Berlin Wall
Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo's famous dictum was applied to American political scientist Francis Fukuyama's...
When the Berlin Wall came down, 25 years ago, I was in Lusaka, Zambia.
Why Berlin? U2’s Bono was once asked about why the band chose to record their great album Achtung Baby there in 1989. To record an...
Despite being celebrated for the righteous war he and his robotic car waged on criminals, for his selfless, slow-motion patrols of the beaches of...
Vaclav Havel, the dissident playwright who wove theatre into politics to peacefully bring down communism in Czechoslovakia and become a hero of the...
It was once one of the world's most deadly frontiers but has since been converted into one of the planet's most fascinating bicycle paths -- a...
Ali was barely five years old, playing with his toys in Pakistan, when the Berlin Wall came down. Twenty years later, he stands behind the grand...
On November 9 1989 the Berlin Wall fell. People from East Berlin flocked to West Berlin, and were enthusiastically received and celebrated. Berlin...
In May 2009 the Goethe-Institut approached the department of architecture at the University of Johannesburg's faculty of art, design and architecture, with an invitation to participate in the larger framework of the institute's Cracking Walls project....
"If the past has nothing to say to the present, history may go on sleeping undisturbed in the closet where the system keeps its old disguises." --...
From Marzahn the wall wasn't exactly just around the corner. Suddenly it was open, if Günter Schabowski hadn't permitted himself a little...
Mikhail Gorbachev said on Tuesday that he was proud of his role in the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago, defending himself against Russian...
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