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"Lenin? Let him fall..."

Arsen Avakov, Ukrainian Interior Minister, comments on the toppled statue of Lenin in Kharkiv

Goodbye Lenin [video]: Ukrainian nationalists topple statue in Kharkiv

Anti-Russian protesters in Ukraine's second-largest city, Kharkiv, topple a huge statue of Vladimir Lenin. One protester explains why.

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The use of teargas by the Hong Kong Police is widely credited with intensifying the Occupy Central Movement. According to numerous news articles, dramatic images of teargas being fired at protesters – the vast majority of whom were students – generated public sympathy and altered the tone of the Occupy Movement. The imagery is jittering: a public intersection, marked by international hotels, corporate offices, and traffic gridlock, suddenly resembled a war zone.

Benny Ta Yiu-ting, Associate Professor of Law at Hong Kong University, is widely credited with sparking the Occupy Central campaign in January 2013. Tai has frequently commented that the current Occupy Central movement, which has since spread well beyond the “Central” neighborhood of Hong Kong, has expanded well beyond his initial expectations, leading to significant organizational challenges.

Known as 'Umbrella Man', this public art installation has emerged as something of a mascot for the pro-democracy student movement in Hong Kong. Having used umbrellas to shield themselves from teargas, umbrellas have taken on a unique and symbolic meaning for the Occupy Central movement. The statue was erected at a protest site overnight and was designed by a 22 year old student known only as 'Milk'. Comparisons have been draw with the 'Goddess of Democracy' statue that was erected in Tiananmen Square before the government crackdown there in 1989.

"Louis Armstrong Told Us So"

A world map designed by Bianca Green for use on various prints and home products for Urban Outfitters and Society6, showing a typical political boundary map shaded with vivid print patterns.

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Bodenfunde beim bau der Reichsautobahn

Map of archaeological findings on the Nazi Autobahn network

Political, cultural, and linguistic borders have shifted significantly since the end of the Cold War, but physical infrastructure continues to divide Europe along the Cold War era political borders. The map showing the track gauges of different train…

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"Lenin? Let him fall..."

Goodbye Lenin [video]: Ukrainian nationalists topple statue in Kharkiv

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"Louis Armstrong Told Us So"

International Space Station Modules
Airbus A300 Modules

Bodenfunde beim bau der Reichsautobahn

Infrastructure maps of Europe