What Happened on my Birthday May 7

Today is May 7, the 127th day . There are 238 days left in the year. Did you ever wonder "What happened on my birthday May 7?" "What famous person was born on my birthday May 7", "What historical event took place on the day I was born, May 7?", " What does my birthday reveal about my personality ?" or "What special celebrations took place during my birth month, May?" This blog offers information about historical happenings, famous birthdays and Numerology


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May 7 Events

Today's Highlight in History:

On May 7, 1915, nearly 1,200 people died when a German torpedo sank the British liner RMS Lusitania off the Irish coast...see picture

What Happened on my Birthday May 7 in US

1789, the first inaugural ball was held in New York in honor of President George Washington and his wife, Martha.

1909, Edwin H. Land, inventor of polarizing filters and Polaroid instant photography, was born in Bridgeport, Conn.
1975, President Gerald R. Ford formally declared an end to the "Vietnam era." In Ho Chi Minh City — formerly Saigon — the Viet Cong celebrated its takeover.

1977, Seattle Slew won the Kentucky Derby, the first of his Triple Crown victories. (On this date in 2002, Seattle Slew died.)
1984, a $180 million out-of-court settlement was announced in the Agent Orange class-action suit brought by Vietnam veterans who charged they'd suffered injury from exposure to the defoliant.
2004 Army Pfc. Lynndie England, shown in photographs smiling and pointing at naked Iraqi prisoners, was charged by the military with assaulting the detainees and conspiring to mistreat them. (England was later convicted of conspiracy, mistreating detainees and committing an indecent act, and sentenced to 36 months; she served half that term.) Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld offered "my deepest apology" to abused Iraqi prisoners and warned that videos and photos yet to come could further inflame worldwide outrage.

2008 President George W. Bush, addressing the Council of Americas, said Cuba's post-Fidel Castro leadership had made only "empty gestures at reform" as he rejected calls for easing of U.S. restrictions on the communist island.

What Happened on my Birthday May 7 in UK and Other History

1945, Germany signed an unconditional surrender at Allied headquarters in Rheims, France.

1954, the 55-day Battle of Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam ended with Vietnamese insurgents overrunning French forces.

1960, Leonid Brezhnev replaced Marshal Kliment Voroshilov as president of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet.

2008 Dmitry Medvedev was sworn in as Russia's president.

Famous Birthdays

1812 Poet Robert Browning
1833, composer Johannes Brahms was born in Hamburg, Germany.
1840, composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born in Votkinsk, Russia
1901 Gary Cooper
1919 Eva Peron (later known as Evita)
1939 Singer Jimmy Ruffin
1944 Richard O'Sullivan, British actor
1945 Christy Moore, Irish folk artist

What does my birthday reveal about my personality

Numerology was an accepted part of ancient mathematics and revolves around the study of numbers, with each number from 0 to 9 representing a different personality trait based on its association with planets and/or moons in our solar system.

May 7

7 is your primary birth path. You are A Seeker, one with a peaceful and affectionate soul.

To get your secondary birth path you need to work out your year
Example: if you were born in 1991 that is 1+9+9+1=20 which is 2+0=2
so add month 5 to day 7 to your year calculation. In this example 5+7+2=14 which is 1+4=5
so you are also An Opportunist, one of those people who is always striving to find answers to the many questions that life poses

Note 11 is 11 not 1+1=2 and 22 is 22 not 2+2=4
Number 1 = One who has a need for personal attainment or an Achiever. Number 2 = One who clearly sees the full spectrum of viewpoints in any argument or situation, Idealist. Number 3 = Artist, one that emphasizes expression, sociability, and creativity. Number 4 = The most trustworthy, practical, and down-to-earth of individuals, a Pragmatist. Number 5 = An Opportunist, one of those people who is always striving to find answers to the many questions that life poses. Number 6 = A Caregiver, you feel a strong sense of responsibility, are idealistic and need to feel useful to be happy. Number 7 = A Seeker, one with a peaceful and affectionate soul. Number 8 = Affluent, one who is very independent, forceful and competitive. Number 9 = A Philosopher, a person with compassion, generosity, and a very humanitarian attitude. Number 11 = A Visionary, one with spiritual awareness, understanding and knowledge beyond the grasp of others. Number 22 = A Global Thinker, the most powerful of all the Life Path numbers. This individual can achieve enormous success, prestige, and fame if they have the desire and willingness to achieve it.

