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00:04tonight on the curse of oak island welcome to azores there's a number of questions that can
00:10be answered in the azores some things here relate to our search we have this on oak island it's
00:15time to dig we need to get to the treasure what we got here whoa you might have some evidence
00:23to
00:24a 14th century portuguese presence in oak island the proof might be underground right here wow
00:30fantastic there is an island in the north atlantic where people have been looking for an incredible
00:41treasure for more than 200 years so far they have found a stone slab with strange symbols carved into
00:50man-made workings that date to medieval times and a lead cross whose origin may be connected to the
00:59knight's templar to date six men have died trying to solve the mystery and according to legend one
01:08more will have to die before the treasure can be found
01:24come up a little bit billy there it is there you go billy as a crisp fall morning begins on
01:35oak island
01:36workers from rock equipment and sb canada repair the money pit area where the laginas and their team
01:44plan to dig another eight foot diameter steel shaft in the coming days it is here where they have detected
01:52high traces of silver some 200 feet deep in the solution channel which have been scientifically matched
01:58to a 14th century portuguese coin reportedly found in the original money pit back in 1849
02:08after this should be good while the work continues on oak island
02:14over 2 000 miles to the southeast in the azores islands of portugal
02:21island
02:33rick and other members of the team have traveled to terceira they are following up on the research that
02:40suggests members of the portuguese sect of the knights templar known as the knights of christ may have used
02:47the azores to safeguard a portion of their sacred religious treasures before sailing them to oak
02:53island between the 14th and 16th centuries everybody this is francisco he's a historian
03:01here in the azores he's worked with us in the past on the stone walls found a lot 26 yep
03:07in 2022 francisco examined photos of a stone wall on lot 26 of oak island
03:16and believed it could be of portuguese origin and date back to the 15th century
03:22welcome to the grace of the church it is the oldest church in this island it was built in 1455
03:30by the first settlements in this island oh really wow what is very important is that this church was
03:38built by the action of a franciscan fire franciscans and the order of christ and the templars were very
03:48close close is there the possibility that there was a smaller group that arrived here before the
03:54official date and so is there anything in this church that speaks to that possibility yes perhaps
04:00there's some clues i think we're all eager to see inside we are let's go let's go inside yeah okay
04:07there's a number of questions that need to be asked and maybe can be answered in the azores
04:12it would be wonderful to find a smoking gun directly connected to the oak island mystery
04:34all of these were saints that the templars
04:38and the franciscans used to pray on so this likely dates to the 1450s this dates this is
04:48contemporary of the church which which would be about 150 years after the the dissolution of the
04:56knights templar yeah yeah we're looking at something that the order of christ created
05:02what we have are figures that were important to the knights templar
05:05so this speaks to the continuation of the belief system exactly exactly how closely were the order
05:11of christ related to the templar order was it a true continuation of the order yes it was a true
05:18continuation exactly so any any belief systems any treasures any anything they were safeguarding came
05:24with them exactly exactly
05:29founded in 1318 by king denise of portugal the order of christ was a successor to the knights templar
05:37after their disbanding and persecution by the catholic church in 1307 while it is rumored that the order
05:45of christ protected templar treasures in portugal and the azores islands it is known that they were
05:52connected to the minting of coins exactly like the one believed to have been found in the money pit
05:59we know from documents that there were some people sailing from azores to west in the period between
06:101434 and 1446 departed from here from azores 54 caravals to the west
06:18the templars not always add the ships but the order of christ add the ships
06:26but what was the destination west we don't know perhaps eventually north america eventually oak island
06:35it's not so outlandish to believe that an organization like the order of christ
06:41would have had the capability the knowledge the connections
06:44to get to north america to safeguard what they deemed to be of utmost importance
06:50if you think of the journey of the templars as a pilgrimage we know from the camino de santiago at
06:56the end of the pilgrimage the templars would leave a goose paw you would scratch a goose paw yeah
07:02want to share an observation if you look up
07:06so here we have three corners of the chapel only three have three webbed feet free goose paws
07:15free there free there yeah free there that is still have the original red collar very interesting which
07:23ties this all together beautifully with the symbol that we found in nova scotia
07:31the goose paw is a three-pronged symbol that was designed by the knights templar
07:37and used to mark important locations for the order throughout the middle east and europe between
07:42the 11th and 14th centuries in recent years corian has showed the team several goose paw carvings
07:50found in places such as the camerano caves in italy a 12th century templar stronghold which was created
07:59in the shape of a cross matching the design of the lead cross that was found on oak island in
08:052017.
