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- 41: City Of Berlin
- ... the bombings. Germany was defeated in 1945 and the peace treaty divided the nation into Communists East Germany and non-Communist West Germany. Berlin was also divided. A 103-mile wall surround West Berlin. It was made of concrete, wasw12 feet high and was white so that anyone trying to climb it would be clearly visible. In 1989 the East German government collapsed and the wall was knocked down. In 1990, East and West Germany re-united. The population of Berlin is three and a half million, it covers an area of 341 square miles. We ... drawn by four horses. It was built in 1788 as the imperial entrance to Berlin. For almost 30 years it led nowhere because it stood just feet from the Berlin Wall. The 103-mile wall was knocked down in 1989 and East and West Berlin re-united. During the 28 years that the wall existed, thousands of east Berliners tried ...
- 42: Tall Stories
- ... the skyscraper, because of all the fast air on its sides, develops an area of low pressure, as predicted by Bernoulli's Principle, and because the air pressure inside the wall is suddenly higher than that outside, there is the potential for windows blowing out This is obviously what was happening to Mr. Pei's building; but why was it happening ... planned for a uniform settling of the building. Instead, they found that the building had settled unevenly! The result of this settling caused an unequal surface tension on the curtain wall, which, as all curtain walls are, had been designed only to serve as an envelope for the building, and to support no weight other than its own. This meant that ... it was nearing its maximum strength limit even without any wind blowing on it. The suction of the low pressure area on the leeward side of the building caused the wall to billow out and pop windows like buttons. The mechanical engineers, realizing that the negative air pressure was too much for the wall, decided to fight that negative pressure ...
- 43: Al Capone
- ... Capone, on the other hand, was skillful at isolating and killing his enemies when they became too powerful. A typical Capone murder consisted of men renting an apartment across the street from the victim's residence and gunning him down when he stepped outside. The operations were quick and complete and Capone always had an alibi. Capone's most notorious killing was the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. On February 14, 1929, four Capone men entered a garage at 2122 N. Clark Street. The building was the main liquor headquarters of bootlegger George "Bugs" Moran's North Side gang. Because two of Capone's men were dressed as police, the seven men in the garage thought it was a police raid. As a result, they dropped their guns and put their hands against the wall. Using two shotguns and two machine guns, the Capone men fired more than 150 bullets into the victims. Six of the seven killed were members of Moran's gang; ...
- 44: Jerusalem
- ... Quarter, Christian Quarter, and the Armenian Quarter. Also, the Old City is the site of many religious and historical landmarks. Within Jewish Quarters, the main attraction is the Western (Wailing) Wall Wall"). It's dubbed the "Wailing Wall" because many Jews come to pray there, and their prayers sound like wailing. The Wall is the small remaining part of King Solomon's Temple. After the Jews were ...
- 45: William Gibson and The Internet
- ... real commodity is information. The bleak, 'no future' landscape of punk rock and post-apocalyptic movies like Blade runner and Mad Max, and imagined a way to escape from the street-level violence these films referred to. Along with Neuromancer, Blade Runner together set the boundary conditions for emerging Cyberpunk: a hard-boiled combination of high tech and low life. As the William Gibson phrase puts it, "The street has its own uses for technology." So compelling were these two narratives that many people then and now refuse to regard as Cyberpunk anything stylistically and thematically different from them ... console cowboys" can wield tremendous power over governments. corporations, etc. H) The coalescence of a computer "culture" is expressed in self-aware computer music , art, virtual communities, and a hacker/street tech subculture. The computer nerd image is passe', and people are not ashamed anymore about the role the computer has in this subculture. The computer is a cool tool, ...
- 46: Hopeful Encounter
- ... emtpy shell behind, devoid of any life. Night set in, the stars were obscured by thick blankets of smoke. The day was done. Stores got ready to lock up and street lights were turned on to aid the bread winners, so they may travel safely. Few were fortunate enough to own automobiles so they could avoid the cold dangerous streets and ... bills he had earned today, and put it away into his black leather wallet. The tall dark figure studied the pharmacist a while longer before trailing him. The narrow dirty street smelled of weeks old garbage and animal wastes. Smog was still thick in the air causing him to cough repeatedly. He stopped for a moment to catch his breath. Remembering his air filter in his pocket, Phil gingerly took it out and put it on. Feeling much better Phil continued down the street, heaving a sigh of relief. He headed towards home, but soon remembering that he always stops by the Charleton Bar for a drink or two, Phil abruptly changed direction. ...
- 47: Jews
- Jews "The enemy trapped the Jews in the city by building a wall around it. Foodstuffs could not be brought in: starvation and crowded conditions gave rise to disease, and epidemics spread among the populace. But surprisingly the Jews held on. Then the enemy massed troops outside the wall and brought out the latest in weaponry. They attacked, using fire to spread destruction. The Jews repelled the enemy a number of times. So savage was the resistance that the campaign to destroy the Jewish population took much longer and cost more troops than anticipated. Street by street the fighting raged with hand-to-hand combat between the heavily armed troops and the haggard defenders. Some Jews tried to escape through the sewers, but they ...
- 48: American Beauty
- ... of beauty is required to succeed in life (Heilman). It is very unfortunate, but very beautiful women are patronized in professional situations, sexually harassed in private and hassled on the street in greater numbers than their less stunning sisters. A breathtaking beauty can be isolated by both the jealousy of other women and men's fear of rejection. Extremely beautiful women ... to succeed in traditional organizations. If all other factors being equal, the "good-looking" earn 10% more than the "homely," and that the situation was worse for men than women (Wall Street Journal). Overall the attractive earn higher salaries, but a breakdown revealed that the advantage applied to men, older subjects and people in "male" jobs, but was not true for ...
- 49: Creative Story: Neolithic Park
- ... stuffed animals arrived from an eminent taxidermist in northern California, and crews were immediately sent to work arranging 300 of the stuffed beasts in a brilliant display against the dividing wall in the center of the store. They let me take a sneak preview of the arrangement earlier, and it is incredible. Even if you're not planning to purchase anything ... to pick up Nancy and Sarah from Sarah's house." "Nancy and Sarah? Oh, you mean the Nancy and Sarah a year older than us. Where do they live?" "Oak street." "Thanks for telling me so soon so that I have to turn around to go back and get them. No, really, I appreciate it." "No prob. Anything I can do ... smile on his face instead of a faraway look. "Don't you mean your '15 Vette, Chris?" he said through his quiet laughter. "I get it. Turn at the next street. Nancy's house is the third one on the right." "All right," he said, as he pulled the old, beat-up station wagon to the front of the Victorian- ...
- 50: Gateway To Heaven" - Tiananmen
- ... trying desperately not to drown. I tread toward the edge of the curb and am taken into a world of raging machine's, streetcars, bicycles, and automobiles, racing down the street carrying even more people to some important place. I see a void in the racetrack and take a chance to run across the street to school. I am in my last year at Mao Tse-Dung Middle School, it is full of long maintained rivalries between its top students, all of us are supposed ... was crazy, maybe the bitter cold of that February night had gotten to her, or maybe it was fumes vacating the local tannery that we stared at from across the street. This night was the first time I had noticed the sparkle in her eyes, while she lectured me on how I should not be like her. At that moment ...
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