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KINNEY, Troy:
Illustrator; graduated from Yale College, 1896, with degree of B. A .; member Delta Kappa Epsilon, and of the Elihu Club, which made its first public announcement of elections in 1903; from 1896 to 1900 en- gaged alterna.ely in art study and in newspaper work at Baltimore and Chica- go; since 1900 collaborated with Margaret West Kinney (q. v.) over signature "The Kinneys." Member Yale Club, New York. Address, 115 East 23d St., New York.
KIRKUS, William:
Clergyman of the Protestant Episcopal Church; born in Hull, Yorkshire, England, May 9, 1830; graduated from University of London, LL.B., with honors in juris- prudence, 1850; M. A., 1871. Minister of St. Thomas's Square Congregational Chapel, Hackney, London, for sixteen years; ordained deacon by the bishop of Manchester, 1871; priest by the bishop of New York, 1874; assistant minister of Grace Church, New York, for twenty months; rector of St. Michael and All Angels, Baltimore, Md. Editor of The American Literary Churchman since 1892. Author of "Christianity, Theoretical and Practical," 1854; "Frederick Rivers, In- dependent Parson" (under the name of Florence Williamson), 1864; "Miscellan- eous Essays, Critical and Theological," 1863, and second series, 1869; "Orthodoxy, Scripture and Reason," 1865; "Only to be Married, a Novel" (Florence William- son), 1867; "Religion: a Revelation and a Rule of Life," 1886. Address, 201 Hart St., Brooklyn, N. Y.
KITCHELL, Joseph Gray:
Writer, artist; born in Cincinnati, O., April 25, 1862; son of Joseph S. K .; edu- cated in Cincinnati and New York. Mar- ried Caroline Lincoln Jacobs, in Madison, Wis., Oct. 20, 1890. Newspaper and mag- azine work. In 1900 produced the Kitchell Composite Madonna, a photographic blend
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of the most celebrated madonnas painted by the old masters during the 300 years when the subject in art attained its highest development. This picture at- tracted great attention in America and Europe, and is regarded as, perhaps, the most famous photograpn ever made, call- ing forth hundreds of autographic letters from the most notable men and women in various parts of the world; a painting from it was subsequently made by Elli- ott Daingerfield (A. A.). Author "Ameri- can Supremacy," 1901. President of The Ethridge Company, New York. Member New York Press Club, Municipal Art Society, Society of American Authors, etc., etc. Residence, 310 West. 95th St .; office, 33 Union Square, New York.
KITTELLE, Sumner Ely Wetmore:
Lieutenant U. S. Navy; born in Peeks- kill-on-Hudson. Descendant in the eighth generation of Joachim von Ketel, of Ketelshagen, a Pomeranian noble who set- tled at present site of Albany, 1642. Ap- pointed from New York; naval cadet, May 19, 1885; ensign, July 1, 1891; lieutenant (junior grade), Aug. 10, 1898; lieutenant, March 3, 1899; Chicago, 1889; Bennington, 1891; Chicago again, 1893-94; office of Naval Intelligence, 1894; Dolphin, 1896- 98; office of Naval Intelligence, 1899-1901; Lancaster, Dec., 1901, to 1903; U. S. train- ing ship Yankee. Married, 1897, Anna Lockwood, daughter of Rear-Admiral Charles D. Sigsbee, U. S. Navy. Member of New York Yacht Club, Fort Monroe Club, and the Sons of American Revolu- tion. Address, care Navy Department, Washington, D. C.
KITTS, William Penn:
Lieutenant, U. S. Army; born July 27, 1875, in Jersey City, N. J .; graduate of Bryant Military Academy, Roslyn, L. I. Private, Company D, Twenty-second N. Y. Volunteer Infantry, May 24 to July 1, 1898; corporal, July 1 to Nov. 23, 1898; served at Camp Black, L. I., Willets Point, N. Y., Fort Slocum, N. Y .; mustered out of service, Nov. 23, 1898; appointed second lieutenant, Forty-second U. S. Volunteer Infantry, Aug. 17, 1899, and assigned to Company L. He served with regiment in Philippine Islands taking part in a num- ber of engagements, skirmishes and ex- peditions. Officially commended by Col. J. Milton Thompson, commanding Forty- second Infantry, for efficient and gallant services while a part of Lieutenant Web- ster's command, in the capture of the headquarters of the Morong Insurgent Battalion," and was mentioned in orders for service in the field; was adjutant and quartermaster at Caloocan six months in 1900-01; mustered out, June 27, 1901, at the Presidio. Cal. Commissioned second lieutenant, Twenty-first Infantry; first lieutenant, 1903; constructing quarter- master at Fort Lincoln, N. D., building new post. Address, Fort Lincoln, N. Dak.