08:08that is the mark of the nations for the knights templar incredible and in 2022 corian showed them
08:16a goose paw carving in liverpool nova scotia just 50 miles southwest of oak island isn't that a great
08:24connection to oak island we find the same symbol language here that we know both from close to oak
08:32island and from the place in europe where we've been so what this place brings is a consistent next
08:39step in the journey that we're sketching a journey that led from jerusalem through the mediterranean
08:46basin to portugal and through the azores maybe to oak island that's more than i expected we would
08:53invite you to come to the island at your convenience and experience the same mystery the same questions that
09:00we have puzzled over lowly's many years and maybe with your help and others we can finally put an
09:07answer to these questions so thank you thank you thank you appreciate it thank you so much
09:13but we have a lot to discover yeah let's keep going you're looking this has been great as the team
09:18continues their investigation in the azores back on oak island all right well i think i'm positioned okay
09:26perfect perfect perfect so hopefully with continued digging you find an artifact to give us an answer
09:33to this thing that would be nice yes marty joins laird and fiona on lot eight at the stone cradle
09:40formation
09:41that the team found beneath a 40 000 pound boulder what's the plan so we just want to carefully check
09:50see if there's a soil change see if it's not natural yeah and just have a feeling that something
09:57was coming this way why do i dig this down and look for the roof of a tunnel yeah off
10:02chance i understand
10:03but well i mean worst case scenario is you hit a tunnel so yeah which is also the best case
10:09scenario yeah
10:11all right let's do it all right over the past several weeks scientific testing and investigation at the
10:19site has revealed traces of silver in the ground soil and possible evidence of a shaft deeper below
10:26that's a lot of roots now because laird does not want to risk archaeological damage to the feature
10:34he has given marty permission to dig an adjacent trench to look for evidence of a possible tunnel that
10:40may run beneath it it sounded like rocks but i don't see any
10:48it's pretty consistent soil
10:55what the hell is that that's interesting it doesn't make any sense unbelievable
11:06let's see what we got
11:09i think that's bedrock these little chips are starting to look like bedrock yeah while digging
11:16near the cradle of stones on lot eight oh that's interesting absolutely marty has made a potentially
11:23important discovery and yet we're higher than the base of the cradle over here yeah it doesn't make any
11:32sense huh on the eastern side of oak island the slate bedrock is known to be flat and at a
11:41uniform depth
11:43because marty is now confirmed that the cradle of stones sits below the bedrock to the side of the feature
11:50this offers more compelling evidence that the stone cradle is the result of an earlier excavation
11:55and maybe covering a much deeper man-made shaft but you didn't hit bedrock in the cradle over here no
12:06so what we need to do next laird then is but you need to dig deeper there yeah see if
12:11you can find
12:11bedrock laird doesn't appear to have hit the bedrock at all in that cradle so there's the possibility
12:17that under that rock a lot of digging occurred which you know makes your mind go to shaft or a
12:24tunnel
12:25so i'm very excited about it i'm happy with the information it's moving the needle for me that
12:31somebody did dig that out way out they did it for a reason this is not something that somebody would
12:37have done lightheartedly no i think we really need to take our time and understand this a little bit
12:42better i think this makes it something even more special than we already thought i know a certain
12:48rick lagina will be real interested in this too who will be back from the azores soon so i think
12:54we
12:54leave this all like this in case they want to do more or move something around yeah so let's call
13:00it
13:00shall we excellent
13:05meanwhile over 2 000 miles away on the island of tercera in the azores thank you rick alex and other
13:19members of the oak island team have journeyed to the region of sereta to meet once again with francisco
13:25nogaira like we talked about this before we have the stone walls like the walls you have in a walk
13:33island built by the portuguese this type of construction we have suggestions that the wall on
13:38lot 26 bears a distinct portuguese azorean style there's distinguishing features about the lot 26 wall
13:47that we want to keep an eye out for there are larger boulders that run along either edge and inside
13:53of
13:53those large boulders there are smaller rubble rocks so that's one thing that we're looking for here we
13:59want to look at these walls and confirm they're made in the same way yeah those walls are very
14:05interesting to us because carbon dating has said that they were likely constructed somewhere around
14:101470 1475 the type of construction that we use in portugal that they use in this the first set
14:17settle mine here and that would put it in what sort of time 15 16th century that's very comparable in
14:25time to the wall on oak island yeah why do you believe it's not earlier than that yes we don't
14:32know
14:32for sure nothing says that this wasn't much earlier yes in 1427 the portuguese explorer prince henry the
14:43navigator who was also a high-ranking member of the order of christ officially discovered and claimed
14:50the azores islands on behalf of portugal however some believe that the order of christ may have been
14:58secretly visiting the islands as early as the mid 1300s in order to safeguard their priceless treasures
15:05well let's let's go in and see how they compare the wall on lot 26 let's see let's go
15:11i have really never seen anything like this in my life it's full of rock walls that potentially
15:17predate the official dates of discovery and settlement of the azores don't get lost it's
15:22a labyrinth looks like it nobody seems to know who built them or what the purpose was
15:29here's where it gets uh exciting because they're great candidates to compare to our wall on lot 26.
