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What's it like living in a city under what is essentially martial law? In the 1970s, I spent a lot of time on both sides of the Berlin Wall. This isn't Checkpoint Charlie; it's Checkpoint Donny. This is my Cold War vision where authoritarianism meets democracy. (Concept mine, executed by AI.)
Checkpoint Charlie was the name given by the Western Allies to the best-known Berlin Wall crossing point between East Berlin and West Berlin during the Cold War (1947–1991).
Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin, 2019
Der Checkpoint Charlie war bis 1990 einer der Grenzübergänge durch die Berliner Mauer. Er verband in der Friedrichstraße den sowjetischen mit dem amerikanischen Sektor und damit auch den Ost-Berliner Bezirk Mitte mit dem West-Berliner Bezirk Kreuzberg. Der Kontrollpunkt diente in erster Linie dazu, dem Militärpersonal und Diplomaten den Übertritt zu gewähren und diesen zu kontrollieren.
Heute ist der Checkpoint eher eine Touristenattraktion, Statisten in Uniform stehen hier für Fotos zu Verfügung - allerdings nur gegen Bezahlung. Das Umfeld ist geprägt von etwas heruntergekommenen Kneipen, Hütchenspielern, die auf der Straße mit 50-Euro-Scheinen herumwedeln und Touristen lautstark zum Mitspielen auffordern sowie von militärischen Devotionalien aller Art.
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Checkpoint Charlie was one of the border crossings through the Berlin Wall until 1990. It combined the Soviet and American sectors in Friedrichstrasse, and thus the East Berlin district of Mitte with the West Berlin district of Kreuzberg. The purpose of the checkpoint was primarily to allow the military personnel and diplomats to cross over and control it.
Today, the checkpoint is more of a tourist attraction, people in uniform are available here for photos - but only for a fee. The environment is dominated by a bit run-down pubs, gamblers wagging with 50-Euro-notes on the road and calling tourists loudly to play along, as well as military devotional of all kinds.
Picking up a new gravel bike today. This is to replace my 20 year old cyclocross bike. Although mother nature has forced me (along with most of northern New England) to wait a little longer before I can get out and enjoy my first extended, multi-terrain ride on it.
singapore woodlands checkpoint.
The Johor–Singapore Causeway (Chinese: 新柔长堤, Malay: Tambak Johor) is a 1056-metre causeway that links the city of Johor Bahru in Malaysia across the Straits of Johor to the town of Woodlands in Singapore. It serves as a road and rail link, as well as water piping into Singapore.
The Woodlands Checkpoint, – one of two land checkpoints via Peninsula Malaysia – is the busiest land border crossing in the world, with more than 146 million people crossing into the country from Malaysia last year alone, according to Singapore government statistics.
Der Checkpoint Charlie war einer der bekanntesten Berliner Grenzübergänge durch die Berliner Mauer zwischen 1961 und 1990. Er verband in der Friedrichstraße zwischen Zimmerstraße und Kochstraße (beim gleichnamigen U-Bahnhof) den sowjetischen mit dem US-amerikanischen Sektor und damit den Ost-Berliner Bezirk Mitte mit dem West-Berliner Bezirk Kreuzberg. Der Kontrollpunkt wurde im August 1961 infolge des Mauerbaus eingerichtet, um die Grenzübertritte des westalliierten Militärpersonals, der Sowjetischen Militärverbindungsmission (SMM) und ausländischer Diplomaten erfassen zu können.
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkpoint_Charlie
Checkpoint Charlie (or "Checkpoint C") was the name given by the Western Allies to the best-known Berlin Wall crossing point between East Berlin and West Berlin during the Cold War.
GDR leader Walter Ulbricht agitated and maneuvered to get the Soviet Union's permission for the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961 to stop Eastern Bloc emigration westward through the Soviet border system, preventing escape across the city sector border from East Berlin to West Berlin. Checkpoint Charlie became a symbol of the Cold War, representing the separation of East and West. Soviet and American tanks briefly faced each other at the location during the Berlin Crisis of 1961.
After the dissolution of the Eastern Bloc and the reunification of Germany, the building at Checkpoint Charlie became a tourist attraction. It is now located in the Allied Museum in the Dahlem neighborhood of Berlin.
Checkpoint Charlie (or "Checkpoint C") was the name given by the Western Allies to the best-known Berlin Wall crossing point between East Berlin and West Berlin, during the Cold War.
GDR leader Walter Ulbricht agitated and maneuvered to get the Soviet Union's permission to construct the Berlin Wall in 1961, to stop Eastern Bloc emigration westward through the Soviet border system, preventing escape across the city sector border from East Berlin to West Berlin.
Checkpoint Charlie became a symbol of the Cold War, representing the separation of East and West. Soviet and American tanks briefly faced each other at the location during the Berlin Crisis of 1961.
After the dissolution of the Eastern Bloc and the reunification of Germany, the building at Checkpoint Charlie became a tourist attraction. It is now located in the Allied Museum in the Dahlem neighborhood of Berlin.
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Checkpoint Charlie (or "Checkpoint C") was the name given by the Western Allies to the best-known Berlin Wall crossing point between East Berlin and West Berlin, during the Cold War.
