1989

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• On Being A Twit

  
  ChrisWeigant.com — Authority: 466
  There are big subjects which I should be writing about today. The abortion battle within the Democratic Party, for instance. What Obama is going to announce about our troop commitment in Afghanistan. And, believe it or not, David Hasselhoffs contribution to freedom.
  5 hours ago

• Brotherhood-First Step @ Bremerton WA 2-29-89

  
  Hardcore Show Flyers — Authority: 127
  Brotherhood First Step House Show Bremerton WA 2-29-89
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• Berlin Commemorates Fall of Berlin Wall, 20 Years Later

  
  CafeSentido.com — Authority: 476
  The Berlin Wall separated East and West Berlin, ensuring that capitalist and democratic West Berlin remained surrounded on all sides by the communist German Democratic Republic, where a permanent state of martial law kept millions prisoner for decades. West Germany was forced to move its seat of government to Bonn, to ...
  11 hours ago

• Europe After the Berlin Wall: 4 Surprises

  
  Foreign Policy — Authority: 770
  For Europe the effects of the Berlin Walls collapse were almost as surprising as the fall itself. Here are 4 of the unexpected consequencesthat the end of the Soviet Union had for Europe -- ones even the experts didnt see coming.
  13 hours ago

• Fall of the Berlin Wall: November 9, 1989

  
  Trying Liberty — Authority: 418
  See more on Landmark of Liberty…E. Wesley – Mackinac Center Intern
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• Berlin to get square to mark the fall of the Wall

  
  World Landscape Architect — Authority: 121
  Recently SPIEGEL ONLINE reports that Sinai won the competition to design the new “Platz der 9. November 1989″ (Nov. 9, 1989 Square). The square is to commemorate the day the Berlin Wall was opened when the first East German walked through the gates into the West. Currently the site is somewhat neglected and ...
  19 hours ago

• Sledgehammers and Ice Picks

  
  FRANKENSTEIN1959 — Authority: 121
  This is how I remember the night the Berlin Wall was torn down, twenty years back. Times past. Most of you know about the car that hit me in March of 89, and the night of the Wall coming down had me again at Holy Cross Hospital. Sometime in October, the plates holding together what was left of the bones in my left ...
  23 hours ago

• Solar Eclipses of 1989

  
  Jude's Threshold — Authority: 122
  With today’s 20th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall, I got nosey about which Eclipse influences were around for the year 1989 and thus possibly affecting events of a world-shattering kind. Nov 9, 1989 falls within the second Solar Eclipse of the year, but for background, let’s consider the first 1989 ...
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• A 20-Year Memory: The End of a Wall

  
  Wanderings of a Post-Modern Pilgrim — Authority: 132
  Robert Frost knew that there is something that doesnt love a wall. That was as true for a government sanctioned wall as it was for one in a New England field.(pmPilgrim Photo; August 1970)It was twenty years ago this week that the Berlin Wall came down. A fact of life in Berlin for over 28 years and a symbol of the ...
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• Raw Video from Fall of Berlin Wall

  
  CafeSentido.com — Authority: 476
  This video shows original video footage from 12 November 1989, taken at various sites both before sunrise and later that morning. The video focuses on Potsdamer Platz and records the tearing down of the Berlin Wall and the jubilation of those who flocked to the historic celebration.
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• Flashback – Video of the Day the Berlin Wall Came Down – How Bitter Sweet for Americans Today

  
  The Lonely Conservative — Authority: 607
  I was watching these videos posted at Breitbart TV and just felt sad. Not that the Berlin Wall fell – what a great day for humanity – just sad that so many of our fellow Americans failed to learn the lesson of that day. Sad that the leftists in America have been biding their time, and now their time has come. ...
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• Bolt Thrower-Decadence Within-Exit Condition @ Fullham Greyhound London England 12-8-89

  
  Hardcore Show Flyers — Authority: 127
  Bolt Thrower Decadence Within Exit Condition Fullham Greyhound London England 12-8-89
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• With candles and with great courage ...

  
  Of life, laughter and liturgy . . . — Authority: 474
  Today at lunchtime we met at the pieces of the Berlin wall in the garden of the ecumenical centre for prayers . A visitor from outside the house asked "so which side was in the east and which in the west?" I explained that it would not have been possible to paint the eastern side with gaffitti. This led me to say ...
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• Whatup Berlin

  
  benperry.net — Authority: 103
  Way to go in 1989, German people, 20 years later. Twenty-eight years is a long time to live behind a wall. There are not many explosions of freedom in history, and this was one of the greatest.
  1 day ago

• The Berlin Wall’s Last Prisoner

  
  Debbie Schlussel — Authority: 625
  By Debbie Schlussel**** SCROLL DOWN FOR UPDATE ****As you, no doubt, know, today is the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, which began to come down on November 9, 1989.  I’m glad it came down and that Communism fell in Europe.  However, perhaps instead of saying, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down that ...
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• Jeffrey Wasserstrom: The German Wall That Fell – And the Chinese Regime That Didn’t

  
  China Digital Times (CDT) — Authority: 564
  For the Huffington Post, Jeffrey Wasserstrom reviews David Shambaugh’s China’s Communist Party: Atrophy and Adaptation in light of commemorations of the fall of the Berlin Wall : Written by a high-profile political scientist and published in hard cover in 2008 and then in a paperback edition this year, ...
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• Breaking bread on the morning of the day the Berlin wall fell ...

  
  Of life, laughter and liturgy . . . — Authority: 474
  On the morning of 9th November 1989 I was one of the twenty or so ministry students at the Predigerseminar in Wittenberg. We had 10 day modules allowing for a four day weekend beginning after lunch on the Thursday. The Thursday mornings were for our "Auswertungsrunde". Believe me you cannot really understand the ...
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• 20th Anniversay of the Fall of the Berlin Wall

  
  David Westerfield > Weblog — Authority: 419
  NewsNote: Moral Clarity and the Fall of the Wall – Albert Mohler This day 20 years ago, November 9, 1989, was the day the Berlin Wall fell and Communist forces conceded their oppressive reign. I was ten years old and although I didn’t understand the full implications at the time, I can still remember watching ...
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• Here Comes the Zoo

  
  Erik's Choice — Authority: 127
  Twenty years in the blink of an eye. Before the Wall came down, though , Berlin was a dark Mecca for artists. David Bowie and Iggy Pop created some of their most compelling work while living in Berlin in the mid-to-late 70s: Low, "Heroes," Lodger, The Idiot, Lust for Life. Kraftwerk was ratcheting up their ...
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• The Rift that Began in Tiananmen Square

  
  Foreign Policy — Authority: 770
  When Deng Xiaoping met with Mikhail Gorbachev in May 1989, neither communist leader could have predicted that the events simultaneously transpiring in Tiananmen Square would ricochet around the world -- all the way to the Berlin Wall.
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