KLEPPER, Max F .:
Artist, illustrator; born in Zeitz, Ger- many, 1861; came to the United States with his parents in 1876; traveled for a while with his father on a lecture tour and was later apprenticed to a Chicago firm of lithographers. After having a studio with a friend in Logansport, Ind., for a year, he came to New York in 1879, and opened an office doing lithographic work for the trade, attending night class- es of Art Students' League. He earned enough in a few years to enable him to go to Munich to study in 1887, attend- ing the Royal Academy and the Veteri- nary College, being particularly interested in horses. Returning to New York he did illustrating for Harper's, Collier's, the Century, and other magazines and weeklies, his specialty being horses, fig- ures, and anything connected with horses, as coaching, fox hunting, polo and war subjects. He painted some pictures of a sporting character, one of them, "The Good Times Coach," leaving the Waldorf Astoria, which is hanging in the corridor of the hotel named. Married, in 1882, Miss Emily Von Rhein. Address, 70 Fifth Ave., New York.
KLINE, William Fair:
Artist; born in Columbia, S. C., May 3, 1870; son of Theodore David and Ida Eugenia (Holst) Kline; studied art at the National Academy of Design, New York, at which he won traveling scholarship in 1889; went to Paris where he studied with Bougereau at the Académie Julian; re- turning in 1892 was assistant to Will H. Low, afterwards assistant to F. D. Millet at World's Columbian Exposition, 1893. In class under John La Farge was award- ed the Lazarus traveling scholarship, un- der auspices of Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1894, upon which he studied and traveled in France and Italy; exhibited in the Paris Salon, 1896. Returned to New York, 1897; was awarded T. B. Clark's prize, 1901; second Hallgarten prize, 1903, Academy of Design; awarded silver medal at Pan-American Exposi- tion, Buffalo. Member of National Acad- emy of Design, National Society of Mural Painters of New York. Most important
work, "Her Tribute," woman making flag;, "The Flight into Egypt," "Leda the Swan," "Happy Days," "In Times of
Peace." ," also large window of the "As- cension" for the Second Presbyterian Church. Chicago. Address, 244 West 14th St., New York.
KLOPSCH, Louls:
Journalist; born Germany, March 26, 1852; proprietor Daily Reporter, New York, 1877-90; of Pictorial Associated Press, 1884-90; of Talmage Sermon Syndicate since 1885, and The Christian Herald since 1892. Through The Christian Herald has raised and distributed over $2,000,000 in
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international charities; rendered substan- tial and valuable services in the Russian famine of 1892 and India famine of 1896. In 1898 was appointed by President Mc- Kinley one of three U. S. commissioners in charge of the relief of the starving reconcentrados in Cuba, for which pur- pose he raised nearly $200,000; in spring of 1900 he visited the famine and cholera fields of India, and to relieve the distress raised through The Christian Herald in six months, nearly $700,000, and has guaranteed until Jan., 1905, the support of 5,000 famine orphans in India. In 1901, in response to appeal by cable from Li Hung Chang, raised and sent $80,000 for the starving people in Province of Shensi, China; in 1903 went to Finland and Sweden to visit the famine-stricken districts, for relief of which he had cabled nearly $100,000. At the conclusion of his journey he was received in audience by the King and Queen of Sweden, the Dowager Empress of Russia, the Queen of England and King Christian of Den- mark. Address, care of Christian Her- ald, Bible House, New York.
