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| | Karaites |
 | | In contrast to the Thirteen Articles of Faith of Maimonides accepted by most Jews, the Karaites have instead a code of ten, one of which is the religious duty to know the language of the Bible. | | | Celebrated Karaite scholars include Judah Hadassi of Constantinople, 12th century author of a kind of Karaite encyclopedia and a number of hymns still printed in Karaite prayer books, and the colourful Russian writer and archaeologist Abraham Firkovitch (1786-1874). | | | Their name is derived from the Hebrew word for "scripture" (mikra), and they were originally characterized by a form of asceticism and rigid adherence to the literal interpretation of biblical laws. |
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http://philtar.ucsm.ac.uk/encyclopedia/judaism/kara.html
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| | JewishEncyclopedia.com - KARAITES AND KARAISM: |
| | Among the latter are the important Karaite authors Sahl ibn Maẓliaḥ, Solomon ben Jeroham, and Yafith ibn 'Ali, all three of whom lived during the middle and the end of the tenth century. | | | The example of the Karaites of Troki was followed by the Karaites in Galicia and Volhynia, and by some in the Crimea, most of the latter having come from the two former countries. | | | Among the former are some Karaite scholars of the tenth century mentioned by their contemporary the Arabian polyhistor 'Ali al-Mas'udi, and Yusuf al-Baṣir, the foremost Karaite philosophical writer, together with his pupil Abu al-Faraj Furḳan (Jeshua b. |
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http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=108&letter=K&search=karaites
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| | Crimean Karaites - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Their self-designation, Karaim (or, in the Karaim language, Qaraylar), however, is insufficient, as it fails to distinguish the distinctive, Turkic-speaking Karaite community which originated in the Crimea from historically Aramaic, Hebrew, and Arabic-speaking Karaites of the Levant, Anatolia and the Middle East. | | | The Karaite sect should not be considered a Jewish religious community within the meaning of paragraph 2, point 2 of the First Regulation to the Reich Citizenship Law. | | | Some regard them as descendants of Karaite Jews who settled in the Crimea and adopted a form of the Kipchak tongue (see Karaim language). |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_Karaites
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| | Karaims of Poland |
| | Abraham Leonovich served as Hakham of Halicz in the middle of the nineteenth century and was influenced by the Haskalah movement. | | | Joseph's descendants served as religious leaders of the Karaite community of Halicz till the early nineteenth century. | | | Initially the Karaites of Halicz looked to the Crimea for their religious leaders. |
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http://www.turkiye.net/sota/karapol.html
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| | SULAIR |
| | Karaites, for their part, consider themselves to be followers of Judaism in its truest manifestation. | | | Indeed, Karaites refer to themselves as Bene Mikra (Children of the Scriptures, in Hebrew). | | | The term “Karaite,” deriving from the Hebrew root kr’ (to read), has been translated as “scripturalist.” It reflects both etymology and theology, since the Hebrew word for scriptures”—mikra—derives from that root. |
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http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/exhibits/nowinonlinkaraites.html
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| | Karaite Korner - History of Karaism |
| | Anan himself was not a Karaite; although Anan rejected the Talmud he used similar irrational methods of interpreting Scripture as the Rabbis, such as intentionally taking words out of context. | | | The question of why God's followers are today called Karaites is really a question of the origin of the other sects. | | | The Pharisees on the other hand believed that the interpretation of a particular teacher was divine and elevated these teachings to the level of the Torah itself. |
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http://www.karaite-korner.org/history.shtml
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| | Michael L. Rodkinson: The History of the Talmud - Appendix B |
| | This is the opinion of the Karaites themselves about their history, and that every one who wishes to know and understand all the errors of the Rabbis (according to them), should see the Book of God's Wars, ("Sepher Milhamoth Adonai"), by Salman b. | | | APPENDIX B. It is known that according to the opinion of the Karaites themselves in their books, their belief and their tradition is identical with the Pentateuch. | | | And, before all, I say, the man is dreaming who speaks that the difference between the Karaites and Rabbis began in the time of Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, and of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, when Israel revolted against David's dynasty. |
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http://www.come-and-hear.com/talmud/rodkinson_b.html
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| | Judaism 101: Movements of Judaism |
| | The difference between Rabbanites and Karaites that is most commonly noted is in regard to Shabbat: the Karaites noted that the Bible specifically prohibits lighting a flame on Shabbat, so they kept their houses dark on Shabbat. | | | The Karaites believed in strict interpretation of the literal text of the scripture, without rabbinical interpretation.They believed that rabbinical law was not part of an oral tradition that had been handed down from G-d, nor was it inspired by G-d, but was an original work of the sages. | | | These sects came to be known as Karaites (literally, People of the Scripture), and they were distinguished from the Rabbanites or Rabbinical Judaism. |
