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[[File:BrandenburgerTor 9188.jpg|frame|It's a gate. And [[The Berlin Republic|now]] you can even walk through it!]]

 

 

Berlin, capital of Germany [[Imperial Germany|1871]][[Weimar Republic|-]][[Nazi Germany|1945]] and again since [[The Berlin Republic|1990]] and a major world city. According to P. J. O'Rourke, "the city that [[Iggy Pop]] moved to because New York wasn't decadent enough." Though P.J. followed it up by saying, "Forget it. We bombed the place flat in WWII, and they rebuilt it as a pretty good imitation of Minneapolis."

* If you're standing next to Communist architecture, you're in the eastern half.

** There used to be a great big bronze-windowed building, the Palast der Republik in East Berlin, home of the East German "parliament" and also a cultural centre. Discovered to be filled with asbestos, it is now entirely demolished and an old palace will be somewhat rebuilt where it was (it had been knocked down by the GDR, who saw it as a symbol of Prussian militarism, bar one facade where a guy named Karl Liebknecht had declared a German Socialist Republic in 1918, also it was moderately bomb damaged, a parallel of the asbestos).

* If the little men on the traffic lights (known as Ampelmännchen) are wearing [[Nice Hat|hats]], you are very likely to be in the eastern half. However, this method is somewhat hit and miss.

* If you're in the [http://www.itouristmaps.com/germany/berlin/zoological-garden/ Zoologischer Garten], you're in the western half.

 

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* ''[[We Are the Night]]''.

* ''[[The Bourne Series|The Bourne Supremacy]]''.