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• Take a Random Walk Around the Berlin Wall Just Months Before Its Sudden Fall (Summer 1989)

  27-05-2026 13:33 via openculture.com
  
  Officially, the Berlin Wall fell on November 9, 1989. Demolition would take more than four years, and a few sections remain for memorial purposes, but it was on that date that passage between East and West Berlin — and thus East and West Germany — opened to all citizens of both countries. To say that it came as a surprise would be a serious understatement. Earlier that year, even the best informed observers were predicting that the wall would stand for at least a few more decades. Ea
  
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• M.I.T. Computer Program Predicts in 1973 That Civilization Will End by 2040

  27-05-2026 10:00 via openculture.com
  
  In 1704, Isaac Newton predicted the end of the world sometime around (or after, “but not before”) the year 2060, using a strange series of mathematical calculations. Rather than study what he called the “book of nature,” he took as his source the supposed prophecies of the Book of Revelation. While such predictions have always been central to Christianity, it is startling for modern people to look back and see the famed astronomer and physicist indulging them. For Newton,
  
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