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What Happened on my Birthday May 6

Today is May 6, the 126th day . There are 239 days left in the year. Did you ever wonder "What happened on my birthday May 6?" "What famous person was born on my birthday May 6", "What historical event took place on the day I was born, May 6?", " What does my birthday reveal about my personality ?" or "What special celebrations took place during my birth month, May?" This blog offers information about historical happenings, famous birthdays and Numerology

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May 6 Events


Today's Highlight in History: On May 6, 1937, the hydrogen-filled German airship Hindenburg burned and crashed in Lakehurst, N.J., killing 35 of the 97 people on board and a navy crewman on the ground.

What Happened on my Birthday May 6 in US

1859, Georgia miner John H. Gregory discovered a lode of gold in Colorado.
1861, ArKansas seceded from the Union.
1942, during World War II some 15,000 Americans and Filipinos on Corregidor surrendered to the Japanese.
1981, Yale architecture student Maya Ying Lin was named winner of a competition to design the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
2004 An estimated 51.1 million people tuned in for the final first-run episode of "Friends" on NBC.
2008 Barack Obama swept to a convincing victory in the North Carolina Democratic primary while Hillary Rodham Clinton eked out a win in Indiana. A Georgia man who'd killed his live-in girlfriend was executed; William Earl Lynd was the first inmate put to death since the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of lethal injections.

What Happened on my Birthday May 6 in UK and Other History

1889, the Paris Exposition formally opened, featuring the just-completed Eiffel Tower.
1910, Britain's King Edward VII died; he was succeeded by George V.
1954, medical student Roger Bannister broke the four-minute mile during a track meet in Oxford, England, in three minutes, 59.4 seconds.
1960, Britain's Princess Margaret married Antony Armstrong-Jones, a commoner, at Westminster Abbey. (They divorced in 1978.)
1994, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and French President Francois Mitterrand formally opened the Channel Tunnel between their countries.
1999 Reversing decades of overwhelming loyalty to Britain's governing Labour Party, Scottish and Welsh voters elected strong nationalist oppositions to their first separate assemblies of modern times.
2002, right-wing Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn (pim fohr-TOWN') was shot and killed in Hilversum, Netherlands. (Volkert van der Graaf was later convicted of killing Fortuyn and was sentenced to 18 years in prison.)


Famous Birthdays

1856 Sigmund Freud
1895 Rudolph Valentino
1913 Actor Stewart Grainger
1915 Orson Welles
1931 Baseball Hall-of-Famer Willie Mays
1945 Rock singer Bob Seger
1953 Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair
1955 TV personality Tom Bergeron
1961 Actor George Clooney

What does my birthday reveal about my personality

Numerology was an accepted part of ancient mathematics and revolves around the study of numbers, with each number from 0 to 9 representing a different personality trait based on its association with planets and/or moons in our solar system.

May 6

6 is your primary birth path. You are A Caregiver, you feel a strong sense of responsibility, are idealistic and need to feel useful to be happy

To get your secondary birth path you need to work out your year
Example: if you were born in 1991 that is 1+9+9+1=20 which is 2+0=2
so add month 5 to day 6 to your year calculation. In this example 5+6+2=13 which is 1+3=4
so you are also the most trustworthy, practical, and down-to-earth of individuals, a Pragmatist.

