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"ref": "1986, John Booth, Wonders of Magic: A Veteran Magician’s Book of Original Tricks, Concepts, Pictures, Memoirs, and Conjuring History, Ridgeway Press, →ISBN, page 116:",
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"ref": "1996, Kisan World, volume 23, page 55, column 1:",
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"ref": "2008, John Peterson, Andrea Birdsall, “4. The European Commission: enlargement as reinvention?”, in Edward Best, Thomas Christiansen, Pierpaolo Settembri, editors, The Institutions of the Enlarged European Union: Continuity and Change, Edward Elgar Publishing, page 61:",
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"ref": "2010, Nicholas Hagger, “Book One: September 11th: America under Attack”, “Invocations to Homer, Milton, Heath-Stubbs, Woodrow Wilson and Roosevelt”, in Armageddon: The Triumph of Universal Order: An Epic Poem on The War on Terror and of Holy-War Crusaders, O Books, →ISBN, page 45:",
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"text": "Whatever air’s asbestosing the prayers / Of this sparse April parlour must splutter / To dust until it dismantles itself.",
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"ref": "1995, Tejdeep, Caught in a Stampede, Sterling Publishers, →ISBN, page 110:",
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"ref": "2017, Karl Meade, Odd Jobs: Misadventures of the Copy-Cat Cat Burglars, FriesenPress, →ISBN:",
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