15:36come take a look what'd you find so look at this so we have small rocks in the middle big
15:47rocks to
15:48contain it and the width it's almost the same as oak island it's very close come take a look at
15:57this
16:00that rubble right here yeah inside the wall yeah yeah you see it everywhere yep it's all in there
16:08the interior of the wall is filled with rubble small stones that is exactly the way the lot 26 wall
16:15was
16:16created what you can see is a mirror of the lot 26 wall the question here is why was this
16:25wall built in
16:26this manner just that it is on lot 26. it's almost like the same technique was used on lot 26
16:32so it's
16:33almost like that approach was taken from here to oak island the same style the same understanding of how
16:42walls function how you build a wall wall on lot 26 is unique because we don't have other examples
16:50like that in nova scotia right not that we know so francisco would you think these might have been
16:58like living quarters for people maybe maybe this is a great place to hide or or to keep safe something
17:06yes interesting might a treasure once have found its way to the azores and thus to oak island
17:16there's nothing we see within this complex that would suggest anything other than the possibilities
17:23when people are committed to an endeavor like oak island i've said it many times where there's a will
17:29there's a way all you have to do is look around you at this incredible complex of stone and realize
17:36that there is a purpose all of that is associated with oak island this fits all our timelines right
17:44yeah it sure does we sort of suspect that perhaps somebody was here in the 1300s secretly this is a
17:54great place to hide yes we talk about it all the time on the island you've got to look backwards
17:58in order
17:59look forwards and we know just from this little experience here that indeed the possibility of
18:07information having traveled through the new world generationally is there a place on the island where
18:12we can qualify a little bit more perhaps yes we have a lot to see connected to the oak island
18:18so that's
18:18yeah okay as a new day begins on oak island billy hey glad to see you here thank you all
18:30right i'm ready
18:31marty joins other members of the team on center road near the western border of the swamp sand road projects
18:39right down here and if it's here then that would be a very strong clue that center road was here
18:47before the survey right the team is preparing to dig a cross section of center road to look for evidence
18:55that it may have been built by previous treasure hunters on top of the sand covered cobblestone road
19:01that was recently found running through the swamp toward the belief portuguese stone road in the southeast
19:07corner if the team can find evidence of the sand and cobblestone road here it could suggest that it was
19:14created by someone long ago perhaps even before a 1762 survey when oak island was divided into 32
19:23four acre lots as i'm standing here billy i see the sand road you nicely uncovered i'm lined right up
19:32with
19:32it which also aligns right up with center road proper so i think this is our spot yeah hey marty
19:40what time is
19:41it mate it's time to dig gary time to dig you heard the man
19:49let's give the boy room
19:55here we go
19:58we speculate upon looking at this sand road that it could be directly under the center road if that's
20:05the case whoever built it came here long before anybody else
20:11is that sand there already oh it might seem some kind of yeah that would explain the activity that
20:19was here before the money pit it would explain the very significant wall on lot 26 you play rich
20:24it would explain the rock feature on lot eight it would explain virtually everything it's a little
20:44about keep digging
20:46rock here underneath there sounds that way yeah it looks like sun now check this out
20:55rock here what do you think yeah right down there look at that yeah it should be
21:09still a lot of yeah gravel in there too i'm afraid we're getting contamination from the road yeah if you
21:16want to look at the end of the bucket here you can see the profile of what it is rocks
21:20sand sand here you can look weird oh here let's see how it's rocks on the bottom and the sand
21:27yeah
21:28but i mean that shouldn't be here naturally that's not the natural dirt for here no
21:33all right gonna have a scan
21:39i just don't see anything definitive here no metal
21:45this isn't jumping out at me it's a little bit tricky to evaluate it because you have to raise the
21:52possibility of contamination from modern construction so we need to try another location any sort of
22:01ancient road on this island is worth following we want to put this back billy and try one more right
22:09there sure as the team repositions to dig another cross section through center road
22:17oh look how pretty that is yeah beautiful rick and members of the team arrive at the angra
