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Albert Gore Research Center (Middle Tennessee State University)
The Albert Gore Research Center is a manuscripts repository dedicated to preserving and making available for research primary source materials related to Tennessee history.
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American Public Media
American Public Media, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization, is the largest owner and operator of public radio stations and a premier producer and distributor of public radio programming in the nation.
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Anaheim Public Library
Public library system for Anaheim, California.
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Atlanta History Center
The Atlanta History Center is located on 33 acres in the heart of Atlanta's Buckhead district and includes: one of the Southeast's largest history museums; a research library and archives that annually serves more than 10,000 patrons; two historic houses illustrating over a century of Atlanta's h...
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Atlanta Regional Council for Higher Education
The Atlanta Regional Council for Higher Education (ARCHE) comprises 19 public and private colleges, universities, and other institutions of higher learning, as well as five affiliated independent libraries and 12 corporate and non-profit community partners.
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Birmingham Public Library Archives
The Archives Department of the Birmingham Public Library collects government records, business records, maps, photographs, letters, diaries, scrapbooks, and other primary material documenting the history and development of Birmingham, Jefferson County, and the surrounding area of Alabama known as...
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C-SPAN
C-SPAN is a private, non-profit company, created in 1979 by the cable television industry as a public service. Our mission is to provide public access to the political process. C-SPAN receives no government funding; operations are funded by fees paid by cable and satellite affiliates who carry C-...
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Carnegie Museum of Art
Pittsburgh-based museum of contemporary art that includes film and video works.
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Cartoon Research Library (Ohio State University)
The Cartoon Research Library’s primary mission is to develop a comprehensive research collection documenting American printed cartoon art, to organize the materials, and to provide access to these resources.
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Center for Civil & Human Rights Partnership
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Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University teaches, engages in, and presents documentary work grounded in collaborative partnerships and extended fieldwork that uses photography, film/video, audio, and narrative writing to capture and convey contemporary memory, life, and culture.
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Columbia Center for Digital Research and Scholarship
The Columbia Libraries' Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS) advances the use of new media and digital technologies in research and scholarly communication.
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Digital Library of Appalachia
The Digital Library of Appalachia provides online access to archival and historical materials related to the culture of the southern and central Appalachian region. The contents of the DLA are drawn from special collections of Appalachian College Association member libraries.
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Digital Library of Georgia
The Digital Library of Georgia is a gateway to Georgia's history and culture found in digitized books, manuscripts, photographs, government documents, newspapers, maps, audio, video, and other resources.
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Documenting the American South (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Documenting the American South (DocSouth) is a digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. Currently DocSouth includes ten thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, o...
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Duke University's Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library
Developing an understanding of human experience and culture requires access to historical documentation in many forms and subject areas. The Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University preserves such documentation and promotes its use.
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Durham County Library
The mission of the Durham County Public Library is to provide to the entire community books, services, and other resources which inform, inspire learning, cultivate understanding, and excite the imagination.
We are committed to providing free and convenient access to all residents of Durham Co...
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Dwight D. Eisenhower Library
Presidential library for Dwight D. Eisenhower, the thirty-fourth President of the United States.
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Eastman Kodak Company
Rochester, New York manufacturer of film, cameras, photographic supplies, and digital imaging products and processing services.
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Encyclopedia of Chicago
Online encyclopedia about the Chicago metropolitan area that includes supporting historical documents.
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Everett McKinley Dirksen Congressional Leadership Research Center
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the investigative arm of the US Department of Justice.
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Florida Humanities Council
The Florida Humanities Council is dedicated to building strong communities and informed citizens by providing Floridians with the opportunity to explore the heritage, traditions and stories of our state and its place in the world.
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Florida State Library and Archives
Information resource provider for the Florida Legislature and all state agencies.
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Foot Soldier Project for Civil Rights Studies at the University of Georgia
The Foot Soldier Project for Civil Rights Studies, a documentary and research program at The University of Georgia, is dedicated to chronicling Georgia's rich history in the civil rights movement.
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Franklin College of Arts and Sciences (University of Georgia)
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Georgia Archives
The Georgia Archives identifies and preserves Georgia's most valuable historical documents.
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Georgia Public Broadcasting
GPB creates, produces, and distributes high quality programs and services that educate, inform and entertain our audiences and enrich the quality of their lives.
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Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Founded in 1994, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History promotes the study and love of American history. The Institute serves teachers, students, scholars, and the general public.
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Greensboro Public Library (Greensboro, N.C.)
In partnership with the community, the Greensboro Public Library strives to provide free and equal access to information, foster lifelong learning, and inspire the joys of reading.
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Handbook of Texas Online
Joint project of The General Libraries at the University of Texas at Austin and the Texas State Historical Association.
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Highlander Research and Education Center
The Highlander Center was founded in 1932 to serve as an adult education center for community workers involved in social and economic justice movements. The goal of Highlander was and is to provide education and support to poor and working people fighting economic injustice, poverty, prejudice, a...
