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J! Archive - Show #3860, aired 2001-05-18  Gerard Depardieu made his English-language debut in this 1990 film .... In 1982 a street outside Berlin's Olympic Stadium was renamed in his honor...
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Free Flashcards about AMERICAN HISTORY - StudyStack  IN 1982 A STREET OUTSIDE BERLIN'S OLYMPIC STADIUM WAS RENAMED IN HIS HONOR, JESSE OWENS. AFTER HIS DEATH IN 1994 AT THE AGE OF...
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Olympic Stadium - Wikipedia  Olympic Stadium is the name usually given to the main stadium of an Olympic Games. ... Bundesarchiv Bild 102-12670, St. Moritz, Eishockeyspiel.jpg ... Bundesarchiv Bild 183-R82532, Berlin, Olympia-Stadion (Luftaufnahme).jpg .... 1959 World Series, 1982 Individual Speedway World Championship, 2015 Special Olympics...
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THE GHOST OF BERLIN FIFTY YEARS AGO, LENI RIEFENSTAHL ...  Aug 4, 1986 ... In the last years of his life, after he had suffered a cerebral .... Biennale, the highest honor in the industry at that time. ... the film got a better reception outside Germany than within. .... really wanted was that Berlin--which he planned to rename ... Berlin's tiny 100,000-seat Olympic Stadium was to Germany.
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Olympiastadion (Berlin) - Wikipedia  The Olympiastadion Berlin is a sports stadium in Berlin, Germany. It was originally built for the 1936 Summer Olympics by Werner March. ... Architect Werner March remained in charge of the project, assisted by his brother Walter. ..... One of the main streets outside the stadium is named Jesse Owens Allee in recognition of...
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Beijing 2008 Olympic Games: Mount Olympus Meets the Middle ...  Sep 6, 2016 ... It was a choice that may have stirred the spirit of his formidable ... He actually won the 100 first; the 200-metre final was held two days later. ..... Prior to the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, Vra slavsk of ... Adding to his troubles, Keino became stuck in a traffic jam and had to jog the last mile to the...
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Skanderbeg Square - Wikipedia  Skanderbeg Square (Albanian: Sheshi Sknderbej) is the main plaza of Tirana, Albania named in 1968 after the Albanian national hero Skanderbeg.
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Unter den Linden, Street in Berlin | Wanderant  Unter den Linden is a boulevard in the Mitte district of Berlin, the capital of Germany. It is named for its linden trees that line the grassed pedestrian mall between two ... Palast der Republik once stood, to Pariser Platz and Brandenburg Gate. ... In 1851 the famous equestrian statue of King Frederick II of Prussia was erected...
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Ich bin ein Berliner, part two: Obama set to give speech in German ...  Jun 18, 2013 ... Comes almost exactly 50 years since JFK gave 'Ich bin ein Berliner' speech ... compared with JFK's 1963 address to the German capital in which he declared ... to the day after John F. Kennedy's famous Cold War address in Berlin. .... JFK's, which took place on June 26, 1963 at the Rathaus Schneberg,...
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The Cold War in Berlin - John F. Kennedy Presidential Library ...  Two years after the construction of the Berlin Wall, President Kennedy paid a ... During the summit, Khrushchev threatened to cut off Allied access to West Berlin. ... the square where he had made his famous speech was renamed the John F.
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Jesse Owens - Wikipedia  James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens (September 12, 1913  March 31, 1980) was an American ... At the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany, Owens won international fame .... at a Republican rally in Kansas City remarking that "Hitler didn't snub me  it was .... Jump up ^ "Jesse Owens: Track & Field Legend: Biography".
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Jeopary Questions page 1388 - ART - TriviaBistro.com  NAMESAKES: Flower named for King George III's royal gardener, William ... SPORTS ARENAS: 1 of 2 pro sports teams that play in the Brendan Byrne Arena in East Rutherford, New Jersey ... SPORTS ARENAS: A Detroit arena named for this heavyweight boxing champ was the site of the 1980 GOP Nat'l Convention.
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How Berliners refused to give Tempelhof airport over to developers ...  Mar 5, 2015 ... Famous as the lifeline for West Berlin during the cold war, Tempelhof's airfield had become the German capital's biggest park. Since it was...
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Karajan Leaves Berlin Philharmonic - NYTimes.com  Apr 25, 1989 ... We hope that Herbert von Karajan will still find his way to Berlin in retirement and ... artistic directorate, and that names being considered included Seiji Ozawa, Daniel ... returned an aura of cultural glamour to the former capital of Germany. ... The conductor and the orchestra locked horns in 1983, when the...
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8 Things You Should Know About Checkpoint Charlie - History in ...  Jun 22, 2015 ... Get eight facts about the Berlin border crossing that served as an iconic symbol of the Cold War. ... before the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, an American serviceman named ... East German border guards demanded to see Lightner's passport, ... Checkpoint Charlie was later used for a few other prisoner swaps,...
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Reagan challenges Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall - Jun 12 ...  On this day in 1987, in one of his most famous Cold War speeches, President Ronald Reagan challenges Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall, a symbol of the repressive Communist era in a divided Germany. In 1945, following Germany's defeat in World War II, the nation's capital,...
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You Can Buy This Piece of The Berlin Wall Signed By President ...  Sep 7, 2016 ... You Can Buy This Piece of The Berlin Wall Signed By President Reagan ... Two of Ronald Reagan's books which will go up for auction (Christie's) ... Or if children's fantasy books aren't your cup of tea, how about Reagan's...
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East Germans kill man trying to cross Berlin Wall - Aug 17, 1962 ...  ... searchlights, guard posts, dogs, mines, and concrete barriers were set up, ... On August 17, 1962, two young men from East Berlin attempted to scramble to ... During the history of the Berlin Wall (1961 to 1989), nearly 80 people were killed trying to cross from East to West Berlin. .... He was the famous outlaw's first victim.
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Volgograd renamed Stalingrad for day as the Second World War ...  Feb 2, 2013 ... The city was renamed Volgograd after the war when the Communist heirs of the ... the late dictator's name; the "hero city" became Volgograd in 1961. ... Timeless comedy: a lot of what used to be funny has gone out of date.
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Berlin Wall - New World Encyclopedia  Jun 3, 2016 ... Conceived by the East German administration of Walter Ulbricht and approved by ... It was built during the post-World War II period of a divided Germany, in an .... Frederick O. Hartel and his brigade, now of 4,224 officers and men. .... When the wall was erected, Berlin's complex public transit networks, the...
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1992 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia  The 1992 Summer Olympic Games officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event played in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain in 1992 ... Barcelona is the second-largest city in Spain, and the birthplace of then-IOC president Juan ... The city was also a host for the 1982 FIFA World Cup.