The West
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| First episode date | September 15, 1996 |
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| Final episode date | September 22, 1996 |
| Narrated by | Peter Coyote |
| Number of episodes | 8 |
| Number of seasons | 1 |
| Networks | Public Broadcasting Service |
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| ID | 2326243 |
About The West
The West, sometimes marketed as Ken Burns Presents: The West, is a 1996 television documentary miniseries about the American Old West. It was directed by Stephen Ives and featured Ken Burns as executive producer. It was first broadcast on PBS on eight consecutive nights from September 15 to 22, 1996.
Mount Marapi: Eleven hikers killed as volcano erupts in Indonesia
... " Some suffered from burns because it was very hot, and they have been taken to the hospital, " said Rudy Rinaldi, head of The West Sumatra Disaster Mitigation Agency...
UK temperatures plunge as cold snap disrupts roads
... Further south, a yellow weather warning for ice is in place from midnight until 08:00 for London, the east of England, The West Midlands and parts of south Wales...
Retired teacher's hobby lands her RHS artist-in-residence role
... She said that living in The West Pennine Moors meant she had " endless subject matter" as she was " surrounded by beautiful countryside with plenty of woodland, pasture and open moorland"...
Israel-Gaza war: Residents of Khan Younis say Israeli strikes heaviest since start of war
... US Vice-President Kamala Harris, in a meeting with the president of Egypt, said " under no circumstances [would] the United States permit the forced relocation of Palestinians from Gaza or The West Bank, the besiegement of Gaza, or the redrawing of the borders of Gaza"...
Brigit Forsyth: Still Open All Hours actress dies aged 83
... In a statement, Pemberton noted that she " had a varied and notable career in stage, screen and radio" including roles in theatres " from The West End to the National Theatres of England & Scotland"...
UK weather: Snow forecast and warnings in place as temperatures plummet
... As for snow, there will be further wintry showers for a time around North Sea coasts but into the weekend some rain or sleet and snow showers will start coming in from The West...
Mia Schem: Wounded festival-goer in Hamas hostage video freed
... Among the latest were, who became a symbol of resistance to Israel s occupation of The West Bank while she was a teenager...
Israel Gaza: Palestinian criticises Israeli prison as 30 more freed
... A Red Cross bus carrying the 30 Palestinians arrived in Ramallah, in The West Bank, late on Thursday, as has been customary for each of the seven exchanges...
Gelsenkirchen, Germany: a Controversial statue of Lenin erected in the German city of
The Statue was unveiled next to a poster that reads: 'Don't give anti-communism A Chance '
A very left-wing party in Germany erected a controversial statue of The Communist leader Vladimir Lenin .
The small Marxist-Leninist party of Germany (MLPD) installed The Statue in front of their headquarters in the Western City of Gelsenkirchen.
The City Council had tried to stop The Statue , installed and launched an on-line hashtag to say it was "No Place for Lenin".
But the courts blocked their vocation, and the idea went on on Saturday.
Lenin was one of the leaders of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and led the country until his death in 1924, when he became the successor to Josef Stalin. However, he remained a symbol of communism, the domination of The World , both among the Fans and who the Human Rights violations that have taken place under the USSR.
Germany was divided for decades between The West and The Communist East, to The Fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
In The Debate around Gelsenkirchen statue from Czechoslovakia, which was then, as it is known, in 1957, both sides moved in parallel to the tearing down of monuments associated with slavery, which in anti-racism protests in The World in the last few weeks.
"We Live in a Time In which to reflect many of the countries of The World memorial," said mayor Frank Baranowski in a series of YouTube videos posted by the Council of The City against The Statue .
"It's hard to put up with the fact that a dictator of the 21St Century will be put on a pedestal, and a memorial is made of him. Unfortunately, the courts have decided otherwise, we have to accept it, but not without comment. "
But, MLPD chair, Gabi Fechtner, described The Communist leader as a "a front-of-his-time-thinker of world-historical significance, an early fighter for freedom and democracy," according to the AFP news Agency .
germany, berlin wall, communism
Source of news: bbc.com