Note 11 is 11 not 1+1=2 and 22 is 22 not 2+2=4 Number 1 = One who has a need for personal attainment or an Achiever. Number 2 = One who clearly sees the full spectrum of viewpoints in any argument or situation, Idealist. Number 3 = Artist, one that emphasizes expression, sociability, and creativity. Number 4 = The most trustworthy, practical, and down-to-earth of individuals, a Pragmatist. Number 5 = An Opportunist, one of those people who is always striving to find answers to the many questions that life poses. Number 6 = A Caregiver, you feel a strong sense of responsibility, are idealistic and need to feel useful to be happy. Number 7 = A Seeker, one with a peaceful and affectionate soul. Number 8 = Affluent, one who is very independent, forceful and competitive. Number 9 = A Philosopher, a person with compassion, generosity, and a very humanitarian attitude. Number 11 = A Visionary, one with spiritual awareness, understanding and knowledge beyond the grasp of others. Number 22 = A Global Thinker, the most powerful of all the Life Path numbers. This individual can achieve enormous success, prestige, and fame if they have the desire and willingness to achieve it.


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What Happened on my Birthday May 5

Today is May 5, the 125th day. There are 240 days left in the year. Did you ever wonder "What happened on my birthday May 5?" "What famous person was born on my birthday May 5", "What historical event took place on the day I was born, May 5?", " What does my birthday reveal about my personality ?" or "What special celebrations took place during my birth month, May?" This blog offers information about historical happenings, famous birthdays and Numerology

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May 5 Events

Today's Highlight in History: On May 5, 1961, astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr. became America's first space traveler as he made a 15-minute sub-orbital flight in a capsule launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla.

What Happened on my Birthday May 5 in US

1891, Carnegie Hall (then named "Music Hall") had its official opening night in New York City. 1904, Cy Young pitched the American League's first perfect game as the Boston Americans defeated the Philadelphia Athletics, 3-0.

05/05/05 1905 Robert S Abbott published 1st issue of newspaper "Chicago Defender"

1925, schoolteacher John T. Scopes was charged in Tennessee with violating a state law that prohibited teaching the theory of evolution. (Scopes was found guilty, but his conviction was later set aside.)
1942, during World War II, Japanese forces landed on the Philippine island of Corregidor.
1955, West Germany became a fully sovereign state. The baseball musical "Damn Yankees" opened on Broadway.

1981, Irish Republican Army hunger-striker Bobby Sands died at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland in his 66th day without food.

2000, the tightest alignment of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, the sun and the moon as seen from Earth since 1962 took place.

2004 Picasso's 1905 Painting "Boy with a Pipe" sold for $104 million at Sotheby's in New York, breaking the record at that time for an auctioned painting.

2008 Irvine Robbins, co-founder of the Baskin-Robbins ice cream chain, died in Rancho Mirage, Calif., at age 90.

What Happened on my Birthday May 5 in UK and Other History

1818, political philosopher Karl Marx was born in Prussia
1821, Napoleon Bonaparte, 51, died in exile on the island of St. Helena.
1862, Mexican forces loyal to Benito Juarez defeated French troops sent by Napoleon III in the Battle of Puebla.

05/05/05 2005 A United Kingdom general election results in the re-election of Tony Blair's Labour Party for a third consecutive term.

Famous Birthdays

1818 Karl Marx...see picture
1942 Tammy Wynette

1943 Comedian-actor Michael Palin
1948 Rock musician Bill Ward (Black Sabbath)
1957 Actor Richard E. Grant

1970 UK Comedian Johnny Vegas

1981 Singer Craig David

What does my birthday reveal about my personality

Numerology was an accepted part of ancient mathematics and revolves around the study of numbers, with each number from 0 to 9 representing a different personality trait based on its association with planets and/or moons in our solar system.

May 5

5 is your primary birth path. You are An Opportunist, one of those people who is always striving to find answers to the many questions that life poses.

