USS New York It was built with 24 tons of scrap steel from the World Trade Center. It is the fifth in a new class of warship - designed for missions that include special operations against terrorists. It will carry a crew of 360 sailors and 700 combat-ready Marines to be delivered ashore by helicopters and assault craft. Steel from the World Trade Center was melted down in a foundry in Amite , L
Height: 1,368 and 1,362 feet (417 and 415 meters)
Owners: Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
(99 year leased signed in April 2001 to groups including Westfield America and Silverstein...
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Virginia Governor Tim Kaine and other government and business leaders broke ground this week on the "One Loudoun" project, which is the future home of the World Trade Center Dulles Airport. One Loudoun, a joint venture between Miller and Smith and Meridian Group, will be a mixed-use project similar in "feel" to Reston Town Center with commercial, retail and residential space. According to One Loudoun, first deliveries of commercial buildings will be 2009 with residential units delivering 2009/2010.
The developer has been working on the ground-breaking for 3 years now and has had to make changes to the original plans in order to get it done. Some of the changes include agreeing to upgrade the intersection of Ashburn Village Boulevard and Route 7, donating a 20-acre tract for an elementary school and reducing the number of residential units. But with 3 million square feet of office space, up to 700,000 square feet of upscale retail space and over 900 homes on 358 acr
Carol M. Highsmith's photographs are in the public domain. Photographer Carol Highsmith unexpectedly donated to the Library of Congress a stunning panoramic photograph she took of lower Manhattan and the World Trade Center from a helicopter on a clear day in early August 2001. Highsmith also put the Prints and Photographs Division in touch with company officials in charge of recycling the steel from ground zero.For the Library's exhibition, they specially saved the last burned and crushed fragments of structural steel and metal cladding from the World Trade Center. A strong supporter of the Library, the energetic photographer also helped to arrange for another gift--a piece of limestone torn from the Pentagon. On display in the exhibition, these artifacts are tangible records of the physical devastation suffered on September 11, 2001.This photograph is from the Carol M. Highsmith Archive at the Library of Congress. Highsmith has released her photographs in the collection into the pub
In the aftermath of the World Trade Center disaster, hope is still alive. Refusing to bow down to terrorism, rescuers and family of the victims press forward. Their mission of rescue and recovery is driven by the faith that under each piece of rubble, a co-worker, a friend a family member may be found. This is the true story of John McLoughlin and William J. Jimeno, two of the last survivors extracted from Ground Zero and the rescuers who never gave up. It's a story of the true heroes of that fateful time in the history of the United States when buildings would fall and heroes would rise, literally from the ashes to inspire the entire human race. Written by JJ BrentWatch World Trade Center Here
Oliver Stone usually makes films that are critical of American politics and institutions: Platoon (1986) and Born on the Fourth of July (1989) about Vietnam; Wall Street (1989) on the Reaganomic financial boom; JFK (1991) about the secret services and Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories; The Doors (1991), Natural Born Killers (1994) and Any Given Sunday (1999) about drugs and violence. His ethos has tended to be anti-establishment, often controversial. World Trade Center, despite the iconic title, badly misfires; although it wasn't aiming at his usual targets.Stone is, above all else, a storyteller. In WTC he chooses a narrow focus, as he had done with Born on the Fourth of July, showing the events of 11 September 2001 from the point of view of two Port Authority Police Department officers, John McLoughlin (Nicolas Cage) and Will Jimeno (Michael Peña), and their families. Their unit was sent to evacuate Tower 1, but before they could leave ground level, it collapsed on top of t
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This is the first Oliver Stone film where I didn't walk away shaking my head, asking everyone else, "Its not just me, that guy is nuts right?"
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It is striking that proven conspiracy nut Oliver Stone's film about 9/11 goes out of its way to avoid the actual conspiracy at the heart of that murderous [...]
Those close to the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001 have, on average, more vivid memories of the terrorist attacks than do those who were in other parts of New York City on that day, according to a study by researchers at New York University. The results, reported in the most recent issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, indicate personal involvement may be important in engaging the amygdala when recalling 9/11 events. The amygdala is a small, almond-shaped brain structure known to mediate emotion's influence on memory. "Although all of the study's subjects were in Manhattan on 9/11, the recollections of those who were in lower Manhattan, closer to the World Trade Center, were described as more vivid, detailed, and confident than those who were further away," said one of the researchers Elizabeth Phelps, a professor of psychology at New York University. "The downtown subjects also reported seeing, hearing, and smelling what had happened. Subjects who were,
Revised Design for Freedom Tower Unveiled - New York TimesThe design is still not as powerful and conceptually interesting as the competition winner Libeskind envisioned. However, new refinements to the bomb-proof base should help garner public favor. Original Libeskind Award Winning Design Link
Intimate Stories of 9/11 Told Well
I can tell you exactly where I was during the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. I was working my TV news production job during the morning news broadcast. After the show had ended, NBC's Today show began with a gaping hole in one of the Tower buildings. As they were reporting live, the second plane exploded into the second tower and I
