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My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!

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this site , Japan hunts more than 1,000 whales a year using a loophole in an IWC ban that allows the killing of the giant mammals for scientific research, with the meat then sold on the market.

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