To get your secondary birth path you need to work out your year
Example: if you were born in 1991 that is 1+9+9+1=20 which is 2+0=2
so add month 5 to day 5 to your year calculation. In this example 5+5+2=12 which is 1+2=3
so you are also an Artist, one that emphasizes expression, sociability, and creativity.
Note 11 is 11 not 1+1=2 and 22 is 22 not 2+2=4
Number 1 = One who has a need for personal attainment or an Achiever.
Number 2 = One who clearly sees the full spectrum of viewpoints in any argument or situation, Idealist.
Number 3 = Artist, one that emphasizes expression, sociability, and creativity.
Number 4 = The most trustworthy, practical, and down-to-earth of individuals, a Pragmatist.
Number 5 = An Opportunist, one of those people who is always striving to find answers to the many questions that life poses.
Number 6 = A Caregiver, you feel a strong sense of responsibility, are idealistic and need to feel useful to be happy.
Number 7 = A Seeker, one with a peaceful and affectionate soul.
Number 8 = Affluent, one who is very independent, forceful and competitive.
Number 9 = A Philosopher, a person with compassion, generosity, and a very humanitarian attitude.
Number 11 = A Visionary, one with spiritual awareness, understanding and knowledge beyond the grasp of others.
Number 22 = A Global Thinker, the most powerful of all the Life Path numbers. This individual can achieve enormous success, prestige, and fame if they have the desire and willingness to achieve it.

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What Happened on my Birthday May 4

Today is May 4, the 124th day. There are 241 days left in the year. Did you ever wonder "What happened on my birthday May 4?" "What famous person was born on my birthday May 4", "What historical event took place on the day I was born, May 4?", or "What special celebrations took place during my birth month, May?" This blog offers information about historical happenings and famous birthdays
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May 4 Events

May the Fourth Be With You

Today's Highlight in History:
Fifty years ago, on May 4, 1959, the first-ever Grammy Awards ceremony was held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Domenico Modugno won Record of the Year and Song of the Year for "Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu (Volare)"; Henry Mancini won Album of the Year for "The Music from Peter Gunn."

What Happened on my Birthday May 4 in US



1626, Dutch explorer Peter Minuit landed on present-day Manhattan Island.Indians sell Manhattan Island for $24 in cloth and buttons
1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago, a labor demonstration for an eight-hour work day turned into a deadly riot when a bomb exploded.
1904, the United States took over construction of the Panama Canal.
1916, responding to a demand from President Woodrow Wilson, Germany agreed to limit its submarine warfare, thereby averting a diplomatic break with Washington. (However, Germany resumed unrestricted submarine warfare the following year.)
1932, mobster Al Capone, convicted of income-tax evasion, entered the federal penitentiary in Atlanta. (Capone was later transferred to Alcatraz Island.)
In 1945, during World War II, German forces in the Netherlands, Denmark and northwest Germany agreed to surrender.
1946, a two-day riot at Alcatraz prison in San Francisco Bay ended, the violence having claimed five lives.
1961, a group of "Freedom Riders" left Washington D.C. for New Orleans to challenge racial segregation on interstate buses and in bus terminals.
1970, Ohio National Guardsmen opened fire on anti-war protesters at Kent State University, killing four students and wounding nine others.
2001, Bonny Lee Bakley, wife of actor Robert Blake, was shot to death as she sat in a car in Los Angeles. (Blake, accused of the killing, was acquitted in a criminal trial but was found liable by a civil jury and ordered to pay damages.)
1999 Five New York City police officers went on trial for the torture of Haitian immigrant Abner Louima.
(One officer later pleaded guilty to civil rights violations; a second later pleaded guilty to perjury; the remaining three were acquitted of brutality charges. Two of those three were later convicted of conspiring to obstruct justice; those convictions were overturned.)
2004 The US Army disclosed that the deaths of ten prisoners and abuse of ten more in Iraq and Afghanistan were under criminal investigation, as U.S. commanders in Baghdad announced interrogation changes. The United States walked out of a U.N.meeting to protest its decision minutes later to give Sudan a third term on the Human Rights Commission.


