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Tracing the Peaceful Revolution in eastern Germany
Leipzig, Germany - Sabine Gugutschkow is a tour guide in her home city of Leipzig in eastern Germany. In many cases, it is schoolchildren whom she takes to the original locations where Leipzig's Peaceful Revolution took place in 1989 - the demonstrat...
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2009-10-20 ] Category : [
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School to apologize for Nazi behavior at war museum
Wellington - Several New Zealand secondary school students who kissed a swastika and made Nazi salutes at the country's Auckland war museum are to apologize Tuesday (NZT) for their actions. The five boys from the public school Auckland Grammar were a...
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2009-10-20 ] Category : [
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Merkel opens Berlin museum after 11 years renovation work
Berlin - German Chancellor Angela Merkel opened Friday Berlin's historic Neues Museum (New Museum) seven decades after it was virtually reduced to rubble by World War II air raids and following 11 years of restoration. The makeover of the 1855 buildi...
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2009-10-16 ] Category : [
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Lorca mass grave to be opened 'immediately' in Spain
Granada, Spain - The southern Spanish region of Andalusia is to begin opening mass graves, one of which is believed to contain the remains of Spain's most universal modern poet Federico Garcia Lorca, officials said Friday. Justice official Begona Alv...
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2009-10-16 ] Category : [
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Mueller weeps as she remembers poet who survived camps
Frankfurt - Herta Mueller, winner of this year's Nobel Prize for Literature, wept Wednesday as she remembered a fellow ethnic German poet from Romania who collaborated with her on her latest book. Mueller was picked last week for the prize for a body...
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2009-10-14 ] Category : [
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