22:24do heroismo museum it's incredible welcome thank you great to see you thank you i'm alex welcome to the
22:33museum of angra francisco has arranged for the team to look for clues in the museum and meet with local
22:40archaeologist tiago rodriguez regarding artifacts that have been found on oak island we have a portuguese
22:48coin dating to the late 1300s and if it came through the azores that's about 50 years give or take
22:55prior
22:55to the official date that the azores were discovered and then colonized the portuguese navigated throughout
23:01the atlantic we have other evidences that allows us to conclude that the azores had people before the
23:11portuguese we didn't know how much they were who they were so is it possible that some people knew
23:22that the azores were here of course it does kind of remind me of the early years of our treasure
23:29hunt
23:29oak island stories that speak of people from europe at a time when the conventional story says that people
23:36from europe should not have been there and from what tiago is telling us it sounds like that
23:41is again the case with the story here in the azores before you arrived emiliano and myself did some
23:47scouting here in the museum what we came to do here is well illustrated by by this stone here this
23:55is
23:5515th century emiliano 1454 probably and it's the oldest stone carving that were found here in the azores
24:05this caught our attention not only because it's possibly one of the oldest or the
24:10oldest carved stones that there are on this island but particularly because of what it's showing you
24:16know the
24:19swirls here from the copper piece from the ribbon in 2022 the team unearthed part of a copper
24:27artifact on lot eight decorated with an ornate symbol incredibly one year later they saw the similar
24:35symbol in a templar related manuscript in reykjavik iceland that dated back to the 12th century
24:42i actually have a photo of our copper artifact from lot eight that shows that symbol let's see
24:48if it compares to what we're seeing here i mean it could be a match
24:57well done
25:00it could be a match it has the same middle feature here and then on the ends it could round
25:09closed for sure
25:11at the angra du heroismo museum in the azores the team has found a 15th century stone carving
25:19that may be connected to the knights templar and the order of christ which matches a symbol
25:25on the copper artifact that was discovered on lot eight in 2022. it shows that when people travel they
25:34took their symbols with them right correct correct and also that symbol is um the one we found in a
25:42manuscript in reykjavik in iceland it was a manuscript from the 1200s uh this is a stone for the from
25:50the
25:501400s and that means that that kind of knowledge or the symbolism was passed on because we are in the
25:57azores
25:58thousands of kilometers from from iceland but still we are seeing a clear connection between these
26:05countries and oak island something's here laid to our search the image is telling a story we see
26:13the decorative carving indicating the possibility that templars or the knights of christ knew of the
26:21azores before their documented discovery by the portuguese could it be related to the copper
26:27artifact that we found on lot eight i think it's very plausible that they had the ability to make
26:33a transatlantic voyage diego we've actually brought some artifacts from oak island with us we were hoping
26:39you take a look at them i would be glad to help and to see and we have a room
26:44that we can look at
26:46closer lead the way we're trying to understand the pre-columbian history of oak island and what happened
26:55there after you had we brought a number of artifacts and tiago was qualified to look at them and render
27:02an opinion i hope that he can speak definitively about them diego we really appreciate you taking a
27:10look at these items i guess maybe we'll just dive right in and get your thoughts
27:16this is actually one of the stone shot that we found on the island this was found this year actually
27:28it looks like a stone bullet so they have a period of time where they were most used and that
27:37links to
27:38the 14th century right which could link to the periods that you're looking for most probable then
27:45is that this is from the 1300s or or earlier it could be they could be using them later but
27:54it's not
27:54common uh so yeah it points to the 14th century have you found any around here in the azores at
28:02all i've
28:02heard of some that are in the azores in particular in the side island i know they exist this is
28:10more like
28:11human come back face to face to small battles but it's interesting because if you have to take this to
28:19oak island you have to go by boat and you have to be prepared for something it implicates a journey
28:27where the risk exists so it's a very interesting piece you know we're looking at several scenarios of
28:34when treasure might have passed through the azores and then moved to oak island and safeguarded there