What Happened on my Birthday May 4 in UK and Other History

1494 Christopher Columbus lands in Jamaica
1896 1st edition of London Daily Mail ( penny)

1999 Work crews struggled to restore electricity across Serbia after NATO strikes on major power grids left Belgrade and other cities in the dark

Famous Birthdays

1923 UK Comedian Eric Sykes
1928 The president of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak..see picture above
1929 Audrey Hepburn
1950 Irish musician Darryl Hunt (The Pogues)
1951 Singer Jackie Jackson (The Jacksons).
1952 UK entertainer Michael Barrymore
1955 Pia Zadora

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What Happened on my Birthday May 3

Today is May 3, the 123rd day. There are 242 days left in the year. Did you ever wonder what happened on your birthday May 3? What famous person was born on your birthday, what historical event took place on the day you were born, or what special celebrations took place during your birth month? This blog offers information about historical happenings and famous birthdays

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May 3 Events

Today's Highlight in History:
On May 3, 1909, a wireless news dispatch was transmitted from The New York Times to the Chicago Tribune in the first such communication between the two cities.

Sir Henry Cooper celebrates his birthday today. Here's a picture of the moment he thought it was his birthday, when he knocked down Ali (then Clay)

What Happened on my Birthday May 3 in US

1469, political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli was born in Florence, Italy.
1802, Washington, D.C., was incorporated as a city.
1933, Nellie T. Ross became the first female director of the U.S. Mint.
1944, U.S. wartime rationing of most grades of meats ended.
1945, during World War II, Allied forces captured Rangoon, Burma, from the Japanese.
1948, the Supreme Court, in Shelley v. Kraemer, ruled that covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate to blacks or members of other racial groups were legally unenforceable.
1978, "Sun Day" fell on a Wednesday as thousands of people extolling the virtues of solar energy held events across the country.
1986, in NASA's first post-Challenger launch, an unmanned Delta rocket lost power in its main engine shortly after liftoff, forcing safety officers to destroy it by remote control.
1999 Some 70 tornadoes roared across Oklahoma and Kansas, killing 46 people and injuring hundreds. The Dow Jones industrial average closed above 11,000, just 24 trading days after passing 10,000. Japanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi met with President Bill Clinton at the White House during the first official U.S. visit by a Japanese premier in 12 years.
2004 The U.S. military said it had reprimanded seven officers in the abuse of inmates at Baghdad's notorious Abu Ghraib prison, the first known punishments in the case; two of the officers were relieved of their duties. Former postmaster general Marvin Runyon died in Nashville, Tenn., at age 79.
2008 Barack Obama defeated Hillary Rodham Clinton by seven votes in the Guam Democratic presidential caucuses, meaning the candidates split the pledged delegate votes. Big Brown won the Kentucky Derby by 4¾ lengths. (Filly Eight Belles finished second and then broke both front ankles; she was euthanized on the track.)

What Happened on my Birthday May 3 in UK and Other History

1916, Irish nationalist Padraic Pearse and two others were executed by the British for their roles in the Easter Rising.

1979, Conservative Party leader Margaret Thatcher was chosen to become Britain's first female prime minister as the Tories ousted the incumbent Labor government in parliamentary elections.

Famous Birthdays

1904 Bing Crosby
1919 Folk singer Pete Seeger
1934 Sir Henry Cooper
1934 Singer Frankie Valli
1950 Pop singer Mary Hopkin
1959 UK Comedian/Author/Scripwriter Ben Elton

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What Happened on my Birthday May 2

Today is May 2, the 122nd day. There are 243 days left in the year.

Today's Highlight in History:

On May 2, 1945, the Soviet Union announced the fall of Berlin, and the Allies announced the surrender of Nazi troops in Italy and parts of Austria.

