The number of people who died trying to cross the Wall is disputed - at least 136 are known to have been killed but victims' groups say the true number is more than 700.
In 1962, East German border guards shot and mortally wounded 18-year-old Peter Fechter, who had attempted to cross the Berlin Wall into the western sector.
W. Bush in College Station, Texas, five bronze horses stampede across a replica in bronze of the Berlin Wall, while inside a Studebaker from an early cross-country campaign mythologizes the long journey of Bush Sr.
His cramped Houston apartment gets the point across by having no wall between the young couple and the widow, and his cross-section of a bus in front of a starry sky is visually clever.
Among the latest Wall Street trends that Jake notes is likely to end poorly for small investors: cross-selling of banking and brokerage services by the likes of Bank of America and Wells Fargo.