We prove that some new infinite families of odd two dimensional icosahedral representations of the absolute Galois group of ${\Bbb Q}$ are modular and hence satsify the Artin conjecture. We also give an account of work of Ramakrishna on lifting mod l Galois representations to characteristic zero.
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