| | 261 | Name: | Richmond Lattimore | | | Year Elected: | 1959 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1906 | | | Death Date: | 2/26/84 | | | | |
| 262 | Name: | Dr. Jonathan Lear | | | Institution: | Universiy of Chicago | | | Year Elected: | 2019 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 406. Linguistics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1948 | | | | | | |
Jonathan Lear is currently John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago. He earned his Ph.D. from Rockefeller University in 1978. He started his career in Clare College at University of Cambridge and moved to Yale University, including as Kingman Brewster Professor of the Humanities, before ending up at the University of Chicago.
Jonathan Lear has, over the last twenty years, consistently been the leading defender of the philosophical dimensions of psychoanalytic theory, bringing out a level of sophistication and rigor in Freud’s thought often neglected in conventional criticisms. One might say that his major topic in a great deal of his work has been how to account for human irrationality in thought and action, and the bearing of the inescapable fact of irrationality on conceptions of how to live well. Both inside and outside philosophy he is probably best known for his extraordinary 2006 book, Radical Hope, on one level an investigation about how the Crow nation survived the dissolution of their traditional way of life, and on another level an exploration of what a collective form of life could be that it could “die out,” and what one might be called on to do in situations of potential cultural despair.
His honors and awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship (1987-88) and a Distinguished Achievement Award in the Humanities from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2011-14). He is a member of American Academy of Arts & Sciences (2017). He has authored: Aristotle and Logical Theory, 1980, 2010; Aristotle: The Desire to Understand, 1988; Love and its Place in Nature: A Philosophical Interpretation of Freudian Psychoanalysis, 1990, 1999; Open Minded: Working Out The Logic of the Soul, 1998; Happiness, Death and the Remainder of Life, 2000; Therapeutic Action: An Earnest Plea for Irony, 2003; Freud, 2005, 2015; Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation, 2006; The Idea of a Philosophical Anthropology: The Spinoza Lectures, 2017; Wisdom Won From Illness: Essays in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis, 2017. Jonathan Lear was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2019. | |
| 263 | Name: | Rensselaer W. Lee | | | Year Elected: | 1976 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1898 | | | Death Date: | 12/4/1984 | | | | |
| 264 | Name: | Dr. Alexander H. Leighton | | | Institution: | Harvard University & Dalhousie University | | | Year Elected: | 1950 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 403. Cultural Anthropology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1908 | | | Death Date: | August 11, 2007 | | | | |
| 265 | Name: | Waldo G. Leland | | | Year Elected: | 1931 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1879 | | | Death Date: | 10/19/66 | | | | |
| 266 | Name: | Dr. Harry Levin | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 1961 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 402. Criticism: Arts and Letters | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1912 | | | Death Date: | 5/29/94 | | | | |
| 267 | Name: | Dr. Kenneth Levy | | | Institution: | Princeton University | | | Year Elected: | 1988 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1927 | | | Death Date: | August 15, 2013 | | | | | | |
Kenneth Levy was Scheide Professor of Music History Emeritus at Princeton University. Well known for his work in medieval music, particularly Byzantine and Latin plainchant, he was considered among the world's leading musicologists. A Guggenheim fellow who worked with Frederick R. Mann at Brandeis University, Dr. Levy joined the Princeton faculty in 1966 and was named chairman of the music department a year later. In 1983 he received Princeton's Berhrman Award in recognition of his scholarship and success in the teaching of music and putting the history of music into a culturally historical context. He is the author of works including Music: A Listener's Introduction and Gregorian Chant and the Carolingians. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1988. Kenneth Levy died on August 15, 2013, at the age of 86 in Princeton, New Jersey. | |
