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'Pawn Stars': How Much For A Piece Of Cold War History?

Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: TV Canada, History, Reality TV, Canada Tv, Video, Pawnbrokers, Pawn Stars, Tv Replay, Berlin Wall, Pawn Shops, Las Vegas, TV News

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 ...

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Dictator's Widow Brands Regime's Victims 'Criminals'

The Huffington Post | Mark Hanrahan | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Communism, Video, Iron Curtain, Gdr, Eastern Europe, Stasi, Margot Honecker, Erich Honecker, Berlin Wall, Cold War, German Democratic Republic, Fall of Berlin Wall, Soviet Union, World News

Margot Honecker, the widow of East Germany's communist dictator Erich Honecker, has given a defiant interview in which she defends her late husband an...

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The Warm War

D. R. Tucker | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Berlin Wall, David Axelrod, Barack Obama, American Petroleum Institute, Citizens Climate Lobby, Steve Valk, Sheldon Whitehouse, Obama Climate Change, Green News
D. R. Tucker

By giving a rousing "State of the Climate Address," Obama would draw a line in the sand between reason and recklessness, a line between concerned mothers and the Koch brothers.

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PHOTOS: 2011: A Year Of Anniversaries

Posted 12.30.2011

Read More: Year-in-Review, Photos, Photography, Civil War, Anniversaries, Historical Photos, Getty Images, Exposure, Berlin Wall, Jfk, Photojournalism, Culture News

Each year, Getty Images compiles its "Year in Focus", a curated collection of some of the best images of the year that were captured by Getty Images' ...

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WATCH: Why Potsdamer Platz Is Berlin's Place To Be

Arne Schmidt and Claudia Hirschberger | Posted 01.11.2012

Read More: Berlin Film Festival, Berlin Wall, Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, Video, International Cities, International Destinations, Destinations, Travel News
Arne Schmidt and Claudia Hirschberger

Having been a no man's land for many decades, Potsdamer Platz has returned to the middle of the now-reunited city. A look at what's changed and what remains the same at Berlin's ever-controversial plaza.

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Occupy Wall Street Must End the Dictatorship - of Corporations

Roberto Lovato | Posted 12.07.2011

Read More: Dictatorship in America, And the End of History, Corporate Citizenship and Occupy Wall Street, The End of History, Troy Davis Execution, Roberto Lovato and Occupy Wall Street, Francis Fukuyama, Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street, Tea Party Movement, Troy Davis Death Penalty, Dictatorship and Occupy Wall Street, Tim Geithner and Wall Street, Corporate Citizenship, Tim Geithner, Occupy Wall Street, Troy Davis and Occupy Wall Street, Berlin Wall, Immigration and Ocupy Wall Street, Corporate Greed, Obama and Wall Street, #Occupywallstreet, Troy Davis, Latino Voices News
Roberto Lovato

Occupy Wall Street represents a Great Awakening to the need to rescue our free speech and other democratic spaces humiliated by Big Corporations that the Supreme Court protects legally; that the police protect physically; that the media protects culturally and that White House and Congress protect politically.

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Reflections on a Visit to Germany

Diane Ravitch | Posted 10.01.2011

Read More: Nazi Germany, Germany, Berlin, Jewish, Holocaust, Judaism, Auschwitz, Religious Persecution, Berlin Wall, Travel News
Diane Ravitch

Being Jewish is part of my identity. So, the question I asked myself as I packed for the trip was whether I could see Germany as it is now, not as the homeland of the Third Reich.

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Berlin's 'Palace Of Tears' Reopens As Museum

Posted 11.15.2011

Read More: Slideadbigshot, International Destinations, Germany Travel, Checkpoint Charlie, East and West Germany, Berlin Wall, Berlin Travel, Europe Travel, Destinations, Berlin, Travel News

The Berlin passport and customs office known during the Cold War as the “Palace of Tears” was reopened this week by Chancellor Angela Merkel as a ...

