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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Donna Hurst, Mark Allen,
Edward Rockstein, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer, Mata Kimasitayo,
Mike Ruggeri, Eric Cline, Tim Parkin, Kurt Theis, Laura Jefferson,
Richard Price, Michael T. Stulac, Barnea Selavan,Bob Heuman, and
Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week (as always
hoping I have left no one out).
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EARLY HUMANS
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More on h. sapiens-neanderthal relations:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33721697/ns/technology_and_science-science/
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AFRICA
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The greening of the Sahara is credited with triggering human
migrations out of Africa:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091111115843.htm
http://www.nioz.nl/nioz_nl/51b09886749314dfda74484736d5bf18.php#b09112009uk
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18127-stone-age-humans-crossed-sahara-in-the-rain.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news

Another hunter-gatherer group faces a change of their lifestyle:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/15/world/africa/15kenya.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A Minoan-style wall painting from the Canaanite palace at Tel Kabri:

http://newmedia-eng.haifa.ac.il/?p=1484
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/134292
http://www.physorg.com/news176986342.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-11/uoh-rom110909.php
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1782674/minoanstyle_painting_found_during_excavations_of_canaanite_palace/index.html?source=r_science

Some 25th/26th dynasty wells have been found to be part of the
recently-discovered Sacred Lake at Tanis:

http://www.sis.gov.eg/En/Story.aspx?sid=44463

Plans to excavate a pre-Elamite site in Iran:

http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=207631

A Spanish team has found a 'forgotten' city on the Euphrates:

http://www.ansamed.info/en/top/ME12.XAM19105.html

Feature on Tal al-Khwaira:

http://www.english.globalarabnetwork.com/200911113560/Culture/tal-al-khwaira-civilizations-dating-back-to-the-3rd-millennium-bc-says-archaeologists.html

The latest claim that Cambyses' lost army has been found got
far too much press coverage this week:

http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/cambyses-army-remains-sahara.html
http://news.discovery.com/videos/archaeology-ancient-lost-army-found.html
(video)
http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/cambyses-lost-army-images.html
(photos)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1226500/Is-lost-Persian-army-Compelling-remains-uncovered-Sahara-Desert.html>
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33791672/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,573406,00.html
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1226500/Is-lost-Persian-army-Compelling-remains-uncovered-Sahara-Desert.html
http://news.msn.co.nz/article/969711/archaeologists-discover-lost-desert-army
http://www.ptinews.com/news/370375_The-remains-of-the-lost-mighty-Persian-Army--found-
http://www.foxcharlotte.com/dpp/news/scitech/Legendary_Lost_Persian_Army_Found_in_Sahara_15561325

cf:
http://rogueclassicism.com/2009/11/13/cambyses-lost-army-found-dont-eat-that-elmer/

A five-year project to restore Tut's tomb:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=ae3hG.ythwTo
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/11/10/international/i024148S89.DTL
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ga4G96HXif0cFiMzDdK5PGYqTthgD9BSK6QG3
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/11/getty-conservation-institute-embarks-on-fiveyear-king-tut-project.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33829981/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ga4G96HXif0cFiMzDdK5PGYqTthgD9BSMMFO1

Another feature on excavations near Temple Mount:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3802112,00.html

Nice feature on the history of digging at Saqqara:

http://heritage-key.com/egypt/history-archaeology-and-excavation-saqqara

They're starting to display some of the inscriptions found at
Herakleion:

http://blogs.usatoday.com/sciencefair/2009/11/secrets-from-a-sunken-egyptian-city.html

Three Byzantine tombs from Wadi al-Zahab:

http://www.english.globalarabnetwork.com/200911123593/Culture/archaeologists-three-byzantine-tombs-discovered-in-wadi-al-zahab-in-syria.html

Interview with Beverly Goodman about that tsunami-in-the-Mediterranean
business:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/134332

Nice feature on the DSS:

http://www.montrealgazette.com/life/From+Dead+McGill/2223365/story.html

Not sure where I should put this feature on Shlomo Moussaieff:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1258027274481&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull

