Title Grand Prix THE COSMOPOLITAN DIGITAL EXPERIENCE Advertiser/Client Product/Service Entrant Company Country THE COSMOPOLITAN OF LAS VEGAS HOTEL DIGITAL EXPERIENCE DIGITAL KITCHEN, Chicago USA Gold Lion PLAYING THE UNDERGROUND CENAKOVSKI JEUDI CLUB MUSIC EVENT JUNG von MATT, Hamburg COSSETTE, Montreal GERMANY CANADA THÉÂTRE DU THEATRE NOUVEAU MONDE MELBOURNE WRITERS FESTIVAL BBC 2010 MELBOURNE WRITERS FESTIVAL STORIES FROM THE STREET JWT, Melbourne THE CHASE
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Berlin is Impact on European History The city of Berlin is central to twentieth century European History. It has been the grounds for many historic events that have shaped the way things are in Europe today both for good and bad reasons. Berlin played a significant role in European history though the sequence of events from 1945 to the late 1990`s that were end of World War Two, through the rise and fall of the Berlin wall, and the birth of the Eurozone. The events covered during this time all interlinked
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rejected working with any other party. They wanted to be Germany’s biggest party, and in 1910, they were by far the biggest socialist party in Europe, with 720,000 members. In the time leading up to war, they were winning 75% of the popular vote in Berlin. In fact in the 1912 election, they were the strongest party in the Reichstag with 110 seats. Therefore
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HBR CASE DISCUSSION “Siemens AG: Global Development Strategy (A)” STRATEGIC OPTIONS Option 1 : Move NetManager development and project management closer to HQ + NetManager is a really important project for the future of Siemens, so moving it closer to HQ will bring system developers and programmers closer to major customers for better market understanding and quicker troubleshooting and maintenance in the future. Additionally, the company can use the time to smooth out coordination problems
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President Ronald Reagan, in an 1987 speech, famously said, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” (“Tear Down This Wall” speech). Germany and Berlin was divided, one side was controlled by the free world, West Germany and West Berlin, while the other controlled by the communist Soviet Union, East Germany and East Berlin. The Berlin wall was a symbol of the Cold War. It finally fell in 1989 and the Cold War ended soon after. The President of the United States, at the time, stood in front of the Brandenburg
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Fall of the Berlin Wall For twenty-eight years, the Berlin Wall separated friends, families, and a nation. Between 1961 and 1989, the Wall was one of the most striking and distinctive features of Berlin. The Berlin Wall was a border security installation built by the German Democratic Republic (GDR) on August 12, 1961. The Wall was to protect the GDR from aggressive acts by the west. In reality, the Wall functioned as a barrier to stem the huge migration of skilled laborers to West Berlin and the entire
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Germany Berlin was divided by a barrier that was patrolled day and night by armed soldiers and guard dogs. On August 13, 1961 shortly after midnight police and soldiers in the Communist controlled Berlin moved quickly to set up barriers. Berliners woke to find their city divided into east and west sectors. A communist nation led by the Soviet Union was in control of East Berlin. While West Berlin was controlled by a democratic nation led by the United States (Epler, 1992). The Berlin Wall known
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The Battle of Berlin, designated the Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation by the Soviet Union, was the final major offensive of the European Theatre of World War II. The Soviet offensive central had two objectives. Stalin did not believe the Western Allies would hand over territory occupied by them in the post-war Soviet. But the overriding objective was to capture Berlin. Another consideration was that Berlin itself held useful post-war strategic assets, including Adolf Hitler and the German atomic
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Granni (Aachen) and Aquae Mattiacorum (Wiesbaden). As a result of teachings of Balneology, the first German Spas like Bad Schwallbach established from 1581. From the late eighteenth century onwards, urban communities like Dresden, Munich, Weimar and Berlin were significant stops on a European Grand tour. In the 19th century, noble spa- and health resorts on the coast and inland established when major train routes were built to connect the seaside spas to urban centers. Main travel destinations of the
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January to the beginning of August 1961, about 160,000 refugees were counted. Also, the international political situation was tense. On 1958-11-27, the Soviets (Khrushchev) had delivered their Berlin ultimatum, demanding that the western allies should withdraw their troops from West Berlin and that West Berlin should become a "Free City" within six months. On 1959-02-17, the threat of settling a separate peace treaty between the USSR the GDR followed. The meeting between US President Kennedy and the
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