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	Figure 1: Rest-frame discovery spectra of quasars presented in this paper. First two rows show variability-selected QSOs, third row shows X-ray-selected objects.
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In the text

	Figure 2: OGLE (Zebrun et al. 2001) light curves for six variability-selected quasars (top six in Fig. 1). MJD 50 400 corresponds to UT 1996 November 13.
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	Figure 3: The V-I vs. B-V colour-colour diagram for objects in the direction of the LMC and SMC. Filled symbols show QSOs. The preferred location for quasars can be clearly seen.
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	Figure 4: Parameters of the I vs. V-I relation: Pearson's correlation coefficient versus slope for all identified objects in the direction of LMC and SMC. Filled symbols show quasars. See text for discussion.
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	Figure 5: Variability versus variogram slope for identified objects. Filled symbols show QSOs.
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Figure 6: Quasars in the vicinity of the Large Magellanic Cloud. The image is roughly . Open squares and diamonds show the positions of, respectively, variability- and X-ray-selected quasars presented in this paper. The filled squares show variability-selected QSOs from our candidate list confirmed by Geha et al. (2003). The "X'' marks show the variability-selected quasars from Geha et al. (2003). Open circles show four X-ray selected QSOs from Dobrzycki et al. (2002). Crosses show the quasars known before 2002; a dramatic improvement in both the number of known objects and the coverage is clearly seen. Only few QSOs are still known behind the Cloud's bar. LMC image courtesy of G. Bothun.

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In the text