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Merkel Debuts New Berlin Wall Memorial

AP | Posted 11.14.2011

Read More: Germany, Angela Merkel, Palace of Tears, Berlin Wall, East Berlin, Merkel, Berlin Wall Memorial, East Germany, Berlin, World News

BERLIN -- Chancellor Angela Merkel has opened a permanent exhibition on Germany's Cold War past at what was once one of East Berlin's busiest border c...

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Conor O'Clery's Moscow, December 25, 1991 Captures End of Soviet Union

Steve Kettmann | Posted 11.13.2011

Read More: Boris Yeltsin, Politics, Mikhail Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan, Kremlin, Cold War, 1991, Berlin Wall, Moscow, December 25, 1991 Book, 1991 Book Review, Books News
Steve Kettmann

The dissolution of the Soviet empire -- and the resulting end of the Cold War -- is the single most decisive development of recent decades and yet we remain ignorant of what happened -- and why.

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PHOTOS: Cold War Spy Photos Featured In German Exhibition

The Huffington Post | Curtis M. Wong | Posted 10.18.2011

Read More: Simon Menner, Pictures From the Secret Stasi Archives, Germany, East Germany Espionage, East German Spies, Berlin Wall, Cold War, East Germany, Berlin, The Cold War, World News

Though these images look as if they could have taken from the set of an upcoming James Bond film, they actually represent something disturbingly more ...

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PHOTOS: LIFE Looks Back At A Divided Germany

Posted 10.12.2011

Read More: Berlin Wall 50th Anniversary, West Germany, Germany, Slidepollajax, Berlin Wall Anniversary, Cold War, Berlin Wall, World War II, East Germany, World News

Just as the post-World War II haze started to settle, Germany began erecting the Berlin Wall, a barrier which divided both the city and, ideologically...

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PHOTOS: Berlin Wall Photographer Looks Back On Anniversary

Posted 10.12.2011

Read More: Berlin Wall Anniversary, Nazi Germany, Peter Hillebrecht, Cold War, World War II, Berlin Wall, Germany, Berlin, World News

BERLIN (AP) — Fifty years after his pictures of the Berlin Wall going up were published around the globe, former AP photographer Peter Hillebrecht s...

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Childhood Vaccines: Music to the World's Ears

Bill Roedy | Posted 08.16.2011

Read More: Vaccines, Child Mortality, South Africa, Nelson Mandela, U2 Sarajevo, Childhood Vaccinations, Immunizations, Berlin Wall, Childhood-Immunization, Rock and Roll, Bono, Impact News
Bill Roedy

Each year more than 1.7 million children die from vaccine-preventable diseases. Childhood immunization has the power to change this. I am calling on CEOs and corporate executives to join me in the fight to reduce child mortality.

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This Man Literally Makes Love To Cars

Posted 08.09.2011

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Most people were happy to see the Berlin Wall fall. Though she's no Soviet, one woman regarded it like a fallen lover. Erika Eiffel, the founder of t...

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Will Foreign Aid Dollars Help or Hurt Democracy in the Middle East?

Janine R. Wedel | Posted 08.02.2011

Read More: Communism, Foreign Aid, Eastern Europe, Arab Spring, Tunisia, Egypt, G8, Berlin Wall, World News
Janine R. Wedel

The goal of handing out foreign aid to foster "civil society" always sounds noble and well-intentioned. But you'll forgive someone like me for being skeptical about the results. There is no substitute for local knowledge. Democracy is never a simple translation.

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Tough

Craig K. Comstock | Posted 07.26.2011

Read More: Toughness, Frederick Kempe, Berlin Crisis, John Kennedy, Brent Scowcroft, Berlin Wall, Nikita Khruschev, Cuban Missile Crisis, Vienna Summit, Bay of Pigs, World News
Craig K. Comstock

Does a new U.S. President need to show he is tough by threatening or committing a violent act? Some say it's dangerous not to.