| 268 | Name: | Dr. Barbara Kiefer Lewalski | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 1986 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1931 | | | Death Date: | March 2, 2018 | | | | | | |
William R. Kenan Professor of English Literature and of History and Literature, Emeritus at Harvard University, Barbara Kiefer Lewalski was highly regarded for her scholarship on Renaissance literary genres, the poets John Milton and John Donne, and her balanced appreciation of female writers and patrons in the English Renaissance. She authored numerous books, including Protestant Poetics and the Seventeenth-Century Religious Lyric (1979), Paradise Lost and the Rhetoric of Literary Forms (1985), Writing Women in Jacobean England, 1603-1625 (1993), and The Life of John Milton: A Critical Biography (2000). She was also the recipient of prestigious awards including two Guggenheim Fellowships, a NEH Senior Fellowship, and three Huntington Library Fellowships. Dr. Lewalski received a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and, prior to joining the Harvard faculty, she taught at Wellesley College (1954-56) and Brown University (1956-76). Dr. Lewalski was a past president of the Milton Society of America and has edited texts such as Major Poets of the Earlier Seventeenth Century and Milton, Paradise Lost (2008). She served on the Harvard faculty 1982 until 2015 when she became professor emerita. Barbara Lewalski died March 2, 2018, at the age of 87 in Providence, Rhode Island. | |
| 269 | Name: | Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis | | | Year Elected: | 1957 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1895 | | | Death Date: | 10/7/79 | | | | |
| 270 | Name: | Dr. Bernard Lewis | | | Institution: | Princeton University | | | Year Elected: | 1973 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1916 | | | Death Date: | May 19, 2018 | | | | | | |
Bernard Lewis received the Thomas Jefferson Medal for Distinguished Achievement in the Arts, Humanities or Social Sciences in 1990 "in recognition of his pioneering work in Ottoman-modern Turkish studies, on Race and Colour, and on Muslim views of Europe; of his fundamental role in refining and promoting the writing of Islamic History; and of his contribution in explaining the Middle East to generations of students and to large audiences in the West." Dr. Lewis received a B.A. in 1936 and a Ph.D. in 1939 from the University of London and was Professor of the History of the Near and Middle East at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London from 1949 to 1974. In 1974 he moved to Princeton University as the Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies with a concurrent membership at the Institute for Advanced Study. In 1986 he became the Cleveland E. Dodge Professor Emeritus and began a four-year tenure as the Director of the Annenberg Research Institute in Philadelphia. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1973 and was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Bush in 2006. An eminent scholar, Dr. Lewis was a prolific author, illuminating the Middle East with clarity and erudition. His impressive list of publications includes The Origins of Ismailism (1940); Handbook of Diplomatic and Political Arabic (1947); Land of Enchanters (1948, 2001); The Arabs in History (1950, 7th edition 1993); The Emergence of Modern Turkey (1961, 1968); Istanbul and the Civilization of the Ottoman Empire (1963); The Assassins (1968); Islam from the Prophet Muhammad to the Capture of Constantinople (2 vols., 1974); History--Remembered, Recovered, Invented (1975); The Muslim Discovery of Europe (1982); The Jews of Islam (1984); Semites and anti-Semites (1986, 1997, 1999); The Political Language of Islam (1988); Race and Slavery in the Middle East: An Historical Enquiry (1990); Islam and the West (1993); The Shaping of the Modern Middle East (1993); Cultures in Conflict: Christians, Muslims and Jews in the Age of Discovery (1995); The Middle East: Two Thousand Years of History from the Rise of Christianity to the Present Day (1995); The Multiple Identities of the Middle East (1998); A Middle East Mosaic: Fragments of life, letters and history (2000); Music of a Distant Drum: Classical Arabic, Persian, Turkish & Hebrew Poems (2001); What Went Wrong: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response (2002); The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror(2003); From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting the Middle East (2004); Political Words and Ideas in Islam (2008); and Faith and Power: Religion and Politics in the Middle East (2010). He has co-edited The Cambridge History of Islam (1970) and The Encylopedia of Islam (2nd edition, vols. I-VI). Dr. Lewis's many honors and awards include the Ataturk Peace Prize (1998), the Irving Kristol Award (2007) and fifteen honorary doctorates. He was a fellow of the British Academy (1963), a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (1983), and a corresponding member of the Institut de France, Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (1994). He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1973. Bernard Lewis died May 19, 2018, at the age of 101 in New Jersey. | |
