The Moscow Mathematical Papyrus, the Egyptian Mathematical Leather Roll, the Lahun Mathematical Papyri which are a part of the much larger collection of Kahun Papyri and the Berlin Papyrus all date to this period.

Demai ii. 23a, R. H. 34a ), one of which — that regulating the sounding of the shofar — has since been universally adopted, and is referred to by medieval Jewish casuists as " Takkanat R. Abbahu " ( the Enactment of R. Abbahu ; compare " Maḥzor Vitry ", Berlin, 1893, p. 355 ).

This, and related general questions, have been treated — besides the above-mentioned authors — by M. Thiesen ( Berlin.

While some argued for the seat of government to move to Berlin, others advocated leaving it in Bonn — a situation roughly analogous to that of the Netherlands, where Amsterdam is the capital but The Hague is the seat of government.

After World War II, the city became divided into East Berlin — the capital of East Germany — and West Berlin, a West German exclave surrounded by the Berlin Wall ( 1961 – 1989 ).

Each of the national governments based in Berlin — the 1871 German Empire, the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, East Germany, and now the reunified Germany — initiated ambitious ( re -) construction programs, with each adding its own distinctive style to the city's architecture.

At present Berlin consists of 96 localities, which are commonly made up of several city neighborhoods — called Kiez in the Berlin dialect — representing small residential areas.

A second reason Soviet missiles were deployed to Cuba was because Khrushchev wanted to bring West Berlin — the American / British / French-controlled democratic zone within Communist East Germany — into the Soviet orbit.

In 1902, he displayed his works thematically at the hall of the Berlin Succession, producing " a symphonic effect — it made a great stir — a lot of antagonism — and a lot of approval.

An alternative choice to commemorate the reunification could have been the day the Berlin Wall came down — November 9, 1989, which coincided with the anniversary of the proclamation of the German Republic in 1918 and the defeat of Hitler's first coup in 1923.

The problem of the controversy between the spirit and the letter of the law, in Germany, has been brought back to public attention due to the trials of former East German soldiers who guarded the Berlin Wall — the so-called necessity of following orders.

Some 2. 6 million people had fled East Germany by 1961 when he built the Berlin Wall to stop them — shooting those who attempted it.

Berlin is the seat of the German executive, housed in the Chancellery, the Bundeskanzleramt.

Facing the Chancellery is the Bundestag, the German Parliament, housed in the renovated Reichstag building since the government moved back to Berlin in 1998.

Formerly housed at the Altes Museum in Berlin, but lost or destroyed during World War II.

Centrally positioned in the Kingdom of Prussia between Berlin and Poznań, on the river Oder with its heavy traffic, the town housed the second-largest annual trade fair ( Messe ) of the German Reich, surpassed only by that in Leipzig.

During the 19th century Greifswald, known as " Gryfia " in Polish was one of the main centers of Polish students in Germany After Wrocław and Berlin, Gryfi as the city is named in Polish housed the third largest number of Polish students

" The first new buildings housed government science agencies and new research institutes of the University of Berlin.

Prior to the establishment of the GDR it housed the main office of the Soviet Military Administration in Berlin, and before that it was an officers ' mess of the Wehrmacht.

The Babylonian chronicles are currently housed in the Pergamum Museum in Berlin.

It was not used as the prison for national socialist war criminals who were housed at Spandau prison in the same Berlin borough.

In that year Prince-Elector Frederick II Irontooth of Brandenburg moved with his residence from Brandenburg upon Havel to Cölln ( today's Fishers ' Island, the southern part of Museum Island ) into the newly erected Berlin Castle, which also housed a Catholic castle chapel.

The historically most famous boulevard in Berlin and arguably in all of Germany is Unter den Linden: location of the Berlin State Opera, Berlin Cathedral, the former royal palace, Humboldt University, the Neue Wache state memorial, the Germany Historical Museum housed in the old arsenal and Brandenburg Gate being the boulevards focal point.

It is housed in the Berlin Document Center ( BDC ).

One notorious Berlin Mietskaserne was Meyers Hof in Wedding, which at times housed 2, 000 people and required its own police officer to keep order.

Among the famed 20th century composers and lyricists whose works were housed here are Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, Irving Berlin, Harold Rome, Frank Loesser, Lionel Bart, Bob Merrill, Stephen Sondheim, Jule Styne, E. Y.

Today, almost all remaining material is housed in the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin ( roughly 350 remaining specimens ), while the museum of the Institute for Geosciences of the Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen houses a composite mount, roughly 50 % of it being original bones.

