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Watching the Berlin Wall come down - from the East - Feature
London- Moments after Guenter Schabowski announced the opening of East Germany's borders with the West - almost as if it were an afterthought - shouts of The Wall must go (Die Mauer muss weg) could be heard from Berlin's Brandenburg Gate. The then ...

[Posted on : 2009-10-20 ] Category : [ Culture (General) ]

ANALYSIS: Unexpected fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 still resonates
Berlin - Nobody expected the fall of the Berlin Wall. Certainly, there had been rumours that something was changing. Polish voters had kicked out their Communist leaders and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev had essentially said that it was time for a ...

[Posted on : 2009-10-20 ] Category : [ Culture (General) ]

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...

[Posted on : 2009-10-20 ] Category : [ Culture (General) ]

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...

[Posted on : 2009-10-20 ] Category : [ Culture (General) ]

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...

[Posted on : 2009-10-16 ] Category : [ Culture (General) ]

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...

[Posted on : 2009-10-16 ] Category : [ Culture (General) ]

Israel demands Germany return manuscript of Kafka's The Trial
Jerusalem - Israel is demanding that Germany's Museum of Modern Literature return the original manuscript of Frank Kafka's novel The Trial, accusing the German archive of duplicity in the way it obtained the manuscript. The Israeli Ha'aretz daily r...

[Posted on : 2009-10-16 ] Category : [ Culture (General) ]

Spanish novelist Angeles Caso wins Planeta literature prize
Madrid - Spanish novelist Angeles Caso, 50, has been awarded this year's Planeta Prize, the most lucrative literary award of the Spanish-speaking world, press reports said Friday. Caso was awarded the prize worth 601,000 euros (897,000 dollars) in Ba...

[Posted on : 2009-10-16 ] Category : [ Culture (General) ]

Nefertiti back in Berlin museum after 66-year absence - Feature
Berlin - A limestone bust of Queen Nefertiti, dating back to 1350 BC, arrives back on view Friday at a rebuilt museum in central Berlin after an enforced absence of 66 years. The return of the 3,500-year-ol...

[Posted on : 2009-10-15 ] Category : [ Culture (General) ]

Archeologist discovers ancient holy lake in northern Egypt
Cairo - Egyptian and French archeologists discovered a sacred lake 12 metres underground in the ancient city of Tanis, 120 kilometres northeast of Cairo, Egypt's Minister of Culture announced Thursday. The lake, which is 15 metres long and 12 metres ...

[Posted on : 2009-10-15 ] Category : [ Culture (General) ]

 

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