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  World Trade Center - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The World Trade Center in New York City was a complex of seven buildings designed by American architect Minoru Yamasaki and leased by Larry Silverstein from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey around a central plaza, near the south end of Manhattan in the downtown financial district.
That same source claims that when the World Trade Center was destroyed, the amount of gold "far exceed[ed] the 1993 levels." The gold was finally recovered in its entirety in late 2001.
The World Trade Center is slated to be rebuilt as a new mixed-use complex of buildings called Memory Foundations, including the 1776 ft (541 m) Freedom Tower.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/World_Trade_Center   (3330 words)

  
 World Trade Center - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The World Trade Center in New York City was a complex of several buildings around a central plaza, near the foot of Manhattan; three of the original buildings were destroyed in the September 11, 2001 attacks.
1993 World Trade Center bombing: On February 26, 1993, a bomb planted by terrorists exploded in the underground garage of the north tower, opening a 30m hole through 4 sublevels of concrete.
The World Trade Center is slated to be rebuilt as the 1776 ft (541 m) Freedom Tower and the Memory Foundations complex of buildings.
open-encyclopedia.com /World_Trade_Center   (1514 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: World Trade Center
World trade centers arose in the United States and Japan in the 1970s, spearheaded by New York City's World Trade Center.
The World Trade Centers Association founded in 1970 and based in New York City, is an organization of nearly 300 world trade centers in almost 100 countries.
In addition there are other buildings around the world known by the title, such as in Hong Kong (see World Trade Centre) and in Baltimore, Maryland (Baltimore World Trade Center).
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/World-Trade-Center   (483 words)

  
 World Trade Center - 3
It was not until late yesterday afternoon that the area around the World Trade Center was enough cleared of rubble to allow major rescue teams in.
The World Trade Center was originally the twin towers.
The major world effect of this (other than the political and military) is to the world's finances.
scholar.chem.nyu.edu /rants/wtc/wtc3.html   (834 words)

  
 World Trade Center - New York City
The Trade Center was the target of another terrorist strike eight years ago, a car bomb that damaged the building and caused casualties but did not bring either of the towers down.
Located in downtown Manhattan, the World Trade Center is on a 16 acre site, stretching from Church Street on the east to West Street on the west, and Vesey and Barclay streets in the north to Liberty Street on the south.
The decision to build the World Trade Center was made in 1961, with the unveiling of the building plans in 1964, the commencement of site excavation in 1966, and the steel construction phase beginning in 1968.
www.globalsecurity.org /eye/wtc.htm   (1115 words)

  
 World Trade Center - Simple English Wikipedia
The World Trade Center (WTC) in New York City had several buildings.
The World Trade Center was most famous for its Twin Towers.
These two skyscrapers, the North Tower and the South Tower, were once the tallest buildings in the world.
simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/World_Trade_Center   (162 words)

  
 Marriott World Trade Center (hotel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Marriott World Trade Center Hotel was a 24-story steel-framed building with 825 rooms.
Originally owned by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, it was sold in 1995 to a private company after Governor George Pataki of New York and then-Governor Christine Todd Whitman of New Jersey pressured Port Authority officials to sell its less profitable assets.
As a result, both towers collapsed, which destroyed or damaged beyond repair the surrounding buildings, including 3 World Trade Center.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/3_World_Trade_Center   (255 words)

  
 World Trade Center Tampa, Florida - executive suites, executive offices, virtual suites, virtual offices, answer ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
World Trade Center Sao Paulo would contact World Trade Center Tampa Bay, and very quickly, the Brazilian company would be in touch with the right people in the Bay area.
World Trade Center Tampa Bay was begun in a temporary office in 1991 in order to further its services.
WTAF is comprised of the six World Trade Centers in the State of Florida.
www.wtctampa.com /aboutus.html   (3110 words)

  
 Marriott World Trade Center Survivors
The focus from the media has primarily been on the destruction of the two gleaming twin towers of the World Trade Center.
The Marriott Hotel at 3 World Trade Center was nestled between the twin towers and served as the mouth of a tunnel, a runway in and out of the burning towers for perhaps a thousand or more people.
It is our goal to bring together the hundreds of individuals who were in the Marriott World Trade Center on Sept 11.
www.sept11marriottsurvivors.org   (383 words)

  
 CNN - Last World Trade Center bombing conspirator sentenced - April 3, 1998
Ismoil is the sixth and last conspirator sentenced for the trade center bombing.
He then parked the vehicle in a garage beneath the twin 110-story trade center towers in Manhattan, and one of the men lit a fuse, prosecutors say.
Mastermind in trade center bombing to be sentenced - January 8, 1998
www.cnn.com /US/9804/03/wtc.bombing   (514 words)

  
 World Trade Center Model- Paper Cutouts by PaperToys.com
The World Trade Center in New York City, designed by Minoru Yamasaki, was a complex of seven office buildings and an enormous underground shopping concourse.
What made the World Trade Center famous is the two towers, the North Tower and the South Tower.
The World Trade Center towers were destroyed on September 11, 2001 by a terrorist act of the folllowers of Islam, most of whom were from Saudi Arabia.
papertoys.com /world-trade-center.htm   (919 words)

