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Know your sharks by Jack Gallowtree
Adolf Hitler speaking at the Berlin Lustgarten just before the second, and last, presidential elections in the Weimar Republic - 1932
Hitler would lose to Paul von Hindenburg in both the first and second round of voting.
Ich vermisse dich Berlin.
Berlin, Germany
TV tower- The original total height of the tower was 365 metres (1,198 ft), but it rose to 368 metres (1,207 ft) after the installation of a new antenna in the 1990s. The Fernsehturm is the fourth tallest freestanding structure in Europe, after Moscowâs Ostankino Tower, the Kiev TV Tower and the Riga Radio and TV Tower. There is a visitor platform and a revolving restaurant in the middle of the sphere. The visitor platform, also called panoramic floor, is at a height of about 203 metres (666 ft) above the ground and visibility can reach 42 kilometres (26 mi) on a clear day. The restaurant TelecafĂ©, which rotates once every 30 minutes, is a few metres above the visitors platform at 207 metres (679 ft) (originally it turned once per hour; the speed was later doubled following the towerâs late 1990s renovation). Inside the shaft are two lifts that shuttle visitors up to the sphere of the tower within 40 seconds. It is not accessible by wheelchair. There is also a Staircase with 986 steps.To mark the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany, for which the final match was played in the Berlin Olympic Stadium, the sphere was decorated as a football with magenta-coloured pentagons, reflecting the corporate colour of World Cup sponsor and owner of the Fernsehturm, Deutsche Telekom.
Nov. 10, 1989:
West Germans applaud as East Berliners travel through Allied Checkpoint Charlie into West Germany in Berlin after the East German border was opened.
(Photo: David Brauchli, Reuters)
40. Red Town Hall, Berlin
(Photo Credit:Â Alessio Mamo, Redux)