KNAPP, Charles Luman:
Lawyer and congressman; was born at Harrisburg, Lewis County, N. Y., July 4, 1847; was educated at Lowville Academy and Rutgers College, New Jersey, grad- uating from the latter in 1869; studied law and was admitted to the bar, and be- gan the practice of his profession in Lowville in 1873. He is a Republican in politics; in 1885 was elected to the State Senate from the district consisting of Lewis, St. Lawrence, and Franklin Coun- ties; served in the senate during 1886 and 1887 on the committees on Judiciary, Rail- roads, and Miscellaneous Corporations, and was chairman of the committee on Literature and Public Education; in 1889 was appointed by President Harrison con- sul-general to Montreal, and served dur- ing Harrison's term and until Sept., 1893, when he returned to Lowville and re- sumed the practice of his profession. He married, June 26, 1887, Sarah Dorrance, daughter of Hon. Daniel G. Dorrance, of Oneida Castle, N. Y. Was elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress, Nov. 5, 1901, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Hon. A. D. Shaw, and re-elected to the Fifty-eighth Congress. Address, Low- ville, N. Y.
KNAPP, Walter Henry:
Lawyer, county judge; born Hopewell, Ontario County, N. Y., March 23, 1856; son of B. Franklin and Harriet Knapp; prepared for college in Canandaigua Academy; graduated from Amherst Col- lege in 1879; instructor in Latin, sciences and mathematics, Placerville Academy, California, 1879 to 1883. He was admit- ted to the bar at Rochester, Oct., 1885; located at Canandaigua, N. Y .; elected
county judge of Ontario County, 1896; re- elected to same office, 1902. Address, Hallenbeck Building, Canandaigua, N. Y.
KNOPF, S. Adolphus:
Physician; was born at Halle-on-the- Saale, Germany, Nov. 27, 1857; son of Adolphus and Nanina Knopf; pursued classical studies at the Higher Municipal School of his native city. In 1880 he came to the United States, and settled in Los Angeles, Cal. He taught languages and entered the University of Southern Cali- fornia, remaining there until 1886; then entered Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York, and in 1888 was graduated; he then engaged in general practice at Los Angeles, Cal. In 1890 he went to France, matriculated at the University of Paris, from which he graduated in 1895, remain- ing one more year in Europe for special study of sanatorium treatment of con- sumptives, serving as assistant physician to Professor Dettweiler, of the Falken- stein Sanatorium. In June, 1896, he was made laureate of the Academy of Medi- cine of Paris for his French doctor thesis, "Les Sanatoria, Traitement et Prophylax- ie de la Phtisie Pulmonaire"; in 1896 he settled in New York City; was made laur- eate by the College of Physicians of Phil- adelphia, in 1893, for his work entitled "Pulmonary Tuberculosis; Its Modern Prophylaxis and the Treatment in Spe- cial Institutions and at Home." The In-
ternational Congress for the Study of Tu- berculosis, which convened in Berlin in 1899, awarded Dr. Knopf the prize for his essay "Tuberculosis as a Disease of the Masses and How to Combat It," which has since been published in several lan- guages. He has been attached as interne, assistant; and visiting physician to a number of French and American special hospitals for consumptives; was honorable vice-president of the British Congress on Tuberculosis, London, 1901; chairman on the committee on the relief the of
sick poor of the New York State Conference of Charities in 1902, and has held other offices of similar import- ance. Has contributed many articles on tuberculosis and kindred subjects to pro- fessional journals and other periodicals, and has also contributed to the latest medical encyclopædia. Dr. Knopf is visit- ing physician to the Riverside Sanatorium for .Consumptives of the City of New York, and consulting physician to Sana- torium Gabriels, Gabriels, N. Y. He is a member of the City Club of New York; vice-president of the American Academy of Medicine; fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine, American Medical, New York State and New York County Medical Associations; honorable fellow of the Maine Academy of Medicine and Sci- ence, and of the Sociedad Cientifica An- tonio Alsate of Mexico; corresponding member of German and French Societies
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for the Prevention of Tuberculosis; vice- president of the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Tuberculosis, and mem- ber of the tuberculosis committee of the New York Charity Organization Society. He was married at Los Angeles, Cal., Oct. 19, 1889, to Pearle Nora, daughter of Harrison Gray Dyar. Residence, 16 West 95th St., New York.
