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          <rev user="Diarmuid Crowley" timestamp="2019-11-07T05:30:25Z" comment="/* Registering for the Manifold Atlas */" />
          <rev user="Diarmuid Crowley" timestamp="2019-01-08T02:41:37Z" comment="/* Registering for the Manifold Atlas */" />
          <rev user="Diarmuid Crowley" timestamp="2017-07-19T16:47:31Z" comment="/* New Feature: users can [Manifold Atlas:Upload a text|upload complete texts as pdf files]] */" />
          <rev user="Diarmuid Crowley" timestamp="2017-07-19T16:47:13Z" comment="/* Welcome to the Manifold Atlas Project:- a scientific Wiki  and- an on-line journal, the Bulletin of the Manifold Atlas */" />
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