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"ref": "1888, Rudyard Kipling, “Wressley of the Foreign Office”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co.; London: W. Thacker & Co., →OCLC, page 266:",
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"ref": "1981, Michael Ashley, “The Supernatural”, in Richard Davis, editor, The Encyclopedia of Horror, London: Octopus Books, →ISBN, page 116, column 2:",
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"ref": "1996, Norman J[oseph] W[illiam] Thrower, “Modern Cartography: Private and Institutional Maps”, in Maps & Civilization: Cartography in Culture and Society, Chicago, Ill.; London: University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 220:",
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