KOBBE, George C.
Lawyer; born in New York, Sept. 27, 1852; son of William August Kobbé, born in the Dutchy of Nassau, Germany, and for many years Nassovian Consul General in the United States, and Sarah Lord Kobbé, born in New York City. Married Alice Leavitt, daughter of Henry S. Lea- vitt, a prominent citizen of New York. Graduate of the school of arts, Columbia College, in 1874, and of the law school of Columbia College in 1876. He chose legal profession, and was admitted to bar in 1876. In active practice. Member of the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of New Jersey, and Sons of the Rev- olution in the State of New York; also member of the Union Club, the St. An- thony Club, the Down Town Association, Baltusrol Golf Club, etc. Member of the law firm of Roosevelt & Kobbe. Address, 44-46 Wall St., New York.
KOBBÉ, Gustav:
Author and journalist; was born in New York City, March 4, 1857; son of the late William A. and Sarah Lord Sistare Kob- bé. His father was born at Idstein, near Wiesbaden, in the then Duchy of Nas- sau, and after coming to this country represented the Duchy for many years and until its absorption by Prussia, in 1867, as consul general; the mother came of a New England (New London, Conn.) family, which had settled in New York. The first member of her family in this country was Gabriel Sistare, captain of a Spanish ship, who on a voyage from Ha- vana to Cadiz, in the eighteenth cen- tury, was blown out of his course and wrecked on the Race off New London. On his mother's side he is eligible to the Revolutionary societies and the Society of Colonial Wars. Mr. Kobbé was educated first in New York City, then in Wiesba- den, Germany; he graduated from Co- lumbia College in 1877, and from Colum- bia Law School in 1879; he also is an A.M. of Columbia. In 1881, having previous- ly been one of the editors of the Musical Review (New York), he went on the staff of the New York Sun; in the summer of 1882 he was sent to Bayreuth by the New York World as correspondent at the pro- duction of "Parsifal." After a few years of newspaper work, he began writing for magazines; one of his earliest articles to make a nit was his "Life on the South Shoals Lightship," which appeared in the Century. To that magazine's "Heroes of 18
Peace" series, for which Theodore Roose- velt and Jacob Riis also prepared papers, he contributed five articles. At the same time he made a specialty of articles on musical and dramatic subjects and con- tributed, among other papers, "Behind the Scenes of an Opera House" to Scrib- ner's, and "Wagner from Behind the Scenes" to the Century. He also is a contributor to the Forum and the North American Review; and the author of the novel, "Signora, a Child of the Opera House," "Miriam, a Story of the Light- ship," "Some Famous Actors and Actress- es and their Homes," "Opera Singers," "Wagner's Life and Works," two vol- umes. A serial story by Mr. Kobbe is now running in one of the magazines, and three important series of articles on musical topics by him will shortly ap- pear in another. In 1882 he married Caro- lyn Wheeler, a daughter of the late George Minor Wheeler, of Scarsdale, N. Y. Address, 126 West 45th St., New York.
KOBBE, William A .:
Brigadier general, U. S. Army; was born in New York City, May 10, 1840; appointed from New York-civil life; graduated at Artillery School, class of 1873. Private, Company "K," Seventh New York State Militia, June 5, 1862; discharged, Sept. 5, 1863; private, Company "G," One Hundred and Seventy-eighth New York Infantry, May 29, 1863, to Oct. 18, 1863; first lieu- tenant, One Hundred and Seventy-eighth New York Infantry, Oct. 18, 1863; captain, Aug. 2, 1865; honorably mustered out, March 1, 1866; second lieutenant, Nine- teenth Infantry, March 17, 1866; accepted, May 5, 1866; transferred to Thirty-sev- enth Infantry, Sept. 21, 1866; first lieu- tenant, Feb. 2, 1867; transferred to Third Infantry, Aug. 11, 1869; transferred to Third Artillery, Feb. 5, 1872; captain, April 6, 1885; major, March 8, 1898; colo- nel Thirty-fifth U. S. Infantry, July 5, 1899; brigadier general, Feb. 6, 1901; bre- vet captain for gallant and meritorious services in the battle of Nashville, Tenn .; brevet major for gallant and meritorious service in the capture of Fort Blakely, Ala .; brevet major and lieutenant colo- nel, Volunteers, March 13, 1865, for dis- tinguished and faithful services through- out the war. Address, St. Paul, Minn.
