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The Reference Point to End All Reference Points

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Ben Sixsmith
Oct 02, 2022
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If you made a graph of “most referenced historical events”, with “World War Two” on one side and “everything else” on the other, it would look like Trump Tower standing next to a shed.

This makes some sense. No event that has followed World War Two has come close in terms of sensationalism or direct consequentiality. Besides, it wasn’t one event. It was …

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