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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query-continue>
    <querypage qpoffset="10" />
  </query-continue>
  <query>
    <querypage name="Ancientpages">
      <results>
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        <page value="20141103204048" timestamp="2014-11-03T20:40:48Z" ns="0" title="About" />
        <page value="20141103205106" timestamp="2014-11-03T20:51:06Z" ns="0" title="Community Portal" />
        <page value="20141103231837" timestamp="2014-11-03T23:18:37Z" ns="0" title="Calabacito Rojo" />
        <page value="20141103232514" timestamp="2014-11-03T23:25:14Z" ns="0" title="Humph" />
        <page value="20141103233153" timestamp="2014-11-03T23:31:53Z" ns="0" title="Plum Tigris" />
        <page value="20141103233320" timestamp="2014-11-03T23:33:20Z" ns="0" title="Polish Linguisa" />
        <page value="20141103233333" timestamp="2014-11-03T23:33:33Z" ns="0" title="Purple Plum Paste" />
        <page value="20141103233353" timestamp="2014-11-03T23:33:53Z" ns="0" title="Purple Prince" />
        <page value="20141103234230" timestamp="2014-11-03T23:42:30Z" ns="0" title="Sylvan Guame" />
      </results>
    </querypage>
  </query>
</api>