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HistoryLink.org
The online encyclopedia of Washington History
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ibiblio.org
Home to one of the largest "collections of collections" on the Internet, ibiblio.org is a conservancy of freely available information, including software, music, literature, art, history, science, politics, and cultural studies. ibiblio.org is a collaboration of the Center for the Public Domain a...
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International Civil Rights Center & Museum
The ICRCM seeks to preserve the legacy and the significance of Greensboro Sit-in Movement.
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John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum is dedicated to the memory of our nation's thirty-fifth president and to all those who through the art of politics seek a new and better world.
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Kentucky Educational Television
Kentucky Educational Television signed on the air in September 1968 as Kentucky’s statewide public broadcasting network. Today, our 32 transmitters (16 analog, 16 digital) and three translators deliver the PBS national schedule; our own wide range of local arts, cultural, documentary, and public ...
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Kentucky Virtual Library
Kentucky's statewide virtual library providing online access to reference sources and digitized cultural heritage materials.
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Learn North Carolina
LEARN NORTH CAROLINA, a program of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Education, is a statewide network of educators using the power of the Internet to improve K–12 education in North Carolina. The website offers a wide array of quality resources for K–12 classroom instruct...
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Library of America
The Library of America, a nonprofit publisher, is dedicated to publishing, and keeping in print, authoritative editions of America's best and most significant writing.
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Library of Congress
The Library of Congress is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution, and it serves as the research arm of Congress. It is also the largest library in the world, with more than 120 million items. The collections include books, sound recordings, motion pictures, photographs, maps, and manus...
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Louisiana State Library
The State Library of Louisiana is one of Louisiana's greatest resources for research information, government documents, genealogical data, audio books and much more.
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Louisiana State Museum
New Orleans' most prominent heritage attraction is the Louisiana State Museum, a complex of national landmarks housing thousands of artifacts and works of art reflecting Louisiana's legacy of historic events and cultural diversity.
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Louisiana State University Library Special Collections
In 1985, the LSU Libraries organized the Special Collections division to administer the rare books, manuscripts, and other special research collections already held by the libraries. The division’s principal mission is to preserve these collections, add to them, and make them available for use. S...
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Lyndon Baines Johnson Library
Presidential library for Lyndon B. Johnson.
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Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Books Library (Emory University)
MARBL holds over 200,000 printed volumes, over 1,200 manuscript collections, photographs, motion picture film, audio recordings, and other visual media. Subject areas of special strength include literature; African American history and culture; and the history of Atlanta, Georgia, and the South.
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Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute
The King Institute at Stanford University seeks to ensure that King's ideas and ideals will benefit future generations. The Institute's endowment supports research and educational programs that contribute to public understanding of King's life and of the movements inspired by his message of peace...
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Memphis Civil Rights Research Consortium
The consortium, consisting of the University of Memphis Libraries, LeMoyne-Owen College, the National Civil Rights Museum, the Memphis-Shelby County Public Library and Information Center, State Technical Institute at Memphis, and Shelby State Community College, seeks to increase access to library...
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MetaScholar Initiative (Emory University)
More than a dozen digital library projects undertaken at the Robert W. Woodruff Library at Emory University. The MetaScholar Initiative actively pursues three main areas of digital library research: scholarly communication, service building, and digital preservation.
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Minnesota Historical Society
The Minnesota Historical Society is chief caretaker of Minnesota's story—and the History Center is home to the Society's vast collections. Within its archives reside artifacts ranging from American indian moccasins and artwork to furniture and photographs, Civil War-era flags and a wealth of gene...
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Mississippi Department of Archives and History
A comprehensive historical agency, the department collects, preserves, and provides access to the archival resources of the state, administers museums and historic sites, and oversees statewide programs for historic preservation, government records management, and publications.
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Museum of Broadcast Communications
The Museum Broadcast Communications is the premiere broadcast museum in America and home to the only National Radio Hall of Fame.
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Nashville Public Library
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National Museum of American History (Smithsonian)
The National Museum of American History dedicates its collections and scholarship to inspiring a broader understanding of our nation and its many peoples. We create learning opportunities, stimulate imaginations, and present challenging ideas about our country’s past.
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National Park Service
The National Park Service cares for national parks, a network of nearly 400 natural, cultural and recreational sites across the nation.
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New Georgia Encyclopedia
The New Georgia Encyclopedia provides an authoritative source of information about people, places, events, institutions, and many other topics relating to the state.
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PBS Online
PBS is a media enterprise that serves 355 public noncommercial television stations and reaches nearly 73 million people each week through on-air and online content.
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Poverty & Race Research Action Council
PRRAC is a civil rights policy organization convened by major civil rights and anti-poverty groups in 1989. PRRAC's primary mission is to help connect social scientists with advocates working on race and poverty issues, and to promote a research-based advocacy strategy on issues of structural rac...
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Rhodes College
Liberal arts college located in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies
The Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies serves as a center for research and study of the modern American political system with particular emphasis on public policy, the role of the U. S. Congress, and the dynamic relationships of local, state, national, and internationa...
