O-8859-1, or UTF-8).
<tt>&lt;/head&gt;</tt> closes the heading.

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The <tt>&lt;body&gt;</tt> statement starts the body of the document and can
contain specifiers for color and other attributes.  This one chooses black
writing on a white background.  The body is closed by
<tt>&lt;/body&gt;</tt> statement.

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As you can see, most HTML commands (but not all!) come in begin-end pairs:
<tt>&lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;</tt>,
<tt>&lt;head&gt;...&lt;/head&gt;</tt>, etc.  The closing part of the command
has a slash 