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The fall of the Berlin Wall ... The evening of 9 November 1989 is known as the night the Wall came down. [42] Walking through Checkpoint Charlie, 10 November 1989.
Late on 9 November, Harris received a call from then-editor of The Independent, Andreas Whittam Smith – the wall was about to come down. At around 10.30pm, Harris caught the first breach of the ...
The Day the Wall Came Down (1996) by Veryl Goodnight, a statue depicting horses leaping over actual pieces of the Berlin Wall In 1982, the West-German artist Elsner [ de ] created about 500 artworks along the former border strip around West Berlin as part of his work series Border Injuries .
The imposing wall that divided East Germany from the West was constructed in August 1961, and began to fall November 9, 1989. 13 iconic photos of the Berlin Wall coming down 27 years ago Skip to ...
The second, finished in 1998, was given as a gift from the United States to Germany, and is located at Clayallee near the Allied Museum in the former American sector of Berlin. [2] Each sculpture weighs approximately seven tons and measures 30 feet (9.1 m) long by 18 feet (5.5 m) wide by 12 feet (3.7 m) high.
The Wall – Live in Berlin was a live concert performance by Roger Waters and numerous guest artists, of the Pink Floyd studio album The Wall, itself largely written by Waters during his time with the band. The show was held in Berlin on 21 July 1990, to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall eight months earlier.
The Malta Summit took place between U.S. President George H. W. Bush and U.S.S.R. leader Mikhail Gorbachev on 2–3 December 1989, just a few weeks after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a meeting which contributed to the end of the Cold War [115] partially as a result of the broader pro-democracy movement. It was their second meeting following a ...
As the U.S. government built its latest stretch of border wall, Mexico made a statement of its own by laying remains of the Berlin Wall a few steps away. The 3-ton pockmarked, gray concrete slab ...