KRAFT, John E .:
Civil service commissioner since Jan., 1901; was born in Kingston, N. Y., about 1863; educated in schools of Kingston; learned the printing trade in the office of the Kingston Press. While serving for several years as clerk of the Board of Supervisors, he read law with Judge Al- ton B. Parker, and assisted him in im- portant litigations. Before admission to the bar, he, with John W. Searing, pur- chased the Leader establishment, and continued the publication of the Daily
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and Weekly Leader, being the organ of the Democratic party of the City of Kingston and County of Ulster. He is still the principal owner of the news- paper. He was the first president of the. Kingston City Hospital Association, and is one of the trustees of the Kingston Savings Bank. He has represented his ward in the Common Council as an alderman, and was elected mayor of the city in 1890. During his incumbency of that office he instituted many reforms; is senior warden of the Mission Church of the Holy Cross. 'In politics he is a Demo- crat, and has represented his district in. State and National conventions and on the State Committee. In Jan., 1901, he was, appointed as the Democratic member of the State Civil Service Commission by Governor Odell. In addition to his other activities he is general manager of the. Dr. J. A. Deane Company. Address, .. Kingston, N. Y.
KRAUSS, Wm. Christopher, B., S., M. D .:
Physician, nervous and mental diseases a specialty; was born in Attica; N. Y., Oct. 15, 1863; graduated from Attica Union' School. 1880; Cornell University, 1884; Bellevue Hospital Medical College, 1886, in honor class; University of Berlin, Ger- many, 1888, magna cum laude; studied nervous diseases in Berlin, Paris, London and Munich. He commenced practice of medicine in Buffalo, N. Y., 1890. Profes- sor of pathology in Niagara University, 1892 to 1894; professor of nervous diseases, 1894 to 1898; organizer and first secretary of the Buffalo Academy of Medicine, 1892- 94; secretary Buffalo Obstetrical Society, 1890-92; secretary American Microscopical Society, 1895 to 1898; president Buffalo Microscopical Society, 1891-92; president American Microscopical Society, 1898-99; president Medical Association of Central New York, 1898. Member of American Neurological Association, Medical Society. of the State of New York, and all local, medical societies; also member of Buffa- lo and University Clubs. Associate editor Buffalo Medical Journal and Neurolog- isches Centralblatt of Berlin, Germany. Medical superintendent Providence Re- treat for Insane; member board of vis- itors of Buffalo State Hospital for In- sane, appointment of Governor Odell; neurologist to all of Buffalo hospitals. Author of 100 papers on medical subjects pertaining to the nervous system. Elected to Sigma Xi of Cornell, 1903. Married Clara Krieger, of Salamanca, N. Y., Sept. 4, 11890, and has three children-Mag- dalene, Alma and William Andrew Krauss. Address, 479 Delaware Ave., Buffalo, N. Y.
KREMER, W. N .:
President of the German-American In- surance Company of New York; was born at Carlisle, Pa., in 1851. He was identi- fied with the German-American over ten
, years as general agent for the middle de- partment, and was president of the Un- derwriters' Association' in: 1892; he was appointed to the secretaryship of the company in 1896, and on the death of Mr. Allen, in June, 1898, succeeded him as president. Address, 35. Nassau St., New York.
