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"I heard some US citizens are putting up a Berlin-like chickenwire fence in the name of the minute men, that´s right, these people are using a historical monkier in order to bring attention to themselves. What other historical names could we commodify in the spirit of dividing people across the globe?

Here is a sweet video about how separation can actually bring us together with fences.

Buenos Aires Zoo - Together

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* An earthquake on the island of Java, Indonesia kills at least 5,000 people.
* Myanmar extends the house arrest of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi for another year.
* The largest train station in Europe, the Berlin Hauptbahnhof, opens in the German capital.
* Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling are convicted for their roles in the collapse of Enron.
* Australian forces deploy to East Timor to quell the ongoing crisis.
* In India, students protest a proposal to increase educational quotas for members of the "backward" castes.

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May 29: Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna Day in Fiji, Memorial Day in the United States (2006).

Charles II of England

* 1453 - Constantinople fell to an Ottoman army led by Sultan Mehmed II, ending the Byzantine Empire.
* 1660 - English Restoration: The monarchy in England was restored under King Charles II (pictured) on Oak Apple Day.
* 1919 - Observations made by Arthur Eddington during a solar eclipse confirmed part of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity.
* 1953 - Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
* 1999 - Olusegun Obasanjo took office as President of Nigeria, the first elected and civilian head of state in Nigeria after 16 years of military rule.