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http://www.jewfaq.org/movement.htm
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| | MyJewishLearning.com - History & Community: The Karaites: A Medieval Jewish Sect |
| | The main hallmark of the Karaites is their rejection authority of the Oral law and the belief in the necessity of direct, independent, and critical study of the Bible. | | | Consequently, between the ninth and eleventh centuries, the "roses”--as the Karaites called themselves in contradistinction to the rabbinical "thorns”--comprised the majority of the Jewish community in Jerusalem. | | | Even today there are about seven thousand Karaites living in Israel, where they maintain their separateness by only marrying within their community. |
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http://www.myjewishlearning.com/history_community/Medieval/MedThoughtTO/TheKaraites.htm
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| | Judaic Treasures of the Library of Congress: The Karaite Humash |
| | The group of Karaite scholars who edited the text and prepared the translation was headed by Abraham Firkowitz (1786-1874), an antiquarian scholar and bibliographer who as a leader of the separation campaign wrote messages to the Czarist government and collected documents to bolster the Karaite position. | | | The Karaites, B'nai Mikra (Children of Scripture), are a Jewish sect which had its beginnings in the eighth century. | | | If the main body of Jews and the Karaites differed in matters of faith, they shared a common fate, until the incorporation of the Crimea and Lithuania into the Russian Empire at the end of the eighteenth century, when the situation began to change. |
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http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/loc/karaite_humash.html
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| | Day of Atonement of the Karaite Jews in 1844 |
| | The Seventh Day Adventist tradition seems to have heard of this Karaite practice or perhaps they assumed it was the Karaite practice based on their (correct) assumption that the Karaites strictly follow the Bible. | | | Nevertheless, by the 19th century the Karaites universally followed the 19 year Rabbinic cycle both in the Diaspora and in Israel. | | | As late as the 15th century though the Karaites of the Holy Land continued to follow the Abib even though their compatriots in the Dispersion accepted the 19 year Rabbinic cycle. |
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http://www.truthorfables.com/Day_of_Atonement_of_the_Karaite.htm
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| | Karaites on Encyclopedia.com |
| | The Karaites attacked the Talmudic interpretation of the Bible, rejecting the oral law and interpreting the Bible literally, and they developed their own commentaries, which were in many respects more rigorous and ascetic than the Talmudic interpretations. | | | EDGE OF TOWN: Karaites, Come Home; One of the Ten Lost Tribes has continuity problems, too. | | | In Israel, Karaites keep their faith --- and distance from mainstream Jews |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/k/karaites.asp
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| | Karaims of Israel |
| | In 1970 the total number of Karaites in Israel was estimated by L. Nemoy at 7,000; in 1985, by E. Trevisan-Semi, at 10,000; and in the early 1990's it might have approached 15,000. | | | Initially the Karaite sect arose and coalesced far to the east, but in its revolt against the Babylonian Centre, it rediscovered in the later ninth century Jerusalem as an alternative of unmatched drawing power and authority. | | | In the nineteenth century quite a bit is known of the local Karaite community, mainly from the reports of Christian and Jewish travellers from the West. |
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http://www.turkiye.net/sota/karaisr.html
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| | Karaism |
| | The Karaites, however, seem to have affirmed a form of natural causality as a corollary of their theory of creation. | | | Structured around the doctrines of divine unity and justice, Yusuf's al-Kitab al-muhtawi (Comprehensive Treatise) is a compendium of Karaite kalam. | | | Ascetic and apocalyptic in outlook, the Karaite Mourners for Zion preached a strict regime of repentance, prayer and Bible study. |
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http://www.muslimphilosophy.com/ip/rep/J052.htm
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| | The 2003 CESNUR Conference - Karaites and Karaism (Kizilov) |
| | Until the end of the eleventh century, the Karaites’ spiritual centre was in Jerusalem. | | | The Karaites of the Soviet Union, where all religious cults had been «not-welcomed», were forced to abandone their religious practices and assimilate into the monolithic, atheistic surroundings. | | | The Karaites derive their name from the Hebrew word for Scripture (qara’im, bne’ miqra, ba’alei miqra). |
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http://www.cesnur.org/2003/vil2003_kizilov.htm
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| | Scripture and Schism Online Exhibit at JTS |
| | The Samaritans' and Karaites' rejection of rabbinic literature has often led to the mistaken notion that their religions are strictly biblical. | | | The Karaites accept all twenty-four books of the Hebrew Bible, and in this they agree with the Jews. | | | The Samaritans and the Karaites do not have much in common beyond their special relationship to Scripture. |
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http://www.jtsa.edu/library/exhib/scrips
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| | The Karaites & 1844 |
