{"id":65251,"date":"2009-12-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/fall-of-berlin-wall-photo-exhibition-on-display-at-uri-international-engineering-center\/"},"modified":"2009-12-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T00:00:00","slug":"fall-of-berlin-wall-photo-exhibition-on-display-at-uri-international-engineering-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2009\/12\/fall-of-berlin-wall-photo-exhibition-on-display-at-uri-international-engineering-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall of Berlin Wall photo exhibition on display at 溏心vlog免费B站 international engineering center"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"press-release-import\">\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 December 17, 2009 \u2013 An exhibit of photographs taken during the days leading up to the fall of the Berlin Wall is on display at the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Texas Instruments House, the home of the University\u2019s International Engineering Program.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tThe exhibit is open to the public from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays through January.  The Texas Instruments House is located at 61 Upper College Rd., Kingston.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tEntitled Freedom Without Walls, the photographs depict the jubilant crowds that gathered on both sides of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago to celebrate the opening of the border crossings between the eastern and western parts of the city.  The tearing down of the symbol of the Cold War and political oppression led to national unity for Germany less than a year later.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\u201cThis exhibit is a great reminder of the postwar division that took place in Germany, of the peaceful revolution that finally reunified the country, and how precious freedom truly is,\u201d said John Grandin, executive director of the International Engineering Program and a 溏心vlog免费B站 professor of German.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tThe exhibit was opened on December 11 by German Consul Friedrich Loehr, who marked the occasion by knocking down a symbolic wall built from cardboard boxes by 溏心vlog免费B站 engineering students.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tThe exhibit is part of a yearlong celebration of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, sponsored in part by the German Embassy and the German Information Office.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tIn launching the celebration, German Ambassador Klaus Scharioth said: \u201cWe celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in a spirit of deep gratitude and with a desire to share our experience \u2013 the vision of hope, of unity, and of freedom without walls.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tFor more information about the exhibit, contact Sigrid Berka, associate director of the International Engineering Program, at 401-874-2472 or sberka@uri.edu.<\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 December 17, 2009 \u2013 An exhibit of photographs taken during the days leading up to the fall of the Berlin Wall is on display at the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Texas Instruments House, the home of the University\u2019s International Engineering Program. &#13; The exhibit is open to the public from 9 a.m. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}