| 271 | Name: | Dr. Wai-yee Li | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 2023 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 402b | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1959 | | | | |
| 272 | Name: | Dr. A. Walton Litz | | | Institution: | Princeton University | | | Year Elected: | 1991 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 402. Criticism: Arts and Letters | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1929 | | | Death Date: | June 4, 2014 | | | | | | |
Arthur Walton Litz was Holmes Professor of English Emeritus at Princeton University, on whose faculty he served since 1958. One of the foremost scholars and critics of modern English and American literature, especially the novels and poems of James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens and Jane Austen, Dr. Litz authored a number of essays, articles and books, including The Art of James Joyce (1961), Modern Literary Criticism (1972) and Introspective Voyager: The Poetic Development of Wallace Stevens (1972). He held a D. Phil. degree from Oxford University and also taught at Bryn Mawr College, Swarthmore College, Temple University and Bread Loaf School. A Rhodes Scholar and Guggenheim Fellow, Dr. Litz also served as associate editor of the 63-volume Joyce Archive as well as on the editorial boards of the Princeton University Press and Oxford University Press. He was honored with awards including the Harbison Award for Gifted Teaching (1972) and Princeton's Behrman Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities (1981). He died June 4, 2014, at the age of 84 in Princeton. | |
| 273 | Name: | Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones | | | Institution: | University of Oxford | | | Year Elected: | 1992 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1922 | | | Death Date: | October 5, 2009 | | | | | | |
Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones, formerly Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford, is one of the world's leading authorities on ancient Greek literature. A graduate of Oxford (Christ Church), he has taught at Cambridge, Yale, Berkeley, Chicago, and Harvard. He holds honorary degrees from the Universities of Chicago, Tel Aviv, and Thessalonica, Göttingen. His books include Menandri Dyscolus (1960); The Justice of Zeus (1971); Blood for the Ghosts (1982); Classical Survivals (1982); (with P.J. Parsons) Supplementum Hellenisticum (1983); (with N.G. Wilson) Sophoclis Fabulae (1990); (with N.G. Wilson) Sophoclea (1990); Academic Papers I (Greek Epic, Lyric and Tragedy) and II (Greek Comedy, Hellenistic Literature, Greek Religion and Miscellanea) (1990); Greek in a Cold Climate (1991); Sophocles: Second Thoughts (1997); and translations of Aeschylus' Oresteia. Most recently, he completed a new three-volume translation of Sophocles for Harvard's Loeb Classical Library series. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1992. | |
| 274 | Name: | Dr. Lewis Lockwood | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 2013 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 401. Archaeology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1930 | | | | | | |
Lewis Lockwood is an American music historian. He has worked primarily in two fields: music and culture in Italy from c. 1400 to 1600; and the intensive study of Beethoven’s life and music. Lockwood was born in New York City in 1930 (by chance on Beethoven’s birthday), was trained as a cellist and continues to be active in chamber music. After attending the High School of Music and Art, then Queens College, he did his graduate studies at Princeton University with Oliver Strunk and others (Ph.D 1960). He taught at Princeton from 1958 to 1980, then moved to Harvard University, remaining there until his retirement in 2002. In 2010 he accepted appointment as Distinguished Senior Scholar in Musicology at Boston University.
