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- ↑ Thornley 2000, p. 64.
- ↑ Spurway 2015, p. 40.
- 1 2 Munro 1996, p. 93.
- 1 2 Thornley 2000, p. 63–64.
- 1 2 Spurway 2015, p. 73.
- ↑ Spurway 2015, p. 70.