Word: berlin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...celebration of the city's multicultural heritage, Vancouver is linking up by satellite with London, Tokyo, Beijing, Berlin, Sydney, New York City and Rio for a 24-hour global toast. The locally renowned "low-tech magic" performers, Public Dreams Society, are coordinating with other community groups to design an interactive spectacle featuring live music and stilt dancers, whose costumes will literally burst into flames. There will be a black-tie gala, at least two fireworks displays and a laser light show. And to ensure that no one goes hungry, food will be served to the needy on the downtown east...
...last day of 1999, virtually everyone in Berlin is likely to head for the same place: the Brandenburg Gate. Once a symbol of the city's loathed division, it was triumphantly reopened in December 1989. A decade later, it is certain to be a particularly joyous gathering place to usher in 2000--with splendid music, wondrous fireworks and considerable jubilation...
...legendary ego was big enough to claim more than half the credit for this astonishing outburst of melody. No sooner had Scott Joplin introduced ragtime in the late 19th century than commercial writers were figuring ways to work its kicky, irresistible beat into their songs. By 1911 young Irving Berlin could confidently assert that Everybody's Doing It (Doing It, Doing It) Now--and not just Americans either. Dukes and lords and Russian Czars were doing it too, as Berlin noted elsewhere. And a few years later, ragtime became part of the sound track for World...
...authorities, he seemed to make excuses for Hitler, even in the face of the Nuremberg Laws in 1935 and other evidence of the Nazis' murderous intentions toward the Jews. In October 1938, a month before Kristallnacht, at a dinner at the residence of the American ambassador in Berlin, Hermann Goring surprised everyone by decorating Lindbergh--"by order of der Fuhrer"--with the Service Cross of the German Eagle, a golden cross with four small swastikas. Inexplicably, Lindbergh refused, then and later, to return the medal--as if to do so would be discourteous...
DIED. FRANK ROWLETT, 90, nimble-minded cryptographer who cracked a Japanese diplomatic code used to encrypt dispatches between Tokyo and Japan's ambassador in Berlin during World War II; in Gaithersburg, Md. One of the messages Rowlett and his team deciphered detailed German defenses against the anticipated Allied invasion of Berlin...