I have a lot of duplicate photographs in my library. how can i delete the duplicates automatically?

I have a lot of duplicate photographs in my iPhoto library. It happened while our EIS were saving a computer breakdown, but now i would like to know how to selectively delete the duplicates, without doing it individually. That is, can I set up iPhoto to automatically search for and delete duplicate photographs in the library?

see Old Toad's post in this thread for his list - How can I check for duplicate photos in my IPhoto library? and tests
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