20 years ago today: The Berlin Wall falls down!

... Germany opened checkpoints in the Berlin Wall (Berliner Mauer) allowing its ... Germany. People start demolishing the Berlin Wall. During its existance from 1961 to 1989 the Wall stopped almost all such emigration ... attempted to escape over the wall, with estimates of the resulting ... to 200. The fall of the Berlin Wall paved the way ...For more information about the Berlin Wall, read this Wikipedia story...

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ppgrainbow

"Kein Mehr Bretzeln"

..., but along the way i was able to contemplate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. i remember my first visit back in '84 and how moved i was when i saw the Wall and how sad it was. Of course, it was a very... Angeles), watching in disbelief on CNN while everyone clammored onto the Wall and the Trabi's sputtered through the checkpoints. Fortunately with the...

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wooferstl

[BLOG-LIKE POSTING] On the fall of the Berlin Wall let the world have simple fun

...dominos will be erected between Berlin's Brandenburg Gate and Potsdamer...anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the dominos will...which is headed by the Berlin group Kulturprojekte, hopes to inspire...individually decorated, most by young Berlin residents. Part of the project...Germany," Michael Jeismann of the Berlin office of Germany's federal...Berliners did after bringing the Wall down was have a huge...

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rfmcdpei

Snake Oil and history

...a short clip. There have been many articles leading up to today's 20th Anniversary of the opening of the East German borders and the fall of the Berlin Wall. The site has a short clip of Peter Jennings announcing the information that the East German government has said borders are open. A very simple, very...

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Uggggggh

Mexican Flu sucks. My head feels like it's splitting apart and I hate lying in bed all day! *headdesks* I still wanted to make a post about this though: 20 years today. It's one of my earliest memories. Things like these tend to stay with you.

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leetje

It's the 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall

...of those things. For me, the Berlin Wall coming down is the first...to travel from one half of Berlin to the other. My understanding ... episode where the Chipmunks visit Berlin to have a concert, and ... playing their concert at the wall, and the noise makes it fall down, and their friend gets ... I got to go to Berlin while I was in Europe,... newscasts from the night the wall fell, and learning about the ...

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corrielle

Fall of the Berlin Wall +Video (GermanyFRG/ x Gilbert/GDR)

Hello good people out there :)) I want to wish you all a nice day, cause 20 years ago, the Berlin Wall tumbled and fell. A day we should all remember and think of ^__^ I made an AMV ( and I'm gonna talk to you a bit more about it :3 I hope you are interested :DD *hugs all Hetalia Fans on this special day* ...

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hetalia

In The News: "Berlin Marks 20th Anniversary of Wall's Fall"

...and thousands of visitors are in Berlin today to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. It is a time...night of November 9, 1989. The Wall stood for nearly three decades, ...and the symbolic collapse of a wall of brightly painted oversize dominoes. ...will be toppled - much like the Wall was two decades ago. Organizers ... leaders, that brought down the Wall and changed the course of ...

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[LINK] "Poland's Take on the Berlin Wall"

... marking this anniversary today in Berlin will be boisterous. They will be...old border between East and West Berlin, from Potsdam Square to the ... will symbolically knock down the wall again. Wałęsa will knock ...'s celebrations. Before leaving for Berlin, Wałęsa said, ”The first ..., that is indeed how the fall of communism is seen. According to... Poland impacted the fall of the Berlin Wall, not vice versa....

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rfmcdpei

I'm the new Berlin Wall baby

Monday was the 20-year anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Better Berlin Wall-related movie: Hedwig & the Angry Inch or The Lives Of Others Discuss!

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