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Richard C. Butler Center for Arkansas Studies
The Butler Center is dedicated to exploring, preserving, and interpreting the history of Arkansas. We focus attention on the regions that include Arkansas to help people understand the broader contexts in which Arkansas history unfolds.
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
is a national research library devoted to collecting, preserving and providing access to resources documenting the history and experiences of peoples of African descent throughout the world.
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Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project
The Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project is based at the University of Washington. It represents a unique collaboration involving community groups, UW faculty, and both undergraduate and graduate students. Funding for the project has been provided by the Simpson Center for the Humanitie...
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Shelby County Register of Deeds
Register of deeds for Shelby County, Tennessee.
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Smoking Gun
Web site featuring government and law enforcement documents retrieved via Freedom of Information requests, and from court files nationwide.
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Southern Institute for Education and Research
Based at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, the Southern Institute is a non-profit race relations center dedicated to improving ethnic relations in the Deep South through tolerance education and communications training.
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Spider Martin Photograph Collection
Group working to preserve the civil rights photographer Spider Martin's work.
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Tarlton Law Library (University of Texas)
Tarlton Law Library is part of the Jamail Center for Legal Research at The University of Texas School of Law.
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Teaching for Change
Teaching for Change provides teachers and parents with the tools to transform schools into centers of justice where students learn to read, write and change the world.
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Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture
A definitive and comprehensive reference work on the Volunteer State cosponsored by the University of Tennessee Press and the Tennessee Historical Society.
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Thurgood Marshall Law Library (University of Maryland School of Law)
The Thurgood Marshall Law Library contains over 400,000 volumes of Anglo-American legal materials as well as outstanding international and foreign law collections.
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University of Louisville University Archives and Records Center
The University Archives & Records Center is both a repository for collections documenting the Louisville community and the "Memory of the University."
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University of Michigan Library
Libraries of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
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University of Mississippi
Chartered as the first public university in Mississippi.
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University of North Carolina at Greensboro's University Libraries
Libraries serving the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
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University of Southern California Libraries
Special Collections provides access to and preserves archival, historic, and primary source materials in its main areas of strength: Los Angeles regional history; American literature; Lion Feuchtwanger and the German émigré experience; natural history; Iberian, Latin American, and U.S. Hispanics ...
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University of Southern Mississippi
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University of Washington's History Department
History department of the University of Washington
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University of Washington's Libraries
Libraries of the University of Washington.
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University of West Georgia's Georgia Political Heritage Program
Georgia's Political Heritage Program is a video/ audio tape collection that is designed to capture valuable, but disappearing historical resources. The collection began in 1985 and captures the memory of Georgia's political leaders as they relate their roles in the state's political history.
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Veterans of Hope Project
The Veterans of Hope Project is a multifaceted educational initiative on religion, culture and participatory democracy.
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Virginia Center for Digital History
VCDH promotes the teaching and learning of history using digital technologies.
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Virginia Commonwealth University's James Branch Cabell Library Special Collections and Archives
Located on the fourth floor of the James Branch Cabell Library, Special Collections and Archives houses rare books and manuscript collections that support the Monroe Park Campus programs of Virginia Commonwealth University.
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Virginia Historical Society
Collects, preserves, and interprets Virginia's past for the education and enjoyment of present and future generations
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Virginia State University's Archives and Special Collections
Virginia State University's Special Collections and Archives are a repository for rare books, historical documents, memoirs,artifacts and memorabilia pertaining to Virginia State University, Virginia history, Virginia educational history, and African-American history.
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Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection
The Walter J. Brown Media Archive & Peabody Awards Collection preserves over 100,000 titles in film, video, audiotape, transcription disks, and other recording formats dating from the 1920s to the present. The archives are housed in the Main Library on the north campus of the University of Georgi...
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Washington State University Vancouver Information Services
Vancouver Information Services is an integrated information system encompassing the Library, Information Technology, and Videoconference Services departments on the WSU Vancouver campus.
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Washington State University's Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC) is a unit in Washington State University's Holland and Terrell Library that is primarily responsible for acquiring, administering, and preserving millions of non-circulating items, many of which are rare and unique. Collections consist of reco...
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Washington University in St. Louis University Libraries
The Washington University Libraries are a powerful network of academic resources featuring 14 libraries (12 on the Danforth Campus, one at West Campus, one at the Medical School); vast print and electronic collections; and expert librarians whose first priority is helping students and faculty fin...
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WGBH Educational Foundation
WGBH is public service media for New England--on TV, radio, the Web, and out in the community. We're the single largest producer of PBS prime-time and online programming, and a major source of programs heard on public radio from coast to coast. We're a pioneer in educational multimedia and in med...
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Wisconsin Historical Society
The Wisconsin Historical Society is both a state agency and a private membership organization. Founded in 1846, two years before statehood, and chartered in 1853, it is the oldest American historical society to receive continuous public funding. By statute, it is charged with collecting, advancin...
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Yale Law School
Located in New Haven, Connecticut, Yale Law School, is one of the world's premier law schools.
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Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute
The Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute is an educational partnership between Yale University and the New Haven Public Schools designed to strengthen teaching and learning in local schools and, by example, in schools across the country.
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