28:39to hear tiago agree that our stone shot and others like it have been found here in the islands
28:45is the connective tissue we're looking for this is so small it could link to a hand cannon
28:53uh so uh it's very interesting now that you mention it this is a very interesting artifact and we believe
29:03that it may be a small hand cannon
29:10and i have the report to go along with it earlier this year when the team first discovered a section
29:16of the sand covered road in the western region of the swamp they found part of a hand cannon a
29:23weapon
29:23first invented in china during the 12th century after having emma culligan examine the piece in the lab
29:31the team sent photos of the artifact to maltese military historian matthew balzan for his analysis
29:38in european culture it was used in warfare mostly from the 13th to the 15th at most early 16th century
29:49wow
29:52the hand cannon were common in the 1300s yes in the report the most interesting part of this piece for
30:01me is the xrf because it shows a lot of sulfur which indicates an explosion which means it was fired
30:12once again once again links to the unknown the journey going to the unknown world you have to be
30:20prepared you have a ship you have some kind of weapons it's a very interesting piece the timelines
30:27that tiago relates it aligns perfectly for my belief that the effort on oak island was in multiple stages
30:36i believe it's more aligned with the efforts here in the azores to possibly protect the treasure in transit
30:45from europe across the seas to north america and perhaps oak island this one here is a deck spike
30:55we believe from a ship it was found a couple years ago on the island the believed deck spike was
31:08found
31:08in 2023 by jack begley while investigating the rounded stone foundation on lot five that's also a very
31:18interesting piece because i've seen this before on the portuguese ships oh really yeah the square style
31:26and the large head that's being hammered it's a very typical nail that goes on the ship it could go
31:33on a barrel so uh for the portuguese it was very very common this kind of shape to be used
31:40in boats
31:40is there a time period that this could be used in the 14th century is it common for the portuguese
31:57and
31:57unique to the portuguese yes so for the portuguese it was very very common this kind of shape to be
32:05used
32:05in boats in boats in the 14th century well they were very very useful in linking the the wood together
32:13so it's for more to use in ships than in construction okay at the angra do heroismo museum in the
32:21azores
32:22archaeologist tiago rodriguez has concluded that a spike found in the round feature on lot five
32:29is not only of portuguese origin but could also date back to the 1300s that artifact just got much
32:38more interesting yeah it did it did could this artifact offer further evidence to support the theory
32:45that members of the templar-related order of christ may have visited oak island as much as four centuries
32:52before the discovery of the money pit i mean what can you say without any hesitation this is portuguese
33:00size shape weight hammered head everything spoke to him that it was a portuguese design quite impactful
33:11okay next up this sparked a lot of excitement for us this year it was revealed to us by a
33:18family that
33:18was associated with the treasure hunt on oak island in the past and that family showed it to us this
33:24year
33:24it's a portuguese coin for ferdinand the first minted somewhere between 1367 and 1383
33:38wow
33:40was this on oak island yeah the story behind this coin is that in 1849 they were drilling to try
33:48and
33:48strike the treasure chamber and this may have come up on the drill bit
33:53if this is a coin from the 14th century you might have some answers to linking to the shipping spikes
34:03and other evidence that could suggest an early presence in oak island yeah and you previously said
34:12about the stone shot that it was most predominantly used likely in the 14th century as well both
34:18those objects we believe came from underground on our island in the so-called treasure pit
34:24so there's a there's a connection there oh almost for sure so a lot of these artifacts seem
34:29to be centering on the 1300s that we've shown you here today so several have and several are also
34:35converging on the 15th century which happens to be kind of the two timelines that we were wanting to
34:41investigate when we came i don't think they are all from the same timeline right and i think oak island
34:46have a lot of very very very good evidence that creates a pattern yeah the proof might be underground
34:56on oak island and we might only do as good as uh establishing plausibility until something comes
35:05out of the ground yeah the forensic evidence seems to point that silver and gold is underground almost
35:11certainly it's quite impactful to have a person of his experience and his understanding confirm the