Having been swept into Renaissance studies in his undergraduate years by Edward Lowinsky, his first area of scholarship was Italian music history of the 15th and 16th centuries. His dissertation on the north Italian 16th-century composer Vincenzo Ruffo showed the influence of church patronage on style in sacred music. His later work included numerous articles on sacred and secular music, culminating in his major book, Music in Renaissance Ferrara, 1400-1505 (1984, rev. 2009) This book was the first fully documented study of the rise of this important musical center, and received the Howard Marraro Prize of the Society of Italian Historians in 1985. In 2008 Lockwood received the Paul Oskar Kristeller Award from the Renaissance Society of America, and he holds honorary degrees from the Universita degli Studi di Ferrara, New England Conservatory, and Wake Forest University. In 2019 he shared the Guido Adler Prize of the International Music Association with fellow APS member Margaret Bent, in honor of "scholars who have made an outstanding contribution to musicology."
In the 1960's he turned towards the study of Beethoven, with a special focus on the vast patrimony of Beethoven’s surviving sketches and autograph manuscripts as evidence of his compositional process. Still only very partially known and published, these sources offer unparalleled insight into Beethoven’s methods of composition over his entire lifetime. Lockwood’s essay on the composing score of the cello sonata Op. 69 appeared in The Music Forum, 1970 and later in his Beethoven: Studies in the Creative Process (1992). In 2003 he brought out his Beethoven: The Music and the Life (New York: Norton). which has been translated into six language and was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in biography. This book gives primacy to Beethoven as composer while it also deals with the most salient issues in his life and career. In 2008, in collaboration with the members of the Juilliard String Quartet, he co-authored the book, Inside Beethoven’s Quartets. Most recently he has co-edited, with Alan Gosman, the critical edition of Beethoven’s "Eroica" Sketchbook (2013). He was the founding editor of Beethoven Forum, (1992-2007), the first serial scholarly publication on Beethoven produced in America. Lockwood was named by Joseph Kerman in the New York Review of Books as "a leading musical scholar of the postwar generation and the leading American scholar on Beethoven."
Lewis Lockwood was elected a members of the American Philosophical Society in 2013. | |
| 275 | Name: | Dr. Anthony A. Long | | | Institution: | University of California, Berkeley | | | Year Elected: | 2009 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 402b | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1937 | | | | | | |
I was born August 17, 1937 in Manchester, England, where my parents were secondary school teachers. As a high-school student, I was introduced to Plato by my school's charismatic principal. That experience was the primary reason I decided to study Classics as an undergraduate. After two years of military service I entered University College London where I had the good fortune to be taught by some of Britains's most outstanding scholars of Greek and Latin. I graduated BA in 1960, and was immediately appointed Lecturer in Classics, specializing in ancient philosophy, at the University of Otago, NZ. While teaching at Otago, I completed a PhD for the University of London with a dissertation on abstract nouns in Sophocles. This was the basis for my first book, Language and Thought in Sophocles (1968).
In 1964 I left Otago in order to return permanently to Britain, where I held appointments, first at the University of Nottingham, then at University College London, and finally as Gladstone Professor of Greek at the University of Liverpool (1973-83). During these years I made several visits to the USA, most significantly in 1978-9, when I held fellowships consecutively at Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study. Princeton gave me my first experience of teaching graduate seminars, which I found so rewarding that I decided I would move permanently to the USA if I were offered a suitable position. That opportunity soon emerged at the University of California at Berkeley, where I have been Professor of Classics since 1983 and Irving Stone Professor of Literature since 1991, with occasional absences as visiting professor or fellowship holder in Germany, France, and Holland.
Although my first book was on Sophocles, my first article (1963) was a study of Parmenides, and it is ancient philosophy that has been the primary focus of my research. That has always included the early Greek philosophers on whom I edited a volume in the Cambridge Companion series (1999), but in 1967 I began a series of studies of the Hellenistic philosophers, especially Stoics, and these thinkers have remained the principal focus of my research ever since. When I began this work, Hellenistic philosophy was very much a minority pursuit, but it has now definitely become main stream. My first attempt to publicize it was a general study, Hellenistic Philosophy. Stoics, Sceptics, Epicureans (first edition 1974), which has been translated into seven languages. In collaboration with David Sedley (Lawrence Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Cambridge), Cambridge University Press commissioned me to publish a two-volume source book of the principal texts of the Hellenistic Philosophers with philosophical commentary (1987). This work has been translated into French and German.
