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"In 1945 The Andrews Sisters appropriated the song "Rum and Coca-Cola", which had originally been recorded by Jamaican musician Lord Invader."--Sholem Stein


"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."--Animal Farm (1945) by George Orwell

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1945 (MCMXLV) was the 945th year of the 2nd millennium, the 45th year of the 20th century, and the 6th year of the 1940s decade. This year also marks the end of the Second World War, the deadliest conflict in human history.

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  • The end of World War II and the public disclosure of the Holocaust atrocities
  • Paragraph 175: when concentration camps were liberated, gays were not freed but made to serve out their sentence under Paragraph 175
  • Adolf Hitler committs suicide as Russian shells exploded in the Chancellery garden above. It was twelve years and three months since he had become dictator of Germany.
  • Vannevar Bush foresees the invention of hypertext

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