| | As late as 1641 we learn from a Karaite pilgrim from the Crimea that the Karaites of the Middle East still followed the Biblical calendar and that in that year they celebrated all the holidays one month after the Rabbanites. | | | The Rabbanites followed the traditions of the Talmud in addition to the Scriptures, but the Karaites abandoned all such traditions and went just by Scripture. | | | Now there is a dispute between the Rabinical, and the Caraite Jews, as to the correct time of commencing the year. |
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http://www.pickle-publishing.com/papers/karaite-reckoning-1844.htm
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| | July/August 1994 |
| | In the ninth century the sect became known as the "Karaites," because it recognized only the authority of the Bible (Mikra) and rejected the authority of the Talmud and Rabbinic law in general, including the Babylonian gaonate. | | | From some quarters, possibly a Karaite one, the Russians learned that the Karaites were unlike the Rabbanites in that they rejected the authority of the Talmud, something which must have commended them to those Christians who regarded it as sinister, a source of the Jewish obduracy that blinded them to the true faith, Christianity. | | | The Karaites in Israel are not recognized as a separate community but they have a separate beth din to administer marriages and divorces. |
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http://members.aol.com/askinazy/crimeajw.html
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| | Karaite Korner - Home of the World Karaite Movement! |
| | Karaite Judaism rejects later additions to the Tanach (Jewish Bible) such as the Rabbinic Oral Law and places the ultimate responsibility of interpreting the Bible on each individual. | | | Karaism is the original form of Judaism as prescribed by God in the Torah. | | | Karaite Korner - Home of the World Karaite Movement! |
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| | Jewish and Israel News from New York - The Jewish Week |
| | Unlike the Samaritans, the Karaites regard all 24 books of the Hebrew bible as sacred text. | | | The Karaites origins date from the eighth century, when the Talmud had been completed but had yet to be firmly implanted throughout the Jewish world. | | | For most of their history, Karaites remained intertwined with the Jewish communities that surrounded them. |
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http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php3?artid=3931
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| | JewishGates.org |
| | Sherira Gaon in the late ninth century CE added his strong opposition to the Karaites by writing a systematic "history" of the redaction of the Talmud, "proving" that the Rabbinic traditions went all the way back to Siani. | | | In the ninth century the major group of Ananites combined with other anti-rabbinic groups and became known as the Karaites, the followers of the Kra, the Torah text. | | | On Shabbat and all festivals, we light candles, noting with a prayer that God has commanded us to light these candles. |
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http://www.jewishgates.com/file.asp?File_ID=91
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| | Jewish Encyclopedia - Articles of Faith |
| | The polemics with the Karaites on the one hand, and, on the other, the necessity of defending their religion against the attacks of the philosophies current among both Mohammedans and Jews, induced the leading thinkers to define and formulate their beliefs. | | | The Karaites are not behind the Rabbinites in the elaboration of Articles of Faith. | | | The most succinct cataloguing of the Karaite faith in articles is that by Elijah Bashyatzi (died about 1490). |
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http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/aof.htm
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| | Adherents.com |
| | It has been estimated that there are around 20,000 Karaites in the State of Israel, organized as a separate religious community with its won religious authorities. | | | These Karaites practiced a truncated form of Judaism, accepting the [Jewish] Bible... | | | At first those who followed Hashem's laws were merely called 'Righteous' and it was only in the 9th century CE that they came to be called Karaites. |
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http://www.adherents.com/Na/Na_412.html
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| | The Khazars by Yair Davidiy |
| | The Karaites, however, were actually eclectic and widely divergent amongst themselves in their interpretation of Scripture. | | | Another group were the Karaites who claimed to believe only in Scripture. | | | Amongst the numerous groups subject to the Khazars were Tartars and Turkish elements and some of these accepted the Karaite form of religion. |
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http://www.britam.org/khazars.html
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| | Karaism -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | also spelled Karaitism, or Qaraism (from Hebrew qara, “to read”), a Jewish religious movement that repudiated oral tradition as a source of divine law and defended the Hebrew Bible as the sole authentic font of religious doctrine and practice. | | | Karaism, a Jewish movement originating in 8th-century Iran, rejected the oral tradition and challenged the authority of the Talmud, the rabbinical compendium of law, lore, and commentary. | | | theologian of Constantinople (now Istanbul), the only scholar to seek a philosophical basis for Karaite beliefs. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9044681?&query=karaites&ct=
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| | KARAITES-USA.ORG |
