In 1989, with the end of the Cold War and pressure from the East German population, the Berlin Wall fell on 9 November 1989 and was subsequently mostly demolished, with little of its physical structure remaining today ; the East Side Gallery in Friedrichshain near the Oberbaumbrücke over the Spree preserves a portion of the Wall.

Having made the proper preparations, he fell upon the triumphant army near Malmedy as it was returning to its own province, and, in the ensuing Battle of Amblève, routed it.

This town fell into decay ( possibly due to an earthquake ) and the Byzantine town of Chonæ occupied a site near its ruins.

His father cried, bitterly lamenting his own arts, and called the land near the place where Icarus fell into the ocean Icaria in memory of his child.

The Murchison meteorite that fell near Murchison, Victoria, Australia in 1969 was found to contain over 90 different amino acids, nineteen of which are found in Earth life.

On the day of his catasterism, when Zeus transformed him into a constellation, a single feather fell to the earth near the city of Tarsus.

In the middle of this confrontation, Henry unexpectedly fell ill and died near Lyons-la-Forêt.

After returning the ball 41 yards, Howley tripped and fell at the Dolphins 9-yard line with nobody near him.

Tamar's historian relates that the queen suddenly fell ill when discussing the state affairs with her ministers at the Nacharmagevi castle near the town of Gori.

* Red Pike ( Buttermere ), a fell near Buttermere in the Lake District, England

* Red Pike ( Wasdale ), a fell near Wasdale in the Lake District, England

He admits that William the Conqueror, another descendant of this dynasty, generally enjoyed good health but points out that William fell seriously ill following the Battle of Hastings ( 1066 ), resting for a month near Canterbury.

However, Vladimir fell ill, most likely of old age and died at Berestovo, near Kiev.

Ladakh had earlier granted Bhutan several enclaves near Mount Kailash in western Tibet ; these were monasteries of the Drukpa sect and so fell under the authority of the Bhutanese Je Khenpo and the Shabdrung.

That same day, about to the northwest, the commander of the French left wing, Marshal Achille Bazaine, was dislodged from near Saarbrücken and fell back westward to the fortress of Metz.

The wreckage of both planes fell into the eastern portion of the canyon, on Temple and Chuar Buttes, near the confluence of the Colorado and Little Colorado rivers.

In the 2nd century BC, Gija Joseon was replaced by Wiman Joseon which fell to the Han dynasty of China near the end of the century.

Andragathius, magister equitum of Maximus and the killer of emperor Gratian, was defeated near Siscia while Maximus ' brother, Marcellinus, fell in battle at Poetovio.

Almost at the same time Broglie fell upon a part of the Austrians left on the Vltava and won a small, but morally and politically important, success in the action of Sahay, near Budweis ( 24 May 1742 ).

Bryant shot Janet Quin in the back, where she fell, unable to move, near Royce Thompson.

A few weeks later though, as the severity of winter fell upon Vincennes, the young king was moved to the Tuileries Palace, in the center of Paris, near the Palais Royal.

Manufactured goods, which had expanded to £ 50, 000 since Jay's Treaty of 1795, fell over 20 %, especially articles made near Tidewater.

The French had also made progress, and once Ginchy fell, the two armies were linked near Combles.

In 2006, the city made the front page of national newspapers when 200, 000 residents were told to evacuate in the wake of flooding that was forecast to reach levels near that of ' 72 but fell short of predictions.

In 1936, during the Spanish Civil War, a Republican Air Force Dornier Wal D-1 airplane fell near the island.

Beaded wire continued to be used in jewellery into modern times, although it largely fell out of favour in about the tenth century AD when two drawn round wires, twisted together to form what are termed ' ropes ', provided a simpler-to-make alternative.

Dravot, wearing his crown, stood on a rope bridge over a gorge while the Kafirs cut the ropes and fell to his death.

* April 15, 1978: In a storm, two carrying ropes of the Squaw Valley Aerial Tramway in California fell from the aerial tramway support tower.

LaMotta fell into the ropes and went down.

So as not to be entangled in a murder investigation, Bond throws Krest overboard and cleans up the scene of the crime, making it look as though Krest fell overboard after one of the ropes holding his hammock broke: Bond suspects both Barbey and Mrs. Krest, but is unsure which is responsible.

Sting managed to deliver a Shoulder Block and tried to perform a Sunset Flip but Reed fell on Sting and held the ropes for the pinfall.

Page fell against the ropes, slid down, and was counted out by the referee.

That afternoon, in the worst accident to ever happen at Oregon's Mount Hood, five mountain climbers were killed when a group of 16, linked by ropes for safety during their descent, fell 2, 500 feet down the side of the mountain.

