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Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, several initiatives are pursuing the creation of a European Green Belt nature preserve area along the Iron Curtain's former route. In fact, a long-distance cycling route along the length of the former border called the Iron Curtain Trail (ICT) exists as a project of the European Union and other associated ...
Safety curtain of St Martin's Theatre in London. The lever and weights used to operate a fire curtain as seen from a theatre's backstage. A safety curtain (or fire curtain in America) is a passive fire protection feature used in large proscenium theatres. It is usually a heavy fabric curtain located immediately behind the proscenium arch.
During the Cold War, one example of "no man's land" was the territory close to the Iron Curtain. Officially the territory belonged to the Eastern Bloc countries, but over the entire Iron Curtain, there were several wide tracts of uninhabited land, several hundred meters (yards) in width, containing watch towers, minefields, unexploded bombs ...
The Iron Curtain was the boundary dividing Europe in the Cold War. Iron Curtain may also refer to: Safety curtain, in theatres; Iron Curtain (countermeasure), an active protection system; Iron Curtain (football), the defensive line of Rangers Football Club in the 1940s and 1950s; Iron Curtain, a comedy musical about the Soviet Union
By the end of the Cold War, as many as 300 United States citizens were thought to have defected across the Iron Curtain for a variety of reasons [24] – whether to escape criminal charges, for political reasons, or because (as the St. Petersburg Times put it) "girl-hungry GIs [were tempted] with seductive sirens, who usually desert the love ...
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20 countries are part of the Iron Curtain Trail project, among them are 14 members of the European Union. The ICT was lobbied for by German Green Party politician Michael Cramer MEP. Trails have been created and made better suited to cycling with help and finance from the European Union, with historical signposts and markers erected. [3]
The search for missing hiker Susan Lane-Fournier, 61, took a tragic turn after her body was found over the weekend in Welches, Oregon, an unincorporated community at the base of Mount Hood.