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Notes and queries: Why don't zombies eat each other? The flaws in Berlin's transport system
Port-au-Prince :: Haiti | 5 days ago
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The flaws in Berlin's transport system; The adolescence of the lambs Trainee zombies . . . Shaun Of The Dead Photograph: Oliver Upton How do zombies know not to eat each other? What would they do if there were no non-zombies left? Zombies know not...
Tags: London, East Berlin, West Berliners, Haiti, Port-au-Prince, Dawn of the Dead, Zombi 2, Independent films, Horror, Hospitality Recreation, Living Dead, B movies, Doomsday films, Zombie
The black marketeers of Bahnhof Zoo
Moscow :: Russia | 17 days ago
Credibility The brilliant light radiating from such moments blinds or at least desensitises us to other things that may have happened. One need only look in the newspapers from 1988 and 1989, or leaf through notebooks from the time, to realise just how reductive...
Tags: West Berliners, Western Europe, New Europe, Paris-Moscow Express, Neue Kantstra, black market, West Germany, Berlin Wall, Bahnhof Zoo, Warsaw, Russia, Moscow, Kaunas, Eurolines, Berlin Anhalter Bahnhof, Berlin, Potsdamer Platz
The day one wrong word changed history
Guatemala City :: Guatemala | 20 days ago
Credibility Freedom, though, came to the East Berliners all at once, in an unexpected flood, on Nov. 9, 1989, thanks to one powerful word that was uttered erroneously at a press conference by a member of the ruling Communist Party. No longer able to control defections...
Tags: West Berlin, west berliners, East Berliners, Hansi, Bob Rigney, east germans, Pan American Airlines, West Germany, Rigneys, Berlin Wall, Guatemala, Guatemala City
Walking the Berlin Wall then and now
Berlin :: Germany | 28 days ago
Credibility It was the climax of peaceful revolutions across Eastern Europe that would pave the way for German reunification and the spread of democracy across the continent. The abrupt end to Berlin's three decades of physical division triggered great upheaval and...
Tags: Berlin Wall, West Berlin, Berliners, East Berlin, berliners wall, East Germany, Angela Merkel, cold war, east germans, west berliners
Gorbachev 'proud' of role in fall of Berlin Wall
Berlin :: Germany | about 1 month ago
Credibility Mikhail Gorbachev said Tuesday that he was proud of his role in the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago, defending himself against Russian critics who accuse him of losing the Soviet empire. "I am proud that we — and by that I mean both Western and Eastern...
Tags: Berlin Wall, berliners walls, West Berliners, Eastern Europe, Mikhail Gorbachev, Mr. Gorbachev, European, cold war, Barack Obama, world war
Berlin airlift anniversary marked
Berlin :: Germany | 6 months ago
Credibility Ceremonies are taking place in Berlin to mark the 60th anniversary of the ending of the blockade of West Berlin by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. In 1948, Stalin cut off all land links into West Berlin in an attempt to force out British, French and US troops.
Tags: West Berlin, Berlin Airlift, Berliners, Tempelhof Airport, west berliners, berliners airlift, 60th anniversary
Nazi airport turned Berlin lifeline closes
Berlin :: Germany | about 1 year ago
Credibility It has been a piece of Berlin history for 80 years, a symbol of Nazi power but also of Germans' desire for freedom after World War II. Friday, Berlin's Tempelhof Airport will shut its doors for good. Tempelhof was where American and British pilots touched...
Tags: Tempelhof Airport, West Berlin, Berliners, west berliners, Berlin Airlift
Airlift sparks Berliners' emotions 60 years on
Berlin :: Germany | about 1 year ago
Credibility Sixty years after Allied planes streamed into Berlin with vital supplies during the Soviet blockade, a new exhibition tells the story of the people behind the airlift. "Berliners only saw the pilots, but we want to show all the other people involved in...
Tags: Berlin Airlift, West Berlin, berliners airlift, Germany, Berliners, west berliners, cold war, 60th anniversary
Berliners Debate Fate of Blockade Savior
Berlin :: Germany | about 1 year ago
Credibility At the age of 7, Mercedes Wild waved excitedly at each U.S. plane that circled over her Berlin home and landed at Tempelhof Airport, packed with supplies to feed Berliners during the Soviets' Cold War blockade. Today, Wild, 67, is fighting against plans...
Tags: West Berliners, Berlin Wall, Tempelhof Airport, multimedia guide, berliners wall
Tempelhof airport divides Berliners along cold-war lines
Berlin :: Germany | about 1 year ago
Credibility Horst Molkenbuhr still recalls the day in 1948 when the first American C-47 planes landed at the Tempelhof airport, bringing supplies to a city shut off from the world by Soviet tanks. Coming in the wake of World War II, the Allied airlift was remarkable...
Tags: berlin, West Berliners, nazi
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