Berlin Wall

The "Pawn Stars" (Mon., 10 p.m. ET on History) held a piece of mid-20th-century history in their hands Monday night. A seller approached them with a sign that used to hang on the Berlin Wall plus a letter from a U.S. army captain verifying its ...  

Last week, one of its leaders, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY), introduced legislation to ... founder Eduardo Saverin recently gave up his U.S. citizenship and moved to low-tax Singapore. Saverin, who was born in Brazil, immigrated to America ...  

At the height of the Cold War with the Soviet Union, U.S. President Ronald Reagan implored the Soviets to tear down the Berlin Wall which separated East and West Berlin.  The speech became known as "Remarks at the Brandenburg Gate" or the ...  

And worse. They’re really all the same now: Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, East Germany, North Korea … and now, the USSA. It is of no surprise to me that the same kinds of warmongers – from Honest Abe Lincoln waging war against separatists and ...  

Sens. Schumer and Casey want to loot successsful people at an even greater rate if they are "EX-PATRIOTS." That is, if they seek to wrench Uncle Slam's boot off their necks, and claws out of their wallets, by moving to a freer country. Oh, and they would bar expats from returning to the US as [...]  

Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin's decision to renounce his U.S. citizenship came just prior to that company's announcement of its initial public offering. With that move he can escape the minimum 15% capital gains tax in the United States. Saverin can take his expected $67 million in savings to Singapore where he now resides since it has no capital gains taxes. Saverin's tax avoidance strategy has raised the dander of Democratic Senator...  

I remember seeing the wall come down on television. Back then, I was just a kid, and I had the impression that the Wall separated West Germany from East Germany, that it went across the country, and that Berlin was on the border. Berlin itself was far in East German territory, in the northeast of the country, though. Because it was the capitol of both Nazi Germany, Weimar Germany, and Kaiser Germany, Berlin was occupied by all of the forces...  

A few paces from where the Berlin wall once divided the city's communist East from the West a Macedonian artist has built a new barrier, this time to separate the rich from the poor.  

BERLIN (Reuters) - A few paces from where the Berlin wall once divided the city's communist East from the West a Macedonian artist has built a new barrier, this time to separate the rich from the poor. Nada Prlja's black stone wall, called the "Peace Wall ...  

A man writes at the art work "Peace Wall" by Macedonian artist Nada Prlja erected as part of the Berlin Art Biennale art festival block the Friedrichstrasse street, nearby the former allied Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin, May 8, 2012. REUTERS/Tobias Schwarz ...  

Sydney Morning HeraldVisit the Berlin Wall's East Side GalleryBusiness Travel DestinationsConstruction of the Berlin Wall began on August 13, 1961, and served as a barrier between East Germany and West Germany until November 9, 1989, the date for the Fall of the Berlin Wall. East Germany began construction of a wire fence in the middle of ...Checkpoint Charlie's new cold war with the hot dog vendorsThe GuardianCheckpoint Charlie divided...  

Berlin Wall In memory of a good friend. Original Song Berlin Wall © 2011 Amelia Rose singing/acoustic, Sean Mikuriya on guitar. Rehearsal NOV 2011 Pelican Pond Studios From: flooferz Views: 0 0 ratings Time: 04:47 More in Music  

spokesman for Berlin's Art Biennale show. The Peace Wall, is part of the Biennale, which this year focuses on political art, and will stand for two months.  

Photographer Stefan Koppelkamm first photographed East Germany in 1990 after the fall of the Berlin Wall but before the reunification. He revisited the same locations a decade later, and rephotographed them from exactly the same viewpoints to document the drastic social and economic transformations that came about during the time between the photos.  

BERLIN - 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 green belt that offers a surreal ride into Berlin history. The “Berliner Mauerweg” (Berlin Wall ...  

İstanbul's SALT Beyoğlu art gallery is hosting work produced between the May 1968 student and workers' revolt in France and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 from the collection of the Eindhoven-based Van Abbemuseum modern art museum and by Turkish ...  

Sean Penn's joke about Berlin Wall doesn't leave Gorbachev laughingChicago Sun-TimesAfter Gorbachev's speech to students at Von Steuben High School was repeatedly interrupted by cellphones going off, Penn jokingly referred to former President Ronald Reagan's famous 1987 demand that Gorbachev tear down the Berlin Wall.and more »  

Brandi Galloway-Kelly still vividly recalls the date she looked out of the window at her home - Nov. 9, 1989. "There was a huge crowd coming down the street," she said earlier this week. "They were so excited, and I didn't realize then I was seeing a part of history."  

BERLIN (Reuters) - Erich Honecker's widow Margot has belittled the 136 people killed while trying to escape over the Berlin Wall during the Cold War, calling them stupid in an interview with German television aired on Monday evening. Known as the "Purple ...  

It wasn’t long after the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 that monuments started forming, according to Gabi Dolff-Bonekäemper, professor of conservation at the Institute of Urban and Regional Planning at the Technical University of Berlin.  

“When the Berlin Wall crumbled, no one wept for its fall. On the other hand, people of both sides were joyous and celebrating it. The souvenirs collected from the ramparts of the ideological barrier are even now kept in many homes all over the World.  

DAWN.comGerman woman denies killing three babies found in coolersDAWN.comPeople peer through a section of the former Berlin Wall at the wall memorial “Bernauer Strasse” in Berlin November 9, 2009, during day-long celebrations to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. - Reuters Photo BERLIN: A German woman ...and more »  

On Thursday, "Piers Morgan Tonight" welcomed Maury Povich and Connie Chung for an honest and engaging sit down interview. Boasting 75 years of combined television experience, the husband and wife duo shared their journalism memories: "Covering ...  

For instance, it did not treat East Germans as foreigners. On November 9, 1989, a few sections of the Berlin Wall were opened, resulting in thousands of East Germans crossing into West Berlin and West Germany for the first time. Krenz resigned a few days ...  

The Voice of RussiaGerman business lobbies visa-free regime with RussiaThe Voice of RussiaVisa barriers have hampered economic ties in Europe since the fall of the Berlin Wall over two decades ago, say Germany's six large economic organizations that represent the interests of exporters and the industry. They demanded abolishing visa ...and more »  

Ford Revs Up Taurus SHO With Futuristic MakeoverBusinessWeekThe Berlin Wall is still standing, Toyota never became a household name and the Ford (F) (F) Taurus is still the best-selling car in America. These are the good makings of a science-fiction novel, plotting an alternative timeline to our own.and more »