Finds from ancient Eliki are limited to two 5th century copper coins, now housed in the Staatliches Museum, Berlin.

In the summer of 1999, as part of the German government's move to Berlin, the Chancellery was temporarily housed in the former GDR State Council building ( Staatsratsgebäude ) as the new Chancellery building was not yet finished at the time.

Around 1, 800 Jewish men, almost all of them married to non-Jewish women ( others being the so-called Geltungsjuden ), were separated from the other 6, 000 of the arrested, and housed temporarily at Rosenstraße 2 – 4, a welfare office for the Jewish community located in central Berlin.

Gladiatoria is the name given to an anonymously authored mid-15th century German Fechtbuch, formerly housed at the Preussische Königliche Staatsbibliothek in Berlin and once believed to have been destroyed in World War II, but discovered in 1985 by Dr. Hans Peter Hils at the Biblioteka Jagiellońska in Kraków, Poland, where it remains.

Flusser's archives have been held by the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne and are currently housed at the Berlin University of the Arts.

The earliest version, written in Central German, is dated 1532 – 1535 and is housed at the Kupferstichkabinett Berlin at State Museums in Berlin.

* Altägyptisches Wörterbuch, the standard academic dictionary of ancient Egyptian published in Berlin

David Diringer noted that " the first mention of Egyptian documents written on leather goes back to the Fourth Dynasty ( c. 2550-2450 BCE ), but the earliest of such documents extant are: a fragmentary roll of leather of the Sixth Dynasty ( c. twenty-fourth century BCE ), unrolled by Dr. H. Ibscher, and preserved in the Cairo Museum ; a roll of the Twelfth Dynasty ( c. 1990-1777 BCE ) now in Berlin ; the mathematical text now in the British Museum ( MS. 10250 ); and a document of the reign of Ramses II ( early thirtheenth century BCE ).".

Two years later in Paris he repeated the proposal, listing the stone as one of several key items belonging to Egypt's cultural heritage, a list which also included the iconic bust of Nefertiti in the Egyptian Museum of Berlin ; a statue of the Great Pyramid architect Hemiunu in the Roemer-und-Pelizaeus-Museum in Hildesheim, Germany ; the Dendara Temple Zodiac in the Louvre in Paris ; and the bust of Ankhhaf from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

His interest in African languages was further developed during 1852 and 1853 by learning Egyptian from Professor Karl Richard Lepsius, whom he met in Berlin in 1852.

* Staatliche Museen zu Berlin: Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection

Egyptian Museum of Berlin | Berlin, Egyptian Museum.

Georg Moritz Ebers ( Berlin, March 1, 1837 – Tutzing, Bavaria, August 7, 1898 ), German Egyptologist and novelist, discovered the Egyptian medical papyrus, of ca.

* Egyptian Museum of Berlin

Destroyed in World War II, it was rebuilt under the direction of David Chipperfield for the Egyptian Museum of Berlin and re-opened in 2009.

It has been kept at several locations in Germany since its discovery, including a salt mine in Merkers-Kieselbach, the Dahlem museum ( then in West Berlin ), the Egyptian Museum in Charlottenburg and the Altes Museum.

Finally, in 1923, the bust was first unveiled to the public in Borchardt's writing and later in 1924, displayed to the public as part of the Egyptian Museum of Berlin.

Ever since the official unveiling of the bust in Berlin in 1924, the Egyptian authorities have been demanding its return to Egypt.

In 1989, the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak viewed the bust and announced that Nefertiti was " the best ambassador for Egypt " in Berlin.

In 2003, the Egyptian Museum in Berlin allowed the Hungarian artist duo Little Warsaw, Andras Galik and Balint Havas, to place the bust atop a nearly nude female bronze for a video installation to be shown at the Venice Biennale modern art festival.

The ' Passover letter ' of 419 BCE ( discovered in 1907 ), which gives detailed instructions for properly keeping Passover is in the Egyptian Museum of Berlin.

* Egyptian Museum of Berlin

The tablets originally recovered by local Egyptians have been scattered among museums in Cairo, Europe and the United States: 202 or 203 are at the Vorderasiatisches Museum in Berlin ; 80 in the British Museum ; 49 or 50 at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo ; seven at the Louvre ; 3 at the Pushkin Museum ; and 1 is currently in the collection of the Oriental Institute in Chicago.

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The Egyptian Museum of Berlin () is home to one of the world's most important collections of Ancient Egyptian artifacts.

Alexander von Humboldt had recommended that an Egyptian section be created, and the first objects were brought to Berlin in 1828 under Friedrich Wilhelm III.