Latest coverage of the Raphael Golb affair:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/nyregion/08about.html

This week's Temple Mount coverage:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/15/world/middleeast/15mount.html

A major grant for the ARCE:

http://sanantonio.bizjournals.com/sanantonio/stories/2009/08/31/story9.html

... and Zahi Hawass thinks Beyonce is "stupid":

http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/2009/11/12/11729816-wenn-story.html?cid=rssentertainment

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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Roman remains have been found during the redevelopment of the
Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/england/kent/8355636.stm
http://www.yourcanterbury.co.uk/kent-news/Roman-house-found-under-Marlowe-Theatre-newsinkent29852.aspx
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-149457.html

Evidence of a Roman villa in Ceredigion:

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2009/11/14/archaeological-evidence-of-a-roman-villa-in-ceredigion-91466-25163969/

They're going to be looking around Bath's Great Drain:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6916691.ece

Feature on evidence for Mithraism in Malta:

http://www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=96911

Bulgaria doesn't have the funds for their planned Sevtopolis
restoration:

http://www.novinite.com/newsletter/print.php?id=109727
http://www.balkantravellers.com/en/read/article/1564

Plenty of ClassCon in a Veteran's Day-inspired piece by Caroline
Alexander:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/opinion/08alexander.html

Lorna Robinson on how Latin inspires kiddies:

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/dr-lorna-robinson-latin-inspires-and-enthuses-children-1817249.html

Sophocles and the anguish of war:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/12/theater/12greeks.html

Weird suggestion for a 'food-labelling-style-system' to tag
degrees with dropout rates, earning potential etc ... some ClassCon
of course:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2009/nov/10/higher-education-framework-classics-teaching

A 'strategic plan' for Skopje's Roman aqueduct:

http://www.mrt.com.mk/en/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7385&Itemid=27

A project to digitally recreate Roman Leicester:

http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/news/stroll-Roman-Leicester-210AD-university-experts-create-virtual-world/article-1515201-detail/article.html

Latest reviews from Scholia: http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/

Latest reviews from BMCR: http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Plans are afoot to study a Bronze Age barrow at Stedham:

http://www.chichester.co.uk/6430/Archaeologists-to-study-Bronze-Age.5815106.jp

Vague item on some 'solar chariot' elements being found in Russia:

http://www.russia-ic.com/news/show/9196/

Some very large rondel enclosures have been found in the Czech
Republic:

http://www.ceskenoviny.cz/news/zpravy/czech-archaeologists-uncover-europe-s-largest-rondel-enclosures/406757

A Norwegian man found a 3000 years b.p. sword by the side of the
road:

http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/11/13/Man-finds-3000-year-old-sword/UPI-71701258146902/

Rethinking the origins of the Lewis Chessmen:

http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/1477935/?UserKey=
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/8352127.stm

Evidence of brain surgery in Ireland a thousand years ago:

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/frontpage/2009/1110/1224258483111.html

Finds from various periods at Nesebar (Bulgaria):

http://www.balkantravellers.com/en/read/article/1567

Metal detectorists have found some Medieval gold and
silver in Wales:

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2009/11/07/metal-detector-fans-find-two-priceless-artefacts-91466-25111154/

Interesting finds from a 13th-15th century manor house site in
Pinchbeck:

http://www.spaldingtoday.co.uk/news/John-unearths-treasure.5816166.jp

Evidence of Lincolnshire's first pub:

http://www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk/news/Evidence-Lincolnshire-s-pub/article-1514907-detail/article.html

A big protest over the sale of land near an Iron Age hill fort
in West Sussex:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/sussex/8360572.stm

Review of William Shawcross, *The Queen Mother*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/books/review/Queenan-t.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Interesting piece on the 'ambivalence' towards efforts to find
the tomb of Genghis Khan:

http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insightb/articles/eav110909.shtml

Some Han Dynasty ruins from Inner Mongolia:

http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90776/90882/6810447.html

Some stone idols were found while digging some drainage works
neat Kote Anjaneya temple:

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/34789/3-stone-idols-unearthed.html