| | The Karaites are the oldest form of Judaism, that given to Moses from YHWH on Mt Sinai. | | | Karaites seek the 'plain meaning' based upon the original Hebrew of the directives found in TN'K | | | We hold the Tanakh (Torah, Nevi'im and Ketuvi'im) to be the inspired words from YHWH, given to guide and direct His people. |
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http://www.karaites-usa.org/Target_Tanakh
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| | Karaim Home Page |
| | Anan Ben David, the founder of the actual Karaite religion, preached about a return to the written word of the Old Testament. | | | These people became known as Karaims, thus combining the religious denomination with ethnonym. | | | This movement could be described as a return to the roots or sola scriptura. |
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| | Karaites |
| | Their faith is often referred to as Karaism, or 'Karaite Judaism. | | | Karaites are members of a Jewish sect that separated from rabbinic Judaism around 800 CE. | | | The state of Israel formally recognizes all Karaites as Jews, while not all Karaites, particularly those from Eastern Europe, formally recognize themselves as Jews. |
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http://www.theezine.net/k/karaites.html
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| | BBC - h2g2 - Karaites |
| | When I went to a Sabbath service there in 1988 and told them I was Jewish they commented "Oh yes, your religion is quite similar to ours". | | | The Karaites are an unusual sect of Judaism. | | | There are still some Karaites in the Crimea and the Karaite cemetery not far from Bakchisarai is one of their most sacred locations. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A198083
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| | orion Samaritanism, Karaites and Scrolls |
| | Is their room to believe that the Jews who became Karaites belonged to families whose religion was either Saduccean or connected to the religion of the authors of the scrolls?? | | | I perused it and found his points of comparison to be rather interesting. | | | Also, what do people think of the book by Naftali Wieder on the Scrolls and the Karaites? |
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http://orion.mscc.huji.ac.il/orion/archives/1997b/msg01060.html
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| | Excerpt from "The Complete Blood Type Diet Encyclopedia" |
| | The Karaites consider themselves Jews by religion only, not by race. | | | The Karaites, who have an extraordinarily high rate of blood group B, are members of a Jewish sect founded in Babylonia in the eighth century A.D. A singular community of Karaites continues to exist in Lithuania, and they were known to have migrated as a body from the Crimea. | | | This claim of racial separation was accepted by the Nazi authorities, who controlled Lithuania during the Second World War. |
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http://www.dadamo.com/napharm/store3/template2/encyclopedia.html
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| | MSN Encarta - Search Results - Karaites |
| | Anan ben David (lived 8th century), Jewish religious leader in Persia (now Iran). | | | Karaites (from Hebrew qārā,”to read”), Jewish sect, considered heretical by Orthodox Jews, which believes in the strict interpretation of the Jewish... | | | How well did we match your search term? |
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http://encarta.msn.com/Karaites.html
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| | All Other Faiths Page |
| | Statistics and geography citations for religions not on this list, as well as subgroups within these religions (such as Catholics, Protestants, Karaites, Wiccans, Shiites, etc.) can be found in the main | | | Various academic researchers and religious representatives regularly share documented adherent statistics with Adherents.com so that their information can be available in a centralized database. | | | This document is divided into the following sections: |
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http://www.sistersofembracement.org/otherFaiths.htm
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| | TRAKAI: The Karaites |
| | The Karaite houses are smaller, the butts of houses with three windows face the street. | | | The Karaites are a separate branch of Trakai history. | | | Several dozen of Karaite families still live in Trakai up to the present time. |
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http://discovery.ot.lt/cfair98/trakai/tra_kara.htm
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| | Re: orion Samaritanism, Karaites and Scrolls |
| | Can you speak more to the issue of the apparent similarities in some of the outlooks of the writers of the scrolls and the later Karaites, specifically whether there was a tradition of Judaism in Babylon that originated among the "Saduccean" non-rabbinic elements reaching back hundreds of years to before the Destruction of the Temple. | | | I wonder whether some similarities which were also shared with the Samaritans are simply a function of "Torah literalism" as opposed to a direct link. | | | It always occured to me that the Karaites did not just pop out of nowhere, but must have been a population ALREADY oriented to that perspective, with Anan and Nahawendi and others being the main personalities who merged these populations together. |
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http://orion.mscc.huji.ac.il/orion/archives/1997b/msg01069.html
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| | Orthodox Judaism: Karaites/ yarmulkes |
| | I don't understand this, because the Karaites dispute the validity of the oral law, of which the requirement of wearing yarmulkes is part. |
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http://experts.about.com/q/952/3105575.htm
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