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The Joes have chosen a curve in the road to set up a temporary checkpoint. Just an old pic I've never posted anywhere before.
On our way to Berlin we stopped at Checkpoint Alpha. During the days of the DDR this way the only point where you could cross the border by car when you wanted to go from West Germany to West Berlin. Here they would search every car to see if you weren't smuggeling. When they had suspicions about you they could take you inside for interrigation. Waiting time here could be hours,
From here it still was a 170 km drive to West Berlin. You had to go through East Germany over a single lane road without any exits. You where forbidden to stop and could not leave this road. Allthough not visable you knew that East German intelligence forces where watching you the entire time.
... where this kind person (behind the sandbags) was photographing tourists with their cameras.
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... reconstructed in year 2000 and now a tourist attraction.
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An illegal stamp that you could get in your passport as a souvenir to commemorate your crossing into East Berlin through Checkpoint C in the American Zone of West Berlin. Such stamps can invalidate your passport as we found out 55 years later! Oh well.....Such was the Cold War!
The Mistveil Enb Standard Edition
Today I received a pm on Nexus from a guy I sent the Mistveil Enb, I did because he asked me since he saw a gallery done by Azeneth using The Mistveil Standard Ed and he was eager to play with it.
In today's message he simply told me that "people would die to see this (Mistveil) preset".
Hell I don't wanna people die because of my enb preset XD
But I'm thinking about it..
Maybe..
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On euro tour with Sean and Neil for 3 days of mayhem and a grand total of 8 hours sleep. Taking in some old and new sites and showing them some of what is out there as it was their first time. Also made time to meet up with the SPEXS crew.
This is my 2nd visit here and managed a whole different set of photos this time as it wasn't freezing and the 24 degree evening up til 1am was nice to wander around in.
Previous set here: www.flickr.com/photos/timster1973/sets/72157632766817848/
Liège-Guillemins railway station is the main station of the city of Liège, the third largest city in Belgium. It is one of the most important hubs in the country and is one of the 3 Belgian stations on the high-speed rail network. The station is used by 36,000 people every day which makes it the tenth busiest station in Belgium.
History
In 1838, only three years after the first continental railway, a line linking Brussels and Ans, in the northern suburbs of Liège, was opened. The first railway station of Liège-Guillemins was inaugurated in May 1842, linking the valley to the upper Ans station. In 1843, the first international railway connection was born, linking Liège to Aachen and Cologne.
The station was modernized and improved in 1882 and in 1905 for the World Fair in Liège. This station was replaced in 1958 by a modern (for that time) one that was used until June 2009, a few months before the opening of the new Calatrava designed station.
New station
The new station by the architect Santiago Calatrava was officially opened on September 18, 2009, with a show by Franco Dragone. It has 9 tracks and 5 platforms (three of 450 m and two of 350 m). All the tracks around the station have been modernized to allow high speed arrival and departure.
The new station is made of steel, glass and white concrete. It includes a monumental arch, 160 metres long and 32 metres high. The building costs were €312 million.
Train services
Liège-Guillemins station is served by InterCity- and InterRegio trains, connecting Liège with all major Belgian cities, as well as several international destinations such as Aachen, Lille, and Maastricht. In addition to the national traffic, Liège-Guillemins station welcomes Thalys and ICE trains, connecting Liège to Brussels, Paris, Aachen, Cologne, and Frankfurt. Two new dedicated high-speed tracks were built: HSL 2 (Brussels-Liège) and HSL 3 (Liège-German border).
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Checkpoint C, commonly known as Checkpoint Charlie from the letter C in the NATO phonetic alphabet, was the best-known Berlin Wall crossing point between East Berlin and West Berlin during the Cold War (1947–1991), only for foreigners and members of the Allied forces. The Soviets simply called it the Friedrichstraße Crossing Point (КПП Фридрихштрассе, KPP Fridrikhshtrasse), while the East Germans referred to it as the Grenzübergangsstelle ("Border Crossing Point") Friedrich-/Zimmerstraße.