Plenty of coverage (again?) of the discovery of what might be
Himiko's palace near Sakurai:

http://home.kyodo.co.jp/modules/fstPhotos/index.php?photoid=40542
http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200911120147.html
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601101&sid=aAeNflQNTgcs
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/6544766/Palace-of-Japans-warrior-queen-discovered.html

I think we've mentioned this damage-to-the-Great-Wall-by-miners
story before:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/11/11/world/main5612559.shtml
http://www.gadling.com/2009/11/11/mining-company-accused-of-destroying-part-of-the-great-wall-of-c/

An Australian farmer has handed over a skull he claims belonged
to Ned Kelly:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/13/farmer-ned-kelly-skull-claim

Feature on the Indus civilization's 'volumetric system':

http://www.hindu.com/2009/11/15/stories/2009111556932200.htm

More on DeSoto finds:

http://www.macon.com/532/story/916313.html
http://www.ajc.com/news/fernbank-archaeologist-confident-he-189165.html?cxtype=rss_news_128746
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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An elite Nasca child burial from Cahuachi:

http://enperublog.com/2009/11/07/priestess-of-cahuachi/

Nice feature on the Calakmul murals:

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/11/09/2123180.aspx
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20091109/sc_livescience/mayamuralsgiverareviewofeverydaylife
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,573594,00.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/11/091112-maya-pictures-murals-pyramid-food.html

... and the INAH has clarified that the discovery isn't recent:

http://dti.inah.gob.mx/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=39&Itemid=150
(scroll down)

Maybe rats were behind the deforestation of Easter Island:

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/columnist/vergano/2009-11-13-easter-island_N.htm

Recreating the world of Incan pottery:

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/november9/inca-pottery-replication-111209.html

More/followup to that Cuzco skull story:

http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=347380&CategoryId=14095
http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=d6aUvOvIpts=
http://enperublog.com/2009/11/13/severed-heads-among-discovery-at-sacsayhuaman/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Ten best examples of ekphrasis:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/nov/14/ten-best-ekphrasis-john-mullan

Interesting feature on a female Torah scribe:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/arts/design/08sfculture.html

For all you Yale fans out there ... a feature on the first female
students at Yale:

http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2009_09/oldyale024.html

... the origins of Boola Boola:

http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2009_09/arts_quot057.html

... the first submarine:

http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2009_09/lastlook120.html

... and not solely of Yale interest is an item on a bit of Hebrew
micrography:

http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2009_09/arts_obles056.html

Digging into the history of eating habits:

http://www.videtteonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=30958:archaeologist-digs-into-history-of-eating-habits-&catid=60:newsstate&Itemid=53

The 'real' Venetians are the next target of a big DNA study:

http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/CultureAndMedia/?id=3.0.3985905134

... taking into account the penguins, of course:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-11/osu-apd111009.php

More coverage of the West Semitic Research Project:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/11/08/BARJ1AE3SF.DTL

Judging a book by its odour:

http://www.physorg.com/news177079514.html

Theory that we're 'hardwired' to produce rock art and the like:

http://prescottdailycourier.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=74413

The German Lawrence of Arabia:

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisks-world-the-german-lawrence-of-arabia-had-much-to-live-up-to-ndash-and-failed-1816593.html

Some Levi-Strauss retrospectives:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/weekinreview/08rohter.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/opinion/08le-clezio.html

Some myths attached to 2012:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/11/091106-2012-end-of-world-myths.html

Review of David Nokes, *Samuel Johnson*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/books/review/Bloom-t.html
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BLOGS AND PODCASTS
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Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Naked Archaeology Podcast:

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Marietta (Ohio):

http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/11/06/travel/escapes/06amer.html

Olympia:

http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2009/nov/08/travel-olympia-greece/

Sagamore Hill:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/nyregion/08btourli.html

Wall Street:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/nyregion/08stop.html?_r=1

Thomas Edison Nation Historical Park:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/nyregion/08artsnj.html
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CRIME BEAT
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Saudi Arabia is getting tough on antiquities smugglers:

http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1&section=0&article=128296&d=10&m=11&y=2009&pix=kingdom.jpg&category=Kingdom

