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<?xml version="1.0"?>
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    <querypage name="Ancientpages">
      <results>
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        <page value="20100214051110" timestamp="2010-02-14T05:11:10Z" ns="0" title="Setting up LabVIEW for Git" />
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        <page value="20100215130019" timestamp="2010-02-15T13:00:19Z" ns="0" title="Georgia FTC Tournament" />
      </results>
    </querypage>
  </query>
</api>