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Berlin Wall
Berlin Wall 1961-89, a barrier first erected in Aug., 1961, by the East German government along the border between East and West Berlin, and later along the entire border between East Germany and West Germany. At first constructed of barbed wire, the wall was built to halt large numbers of... Read more |
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Erich Honecker
Erich Honecker , 1912-94, East German political leader. From a Communist family, Honecker was imprisoned by the Nazis for 10 years for party activities. After the war he joined Walter Ulbricht's Socialist Unity (Communist) party and rose in the East German party bureaucracy. He joined the... Read more |
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parapet
parapet. Low wall or barrier at the edge of a balcony, bridge, roof, terrace, or anywhere there is a drop, and therefore danger of persons falling. Originally a feature of defensive architecture on castles and town-walls, it often retained battlements and other features, even when used for... Read more |
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wall
wall in architecture, protective, enclosing, or dividing vertical structure. Its thickness is determined by the material, height, and stress. It may be of studding and lath, either boarded or plastered; adobe; rammed earth ; brickwork or stonework; concrete; tile; or of steel in combination with... Read more |
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cell plate
cell plate The structure that forms in a dividing plant cell at the end of mitosis; it separates the cytoplasm of the two daughter protoplasts. The cell plate is formed from vesicles made by dictyosomes and arranged by the microtubules of the phragmoplast in the equatorial region of the spindle.... Read more |
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window
window. 1. Aperture in a wall to allow light and air to enter a building. If a window-aperture is divided into compartments by means of, say, mullions and transoms, those compartments are lights. In its simplest form, a window is a mere hole in a wall, with an arch or lintel at its head. Some Greek... Read more |
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Abdominal Wall Defects
Abdominal wall defects Definition Abdominal wall defects are birth (congenital) defects that allow the stomach or intestines to protrude. Description Many unexpected events occur during the development of a fetus inside the womb. The stomach and intestines begin development... Read more |
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Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
László Moholy-Nagy , 1895-1946, Hungarian painter, designer, and experimental photographer. He turned to art after studying law. While living in Berlin he was one of the founders of constructivism , experimenting with photograms and translucent materials. As a professor in the newly... Read more |
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John Heartfield
Heartfield, John ( Helmut Herzfelde) (1891–1968). German designer, painter, and journalist, born in Berlin, the son of a political radical who had been imprisoned for writing and publishing a revolutionary socialist poem. He studied at the School of Arts and Crafts in Berlin, 1912–14,... Read more |
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Don't mention the wall ... without forgetting its ordeal, once-divided Berlin...
...barrier of barbed wire became the Berlin Wall, a network of walls, fences and obstacles that...kilometres. For decades, the wall sliced through Berlin, splitting not just a city...pro-democracy revolution in 1989, the East German regime imploded... |
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On this day; November 10 1989: The Fall of the Berlin Wall. One of the most...
...scar cutting across central Berlin was created in August 1961...border between East and West Berlin to halt the growing tide...just six weeks before the wall went, more than 45,000...thousands lined both sides of the wall, gave a great roar and poured... |
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November 9, 1989: The Day the Berlin Wall Fell
...of November 9, 1989, the Wall fell in Berlin - and with it the frontier that had divided Germany for 28 years...border with West Berlin. Although they...Berlin - and the fall of the Wall. This...GDR during summer 1989 (via Hungary and... |
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The Berlin Wall; a world divided, 1961-1989.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
9780060786137 The Berlin Wall; a world divided, 1961-1989. Taylor, Frederick...associated with the Berlin Wall, which surrounded...Cold War politics of a divided Germany, the political...politics that led to the fall of the wall and the... |
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WITNESSES RECALL BERLIN WALL'S FALL.
...By Jim Garamone A divided Berlin symbolized the Cold...off a piece of the Berlin Wall as a souvenir in November 1989. DoD photo (Click...image available. The Berlin Wall was a concrete...celebratory scenes at the fall of the Berlin Wall... |
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WITNESSES RECALL BERLIN WALL'S FALL
...following press release: A divided Berlin symbolized the Cold War. The Berlin Wall was a concrete example of the...the celebratory scenes at the fall of the Berlin Wall on Nov. 9, 1989, were cause for deep satisfaction... |
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Berlin Wall gone but divide endures; Promise of capitalism unfulfilled in...
...south, and it divided the street...the 12-foot wall, gunned down...When the Berlin Wall fell in November 1989, throngs of...Germany. Since 1989, more than...cities like Berlin, Dresden and...Berlin Wall's fall signaled the... |
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The Wall Is Gone, but Berlin Remains a City That Is Badly Divided
...ugly scar that once divided East and West along...years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Trucks rumble...celebrate the Nov. 9, 1989, toppling of the...As in the rest of Berlin, and Germany as...or families once divided by the Wall who... |
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Germany's Generation 1989: Born When the Berlin Wall Came Down
...movement. And the 1989 generation...were born in 1989, the year of...the night the Wall was opened some...were born in Berlin alone. Born in 1989: 880,459...born during the fall of the Wall...been like in a divided Germany. He... |
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Witnessing fall of the Berlin Wall
...Republic from West Berlin for a quarter...escape over the wall, with the estimated...27 miles that divided West and East Berlin. The wall cut...Research in Berlin for more than...the rise and fall of the Berlin...dismantling in 1989. During the... |
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