KUNZ, George Frederick:
Gem expert; was born in New York, Sept. 29, 1856; received: public school ed- ucation; studied also) at. Cooper Union. Special agent U. S. Geological Survey, 1883 to date; special agent in charge of the Eleventh and Twelfth Censuses; in charge department of mines at the Paris Exposition, 1889; in the same capacity at the Kimberley Exposition, 1892; also at World's Columbian Exposition, 1893; hon- orable special agent of mines at Atlanta Exposition, 1895; Omáha Exposition, 1898; on special investigation U. S. Fish Com- mission on American pearls, 1892-98; hon- orable special agent . to commander gen- eral of United States at Paris Exposition, 1900; delegate from United States to In- ternational Congress, Paris, 1900; gem expert Tiffany & Co., 1879-1903; presi- dent New York Mineralogical .Club; vice- president American Institute of Mining Engineers. Member of many American and foreign societies. He was decorated officier d'Instruction Publique by French government, 1889; honorable correspond- ent of Museum of Natural History of Paris; Chamber of Commerce of Precious Stones, Paris; special agent in charge of gems and radium at St. Louis Exposition, 1904. Author of "Gems and Precious Stones of North America"; articles on radium, actinium and kunzite (a lilac and pink precious stone found in California, named after him. in 1903). and over 135 papers on gems, minerals, meteorites, folklore, radium and radio-active sub- stances. etc., in magazines and reviews. Honorable A. M., Columbia University; Ph. D., Marburg, 1903. Business address, care Tiffany & Co., 15 Union Square, New York.
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LACOMBE, E. Henry:
Lawyer, jurist; was born in New York, Jan. 29. 1846; son of Emile H. and Eliza- beth E. (Smith) Lacombe; educated at Columbia Grammar School and Columbia College; graduated as honor-man, 1863; graduated from Columbia Law School, 1865, taking prize for essay on Constitu- tional Law. Member of Seventh Regi- ment, 1862 to 1869; present with the regi- ment in 1862 and 1863 at Baltimore and Frederick City. He engaged in private practice of his profession until appointed to a position in the law department, 1875;
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rose through the various grades and ap- pointed corporation counsel, 1884; appoint- ed by President Cleveland U. S. Circuit Judge, July 1, 1887v- Married, 1873, Eliza- beth Edith Tryon. (deceased), and has two children .. Address, U. S. Circuit Court, New York.
LADD; Horatio Oliver:
.Rector of Grace Protestant Episcopal Church, Jamaica, Borough of Queens, New York City, since July, 1896; is the son of General Samuel Greenleaf Ladd, of Hallowell, Me., and Caroline Vinal, of Watertown, Mass .; descended of old Puri- tan' ancestry; was born in Hallowell,, Me., Aug. 31, 1839. Educated at academies in Farmington and 'Lewiston, Me., and the lıigh school in Brunswick, Me., until he entered Bowdoin College in 1855; gradu- ated with honor in 1859, receiving, in 1862, the degree of A. M. He 'completed a theological course of study, which was begun in Bangor Seminary, Maine, by two years, at. Yale Divinity School, 1863. He was principal of, Farmington Academy, 1859 to 1861; associate principal of Ab- bott Collegiate, Institution of New York, 1863-64; professor of rhetoric and oratory in Olivet College, Michigan, 1866-68; prin- cipal of the New Hampshire State Normal School, 1873-76; president of the Universi- ty .. of New Mexico, 1881-89. He was a pioneer for education. in the Southwest, being the originator and organizer, 1881, of the University of New Mexico, at San- ta Fe, the first institution for higher and college education in New Mexico. In con- nection with this he, founded, built and conducted the Ramona School for Indian Girls, supported by benevolent gifts and by contracts with the United States gov- ernment. At the same time, through the committee on Indian Affairs in the House of Representatives in 1885, he introduced a bill for the establishment, with an ap- propriation of $25,000, of a United States Indian Industrial School to be located at Santa Fe. This bill was subsequently passed by both houses and the institution established. He was appointed by Presi- dent Harrison and confirmed by the Sen- ate as supervisor of the census for New Mexico about the time of his removal from New Mexico to New York in 1883; resigned the office soon after his con- firmation. At this time, having been a clergyman in the Congregational Min- istry for twenty-five years, during which he had been pastor of churches in Con- necticut, Massachusetts and Michigan, he was seeking ordination for the Episcopal Church ministry. He received orders from Bishop Henry C. Potter, of the Diocese of New York, as deacon and priest in New York City, 1891. and became rector of Trinity Church. Fishkill, N. Y., the same year. He was, while at Fishkill, 1891-96, elected to his present rectorship, July. 1896, of Grace Church. Jamaica, which had been founded in 1701. Is au-
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