May 2 Events

What Happened on my Birthday May 2 in US

1863, Confederate Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson was accidentally wounded by his own men at Chancellorsville, Va.; he died eight days later.
1890, the Oklahoma Territory was organized.
1908, the original version of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game," with music by Albert Von Tilzer and lyrics by Jack Norworth, was copyrighted by Von Tilzer's York Music Co.
1957, Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, the controversial Republican from Wisconsin, died at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland.
1960, Caryl Chessman, who became a best-selling author while on death row for kidnapping, robbery and sexual offenses, was executed at San Quentin Prison in California.
1965, Intelsat 1, also known as the Early Bird satellite, was first used to transmit television pictures across the Atlantic.
1972, J. Edgar Hoover died in Washington at age 77 after serving 48 years as head of the FBI.
1999 Yugoslav authorities handed over to the Rev. Jesse Jackson three American prisoners of war who'd been held for a month.

What Happened on my Birthday May 2 in UK and Other History

1519, artist Leonardo da Vinci died at Cloux, France, at 67.
1536 Anne Boleyn is arrested, accused by her husband King Henry VIII of adultery and incest
1670, the Hudson Bay Company was chartered by England's King Charles II.
1936, "Peter and the Wolf," a symphonic tale for children by Sergei Prokofiev, had its world premiere in Moscow.
1999 Actor Oliver Reed died in Malta at age 61 while making the movie "Gladiator."

Famous Birthdays

1936 Singer Engelbert Humperdinck .
1945 Actress and political activist Bianca Jagger
Inventor James Dyson
1946 Actor David Suchet
1951 Broadcaster Alan Titchmarsh
1962 Snooker player Jimmy White
1975 Soccer star David Beckham see picture .
1985 Pop singer Lily Allen.

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What Happened on my Birthday May 1

Today is May 1, the 121st day. There are 244 days left in the year. Did you ever wonder "what happened on my birthday May 1?" "What famous person was born on my birthday May 1", "what historical event took place on the day I was born, May 1?", or "what special celebrations took place during my birth month, May?" This blog offers information about historical happenings and famous birthdays
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May 1 Events

Today is May Day

MayDay is a distress call. The call is always given three times in a row ("Mayday Mayday Mayday" It's from French venez m'aider, meaning 'come help me'. It is the equivalent of SOS or 999

What Happened on my Birthday May 1 in US

1884, construction began on the first skyscraper, a 10-story structure in Chicago built by the Home Insurance Co. of New York.
1893, the World's Columbian Exposition opened to the public in Chicago.
1898, Commodore George Dewey gave the command, "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley," as an American naval force destroyed a Spanish squadron in Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War.
1909, Walter Reed General Hospital (later a part of Walter Reed Army Medical Center) in Washington, D.C., admitted its first patients.
1931, New York's 102-story Empire State Building was dedicated.
1960, the Soviet Union shot down an American U-2 reconnaissance plane near Sverdlovsk and captured its pilot, Francis Gary Powers.
1963, James W. Whittaker became the first American to conquer Mount Everest as he and a Sherpa guide reached the summit.
1978, Ernest Morial was inaugurated as the first black mayor of New Orleans.
1982, the 1982 World's Fair opened in Knoxville, Tenn.

1999 Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic agreed to hand over three captured U.S. soldiers to the Rev. Jesse Jackson.

What Happened on my Birthday May 1 in UK and Other History

1707, the Kingdom of Great Britain was created as a treaty merging England and Scotland took effect.
1786, Mozart's opera "The Marriage of Figaro" premiered in Vienna.
2008 Philipp Freiherr von Boeselager, believed to be the last surviving member of the inner circle of plotters who attempted to kill Adolf Hitler, died in Altenahr, Germany, at age 90.

Famous Birthdays

1925 Scott Carpenter, Astronaut

1945 Rita Coolidge, Singer
1946 Joanna Lumley, British Actress
1952 Antony Worrall Thompson, British Celebrity Chef
1960 Steve Cauthen, Jockey

Birthday Poems for people born on May 1

It's Rita Coolidge's birthday
A person who's gone far
Coincidentally, it's your birthday
My own Superstar


You just lurve to cook
That's a talent you've got
You share a birthday with Antony Worrell Thompson
So that explains a lot

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