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President Barack Obama has paid tribute to the fall 20 years ago of the Berlin Wall in a video message to the main anniversary event.
A selection of comments from ceremonies, remembrances of the 20th anniversary of the collapse of the Berlin Wall.
While interviewing President Barack Obama in Dresden, Germany, in June, I reminded him that we were now in what used to be East Germany and that this year would be the 20th anniversary of the collapse of the Berlin Wall.
The Berlin Wall stood for nearly three decades, the most potent symbol of Cold War divisions. Its collapse helped herald the wider collapse of communism across eastern Europe.
As Germany celebrated the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on Monday, more subdued tributes were held to mark the 71st anniversary of the Nazi's Kristallnacht anti-Semitic pogrom.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton congratulated Germans on the 20-year anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall at a meeting Monday with Angela Merkel, Germany's first chancellor from the former communist East.
With concerts and memorials on Monday, Germans will celebrate the day the Berlin Wall came crashing down 20 years ago.
Nuclear impasses with Iran and North Korea are the dominant issues for Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on her trip to Europe and Asia, which begins with a stopover in Germany to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall's fall.
Ulrich Sauff and his wife stared at the mammoth domino pieces marking the path where the Berlin Wall once stood and reminisced about life in the barrier's shadow.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will lead a U.S. delegation to Germany for next week's 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the White House said Friday.
In 1991, I was backpacking Europe and spent the day walking along the Berlin Wall. I smashed away chunks of it with an iron bar in a quiet section, while a blond German boy tagged along, helping me to find good pieces (I bought him a hot dog for lunch). On my train to Amsterdam I realized I had left my rocks on the station platform, so in the middle of the night I got off at a deserted station, waited hours for the next train back, and went back to Berlin. The rocks were gone so I had to smash away more pieces. I have one on my desk at work. —
The Berlin Wall's longest remaining stretch has been restored to its state of nearly two decades ago after artists repainted the colorful murals they created in the aftermath of the notorious barrier's opening.
LITTLE STUKELEYS, England - It lacks the windswept beauty of Stonehenge or the Tower of London's regal history but that hasn’t stopped a 20-year-old bunker left obsolete by the fall of the Berlin Wall from joining those two landmarks on Britain's fabled list of historic gems.
On the night of Nov. 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall — the stark, menacing symbol of the Cold War — came crashing down, suddenly and dramatically.
Irish rockers U2 returned to Berlin for a free mini-concert Thursday in front of the Brandenburg Gate, playing its classic singles and a duet with Jay-Z even as the show was obscured from public view by a nearly 6-1/2-foot (two-meter) high metal barrier.
Stroke by stroke, Gerhard Kriedner applied pink acrylic paint with a small brush on a 14-yard stretch of the Berlin Wall, recreating the mural he first painted months after the Berlin Wall came down on Nov. 9, 1989.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel marked the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall by exhorting the world in a speech to Congress on Tuesday to "tear down the walls of today" and reach a deal to combat global warming.
Three statesmen who oversaw the fall of the Berlin Wall that led to the collapse of communism in Europe gathered Saturday in Germany's capital to reflect on the changes they helped usher in 20 years ago.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel will meet President Barack Obama and address the U.S. Congress on Tuesday before ceremonies in Berlin marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
The Berlin Wall is gone, but people can still tag their memories on it online.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel will address the U.S. Congress in early November, ahead of ceremonies in Berlin marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Chancellor Angela Merkel vowed Monday to have a new center-right German government in place by the time Germany marks 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall on Nov. 9. She said tax cuts were possible in 2011, but rejected spending cutbacks that might strangle an incipient economic recovery.
Germany celebrates the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 Nov 1989More than 100,000 people celebrated the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9 1989 - world leaders gathered in the German capital for commemorations marking the spread of freedom across Europe.
Obama, West, reread Fukuyama to the end, and look EastThe Western footprint on the world is about to get a whole lot smaller.
