October 3rd is germanys unity day and its a National Holiday here in germany the country has now been reunifying for 30 days years to mark the occasion there is a lot of celebrating going on in potsdam capital of the state a friend and berg. 2 comes down city center has been turned into an open air exhibition each of the 16 german states is showcased in a glass cube like this one. But central to the exhibition is of course the history of germanys division and eventually coming together as one unified nation. That fateful event in 1990 also paved the way for potsdam to recover some of its historical splendor. In the 30 years since germanys ringing of a case in pot. Has and a bit quite the contrary actually the city center has been completely revamped and the pression palaces and parks have received a thorough beauty treatment most importantly though the days of walls and border fences separating ponce them from neighboring berlin are long gone. Well spend part of the day strolling aroun
Hes a bit of a cute childlike figure hes also a grown man with a hat who acts very responsibly when crossing the street as well as work for us day and night. I think its the combination that makes him so. The standing man is also something balanced and calm about him and a clear design like which clearer than other traffic right now. 30 years after reunification the on to mention is celebrated as an east german success story. The traffic light men were 1st introduced in east berlin in 1970. Traffic psychologist carl wanted to design a pedestrian signal that caught peoples attention. Difficult to appeal to children and older people when using abstract pictograms. So i simply tried to translate their clarity into personified symbols. Lifelike and likable in this 1st designs the figure even had fingers on a mouse and karl big losses wife helped when it came to the half. The op to mention became recognizable symbols which in the 1980 s. Were used to teach children about road safety on east
A pretty much javelin in time 164. 00 Michael Vaughan koestler and some friends dug a tunnel from west berlin to eastbourne and they wanted to help people to the g. D. R. It took them 6 months of digging and secrets to complete until you can experience the tunnel in virtual space 12 meters deep 145 meters long the young tunnel builder from back then is now a pensioner when Klaus Michael from khosla sees the virtual video of the berlin wall on tunnel it brings back memories from 164. This. Way an exhausting. Especially on the knees are always covered in scratches and then to move or. Sometimes we had to lie during the day in constant fear of the tunnel lapsing part dish off to cope through this. Spite of the risks the plan works out 57. 00 women and children were able to flee using the term which is a place in the history books. And the famous story was the mother and family 6 k. Through a house that stood directly at the wall this could also be relived you tubes virtually history. Time
Lolled itself into history with names of pride and shame. Words for all time and words of passing fancy. The decade created a new vocabulary in the magnificent and the minuscule. Kennedy,nis kurtz, pope john, john glenn, graham, the beatles, peace corps, clay, leiber, pope paul, the war, nson, warhol, strikes and streisand, dope, black power, goldwater, hippie, dayan, woodstock, the pill, james bond, tiny tim, king, hair, graham, bobby, wallace, golda meir, ecology, the supremes, apollo, psychedelic, wyeth, joe namath, malcolm x, armstrong, nixon, indira gandhi, demonstrations, lem. But no name, no single word repeated itself as often on the pages of the 1960s, and with so much controversy, as the name vietnam. It was a strange mixture of peace and war, a better filled nowhere and everywhere. Life during the day and death during the night. An ally when moment and gone the next. A jungle with barbed wire. Those who wanted to find a war might have to hunt for it. Those who did not want t
Germans to Work Together as coronavirus cases searched at their highest levels since the pandemic began. And i. Think the eliminated showing the might of the right at the port and. 50 near. Historic victory for new zealands Prime Minister just center or journey and she secures a landslide win in the countrys general election. Unlike local welcome to the program truce between by sean and armenia is threatening to fall apart after renewed clashes overnight as a barge on has vowed to take revenge after an alleged armenian missile strike on its 2nd largest city. The early hours attack killed at least 12 and wounded dozens more meanwhile armenia says azerbaijan has continued to shell Populated Areas within the disputed nagornokarabakh region hundreds have been killed since fighting broke out over in the region in september. Parts of the us led by johnny. In ruins in their early hours of saturday the destruction of the missile attack was not yet fully visible but what was clear to us the sho