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Origami is the art of making objects with paper and is thousands of years old; However, the Origami crane that we know so much has been 'invented' less than a century ago. It all happened in the 1940s, while the Hiroshima war was taking place, which resulted in the explosion of an atomic bomb. At that time, a girl named Sadako Sasaki was very sick due to radiation exposure. While he was in the hospital, his friend Chizuko advised him to make paper cranes, since if he reached 1,000 he could make a wish. Of course, hers would be to...