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According to the scrapbook of press clippings that I've kept since that time, 20 years ago today, some 10,000 people joined a pro-democracy demonstration in Leipzig.

Well, they did it beautifully. Despite the rain, I found the official celebration of the fall of the Wall in Berlin on the night of Monday 9 November a genuinely, even an unexpectedly moving affair.

History can, at times, be a bland concoction of dates and names. Textbooks rarely reveal more than the bare-bones version of the events and individuals who have shaped the world in which we live.

GIFTED MUSICIANS : The Thaerichen's Tentet's success lies in its inventive compositions BANGALORE: As the Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan completes 50 years in India, it kick-starts its golden jubilee celebrations with a concert by Thaerichen's Tentet from Berlin, Germany, on November 20 at 6.30 p.m. at the bhavan's premises on C.M.H. Road.

The digital mammomat is seen at the mammamobil on April 8, 2008 in Berlin, Germany.

Twenty years ago the western world was reunited . While the fall of the communist regime in Eastern Europe and the consequent end of Cold War between URSS and USA has a figurative meaning for the whole world, the fall of Berlin's Wall meant much deeper to many Germans.

The last time the Berlin Philharmonic and its conductor, Sir Simon Rattle, visited San Francisco, they nearly spun Davies Symphony Hall out of earth orbit with a performance of Beethoven's "Pastoral" Symphony.

German police have arrested an undisclosed number of people suspected of fixing matches in major European soccer leagues.

Former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev attends the Cinema For Peace Photocall as part of the 59th Berlin Film Festival at the Hotel Adlon on February 8, 2009 in Berlin, Germany.

European football braced on Friday for more details on a fresh match-fixing scandal reportedly involving huge sums of money placed with Asian bookmakers on suspect matches in nine countries.

Actor Brad Pitt attends the German premiere of 'Inglourious Basterds' on July 28, 2009 in Berlin, Germany.

CNN : South African runner Caster Semenya will be allowed to keep the gold medal she won in the women's 800-meters at the World Athletics Championships in Berlin, Germany, in August, the country's sports ministry announced Thursday.

German police have arrested an undisclosed number of people suspected of fixing matches in major European soccer leagues.

Caster Semenya of South Africa celebrates winning the gold medal in the women's 800 Metres Final during day five of the 12th IAAF World Athletics Championships at the Olympic Stadium on August 19, 2009 in Berlin, Germany.

9, 2009, in Berlin, Germany. Sean Gallup/Getty Images Hillary Rodham Clinton, on her first trip to Afghanistan as U.S. secretary of state, said Wednesday that President Hamid Karzai's inauguration provides an opportunity for him to improve government accountability and make a difference in the lives of Afghans.

Provectus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. , a development-stage oncology and dermatology biopharmaceutical company, announced today that Professor John F. Thompson, MD, Professor of Melanoma and Surgical Oncology at the University of Sydney, Director of the Melanoma Institute Australia, and Lead Investigator of the Phase 2 study of PV-10 for Metastatic ...

In this photo illustration the H1N1 swine flu vaccination Pandemic is pictured at Virchow clinical center on Oct.

The hypocrisy of the western leaders became shamefully apparent during their celebration of the 20th anniversary of the fall of Berlin Wall.

This past week I have been in Europe to help commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Affirmation of freedom: Giant dominos placed along the former border fall in a symbolic act in Berlin on Monday.