35:19clues to the possibility of a treasure moving east to west it's a very interesting piece
35:25there might be multiple treasures connected to the templars and their descendants so we learn that as
35:33you uncover clues you not only advance the search agenda but you you learn about history worldwide
35:41you know this is a little bit different setting than the war room on oak island but it had been
35:46highly
35:47informative most appreciative of your both of your time you've set us on a course of action that may
35:52provide the definitive answers that we seek i can't say anything more than just thank you my pleasure thank
35:59you very much thank you
36:03let's go here meanwhile back on oak island
36:09oh the rock under that yep marty laird and other members of the team have moved to a location a
36:16few yards
36:17further down center road to look for evidence of the sand and cobblestone road beneath it
36:27that's saying there yeah it is yeah looks like it the sand goes under the modern and that should be
36:37that's right on line
36:44that's it is it
36:47oh yeah
36:51yeah is this what we're looking for is this yeah that's what we're looking for
36:56okay okay well then let's see what's underneath it
37:04i'll go over if there's anything in that sand is that all sand right there yep all this is
37:12i'm getting a little chirping but what here
37:25something there dig yeah let's see if i can pinpoint first
37:42it's in the end let's see what we're good you got gary oh yeah
37:50you got gary a nice little nail the lion nail after finding more possible evidence of the sand road
37:59beneath center road gary has just discovered what could be another important clue
38:07could be an ox shoe nail we found an ox shoe in the sand road stone throw away from here
38:15this artifact is actually buried in the sand road and this is a foot down it's in excellent condition
38:25well keep hold of the slip it's going back to the lab and emma's gonna run a magic on it
38:30maybe we can
38:32find out how old it is and date this sand road that was the only find what we don't have
38:40is anything
38:40definitive on a date well we had the hand cannon which is very significant yeah so we have a lot
38:47of old
38:48dates in this particular area yeah okay we find a sand road in the swamp it's really well constructed
38:56it's here for unknown right so we have oxen going up and down this road well prior to the time
39:03when we thought center road didn't even exist so now let's pull that together and say
39:10this road was actually just an extension of that sand road yeah exactly then it goes
39:17by my reckoning directly to the beginning of what we've now called the portuguese road
39:21which in fact goes up the hill towards the money pit yeah which leads us to the thought that perhaps
39:30center road here existed prior to the 1762 survey the reason we're here today is to try and prove that
39:37theory and we more or less did case it's always fun finding what you're looking for yeah it's okay
39:44pull all that together and it leads to a pretty solid conclusion that the so-called center road has
39:51actually been there for a very long time it was not created after that survey
39:57okay and then the next dot to connect is said well there's our connection center road goes right to
40:03lot five how'd lot five get to the money pit well it just went out to center road and then
40:08went on to
40:09go to the swamp so that road could have carried the people back and forth between lot five and the
40:14money
40:14pit area simple as that it gives credence to what we're doing here gentlemen it helps that these things
40:22continually verify that we're not really on a wild goose chase no i think it's been a success but
40:28now we need to get to the treasure i know one thing for certain for absolute certain i know somebody
40:36who's going to be keenly interested in this when he gets back from the azores and that would be big
40:41brother rick yeah yeah okay let's get on to the next task billy put this back together very good
40:49the deeper and further that rick marty craig and the team look into this 231 year old mystery
40:59new clues and revelations only bolster their will to keep digging because whether on lot eight
41:07in the money pit area or 2 000 miles across the atlantic ocean one conclusion is becoming more probable
41:17by the day oak island may be hiding secrets that changed the course of history in europe
41:24and could most certainly rewrite the history
41:29of north america
41:33next time on the curse of oak island what's that it's similar to what we have on oak island this
41:41is
41:41from 2000 bc we're starting to find a hidden wall this would be an ideal place to deposit treasure
41:49that sounds great wow oh my gosh this is huge amazing this is very very very significant if that
41:57was part of the treasure the rest of that is still in the money pit absolutely
42:01absolutely
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