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91Visiting Germany's Brandenburg Gate, Berlin, and the Pariser Platz: open gates, and open questions
The historic heart of Berlin is in what was East Berlin, prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. The Brandenburg Gate (Brandenburger Tor ) was a symbolic focal point during Germany's — and Berlin's — division between East and West. ...
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89Globalization - When did Globalization Begin?
Globalization - When did Globalization Begin? - Find out the answer to the question when did globalization begin here, and if indeed there is such an answer.
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87Art and Graffiti on the Berlin Wall
The West side of the concrete Berlin wall, originally constructed as a barbed wire fence in 1961, is covered in beautiful, colorful, and expressive art that stands in stark contrast to the dull gray of the...
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89Hyperinflation in Post World War I Germany
In responding to one of the comments about my recent Hub about Congressman Ron Paul's Presidential campaign I recounted a story told to me a number of years ago by an old Austrian fellow describing his...
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83A Close Look and Summary of Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien
Post-traumatic stress disorder is a common disease among war veterans. Sometimes it is hard for soldiers to separate reality from war after something as life threatening and difficult as a combat zone. Sometimes soldiers can cope with the stress by...
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86World War Two: The Hunt For Hitler
Was the world lied to about Adolf Hitler's apparent suicide?, was it possible that the barbarous Nazi leader had escaped as Berlin came crashing down around him?, if not, then why was there such a prolonged and frenzied hunt for the evil tyrant in...
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86Five Cities In Germany You Should Visit When Travelling To Europe
With a population of about 80 million people Germany is the largest country in the European Union. Spanning from the Alps in the South to the rocky beaches of Schleswig-Holstein in the North, from the Rhine...
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86Visiting Berlin's Reichstag: Germany's history, past and future
Berlin's beautifully restored Reichstag building, with its prominent inscription Dem Deutschen Volke (To the German people), where the German parliament first met in 1894, is one of Germany's...
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84US History: COLD WAR INTRIGUE 1950 - 1960
The Cold War began as World War II ended and continued unti the fall of the Berlin Wall in1989 and the collapse of the USSR, around 1990 - 1991. The Cold War involved spies and counterspies, new technology...
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85Why the fall of the Berlin Wall had an Affect on Me
I leaned against the Wall and an “aha” learning moment began… I began to realize the importance of freedom, how we take for granted our choices and actions; how man’s inhumanity is cruel and dangerous if focused for the good of a few, rather than the good of the many…
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