Tag: berlin
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October 18, 2008 08:20 PM EDT --
That we all cheered and cried and celebrated when the Berlin Wall came down and when the U.S.S.R. finally fell apart because we hated communism and socialism, which is what these countries stood for. . . .
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March 08, 2007 06:46 PM EST --
A crazy German colleague of mine visited me in Berlin last Sunday and I made this really fun video of his visit...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OudFiR2dbDA
It would be awesome if . . .
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January 13, 2008 09:14 AM EST --
I have a piece of the Berlin Wall on my refrigerator.
The piece I have is from 1989, when a friend - who now lives in Boston but who grew up in Germany when the Wall was built - joined thousands . . .
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April 18, 2006 10:57 AM EDT --
I have a piece of the Berlin Wall on my refrigerator. This is from 1989, when a friend joined hundreds of thousands, who helped to tear it down.
The piece of the wall is thick concrete, and you can imagine . . .
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March 29, 2008 06:26 AM EDT --
Has everyone heard about the polar bear cub that cries when it doesn't feel it is getting enough attention?? The bear is in a zoo in Germany and employees at the zoo have now been told they can no . . .
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July 24, 2008 02:54 PM EDT --
The visuals were phenomenal: Senator Barack Obama, the Brandenburg Gate, over 200,000 people listening attentively, cheering for an American leader as they used to. But what did he say?
Andrea . . .
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January 01, 2008 11:31 PM EST --
Do you have a New Year's story you'd like to share? Today is the place. Today, Wednesday Writing Essentials is featuring New Years stories around the world.
Schedule: . . .
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July 24, 2008 02:14 PM EDT --
AN ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT AND INSPIRING DELIVERY
I believe that Obama's Berlin speech will be ranked as one of the truly . . .
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July 24, 2008 05:38 PM EDT --
Obama world tour
1. Chicago
2. D.C.
3. Afghanistan
4. Kuwaiit
5. Iraq
6. Jordan
7. Israel
8. Germany
9. France
10. 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington,DC . . .
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February 15, 2007 11:01 AM EST --
Vergangenheitsbewaeltigung-- German for coming to terms with the past-- is as difficult to realize as it is to pronounce. To what extent is one morally responsible for acts committed under great personal . . .
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December 15, 2005 11:07 PM EST --
In Part 1 of this series of photographic articles, I posted snapshots of some of the more well-recognized landmarks in modern Berlin. Part 2 takes a look at pieces of Berlin's Communist past.
Palast . . .
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November 16, 2007 10:36 AM EST --
Pedophile allowed to work in kindergarten
BERLIN (Reuters) - A convicted pedophile sentenced to do community service in a German kindergarten will return to court next week to face charges of abusing . . .
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June 06, 2007 09:29 AM EDT --
If “the wheel” is considered the number one invention that we inherited from the earth’s primitive years, then perhaps, “the wall” should be number two.
In nine tenth’s . . .
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March 06, 2007 12:36 AM EST --
I'm not making this up... This was a headline over on Yahoo.
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Teens accused of making ostrich impotent
Mon Mar 5, 6:17 PM ET
BERLIN - Three teenagers may be on the hook for a hefty . . .
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April 10, 2008 01:29 PM EDT --
Although AC was frustratingly slow to publish my nearly live observations yesterday of the crowd along the route on which the Olympic torch did not pass on its peculiar route from Mount Olympus to Beijing, . . .
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April 17, 2006 07:13 PM EDT --
I waited on the Vienna-Bratislava train as it crossed the border. I sat alone in a seating compartment meant for six, the train itself was quiet. I started this eastward journey in Geneva, Switzerland, . . .
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August 08, 2006 07:58 PM EDT --
When my mother told me she had just finished reading a book that she thought I should read, I asked her what it's about. "Just read it and you'll see," she said. I told her . . .
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June 20, 2006 12:55 PM EDT --
William Wilson, a down-at-the-heels conjurer, is engaged as the warm-up act to a pair of "dancers" at Inspector James Montgomery's retirement party. Put up for the job by his friend Sam, . . .
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April 24, 2007 12:36 PM EDT --
I was only ten years old when the Berlin Wall fell in 1989. I was helping my older brother deliver newspapers when I heard the news. Although I knew little about the complex nature of political conflicts, . . .
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November 02, 2007 10:38 AM EDT --
Historian finds oldest recipe for bratwurst
BERLIN (Reuters) - A hobby historian has discovered the oldest known recipe for German sausage, a list of ingredients for Thuringian bratwurst nearly 600 . . .
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