Since then, I have continued to work on many Hellenistic philosophical topics and Roman thinkers, including Cicero, Seneca and Epictetus on whom I published Epictetus. A Stoic and Socratic Guide to Life (2002). At the same time, I have been working extensively on ancient models of mind and selfhood, with reference to all periods of ancient philosophy, and also on conceptual connexions between theology and rationality. I hope in due course to complete two further books on these topics. | |
| 276 | Name: | Dr. Floyd Glenn Lounsbury | | | Institution: | Yale University | | | Year Elected: | 1987 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 406. Linguistics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1914 | | | Death Date: | 5/14/98 | | | | |
| 277 | Name: | Arthur O. Lovejoy | | | Year Elected: | 1932 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1873 | | | Death Date: | 12/30/62 | | | | |
| 278 | Name: | Robert H. Lowie | | | Year Elected: | 1942 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1883 | | | Death Date: | 9/21/57 | | | | |
| 279 | Name: | Dr. Tanya Marie Luhrmann | | | Institution: | Stanford University | | | Year Elected: | 2022 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 407. Philosophy | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1959 | | | | | | |
Tanya Marie Luhrmann is the Albert Ray Lang Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University, with a courtesy appointment in Psychology. Her work focuses on the edge of experience: on voices, visions, the world of the supernatural and the world of psychosis. She has done ethnography on the streets of Chicago with homeless and psychotic women, and worked with people who hear voices in Chennai, Accra and the South Bay. She has also done fieldwork with evangelical Christians who seek to hear God speak back, with Zoroastrians who set out to create a more mystical faith, and with people who practice magic. She uses a combination of ethnographic and experimental methods to understand the phenomenology of unusual sensory experiences, the way they are shaped by ideas about minds and persons, and what we can learn from this social shaping that can help us to help those whose voices are distressing. At the heart of the work is the sense of being called, and its possibilities and burden.
She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003 and received a John Guggenheim Fellowship award in 2007. When God Talks Back was named a NYT Notable Book of the Year and a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year. It was awarded the $100,000 Grawemeyer Prize for Religion by the University of Louisville. She has published over thirty OpEds in The New York Times, and her work has been featured in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, Science News, and many other publications. She is the author of Persuasions of the Witch’s Craft, The Good Parsi, Of Two Minds, When God Talks Back, Our Most Troubling Madness, and How God Becomes Real and other books, and is currently at work on a book entitled Voices. | |
| 280 | Name: | Dr. John Lukacs | | | Institution: | Chestnut Hill College | | | Year Elected: | 2002 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1924 | | | Death Date: | May 6, 2019 | | | | | | |
John Lukacs was one of the master interpreters of the modern era, that is, of Western Civilization since 1500. His knowledge of politics and society in Europe and America was unrivalled for breadth and suffused with philosophic imagination. He at home in the wide survey (The Passing of the Modern Age), the local study (Philadelphia: Patricians & Philistines), and the cultural inquiry (Historical Consciousness), these being three of his distinctive contributions. He could conjure before us a city (Budapest: 1900) or the conflict of titans (The Duel: Churchill and Hitler, May-July 1940). By their conception and execution every one of Dr. Lukacs's works fills a gap in our intelligence of the world we live in. Born in Hungary, Dr. Lukacs was a graduate of Palatine Joseph University, Budapest (Ph.D., 1946). For over fifty years he served on the faculty of Chesnut Hill College, becoming Professor Emeritus after 1994. He remained at work into the latest year of his life, publishing his final book, "We at the Center of the Universe," in 2017. John Lukacs died on May 6, 2019 in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania at the age of 95. | |
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