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- ↑ Young 2000, p. 220.
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- ↑ Koene 1998, p. 62.
- ↑ Halfmann 2011, p. 141.
- ↑ Koene 1998, p. 66; O'Brien 1993, pp. 125, 127, 175.
- ↑ Carty, Cross & Young 2000, p. 94.
- ↑ Rayside, Sabin & Thomas 2017, p. 78.
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