Source: And Berlin
In the early hours of Sunday, August 13th 1961, hundreds of guards took their positions on the demarcation line at Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. Ripping apart roads running alongside the border and bisecting East and West Germany with a forbidding barbed wire fence, loyal members of the German Democratic Republic conveyed to the world their iron-fisted, Soviet separatist resolve. But for those who lived through the Berlin Wall’s oppressive existence, the stone barricade represented a damning limit on their right to self-determination and freedom in an increasingly democratizing world. Read More...
A born-again Christian obsessed with "The Catcher In The Rye," Mark David Chapman killed John Lennon outside his Manhattan apartment on December 8, 1980.On December 8, 1980, Mark David Chapman became forever infamous as the man who shot John Lennon. Although he was quickly arrested, John Lennon’s killer caused immeasurable pain for the former Beatle’s loved ones — and his millions of adoring fans.
In a painful twist of irony, Lennon had been enjoying his relatively quiet life in New York in the 1970s. Read More...
An elaborate gold-plated, wooden chest, the Ark of the Covenant is believed to hold the original Ten Commandments — but where is it?Public DomainThe Ark of the Covenant is an important holy object in Judaism and Christianity.
In the 1981 movie Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones races to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis do. But although the fictional adventure film includes one of the most famous modern references to the religious relic, this object is said to date back to ancient times, appearing in the Hebrew Bible and Christian Old Testament. Read More...