In 2001, in a match against Mammoth Sasaki, Hayabusa attempted a springboard moonsault — one of his signature moves — but slipped on the ropes and fell directly on his neck, breaking it and paralyzing him.

When night fell, they laced the nameless one with dozens of ropes and began to heave and pull.

She got to her feet, staggered, and almost fell.

The figure leapt from the box, almost lost its balance, the flag draped there tore in the air, the figure landed on its left leg, fell on its hands, and pressed itself up.

A large portion of its nearly 2, 000 T-55 tanks fell into disrepair, and eventually almost all of them were scrapped or sold to other countries.

According to Cuthbert, Bede fell ill " with frequent attacks of breathlessness but almost without pain ", before Easter.

Tacitus reports that " according to one report almost eighty thousand Britons fell " compared with only four hundred Romans.

According to Tacitus in his Annals, Boudica poisoned herself, though in the Agricola which was written almost twenty years prior he mentions nothing of suicide and attributes the end of the revolt to socordia (" indolence "); Dio says she fell sick and died and then was given a lavish burial ; though this may be a convenient way to remove her from the story.

" Jim Rob ", as he became known, drifted for several years, traveling from town to town to try to earn a living, at one point almost losing his life when he nearly fell from a moving train, and later being chased by railroad police.

Because the comet's motion with respect to Jupiter was very small, it fell almost straight toward Jupiter, which is why it ended up on a Jupiter-centric orbit of very high eccentricitythat is to say, the ellipse was nearly flattened out.

* Defective: ' I almost fell '

He brought down a mini-budget in an attempt to slow consumption, control inflation and reduce the deficit, but it triggered the worst credit squeeze since 1945 — the economy was driven into recession, the stock market slumped, private investment, housing activity and motor vehicle sales fell, unemployment rose to almost 2 percent ( the highest rate since the Depression ) and several major companies collapsed.

New foreign investment approvals fell by almost two-thirds between 1997 and 1999.

On November 4, 2007 the Patriots defeated the Colts 24 – 20 ; in the next matchup on November 2, 2008, the Colts won 18 – 15 in a game that was one of the reasons the Patriots failed to make the playoffs ; in the 2009 meeting, the Colts staged a spirited comeback to beat the Patriots 35 – 34 ; in the most recent 2010 game, the Colts almost staged another comeback, pulling within 31 – 28 after trailing 31 – 14 in the fourth quarter, but fell short due to a Patriots interception of a Manning pass late in the game.

The Fragrant Hill Hotel opened on October 17, 1982, but fell into disrepair almost immediately afterwards.

As such many of these islands fell under Norwegian and Ui Imair hegemony between the 9th and 13th centuries and this Norse influence would see almost constant warfare on the western seaboard of Scotland until the partitioning of the Hebrides in 1156.

The Capua principality was hotly contested during the reign of the hated Pandulf IV, the Wolf of the Abruzzi, and, under his son, it fell, almost without contest, to the Norman Richard Drengot ( 1058 ).

The lute almost fell out of use after 1800.

The Empire fell into anarchy ; the Safavid Empire invaded Iraq almost immediately, Northern Anatolia erupted in revolts, and in 1631 the Janissaries stormed the palace and killed the Grand Vizier, among others.

Once Siena had been conquered by Florence under the rule of the Medici family in 1555, Montalcino held out for almost four years, but ultimately fell to the Florentines, under whose control it remained until the Grand Duchy of Tuscany was amalgamated into a united Italy in 1861.

After almost a year of suffering a painful illness, Honorius fell seriously ill in early 1130.

“ Fathers and mothers have ‘ disordered and disobedient children ,’” said the Puritan Richard Greenham, “ because they have been disobedient children to the Lord and disordered to their parents when they were young .” Because the duty of early childcare fell almost exclusively on women, a woman's salvation necessarily depended upon the observable goodness of her child.

Some scenes of the 1987 Wim Wenders movie Der Himmel über Berlin ( English title: Wings of Desire ) were filmed on the old, almost entirely void Potsdamer Platz before the Berlin Wall fell.

Devastated by the breakup, Peckinpah fell into a self destructive pattern of almost continuous alcohol consumption, and his health was unstable for the remainder of his life.

According to Cassius Dio, however, after 197 Severus fell heavily under the influence of his Praetorian Prefect, Gaius Fulvius Plautianus, who came to have almost total control of most branches of the imperial administration.

Unemployment rose to close to twenty percent, real wages fell, the peso was devalued and the percentage of Uruguayans in poverty reached almost forty percent.

# Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger: From 1990 through 2004, the proportion of people living in extreme poverty fell from almost a third to less than a fifth.