Kathryn Elizabeth " Kate " Smith ( May 1, 1907 – June 17, 1986 ) was an American singer, an Alto, best known for her rendition of Irving Berlin's " God Bless America ".

Buildings within the courtyards were the location of much of Berlin's industry until the 1920s, and noise and other nuisances affected the apartments, only the best of which had windows facing the street.

Once the script was completed, everyone agreed that, while it was little more than standard situation comedy material, it was a perfect vehicle for Merman, and that Berlin's score, although far from his best, was tuneful and memorable.

The Kurfürstendamm is home to some of Berlin's luxurious stores with the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church at its eastern end on Breitscheidplatz.

Since 1917 Kaller served as priest at Berlin's second oldest Catholic Church, Saint Michael's.

The complex of Berlin's residential castle and the Supreme Parish Church with its double-tower façade of 1538 in the right ( southern ) corner.

While Berlin's other churches, subject to Lutheran city-council jurisdiction, remained Lutheran, the Supreme Parish Church of St. Trinity, the Hohenzollern's house church, became Berlin's first, and until 1695 only Calvinist church, serving from 1632 on as the parish for all Calvinists in town.

Thus, the huge Volkshalle was to dominate Berlin's new forum and north-south axis, whereas at EUR the new Church of the Saints Paul and Peter dominated the new town's decumanus.

The architects responsible for the typical mansions include Walter and Johannes Krüger ( the Church of St. John ), Hart and Lesser ( train station and casino tower ), Max Meyer ( Buddhist house ), Paul Poser, Max Scheidling, and Heinrich Straumer ( better known for his work on Berlin's radio tower, Funkturm ).

St. Hedwig's Cathedral is Berlin's Roman Catholic cathedral.

Soon after the First Partition, Krasicki officiated at the 1773 opening of Berlin's St. Hedwig's Cathedral, which Frederick had built for Catholic immigrants to Brandenburg and Berlin.

St. Hedwig's Cathedral serves as seat of Berlin's Roman Catholic metropolitan bishop.

In 1981 Swain and St. James formed the synthpop outfit Q composed of St. James on guitars, Dan Van Patten and John Van Tongeren on vocoder and synthesizer, and Swain as assistant producer ( Van Patten and Keith Walsh had previously collaborated on Berlin's single The Metro ).

Her credits include Les Misérables ( both on Broadway and in the national tour ), Jerry's Girls ( a revue of Jerry Herman songs co-starring Carol Channing and Leslie Uggams ), Beauty and the Beast, Starlight Express, Meet Me In St. Louis, The Wizard of Oz, They're Playing Our Song, and another celebrated Annie in Irving Berlin's classic, Annie Get Your Gun.

West Berlin's Mayor Brandt vigorously demanded a firmer stand on the dismemberment of his city and won votes by it.

Nearly 18 per cent of West Berlin's 2,200,000 residents are sixty-five or older, only 12.8 per cent are under fifteen.

Berlin's resilience is amazing, but if it has to hire its labor in the West the struggle will be hard indeed ''.

Berlin's previous history as united Germany's capital was strongly connected with Imperial Germany, and more ominously with Nazi Germany.

By 1700, approximately 20 percent of Berlin's residents were French, and their cultural influence on the city was immense.

Nazi rule destroyed Berlin's Jewish community, which had numbered 170, 000 before 1933.

West Berlin officially remained an occupied city, but as a corpus separatum it politically was very closely aligned with Federal Republic of Germany despite Berlin's geographic location within East Germany.

In Spandau, Berlin's westernmost borough, the Spree empties into the river Havel, which flows from north to south through western Berlin.

Berlin's built-up area creates a microclimate, with heat stored by the city's buildings.

Berlin's history has left the city with a highly eclectic array of architecture and buildings.

Unter den Linden is a tree-lined east – west avenue from the Brandenburg Gate to the site of the former Berliner Stadtschloss, and was once Berlin's premier promenade.

Friedrichstraße was Berlin's legendary street during the Roaring Twenties.

Map of Berlin's twelve boroughs and their localities.

Berlin is subdivided into twelve boroughs ( Bezirke ), down from 23 boroughs before Berlin's 2001 administrative reform.

Irving Berlin's " This is the Army, Mr. Jones " performed by men dressed as women in 1942

On December 10, 1810 he married the socially prominent Countess Marie von Brühl and socialized with Berlin's literary and intellectual elite.

It has been suggested that this is at least partially due to Berlin's proximity to the front, and that for an opposite effect, New York's geographic distance from the war spawned its more theoretically-driven, less political nature.

* 1989 – Berlin's Brandenburg Gate re-opens after nearly 30 years, effectively ending the division of East and West Germany.

He and other members from his unit wrote a play called Is This the Army ?, which was inspired by Irving Berlin's This is the Army.

In 1931, after Woman in the Moon, Lang directed what many film scholars consider to be his masterpiece: M, a disturbing story of a child murderer ( Peter Lorre in his first starring role ) who is hunted down and brought to rough justice by Berlin's criminal underworld.

Berlin's executive body is the Senate of Berlin ( Senat von Berlin ).

The office of Berlin's Governing Mayor is in the Rotes Rathaus ( Red City Hall ).

Heydrich was buried in Berlin's Invalidenfriedhof, a military cemetery ; the exact location is not known — a temporary wooden marker which disappeared when the Red Army overran the city in 1945 was never replaced, so that Heydrich's grave could not become a rallying point for Neo-Nazis.

In addition to the story of two angels, the film is also a meditation on Berlin's past, present, and future.

It is not clear yet if Berlin's senate will decide in favour of The Lefts proposal.

Creativity is Berlin's future.

His only singing role was as Cosmo Constantine in the original 1950 Broadway stage version of Irving Berlin's Call Me Madam, opposite Ethel Merman ( although he is heard singing a song in the 1933 film Little Women, displaying a pleasant voice ).

Napoleon passing through the Brandenburg Gate after the battle of Jena-Auersted ( 1806 ) The Gate's design is based upon the Propylaea, the gateway to the Acropolis in Athens, Greece and is consistent with Berlin's history of architectural classicism ( first, Baroque, and then neo-Palladian ).

The only track to make it on to a full Berlin release is a cover of Marilyn Manson's " The Dope Show ," which is included on Berlin's 4play album as well as the Marilyn Manson tribute album Anonymous Messiah ( 2001, Vitamin Records ).

* In 2011, the Berlin Court upheld the City of Berlin's decision to not register the marriage of two homosexual men, which is in contradition to the 2009 ruling of the Federal Constitutional Court that demanded full marriage equality for gay persons.

Today, Humboldt University of Berlin's Winckelmann Institute is dedicated to the study of classical archaeology.

Later Berlin and Cölln were united into one city ; one of Berlin's modern-day boroughs is Neukölln, named after Cölln.

Berlin's name is recorded in Latin language documents as " Berolina ".