Imagine it's 1966, and you're living in East Berlin, a city divided by the infamous Berlin Wall. The East German government, ...

One of the most iconic reminders of the Cold War era, Checkpoint Charlie, was dismantled on 1990. The iconic checkpost served ...

Jon Woodhouse, who writes regular arts and entertainment articles for The Maui News, is currently traveling in Europe and ...

US President Ronald Reagan, standing before the Berlin Wall, famously challenged Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev: ‘Mr.

They patrolled the most heavily guarded border in the world. The Grenztruppen were East Germany’s frontline against the ...

On November 9th 1989, the Berlin Wall fell, marking the end of the Cold War and the unification of East and West Germany. A ...

Germans commemorated on Sunday the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, which on Nov. 9, 1989, ended a years-long divide between East and West Germany. Twenty five years ago Sunday ...

On June 12, 1987, U.S. President Ronald Reagan, during a visit to the divided German city of Berlin, stood before the Brandenburg Gate and exhorted Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev to “tear down ...

Whether an old folk ballad or a futuristic techno hit, music is the lifeblood of Europe’s great cities and one of the most ...

The East Side Gallery refers to the longest intact section of the Berlin Wall, which stretches for nearly a mile. If you want to experience the wall for the first time, this is the place to do it.

It was intended as a piece of public art, but became a public urinal. Manchester’s ‘Berlin wall’ was an almost universally hated structure which towered over a section of Piccadilly Gardens.

Carl “Tinker” West, a surfing pioneer on the East Coast who was also a pivotal ... for Steel Mill based on the Grateful Dead's famous Wall of Sound. “He was friends with the Grateful Dead ...