Berlin Wall Trail: Cycling Guide - A Route for Cyclists, Hikers and Skaters Along the Path of the Former Berlin Wall - BIKE.046.E (Cycline)
The Independent (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
It has taken Robert Huth longer than he expected to make his debut for Stoke City. His debut, that is, as a centre-half, the position in which he played for Chelsea and Middlesbrough, and in which he won his 17 caps for Germany before being bought by the Potters for a club record £5m last summer.
Workers World news online (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Berlin Wall–so maligned and condemned by war-making imperialists and hand-wringing liberals alike–was nothing but a picket line on a much larger scale.
Tenerife News Online (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
In 1959, just fifty years ago, I was in Berlin with the British Army. The infamous wall had not yet been built round the whole city, which was divided into four sectors, Russian, American, French and British.
No Caption Needed (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
This week we feature a CBS report that celebrates the twentieth anniversary of the fall of Berlin Wall by drawsing upon the work and reminiscences of photojournalist (and longtime friend of NCN) Peter Turnley. Click on the image to view the video, or click here to read his column on the fall of the Wall [...]
Dothan Eagle (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Mikhail Gorbachev got credit, and even President John F. Kennedy got a mention, but nothing for former President Reagan. How soon we forget! Let’s not allow the revisionists to reverse true history.
Iowa Progress (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Kent Sorenson, who is running against Staci Appel in Senate District 37, is touting that he had Ron Paul appear at a fundraiser. But what he didn’t mention is Ron Paul thinks that fall of the Berlin Wall was a bad thing. Two weeks ago, Ron Paul voted against a resolution that celebrated the fall [...]
Andy's Angle (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
...aside from a good natured shout of "How 'bout them Buckeyes!!!" Perhaps the Coolest Picture EVER -- Courtesy of Boston.com, the most amazing picture of the Brandenburg Gate Quadriga I've ever seen. Thanks to John Phipps for the tip. There are some amazing before and after pics of Berlin and the Wall. Also a good time to remember Ronald Reagan, the greatest American President of the 20th...
Celestial Junk (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Steyn: My radio pal Hugh Hewitt said to me on the air the other day that Barack Obama “doesn’t know how to be president.” It was a low but effective crack and I didn’t pay it much heed. But, after musing on it over the last week or so, it seems to me frighteningly literally true. I don’t just mean social lapses like his latest cringe-making bow, this time to Their Imperial...
GayandRight (Free subscription) | yesterday
Talk about bad taste... The November issue of easyJet In-flight contained two pictures of models posing at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, also known as the Field of Stelae. The memorial is Germany's most prominent monument to the six million Jews killed in the Nazi genocide. The pictures accompanied a feature marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall. Denis MacShane,...
A Heart Can Stop A Bullet (Free subscription) | yesterday
AKRON/FAMILY (London Garage, 17/11/09) Chaos lies at the heart of all Akron/Family gigs, which means there's always a risk that a given show may collapse into pretention at any time. Tonight, this occurs with even more regularity than normal, but not even a surplus of self-indulgence could detract from an often excellent and inventive performance. Veering away from the folkier end of the musical spectrum...
Pundit & Pundette (Free subscription) | yesterday
On our eminently unqualified president:Along with his choreographic gaucherie goes his peculiar belief that all of human history is just a bit of colorful backstory in the Barack Obama biopic — or as he put it in his video address on the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall:“Few would have foreseen on that day that a united Germany would be led by a woman from Brandenburg or...
TechConnect Magazine (Free subscription) | yesterday
Three months after announcing it, the Twitter team has now released the Geotagging API which unlocks location features for users of the increasingly-popular micro-blogging service. The arrival of the API won't lead to any changes to the actual site but will mean changes to Twitter application which, once they are updated to support geotagging, will be able to provide location information together with...
i On Global Trends (Free subscription) | yesterday
National Security Archive - Secret messages from senior Soviet officials to West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl after the fall of the Berlin Wall led directly to Kohl's famous "10 Points" speech on German unification, but the speech produced shock in both Moscow and Washington, according to documents from Soviet, German and American files posted today on the Web by the National Security Archive....
Right, Wing-Nut! (Free subscription) | yesterday
Despite the release of dozens of emails between British climatologists discussing how to fudge their data to keep the myth of global warming alive, the New York Times chooses to keep the faith, albeit blindly: The documents will undoubtedly raise questions about the quality of research on some specific questions and the actions of some scientists. But the evidence pointing to a growing human contribution...
John's World (Free subscription) | yesterday
A fast two decades... As someone who read about the Berlin airlift in the Weekly Reader , the idea of the Berlin Wall being gone for twenty years was arresting. So were these photos. [ More ]
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