One Wall Falls, Another RisesThe day when the Wall came down in Berlin, I and many other advocates for liberty in the greater Middle East hoped to see the wave of liberation hit our shores too.
An Invisible WallAn interesting perspective on the Berlin wall and the aftermath from a German pastor who was in the sixth grade in East Germany at the time. Gives us in the West some interesting insight into how this momentous event has influenced Christianity among Germans.
Zizek: 20 Years of Collapse - "If capitalism is really so much better than Socialism, why are our lives still miserable?"TODAY is the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
20 Years of Collapse As many commentators observed, the ideals that led the protesters were to a large extent taken from the ruling Socialist ideology itself — people aspired to something that can most appropriately be designated as "Socialism with a human face." Perhaps this attitude deserves …
It is said that societies that do not know history are doomed to repeat it. In some sense then it is fitting that today, November the 9th, will pass in relative obscurity for most Americans.
Berlin celebrates demise of WallWorld leaders are due to join thousands of people marking 20 years since the Berlin Wall's fall, an event that paved the way for the end of the Cold War.
The Victory of the Cross by Newt Gingrich, Callista Gingrich, and Vince Haley As we remember in gratitude the demise of the Berlin Wall and the defeat of Soviet Communism, let us also remember that when human freedom and dignity were under assault during the Cold War, Pope John Paul II and President Ronald Reagan were in agreement that the spiritual nature …
Free market flawed, says survey Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a new BBC poll has found widespread dissatisfaction with free-market capitalism. In the global poll for the BBC World Service, only 11% of those questioned across 27 countries said that it was working well.
President Obama skipping Berlin Wall 20th anniversaryI saw on the CNN website Newt Gingrich was making a huge deal about the President not going to Berlin for the 20th anniversary for the wall coming down. I think it is more important for him to go to Ft. Hood Texas for the memorial service then going to Berlin for the wall.
Perspectives on the fall of the Berlin WallWe make fun of Nostradamus and numerologists, but give editors an anniversary and the floodgates open. We're anniversary-ologists, as USA Today might say.
Today's ticker brought an interesting story across, Quote "Some consider President Obama's refusal to attend the commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in Germany next week an outrage, I consider it a tragedy." Considering that only a month ago Repub …
Obama takes heat for skipping Berlin wall anniversary"Some consider President Obama's refusal to attend the commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in Germany next week an outrage, I consider it a tragedy." Gingrich wrote.
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Outrage (and Irony) over wall blocking free U2 Berlin concert - Yahoo! NewsFans hoping to glimpse U2's free concert celebrating 20 years since the Berlin Wall fell were outraged Thursday to find that a nearly 6-1/2-foot (2-meter) high metal barrier was installed to block the view for those without tickets.
Brits put Cold War bunker on preservation listA 20-year-old U.S. built bunker left obsolete by the fall of the Berlin Wall has joined world-famous landmarks on Britain's fabled list of historic gems.
Witness: The News Conference That Toppled the Berlin Wall"Volker Warkentin, a correspondent for the German language service in Berlin, has worked for Reuters for 31 years. In the following story, he describes the East German government news conference on travel freedom that unexpectedly led to the opening of the Berlin."
Midweek Herald - The Berlin Wall 25 years BEFORE it fellA very interesting account of the Berlin Wall from the point of view of a British gentleman and his time in Berlin.
Berlin Wall Anniversary Sparks Look At History November 9 marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
November has some important dates to remember. Days never to be forgotten.
As mentioned previously stated the city of Los Angeles in conjunction with the Wende Museum, The Federal Republic of Germany Counsle in Los Angeles, and the city of Berlin are recreating a page of history.
German teens to recreate Berlin WallGerman teenagers create about 1,000 oversized, colorful dominos to rebuild the Berlin Wall - before they're toppled, 20 years after the original fell.
Berlin 'Twitter Wall' lets people write on wallThe Berlin Wall is gone, but people can still tag their memories on it online on the Berlin Twitter Wall, which encourages people to share their memories of the wall's 1989 collapse and hopes for the future.
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