoix , French historian (b. 29 October 1682 ).
  • 1839 : Giuseppe Valadier , 76, architect , town planner , archaeologist and goldsmith Italian (b. 14 April 1762 ).
  • 1851 : Mary Shelley , writer British mother of Frankenstein (b. 30 August 1797 ).
  • 1885 : Sidney Gilchrist Thomas Engineering UK (b. 16 April 1850 ).
  • 1897 : Constantin von Ettingshausen , Austrian geologist (b. 16 June 1826 ).
  • 1903 : George Gabriel Stokes , physicist and mathematician British (b. 13 August 1819 ).
  • 1908 : Charles ^I , King of Portugal and the Algarve (b. 28 September 1863 ).
  • 1944 : Piet Mondrian , Dutch painter (b. 7 March 1872 ).
  • 1957 : Friedrich Paulus , German general (b. 23 September 1890 ).
  • 1958 : Clinton Davisson Joseph , American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1937 (b. 22 October 1881 ).
  • 1963 : John Francis D'Alton , Irish cardinal, archbishop of Armagh (b. 11 October 1882 ).
  • 1966 : Buster Keaton , American actor (b. 4 October 1895 ).
  • 1970 : Alfrd Rnyi , mathematician Hungarian (b. 20 March 1921 ).
  • 1976 :
    • Werner Heisenberg , German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1932 (b. 5 December 1901 ).
    • George Whipple , American scientist, Nobel Prize for medicine in 1934 (b. 28 August 1878 ).
  • 1979 : Abdi peki , Turkish journalist (b. 9 August 1929 ).
  • 1986 : Alva Myrdal , Swedish politician, Nobel Peace prize in 1982 (b. 3 January 1902 ).
  • 1990 : Peter Racine Fricker , composer and music teacher (b. 5 September 1920 ).
  • 1992 : Jean Hamburger , doctor, writer and academician French (b. 15 July 1909 ).
  • 2002 : Hildegard Knef , German actress (b. 28 December 1925 ).
  • 2003 :
    • Michael P. Anderson , American astronaut (b. 25 December 1959 ).
    • David McDowell Brown , American astronaut (b. 16 April 1956 ).
    • Kalpana Chawla , astronaut Indian (b. ¹ July 1961 ).
    • Laurel Clark , American astronaut (b. 10 March 1961 ).
    • William Cameron McCool , American astronaut (b. 23 September 1961 ).
    • Ilan Ramon , Israel's first astronaut and Colonel (b. 20 June 1954 ).
    • Mongo Santamaria , Cuban percussionist (b. 7 April 1922 ).
  • 2005 :
    • Olivier Dollfus , French geographer (b. 12 February 1931 ).
    • John Vernon , Canadian actor (b. 24 February 1932 ).
  • 2007 : Antonio Maria Javierre Ortas , Salesian , Cardinal of the Spanish Roman Curia (b. 21 February 1921 ).
  • 2008 : Katoucha Niane , French model (b. 1960 ).

  Celebrations

  • First International Day of the World Week of Interfaith Harmony , the same day memory of the prophetess Anne , a character in the story of the Gospel of the feast of February 2.

Christian saints

Saints Catholic and orthodox of the Day

• Agrve ( 650 ), or Agrippa in Latin , came from Spain , Bishop of Velay , martyred with St. Ursicin by the hands of the Arians to Chiniacum, village Vivarais now called St. Agrve.
• Anastasius ( 1655 ), painter in Nafplio in Greece , a martyr at the hands of Muslims.
• Bridget ( ^ninth century or ^Xth century ), or Brigitte Fiesole, from Scotland, a nun at Fiesole in Italy.
• Brigitte ( 525 ), or Brigitte Brigitte Ireland Kildare, or Brec'hed or Berhet, an Irish disciple of St. Patrick , abbess of the monastery of Kildare (Dar-Cell) in the area of Dublin , one of Skippers of Ireland.
• Chartier ( ^sixth century ), priest and confessor in Berry.
• Cinnie ( ^fifth century ), or Kinnie , virgin Ireland , Princess of Ulster , was baptized by St. Patrick.
• Crewenna ( ^fifth century or ^sixth century ), a nun Irish (or Crewanus Monk ?), ascetic , accompanied saint (e?) Breaca , disciple of St. Bridget of Kildare , in Cornwall Brythonic.
• David ( 844 ), brother of Symeon and George , a monk, lived in Troy , near the Aegean Sea , on Mount Ida.
• Galle ( ^sixth century ), or Galla , virgin Valencia on the Rhone.
• Ignatius (?), Ignatius of Antioch date Western.
• Martin ( ^seventh century ) said Martin Velay, bishop of Puy.
• Nile ( 779 ), said "New," Carpenter, a martyr to Damascus at the hands of Muslims.
• Tryphon ( 250 ), Tryphon of Nicaea.

Blessed Catholic Saints and of the Day

• Andre ( 1302 ), Andr de Segni, great theologian belonging to the family of the counts of Segni , related (nephew) to Pope Alexander IV and Pope Boniface VIII.
• Michelotti Anne ( 1888 ), Anne Michelotti, Blessed , originally from Annecy , founder of the Congregation of the Little Servants of the Sacred Heart.
• Anthony said the Pilgrim ( 1267 ), blessed pilgrims in Christ Fol born Padua into a wealthy family.
• Aubert ( 1129 ) or Albert Monk Benedictine of Landvnec in Britain.
• Clair ( 1048 ), a Benedictine monk at the Abbey of Seligenstadt near Mainz , and hermit.
• Ella ( 1261 ), Laycock and Ella Ella Fitzpatrick, blessed , wife of William or William Longsword Longespe 3rd Earl of Salisbury and illegitimate son of Henry II of England , sister of Richard the Lion Heart , mother and nun.
• William ( 1709 - 1794 ), William Repin, former pastor of Martign-Briand , and his fellow martyrs, guillotined or shot during the French Revolution.
• Henry ( 1549 - 1645 ), Henry Morse, a native of Brome in Suffolk in England , one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales at Tyburn near London.
• Jean ( 1163 ), Jean de La Grille or Jean de Chtillon, Bishop of Aleth transferred to the episcopal Saint-Malo , owes its nickname to the gate surrounding the tomb.
• Luigi ( 1875 - 1923 ), Luigi Variara, born in Viarigi ( Asti ) in Italy , a Salesian priest in Agua de Dios in Colombia , founded the Congregation of the Daughters of the Most Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary in 1905.
• Viridian ( to 1178 - 1247 ), or Verdiane Attavanti Vridienne, born in Castel-Florentin ( Castiglion Fiorentino ?) ( Tuscany ).

Orthodox Saints of the Day

Name of the Day

Happy Birthday to:

• Felicity (for the Eastern churches) and its derivatives Flicette
• Perpetua (for the Eastern churches)

As well as:

• Ella
• Luigi
• Sever
• Siegbert and its derivatives: Sibert, Sigisbald, Sigisbert, etc..
• Viridiana and its derivatives: Verdiane, Veridian, Vridienne, etc..

Traditions and superstitions

Sayings

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References

1. UN Resolution
2. Also "announced" / "announcement" and "listen" / "hearing".
3. ^{a and b} Nominees: Gregorian calendar of saints and Christian names of ¹ February
4. ^{a and b} orthodoxe.com Forum: Saints by ¹ February of the Orthodox church calendar
5. Crowan (fr)
6. (en)
7. Saints and sayings of the day

See also

• February 1 in sports
• February 1 in rail
• February 1 in the Crusades

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