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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query-continue>
    <alllinks galcontinue="Bhakti" />
  </query-continue>
  <query>
    <pages>
      <page ns="0" title="Baghdad, Iraq" missing="" />
      <page pageid="2371" ns="0" title="B. Why are agricultural villages more vulnerable--and inviting-- to attack than villages of hunter-gatherers?" />
      <page pageid="53" ns="0" title="BaBar Lab Answers" />
      <page pageid="1237" ns="0" title="Baal" />
      <page pageid="1297" ns="0" title="Basis of Society Confucius" />
      <page pageid="1298" ns="0" title="Basis of Society Legalism" />
      <page pageid="1454" ns="0" title="Basis of Society Mencius" />
      <page pageid="1304" ns="0" title="Basis of Society Taoism" />
      <page pageid="2271" ns="0" title="Beliefs" />
      <page pageid="1268" ns="0" title="Bhagavad Gita" />
    </pages>
  </query>
</api>