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The Western Wall (Hebrew: הַכּוֹתֶל הַמַּעֲרָבִי, romanized:HaKotel HaMa'aravi, lit. 'the western wall', [ 1 ] is an ancient retaining wall of the built-up hill known to Jews and Christians as the Temple Mount of Jerusalem. Its most famous section, known by the same name, often shortened by Jews to the Kotel or Kosel, is ...
The biggest stone in the Western Wall often called the Western Stone is also revealed within the tunnel and ranks as one of the heaviest objects ever lifted by human beings without powered machinery. The stone has a length of 41 feet (12 meters) and an estimated width between 11.5 and 15 ft (3.5 and 4.6 meters) Estimates place its weight at 550 ...
Mary Elise Sarotte in a 2009 Washington Post story characterized the series of events leading to the fall of the Wall as an accident, saying "One of the most momentous events of the past century was, in fact, an accident, a semicomical and bureaucratic mistake that owes as much to the Western media as to the tides of history." [26]
When the Wall was erected, Berlin's complex public transit networks, the S-Bahn and U-Bahn, were divided with it. [81] Some lines were cut in half; many stations were shut down. Three western lines traveled through brief sections of East Berlin territory, passing through eastern stations (called Geisterbahnhöfe, or ghost stations) without ...
The installation of the Wall in 1961 brought an end to a decade during which the divided capital of divided Germany was one of the easiest places to move west across the Iron Curtain. [75] The barrier was always a short distance inside East German territory to avoid any intrusion into Western territory.
The Dura-Europos synagogue was an ancient Jewish former synagogue discovered in 1932 at Dura-Europos, Syria. The former synagogue contained a forecourt and house of assembly with painted walls depicting people and animals, and a Torah shrine in the western wall facing Jerusalem. It was built backing on to the city wall, which was important in ...
September 30, 2024 at 7:02 AM. In the wake of Hurricane Helene, western North Carolina is facing what officials are calling “biblical devastation.”. Entire communities washed away. A whole ...
Checkpoint Charlie. Coordinates: 52°30′27″N 13°23′25″E. Well-known crossing point in the Berlin Wall; now a museum. A view of Checkpoint Charlie in 1963, from the American sector. Map of Berlin Wall with location of Checkpoint Charlie. Checkpoint Charlie (or " Checkpoint C ") was the best-known Berlin Wall crossing point between East ...