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  2. One thousand origami cranes - Wikipedia

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    Sets of origami paper are sold widely in Japan, with senbazuru sets including about one thousand sheets of paper, string, and beads to place at the end of each string to stop the cranes from slipping off. [4] Commonly, the cranes are assembled as 25 strings of 40 cranes each. [4]

  3. Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes - Wikipedia

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    Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes is a children's historical novel written by Canadian-American author Eleanor Coerr and published in 1977.It is based on the true story of Sadako Sasaki, a victim of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, in World War II, who set out to create a thousand origami cranes when dying of leukemia from radiation caused by the bomb.

  4. Sadako Sasaki - Wikipedia

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    Sadako's story was dramatized at the opening ceremony of the Goodwill Games 1990 in Seattle when, to Ellie Rabb's narration of Sadako's story, some 400 local schoolchildren handed out some 20,000 origami paper cranes to the opening day crowd, thereby honoring the memory of Sadako and spreading her unfulfilled dream for world peace. The Seattle ...

  5. Orizuru - Wikipedia

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    The orizuru (折鶴 ori-"folded," tsuru "crane"), origami crane or paper crane, is a design that is considered to be the most classic of all Japanese origami. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In Japanese culture, it is believed that its wings carry souls up to paradise, [ 2 ] and it is a representation of the Japanese red-crowned crane , referred to as the ...

  6. Origami - Wikipedia

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    Origami cranes The folding of an Origami crane A group of Japanese schoolchildren dedicate their contribution of Thousand origami cranes at the Sadako Sasaki memorial in Hiroshima. Origami ( 折り紙 , Japanese pronunciation: [oɾiɡami] or [oɾiꜜɡami] , from ori meaning "folding", and kami meaning "paper" ( kami changes to gami due to ...

  7. John Montroll - Wikipedia

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    John Montroll was born in Washington, D.C. [1] He is the son of Elliott Waters Montroll, an American scientist and mathematician.He has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics from the University of Rochester, a Master of Arts in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, and a Master of Arts in applied mathematics from the University of Maryland.

  8. Crane (bird) - Wikipedia

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    After World War II, the crane came to symbolize peace and the innocent victims of war through the story of schoolgirl Sadako Sasaki and her thousand origami cranes. Suffering from leukemia as a result of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and knowing she was dying, she undertook to make a thousand origami cranes before her death at the age of 12 ...

  9. Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes (album) - Wikipedia

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    The music is the soundtrack of the 1991 short film Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, based on the 1977 book of the same name, directed by George Levenson and co-written by the book author Eleanor Coerr and Levenson. Liv Ullmann narrates the story. [2] The album was released in 1995, produced by Levenson, Winston, and Howard Johnston. [3] [4]

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