It is today a very popular, and a bit cheesy, tourist attraction where tourists can, for a fee, have their photographs taken with actors dressed as allied military policemen standing in front of the guard house, or buy fake military items at one of the several souvenir stands and stores nearby. An open air exhibit provides information about escape attempts, how the checkpoint was expanded, its significance during the Cold War and the stand-off between Soviet and American tanks here in 1961. The guarhouse is a reconstruction of the first guard house erected in 1961, although the guardhouse as it stood in 1990 when the checkpoint booth was finally removed, about a year after the fall of the Berlin wall, was much bigger.
The East German checkpoint watchtower, the last surviving original Checkpoint Charlie structure, was demolished in 2000 to make way for offices and shops, as the city failed to get the structure classified as a historic landmark.
The large portait is the installation "Untitled" by artist Frank Thiel, which shows two larger-than-life color portraits of a young American and a young “Soviet” soldier looking into the other’s territory. Both photos were taken in 1994 before the Allied forces withdrew from Berlin, and since the Soviet Union had already disintegrated at that time, the “Soviet” soldier is wearing the uniform of the new Russian federation.
This is a slightly better staged version of my checkpoint mock-up. All of the vehicles are pointing in towards the action, and I got the pickup and bike which were cropped out of the first shot. I need like 3 times as many figs in there, and smaller details, like the cargo of the truck, and maybe some rubble in the background. I might try my hand aty forced perspective, and throw a microscale cityscape behind the gate.
Laura Neese checks in at Mile 101.
Laura arrived at the halfway mark (Dawson City, Yukon, Canada) early this morning, Feb. 12, arriving in 12th place of 22 mushers left on the trail.
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. [Wikipedia ]
Photo of Street Display 2013
Taken on my trip to Berlin late 2015. Shot on a Canon EOS 1V 35mm Film Camera.
The film used was Fuji Film Superia 200.
Film Speed - 200
Friedrichstraße, Berlin, Germany.
[EN] 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 (1947–1991).
East German leader Walter Ulbricht agitated and maneuvered to get the Soviet Union's permission to construct the Berlin Wall in 1961 to stop emigration and defection westward through the Border system, preventing escape across the city sector border from East Berlin into 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.
[DE] 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 (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/September 1961 infolge des Mauerbaus von den West-Alliierten eingerichtet, um den Angehörigen ihres Militärpersonals weiterhin das Überschreiten der Sektorengrenze zu ermöglichen, wobei sie registriert und belehrt wurden. Kontrollen aller anderen Besucher Ost-Berlins fanden, wie überall auf westlicher Seite, auch am Checkpoint Charlie nicht statt. (Wikipedia)
Due to increase hostilities at the country border and within the nation, the military have established several checkpoints in the far entrances and exists of Bricksbourg.
Strict searches have been conducted for fear of rebels infiltrating the city.
On our way to Berlin we stopped at Checkpoint Alpha. During the days of the DDR this way the only point where you could cross the border by car when you wanted to go from West Germany to West Berlin. Here they would search every car to see if you weren't smuggeling. When they had suspicions about you they could take you inside for interrigation. Waiting time here could be hours,
From here it still was a 170 km drive to West Berlin. You had to go through East Germany over a single lane road without any exits. You where forbidden to stop and could not leave this road. Allthough not visable you knew that East German intelligence forces where watching you the entire time.
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 (1947–1991).
East German 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 and defection westward through the Soviet border system, preventing escape across the city sector border from communist East Berlin into 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.
Nathaniel Brown was the military police officer in charge on the night of 9 November 1989.
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.
Due to increase hostilities at the country border and within the nation, the military have established several checkpoints in the far entrances and exists of Bricksbourg.
Strict searches have been conducted for fear of rebels infiltrating the city.
Will it be enough to prevent the rebels from smuggling weapons?
While the guards stationed at Checkpoint 13 were busy handling Captain Ahnee and his truckload of looted gold, they failed to notice that their zombie-on-a-chain had jumped the barrier and spread the infection. How sad!
This wasn't supposed to be about zombies Keith! Jeez, man with a one track mind.