“This just rocked me, party, taking pictures, loving music What more could you ask for !” (03:54) – Jonathan FLemming, journalist photographer
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Universal Techno (30min) – 1990’s Documentary! Detroit – Berlin – Tokyo – London
Mittwoch, 22. August 2012History Of The Berlin Wall
Donnerstag, 03. Mai 2012My daughter put together this video for her World History class project. It is very informative to only be 6 minutes long. She did an outstanding job with it. The 4 students standing in front of a section of the Berlin Wall at 5:43 is my daughter and her friends. They got the opportunity to see it on a trip to Washington DC.
Berlin exhibits 6000-year-old Saudi treasures
Freitag, 03. Februar 2012A group of prominent politicians, intellectuals, historians and scientists has participated in the inauguration of “Roads of Arabia” at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin. The exhibit includes more than 400 rare antiquities collected from the Arabian Peninsula and was held under the hospices of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Abdullah, and the German president. Al Arabiya reporter Anis Abu Al Aula covered the opening and came back with this report. We are in the museum island in Berlin, and more precisely in the Pergamon Museum, for the opening of the “The Saudi Archaeological Masterpieces through the Ages” exhibition. “This exhibition shows the cultural and civilized dimension of Saudi Arabia, which is saying to the world today that it is indeed a country that embraces many civilizations. It also shows that the role that the kingdom and its leadership are playing today is in fact a historical genuine role that was crowned in the past by Islam, which by the way, did not eradicate these civilizations.” The exhibition displays about 400 antiquities that cover the history of the Arabian Peninsula from the Stone Age to the present time. The historical value and raw beauty of the works impressed the public who attended the opening ceremony. On the margin of the opening, the Kingdom signed three agreements with a number of German universities and institutes for relevant scientific research in a bid to reinforce collaboration between the two countries in the field of …
The Building of the Berlin Wall in 1961 – Propaganda Documentary (1962)
Donnerstag, 15. September 2011thefilmarchive.org The Berlin Wall (German: Berliner Mauer) was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. The barrier included guard towers placed along large concrete walls, which circumscribed a wide area (later known as the “death strip”) that contained anti-vehicle trenches, “fakir beds” and other defenses. The Soviet-dominated Eastern Bloc officially claimed that the wall was erected to protect its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the “will of the people” in building a socialist state in East Germany. However, in practice, the Wall served to prevent the massive emigration and defection that marked Germany and the communist Eastern Bloc during the post-World War II period. The Berlin Wall was officially referred to as the “Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart” (German: Antifaschistischer Schutzwall) by GDR authorities, implying that neighbouring West Germany had not been fully de-Nazified. The West Berlin city government sometimes referred to it as the “Wall of Shame”—a term coined by mayor Willy Brandt—while condemning the Wall’s restriction on freedom of movement. Along with the separate and much longer Inner German border (IGB) that demarcated the border between East and West Germany, both borders came to symbolize the “Iron Curtain” between Western Europe and the Eastern Bloc. Before the Wall’s …
History of the Amish & Mennonites, Illustrated through “Behalt”
Freitag, 04. März 2011www.AmishCountry.TV | One of only 4 cycloramas in North America, “Behalt” is truly a must see when visiting Ohio’s Amish Country! This 10′ x 265′ oil painting depicts the history of the Amish & Mennonites from their beginnings in 1525, in Zurich, Switzerland. Join Shannon Miller, as she visits the Amish & Mennonite Heritage Center in Berlin, Ohio, where Paul Miller points out some of the major events documented by this incredible “mural-in-the-round”.