A mineral habit is the one of all mineral characteristics that should, and often is, considered first (I didn't start the list with it because it's only obvious for someone experienced). To identify minerals, it is very important to know which minerals grow crystals-not all do.
Tear down this wall! Tear down this wall! is a line from a speech made by US President Ronald Reagan in West Berlin on June 12, 1987, calling for the leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, to open up the barrier which had divided West and East Berlin since 1961.
Construction of the Berlin Wall. The Berlin Wall was erected on August 13, 1961. Early on that Sunday morning the GDR began, under Secretary General Erich Honecker, to block off East Berlin and the GDR from West Berlin by means of barbed wire and antitank obstacles.