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Internal encoding declaration “iso-8859-1” disagrees with the actual encoding of the document (“utf-8”).

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"...> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> ..."

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Attribute “alt” not allowed on element “a” at this point.

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"...> <a href="/free-inventor-information-request-form?source=banner_foreman" alt="Do you have an idea?"><img s..." Line: 294 Column: 9 - 101
"...> <a href="/free-inventor-information-request-form?source=banner_foreman" alt="George Foreman"><img s..."

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The hash-name reference in attribute “usemap” referred to “largeImage”, but there is no “map” element with a “name” attribute with that value.

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The hash-name reference in attribute “usemap” referred to “smallImage”, but there is no “map” element with a “name” attribute with that value.

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