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4 unusual facts about Havel


Fürstenberg/Havel

In early 1959, three years before the Cuban Missile Crisis, the site was equipped with 6 of the R-5 Pobeda nuclear missiles, capable of launching from a mobile launcher from one of four tennis-court-sized sites capable of handling the larger R-12 Dvina.

Havel

Several of Berlin's ferries cross these waters, carrying passengers and tourists.

Helmuth Weidling

The following is from an account of an interview with a member of the Hitler Youth who was preparing to defend a bridge over the Havel.

Reich Bride Schools

The first Reich Bride School was established in 1937 on Schwanenwerder, an island in the Havel river in the Berlin locality of Nikolassee.


Battle of Fehrbellin

Once he returned to Brandenburg, Frederick William realized that the Swedish forces, occupying the swampy Havelland region between Havelberg and the town of Brandenburg, were dispersed and ordered Derrflinger to take the central town of Rathenow in order to split them roughly down the middle.

Bell Tower of Berlin Olympic Stadium

The tower is an important tourist destination offering a panorama of Berlin, Spandau, the Havel Valley, Potsdam, Nauen and Hennigsdorf.

Berlin-Stresow railway station

When in 1871 the parallel railway line from the Lehrter Bahnhof in Berlin to Lehrte opened with a second station west of the Havel river, Spandau received the annex Hamburger Bahnhof to distinguish it from the new station called Lehrter Bahnhof.

Bohumil Hrabal

He met the Czech President Václav Havel, the American President Bill Clinton and the US ambassador to the UN Madeleine Albright at U zlatého tygra on 11 January 1994.

Charlotten Bridge

Charlotten Bridge (German Charlottenbrücke) in Spandau links the old town of Spandau on the west bank of the Havel with the east bank.

CroisiEurope

In France, CroisiEurope sail on the Seine, the Rhône, the Saône, the Gironde, the Meuse, and the Rhine; in Italy, on the Po; in Spain, on the Guadalquivir; in Portugal, on the Guadiana and the Douro; in Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands, on the Rhine; in Germany, Austria, Hungary, Serbia, and Romania, on the Danube; and in Germany, on the Havel and the Oder.

European Nuclear Disarmament

The Czechoslovakia group exchanged views with and visited Havel and his colleagues in Charter 77 in Czechoslovakia; the Hungary group did the same with György Konrád, Miklos Haraszti and a small group of young peace activists in Hungary; the Poland group the same with Adam Michnik, Jacek Kuron and many younger activists; the East Germany group the same with Bärbel Bohley and others who were later to be the core of Neues Forum.

Hennigsdorf

In 1951-2, the Havel Canal was constructed to link Hennigsdorf with Paretz, thus avoiding a passage through the reach of the River Havel, between Spandau and Potsdam, that was under the political control of West Berlin.

Lucerna Music Bar

Previously banned plays, movies, books and records, including Havel's adaptation of The Beggar's Opera, became available.

Otto Hammann

Otto Hammann (23 January 1852 Blankenhain – 18 June 1928 Fürstenberg/Havel) was a German journalist and a German Foreign Office official 1894-1916.

Rita Klímová

Havel believed that since Klímová spoke American English with a marked New York accent (a legacy of spending much of her youth in New York City), she'd play very well with American audiences.

Schönwalde-Glien

In 1951-2, the Havel Canal was constructed through the municipality to link Hennigsdorf with Paretz, thus avoiding a passage through the reach of the River Havel, between Spandau and Potsdam, that was under the political control of West Berlin.

Ss. Peter and Paul, Wannsee

King Friedrich Wilhelm III had the church built for the residents of Klein-Glienicke and Pfaueninsel on a bluff on the Havel near the Pfaueninsel and the Nikolskoë Blockhouse.

The English College in Prague

The College opened in September 1994, and as a project was endorsed by three major political parties in the United Kingdom, and President Havel and the Prince of Wales agreed to be Joint Patrons of the English College.

The Power of the Powerless

Havel uses the example of a green grocer who displays in his shop the sign Workers of the world, unite!.

Vaněk plays

He subsequently appeared in three other Havel plays, as well as plays by his friends and colleagues, including Pavel Landovský and Tom Stoppard.

White Crane Films

The film showed at numerous international film festivals, winning several awards, including the Vaclav Havel Award at the One World Film Festival in Prague.


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