A tripti/standing stone from Pissouri (Cyprus) was the subject of
an attempted theft, apparently:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=48750&cat_id=1

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NUMISMATICA
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A video from the IAA (in Hebrew) on the discovery of those gold
coins from Ramle (nice images even if you don't understand
Hebrew):

http://www.antiquities.org.il/ramla_movie_heb.asp

The discovery of a coin from Henry IV has sparked a legal dispute:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/mid_/8352085.stm

More on Israel displaying coins from the Bar Kochba revolt (which
don't appear to be the recently-found coins, as I mentioned last
week ... the press coverage is somewhat confusing):

http://www.physorg.com/news177176994.html
http://www.newsday.com/news/israel-displays-coins-from-ancient-jewish-revolt-1.1581011
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091112/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_rare_coins
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5gjWE3DYz2cYWi0gm2VQLqQM3Nu3g
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/destinations/2009-11-11-jewish-temple-coins-exhibition_N.htm
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g94CMEEX6ZfpBkriA3y1z0qpBDXwD9BTH3CO0
http://feeds.malaysianews.net/?rid=29600445&cat=2411cd3571b4f088
http://www.3news.co.nz/Israel-displays-coins-from-ancient-Jewish-revolt/tabid/417/articleID/129413/cat/61/Default.aspx?ArticleID=129413
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/international/middle_east/view.bg?articleid=1211316&srvc=rss

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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Travelling the Silk Road:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/13/arts/design/13silk.html

Jane Austen:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/07/arts/design/07austen.html

Victorious Ones and Peaceful Conquerors:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/13/arts/design/13jain.html

Watteau to Degas:

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/notebook/2009/11/09/091109gonb_GOAT_notebook_schjeldahl

Rembrandt's People:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/nyregion/08artct.html

Giovanni Boldini:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/14/arts/14iht-raabold.html

Apostles of Beauty:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/13/arts/design/13antiques.html

It appears (?)they've worked out all that Cyrus Cylinder business:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=at6uoOdJCgqk
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=110996&sectionid=351020105

Newly-passed legislation in the UK allows national museums to
return Nazi-looted art:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/8358902.stm
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1128153.html

Features on assorted 'stolen' items Egypt wants returned:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8352325.stm
http://www.newspostonline.com/specials/efforts-on-to-restore-egypt%E2%80%99s-antiquities-stolen-five-ancient-fresco-fragments-2009111175251
http://en.afrik.com/article16460.html
http://www.nstgroup.co.uk/news?RSSID=1192&TL=Egypt's%20quest%20to%20regain%20'stolen'%20antiquities

Sweden has returned some skulls to Hawaii:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8361011.stm
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/world_us/20091115_In_the_World.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iAhuosh0YGtBP_qvemCX0PHfTTKQD9BVBLN81

Folks are flocking to the Ashmolean:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/england/oxfordshire/8350213.stm
http://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2009/11/10/Renovated-Ashmolean-Museum-reopens/UPI-69761257908944/

The BM wants that Staffordshire hoard remain in the West Midlands:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/8355742.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/nov/09/staffordshire-treasure-stirs-midlands-soul

The Terracotta Warriors are in Washington:

http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20091109/LIFE/911090303

Assorted Elgin/Parthenon Marbles coverage:

http://www.ana-mpa.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=8135677&maindocimg=8126631&service=10
http://www.balkantravellers.com/en/read/article/1565
http://au.greekreporter.com/2009/11/11/greek-aussie-mps-fight-for-elgins-stolen-marbles/

Coverage of the American Art Fair at the National Academy:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/13/arts/design/13vogel.html

Coverage of the Yves Saint Laurent auction:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/14/arts/14iht-raaysl.html

Nice price for a 400 year-old manuscript:

http://www.sidewaysnews.com/arts-culture/rare-manuscript-sells-£84000
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Bach's Gypsy side:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/arts/music/08beck.html
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ON THE WEB
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Bad Archaeology:

http://www.badarchaeology.net/data/ooparts/london.php
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