Prussia, with its capital Berlin, grew in power.

Cassatt grew up in an environment that viewed travel as integral to education ; she spent 5 years in Europe and visited many of the capitals, including London, Paris, and Berlin.

It was a key location that helped to symbolise Berlin ; it was known worldwide, and a legend grew up around it.

During the 19th century and the age of industrialization Stockholm grew rapidly, with plans and architecture inspired by the large cities of the continent such as Berlin and Vienna.

Frederick Loewe grew up in Berlin and attended a Prussian cadet school from the age of five until he was thirteen.

Tczew grew rapidly during the 19th century after the opening of the Prussian Eastern Railway line connecting Berlin and Königsberg, with the Vistula bridge near Dirschau being an important part.

She grew up in Königsberg ( the birthplace of Prussian philosopher Immanuel Kant, renamed as Kaliningrad and annexed to the Soviet Union in 1946 ) and Berlin.

Berlin grew from 172, 000 1800, to 826, 000 in 1870 ; Hamburg grew from 130, 000 to 290, 000 ; Munich from 40, 000 to 269, 000 ; Breslau from 60, 000 to 208, 000 ; Dresden from 60, 000 to 177, 000 ; Königsberg from 55, 000 to 112, 000.

Perls “ grew up ” on the bohemian scene in Berlin, participated in Expressionism and Dadaism, and experienced the turning of the artistic avant-garde toward the revolutionary left.

Capa originally wanted to be a writer ; however, he found work in photography in Berlin and grew to love the art.

Under Hutner's charismatic leadership, Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin grew from relative obscurity to prominence, and with it grew his reputation in the world of Torah scholarship.

Lagerfeld grew up as the son of a wealthy businessman from Hamburg who was introducing condensed milk ( Glücksklee-Milch GmbH ) to Germany ; his mother is from Berlin.

Born in Berlin, Ramelow grew as a player at local Hertha BSC, playing five second division matches in his first two years combined, and five seasons in total: his debut came on 25 April 1992 ( aged 18 ), in a 0 – 5 home loss against Bayer Uerdingen.

Von Bülow and his brother grew up in Berlin with their grandmother.

The population grew from 200, 000 to 400, 000 in the first half of the 19th century, making Berlin the fourth-largest city in Europe.

In the semifinal match against Italy, the match went to extra time again, and hopes grew high that another penalty shootout would take the team to the final match in Berlin.

Although he continued to work as a composer and to teach at the East Berlin conservatory, the gap between Eisler and the cultural functionaries of East Germany grew wider in the last decade of his life.

Wilke grew up during the Cold War near the Berlin Wall, which he would pass every day on his way to school.

By the 19th century, as Berlin grew and expanded to the west, Unter den Linden became the best-known and grandest street in Berlin.

Born in New York on October 20, 1918, Lochner grew up in Berlin.

The British and other replies to that Moscow note pointed out efforts of the Communist authorities `` to integrate East Berlin into East Germany by isolating it from the outside and attempting to make it the capital of East Germany ''.

R. H. S. Crossman, M.P., writing in The Manchester Guardian, states that departures from West Berlin are now running at the rate not of 700, but of 1,700 a week, and applications to leave have risen to 1,900 a week.

The weekly loss is partly counterbalanced by 500 arrivals each week from West Germany, but the hard truth, says Crossman, is that `` The closing off of East Berlin without interference from the West and with the use only of East German, as distinct from Russian, troops was a major Communist victory, which dealt West Berlin a deadly, possibly a fatal, blow.

Four billion dollars of the spending increase is for defense, an expenditure necessitated by the penny-wise policies of the Eisenhhower Administration, quite apart from the recent crises in Berlin and elsewhere.

Starting in great force late in December, from a line stretching from East Prussia to Budapest, the Red armies had swept two hundred miles across Poland to the Oder, thirty miles from Berlin, and the Upper Danube region was being rapidly overrun, while the Western Allies had not yet occupied all of the left bank of the Rhine.

He said that from his experience of two years with Gen. Clay in West Berlin administration, that `` Russia respects our show of strength, but that presently we're not acting as we should and must ''.

The President and his advisers felt that the time might have come to warn Premier Khrushchev against a grave miscalculation in areas such as Berlin, Iran or Latin America from which there would be no turning back.

Though President John F. Kennedy was primarily concerned with the crucial problems of Berlin and disarmament adviser McCloy's unexpected report from Khrushchev, his new enthusiasm and reliance on personal diplomacy involved him in other key problems of U.S. foreign policy last week.

Statue from Berlin.

* 1972 – An East German Ilyushin Il-62 crashes during takeoff from East Berlin, killing 156.

* 1961 – Conrad Schumann flees from East Germany while on duty guarding the construction of the Berlin Wall.

Alexander Grothendieck was born in Berlin to anarchist parents: a Ukrainian father from an ultimately Hassidic family, Alexander " Sascha " Shapiro aka Tanaroff, and a mother from a German Protestant family, Johanna " Hanka " Grothendieck ; both of his parents had broken away from their early backgrounds in their teens.

The vote broke largely along regional lines, with legislators from south and west favouring Bonn and legislators from north and east voting for Berlin.

The earliest evidence of settlements in the area of today's Berlin are a wooden beam dated from approximately 1192 and leftovers of wooden houseparts dated to 1174 found in a 2012 digging in Berlin Mitte.

More than 15, 000 Huguenots went to Brandenburg, of whom 6, 000 settled in Berlin.

Among the hundreds of thousands who died during the Battle for Berlin, an estimated 125, 000 were civilians.

Prussia lost its recently acquired territories in western Germany, its army was reduced to 42, 000 men, no trade with Britain was allowed, and Berlin had to pay Paris heavy reparations and fund the French army of occupation.

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After the capture of Berlin, Soviet troops reportedly raped from tens of thousands to two million women, and 50, 000 during and after the occupation of Budapest.

It was a constant annoyance to Goebbels that, at a time when Germany was fighting for its life on the eastern front, there were still 40, 000 Jews in Berlin.

Because of this trespass, the king reduced Molteni's and Agricola's combined salaries to a single annual salary of 1, 000 Thalers ( Agricola's annual salary alone had been 1, 500 Thalers ).< ref > Scherer, F. M. < i > Quarter Notes and Bank Notes: The Economics of Music Composition in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries .</ i > Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003 .</ ref > Agricola died in Berlin at age 54.

Many people from Germany and abroad traveled to Berlin to take part in the Parade — over a million attended in the years 1997 through 2000 and 800, 000 in 2001.

The parade in Essen saw 1. 2 million visitors in comparison to the 500, 000 who attended the 2006 parade in Berlin.

Altogether up to 15, 000 Huguenots alone made new homes in the Brandenburg region, some 6, 000 of these in its capital, Berlin ( indeed, by 1700 and for a while afterwards as much as 20 % of Berlin ’ s population was French-speaking ).

40, 000 square metres, the lowest ( basement ) level being a food floor ; there are also four major hotels, and Europe's largest casino ( the " Spielbank Berlin ").

In 1926, Nurmi broke Wide's world record for the 3, 000 m in Berlin and then improved the record in Stockholm, despite Nils Eklöf repeatedly trying to slow his pace down in an effort to aid Wide.

The savings of these 336, 000 people were stolen by the Russians in 1945 when they captured Berlin.