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 James, Nancy and myself in Atlanta Airport |
 where I'm staying, Citystay Hostel (single room, my room has a balcony that is inside the courtyard) |
 TV tower and 13th century Marienkirche (St Mary's church) considered Berlin's 2nd oldest church after the Nikolaikirche |
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 river Spree |
 Berliner Dom , The Berlin Cathedral cuta a majestic figure in its prime spot on Museumsinel. |
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 Completed in 1905 in ornate Italian Renaissance style, this was where the royal Hohenzollerns-the Prussian royal family worship |
 Altes Museum (Old Museum, 1830) was the first exhibition space to be built on Museumsinsel. |
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 Humboldt Universitat (University) Berlin's oldest university. Albert Einstein taught here for 18 years |
 Sankt-Hedwigs-Kathedrale, (St-Hedwig-Cathedral 1773 giant copper dome overlooks Bebelplatz) |
 Franzosischer Dom (French Cathedral) completed in 1705 |
 Gendarmenmarkt is Berlin's most beautiful square created in 1700 |
 One of Schinkel's finest accomplishments, the Konzerthaus (1821) Berliner Sinfonie-Orchester is here |
 Deutscher Dom (German Cathedral) 1708 |
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 Checkpoint Charlie |
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 you are entering the American sector carrying weapons off duty forbidden obey traffic rules. |
 Berliner Mauer 1961-1989 (the bricks alone the road and the sidwalk is where the Berlin Wall was standing) |
 man selling pieces of the wall ( I think his name was Frank but I don't really remember) |
 Berlin Wall |
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 me at the Berlin Wall |
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 former Reichsluftfahrts Ministerium (now home of the Fedral Finance Ministry) |
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 Holocaust Memorial took 17 yrs of discussion, planning and construction, but on 8 May 2005 the memorial to the Jewish victims |
 of the Nazi-planned genocide of WWII was finally dedicated. it occupies a space the size of a football field |
 2711 rectangular concrete blocks of varying height positioned on undulating ground as thought it were some giant cemetery |
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 Unter den Linden |
 Brandenburger Tor (Brandenburg Gate) |
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 Johann Gottfried Schadow's Quadriga, a sculpture of the winged goddess of victory piloting a horse drawn chariot |
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 new US Embassy being built |
 Reichstag |
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 walking the glass dome on top of Reichstag |
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 putting up the Christmas lights |
 ok, getting hungry and there was all these outside market stalls with food and selling things, so I choose this one |
 everything written in German, so I just choose these potatoes fried in who knows what but they were delicious |
 potatoes, onions, kraut, looks like some kind of meat and some kind of sausage thingy |
 this was right where I got off the bus at the Hildebrand Str. |
 Tiergarten, 167 hectares one of the world's largest city parks |
 Siegessaule (Victory Column) 5 large roads merge into the roundabout called Grosser Stern |
 triumphal column commemorating successful 19th century Prussian military exploits notably |
 over Denmark 1864, Austria 1866 and France 1871 |
 the larger gilded lady on top stands 8.3m tall, predictably represents the goddess of Victory |
 exotic elephant gates marks the gateway to the Berlin Zoo |
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 rare giant panda donated by China |
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 Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church (1895) |
 destroyed in 1943 by Allied bombs, the husk of the neo-Roman-esque church's west tower |
 is one of Berlin's most haunting and enduring landmarks. |
 it's now home to a Gedenkhalle (Memorial Hall) |
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 Jesus Statue |
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 KFC in Berlin (no, I didn't eat here), "Europa Center" in the West Berlin City near Kurfuerstendamm |
 KaDeWe, 2nd largest consumer temple in Europe (Harrod's of London is #1) |
 7 floors of everything, 6th floor is the Gourmet Food department |
 Christmas tree where you walk in one of the doors |
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 freshly renovated, chalk white, neiclassical palace is the official residence of the German president |
 built in 1785 by Philipp Daniel Boumann for the youngest brother of Frederick the Great |
 Adlon Kempinski (hotel) Berlin's most high-profile defender of the grand tradition has been a celebrity magnet since first |
 opening its portals in 1907. Faithfully rebuilt after the fall of the Berlin Wall |
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 Pariser Platz |
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 built in 1818 the neoclassical Neue Wache (new guardhouse) was Schinkel's first major Berlin commission and is now a memorial to |
 the 'victims of war and tyranny' the inner courtyard was covered in 1931 leaving only a skylight which now spotlights |
 Kathe Kollwitz's heart-wrenching sculpture Mother and her Dead Son, also known as Pieta |
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 the pink building is the baroque Zeughaus, a former royal armoury completed in 1706. |
 IM Peri Bau designed by the Mandarian of Modernism |
 Berliner Dom |
 Fernsehturm (TV tower) is Berlin's tallest structure, soaring skyward fro 368m |
 Berliner Dom |
 Altes Museum |
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