Selected Results from Ground-based Cosmic Ray and Gamma-ray Experiments
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Selected results from the HEGRA experiment on charged Cosmic Rays and on very high energy gamma-rays are presented. The MAGIC Telescope is presented as an outlook to the future of Gamma-Ray astronomy.
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