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Astoria Characters: The Genial Beer Garden Host

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 07.24.2011

Read More: Astoria, Harley-Davidson, Hamptons, Newark, Motorcycle, Bohemian Hall & Beer Garden, Sissy Spacek, Czechoslovakia, Astoria Characters, Yugoslavia, Berlin Wall, Larry Spacek, Corona Extra, Beer Gardens Nyc, New York News
Nancy Ruhling

When Larry Spacek, a Czech immigrant, was asked to manage the Bohemian Hall & Beer Garden, he jumped at the chance. "This is a payback to my heritage," he says.

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'Berlin 1961': The Kennedy Blunders That Brought Us To The Brink Of War (PHOTOS)

Frederick Kempe | Posted 07.16.2011

Read More: Nikita Khrushchev, Berlin Wall, Cold War, President Kennedy, Berlin Crisis, Cuban Missile Crisis, John F. Kennedy, Slidepollajax, Books News
Frederick Kempe

It was June of 1961, and the setting was neutral Vienna. This first and last Kennedy-Khrushchev summit would prove to be one of the most explosive and decisive meetings ever of the two most powerful leaders of their time.

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Books: Berlin, 1961: The Most Dangerous Place On Earth

Michael Giltz | Posted 07.11.2011

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Nikita Kruschev, Frederick Kempe, Cold War, Berlin Wall, Berlin, Books, Books News
Michael Giltz

A tense turning point of the Cold War is captured effectively with Frederick Kempe's page-turning book, a solid work of popular history that should be one of the breakout titles of the year.

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Bundy and Santa Monica, Tear Down This Fence

Joel Epstein | Posted 06.20.2011

Read More: Santa Monica Blvd, Dodgers Stadium, Ronald Reagan, Bundy Drive, Frank Mccourt, La Metro, Councilman Bill Rosendahl, Homeless, America Fast Forward, Big Blue Bus, Ciclavia, Jane Jacobs, West LA, Berlin Wall, Los Angeles News
Joel Epstein

Ever hopeful that LA will become a more transit-oriented city complete with streets, parks and bike lanes, I am launching my own little campaign to improve LA by reopening a shuttered West LA park.

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Living History: Retracing Family Roots in Berlin

Melanie Nayer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Memorial to the Murdred Jews of Europe, Holocaust Memorial, Holocaust, Brandenburg Gate, Peter Eisenman, Germany, Third Reich, Travel, Europe, Berlin Wall, Berlin, Travel News
Melanie Nayer

In Berlin, I walked through history, retracing the roots of my family tree and immersing myself in the dark past of my Jewish heritage. What must it have been like to wonder if tomorrow would be better than today?

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Cairo Sunshine All Around -- Reflecting on the Rebirth of My Birthplace

Raffi Cavoukian | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt Protests, Social Media, Social, Egypt, Creativity, Internet, Raffi, Cairo, Pyramids, Censorship, Mecca, Tahrir Square, World Peace, Berlin Wall, Music, Global Warming, World News
Raffi Cavoukian

Egypt's revolution is humanity's. And as a revolution enhanced by social media before the state silenced them, the Cairo scenario begs a question.

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Can Obama (or Anyone) Make America Purple?

Deepak Chopra | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sarah Palin Blood Libel, Red and Blue States, Obama Presidency, Tucson Shooting, Blood Libel, Berlin Wall, Barack Obama, Social Security, Sarah Palin, Politics News
Deepak Chopra

Crisis creates temporary unity, but the threat of catastrophe works longer and stronger to bring people together. My hope is that the tipping point has arrived.

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Will the Real America Please Stand Up?

Ethan Casey | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York Review of Books, Islamabad, Berlin Wall, Gabrielle Giffords, Punjab, Salmaan Taseer, Pakistan, Politics News
Ethan Casey

Pakistan was still reeling from the assassination of a Punjab governor when the news broke about Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson. What does one have to do with the other? All too much.

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