Morientes was expected to be a huge star in the Premier League but it did not happen.

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People said it would never happen in our lifetime but it did, and the Berlin Wall was torn down brick by brick.

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Witness Winston Churchill who certainly did not make World War II happen, but he approached it on his front foot.

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"We talked about what would happen if it didn't work out, but we did it as a joke because we felt we didn't need to worry about that, " says Florescu.

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It is remarkable not only for what happened on that date in 1945 but for what did not happen subsequently.

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Nice idea, but I don't think we could really celebrate 25 years by concentrating on just one incident, even if it did happen 12 times.

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