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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query-continue>
    <alllinks galcontinue="Bahr,_Hanna,_Vermeer_&amp;_Haecker,_Architects|2623" />
  </query-continue>
  <query>
    <pages>
      <page pageid="1144" ns="0" title="Browse architects and firms beginning with the letter &quot;B&quot;" />
      <page pageid="1155" ns="0" title="Browse architects and firms beginning with the letter &quot;M&quot;" />
      <page pageid="1162" ns="0" title="Browse architects and firms beginning with the letter &quot;S&quot;" />
      <page pageid="1298" ns="0" title="James T. Casperson (1923-2009), Architect" />
      <page pageid="1751" ns="0" title="Jack Comp Jackson (1917-1997), Architect" />
      <page pageid="1849" ns="0" title="Test" />
      <page pageid="2306" ns="0" title="Lynn Eugene Vermeer (1935-2006), Architect" />
      <page pageid="2355" ns="0" title="Robert Bruce Widstrom (1924-2006), Architect" />
    </pages>
  </query>
</api>