Checkpoint Charlie became a symbol of the Cold War, representing the separation of East and West. Soviet and American tanks briefly faced each other at the location during the Berlin Crisis of 1961.
After the dissolution of the Eastern Bloc and the reunification of Germany, the building at Checkpoint Charlie became a tourist attraction. It is now located in the Allied Museum in the Dahlem neighborhood of Berlin.
More than a decade after the Fukushima disaster started, the exclusion zone remains. The JGSDF's role as the armed policing force of Japan is to prevent unauthorized entry to the radioactive area until cleanup is completed, whenever that will be...
Poster on display at Checkpoint Charlie.
Checkpoint Charlie, established in 1961, was the most famous border crossing between East and West Berlin during the Cold War. Symbolizing the division of the city, it became a tense site for confrontations and a poignant reminder of the era’s political and ideological divide.
Checkpoints are maintained in a perimeter wall around the section of city directly under the derelict spaceship thought to be at high risk of contamination.
A MAN SD200 operating the Stadtrundfahrt around Berlin, stopping ouside the Checkpoint Charlie museum, with the competing City Circle service behind.
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With many warring factions squabbling over land, these checkpoints are the only things that attempt to control ever changing borders.
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Reality Checkpoint, Parker's Piece, Cambridge, 23 Feb 2018
The lamp post at the crossing of the paths in the centre of Parker's Piece is known as Reality Checkpoint.
To many it marks the boundary between the Cambridge academic bubble to the west and the real world to the east.
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_Checkpoint
It was repainted in summer 2016 and quite quickly acquired new 'Reality Checkpoint' markings.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin
Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3,723,914 (2018) inhabitants make it the second most populous city proper of the European Union after London. The city is one of Germany's 16 federal states. It is surrounded by the state of Brandenburg, and contiguous with its capital, Potsdam. The two cities are at the center of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region, which is, with 6,004,857 (2015) inhabitants and an area of 30,370 square km, Germany's third-largest metropolitan region after the Rhine-Ruhr and Rhine-Main regions.
Berlin straddles the banks of the River Spree, which flows into the River Havel (a tributary of the River Elbe) in the western borough of Spandau. Among the city's main topographical features are the many lakes in the western and southeastern boroughs formed by the Spree, Havel, and Dahme rivers (the largest of which is Lake Müggelsee). Due to its location in the European Plain, Berlin is influenced by a temperate seasonal climate. About one-third of the city's area is composed of forests, parks, gardens, rivers, canals and lakes. The city lies in the Central German dialect area, the Berlin dialect being a variant of the Lusatian-New Marchian dialects.
First documented in the 13th century and situated at the crossing of two important historic trade routes, Berlin became the capital of the Margraviate of Brandenburg (1417–1701), the Kingdom of Prussia (1701–1918), the German Empire (1871–1918), the Weimar Republic (1919–1933), and the Third Reich (1933–1945). Berlin in the 1920s was the third largest municipality in the world. After World War II and its subsequent occupation by the victorious countries, the city was divided; West Berlin became a de facto West German exclave, surrounded by the Berlin Wall (1961–1989) and East German territory. East Berlin was declared capital of East Germany, while Bonn became the West German capital. Following German reunification in 1990, Berlin once again became the capital of all of Germany.
Berlin is a world city of culture, politics, media and science. Its economy is based on high-tech firms and the service sector, encompassing a diverse range of creative industries, research facilities, media corporations and convention venues. Berlin serves as a continental hub for air and rail traffic and has a highly complex public transportation network. The metropolis is a popular tourist destination. Significant industries also include IT, pharmaceuticals, biomedical engineering, clean tech, biotechnology, construction and electronics.
Berlin is home to world-renowned universities, orchestras, museums, and entertainment venues, and is host to many sporting events. Its Zoological Garden is the most visited zoo in Europe and one of the most popular worldwide. With the world's oldest large-scale movie studio complex, Berlin is an increasingly popular location for international film productions. The city is well known for its festivals, diverse architecture, nightlife, contemporary arts and a very high quality of living. Since the 2000s Berlin has seen the emergence of a cosmopolitan entrepreneurial scene.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kochstra%C3%9Fe_(Berlin_U-Bahn)
Kochstraße is a Berlin U-Bahn station located on the U 6.
It is close to Checkpoint Charlie and the Checkpoint Charlie Museum.
Checkpoint Charlie was one of the Berlin border crossings through the Berlin Wall between 1961 and 1990. On Friedrichstrasse between Zimmerstrasse and Kochstrasse, it connected the Soviet and American sectors and thus the East Berlin Mitte district with the West Berlin Kreuzberg district. Wikipedia
Der Checkpoint Charlie war einer der Berliner Grenzübergänge durch die Berliner Mauer zwischen 1961 und 1990. Er verband in der Friedrichstraße zwischen Zimmerstraße und Kochstraße den sowjetischen mit dem amerikanischen Sektor und damit den Ost-Berliner Bezirk Mitte mit dem West-Berliner Bezirk Kreuzberg. Wikipedia