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Far Lands or Bust (abbreviated FLoB) is an online video series created by Kurt J. Mac in which he plays the video game Minecraft.The series depicts his journey to the "Far Lands", a distant area of a Minecraft world in which the terrain generation does not function correctly, creating a warped landscape.
Austria was never part of the Warsaw Pact. During the Cold War, the Iron Curtain was a political metaphor used to describe the political and later physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991.
The Lost Border: Photographs of the Iron Curtain (in Italian) Borders: spotting the past along Berlin death strip. 2007 BW photo gallery. Information about the Iron Curtain with a detailed map and how to make it by bike; 1996 Interview with Viktor Belenko, who escaped in a Mig-25 Foxbat
Part of the former "iron curtain" in Devínska Nová Ves, Bratislava. After the Second World War the original borders of Czechoslovakia were restored and special police units were established to protect the borders together with the army. At this time the main goal of the border protection force was to ensure that the expelled German civil ...
Map of countries in 1989. This is a list of countries by population in 1989, providing an overview of the world population before the fall of the Iron Curtain.. While the population data [1] is almost exclusively dated 1989, political developments before the summer of 1990 are taken into account, including Yemeni unification and Namibian independence but not German reunification which was ...
Unlike the Iron Curtain installations, most of the installations were unmanned and unarmed and were to be manned only in the case of war, by the regular army, although some of the light pillboxes could be used also by Border guard. Only the large fortresses were permanently crewed, by a specially trained heavy fortification company.
Retrieved 1 October 2022. Brother Andrew, 'God's smuggler', dies, aged 96 THE Dutch preacher and founder of the Christian charity Open Doors, Anne Van Der Bijl, known as Brother Andrew, who crossed the Iron Curtain to minister to churches in Warsaw, has died, aged 94. He founded Open Doors on 15 July 1955 (News, 17 July 2020), when he began ...
The bamboo curtain was a political demarcation between the communist states of East Asia, particularly the People's Republic of China and the capitalist states of East, South and Southeast Asia. To the north and northwest lay the communist states of: China, Russia (the Soviet Union before A.D. 1991), North Vietnam, North Korea and the Mongolian ...