  
 THE WORLD TRADE CENTER BOMB: Who is Ramzi Yousef? And Why It Matters - The National Interest, Winter, 1995/96
ACCORDING TO THE presiding judge in last year's trial, the bombing of New York's World Trade Center on February 26, 1993 was meant to topple the city's tallest tower onto its twin, amid a cloud of cyanide gas.
After the World Trade Center bombing, the FBI was the only bureaucracy with both the intelligence and the evidence.
That, indeed, is the most straightforward explanation of the World Trade Center bombing: that it was an Iraqi intelligence operation, led by Ramzi Yousef, with the local fundamentalists serving first as aides and then as diversionary dupes.
www.fas.org /irp/world/iraq/956-tni.htm   (7399 words)

  
 World Trade Center History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The World Trade Center was conceived in the early 1960s by the Downtown-Lower Manhattan Development Association to revitalize the seedy radio row dominated by electronic stores.
However, the towers were ranked as the fifth and sixth tallest buildings in the world at the time of their destruction on Sept.
The design includes a hanging garden, a memorial, a cultural center, and Freedom Tower, which will be a symbolic 1,776 feet tall from the ground to the top of its spire.
www.factmonster.com /spot/wtc1.html   (912 words)

  
 World Trade Center Developments - Page 3 - Wired New York Forum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The previous record was 1,421 submissions for the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C. The memorial is to include references to the Feb. 26, 1993, bombing of the trade center as well as the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
One central question in the future of Lower Manhattan was answered this week when Daniel Libeskind, the architect of the winning master plan for ground zero, and David Childs, a consulting partner of Skidmore, Owings andamp; Merrill, agreed to work together on the design of the 1,776-foot tower at the heart of Mr.
Childs's immediate client is Larry Silverstein, the developer who held the lease on the World Trade Center when it was destroyed and who clearly intends that whatever replaces it will be commercially practical.
www.wirednewyork.com /forum/showthread.php?t=3670&page=3   (2775 words)

  
 World Trade Center - Biocrawler definition:World Trade Center - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The World Trade Center in New York City was a complex of seven buildings around a central plaza, near the south end of Manhattan in the downtown financial district.
On February 26, 1993, just after 12 PM, a Ryder truck filled with explosives was planted by terrorists and exploded in the underground garage of the north tower, opening a 30m hole through 4 sublevels of concrete.
Following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, relief works found a single fractured piece of this fountain; to date it is the only remaining part of the 1993 memorial that survived the collapse of the towers.
www.biocrawler.com /biowiki/World_Trade_Center   (2321 words)

  
 NYC’s worst nightmare comes true   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
A fiery explosion blasts New York City's World Trade Center after it was hit by two airplanes on Tuesday.
After I called in to my editor from 3 World Trade Center across the street, there was another wave of panic and people were running everywhere.
I left the apartment and went to St. Vincent’s Hospital in Greenwich Village about a half mile north of the Trade Center where the scene was one of barely controlled chaos.
www.msnbc.com /news/627064.asp   (688 words)

  
 World Trade Center. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Most prominent among its structures were the 110-story rectangular twin towers, one rising to 1,362 ft (415 m) and the other to 1,368 ft (417 m), with floors roughly an acre in size.
Designed by Minoru Yamasaki and Emery Roth, the towers and concourse portion of the center were completed in 1973 at a cost of $750 million.
For a brief period (until the completion of the Sears Tower in Chicago in 1974), the towers were the tallest buildings in the world.
www.bartleby.com /65/wo/WorldTrd.html   (510 words)

  
 World Trade Center   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Main article: 1993 World Trade Center bombing On February 26, 1993, just after 12 PM, a Ryder truck filled with explosives was planted by terrorists and exploded in the underground garage of the north tower, opening a 30m hole through 4 sublevels of concrete.
Main Article: September 11, 2001 attacks The twin towers and 7 World Trade Center collapsed in a terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, when two commercial jetliners were deliberately crashed into the twin towers.
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www.worldhistory.com /wiki/W/World-Trade-Center.htm   (2188 words)

  
 Record: World Trade Center site architect to read memoir
Libeskind is one of the world's most influential figures in architecture and urban design.
Born in Poland to Holocaust survivors in 1946, Libeskind became an American citizen in 1965, earning an undergraduate degree in architecture from Cooper Union in 1970 and a postgraduate degree in history and theory of architecture from the School of Comparative Studies at Essex University in 1972.
In addition to the World Trade Center master plan, Studio Daniel Libeskind is designing or constructing more than a dozen projects around the world.
record.wustl.edu /news/page/normal/4342.html   (591 words)

  
 World Trade Center - Minoru Yamasaki - Great Buildings Online
World trade means world peace and consequently the World Trade Center buildings in New York...
The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace...
Two World Trade Center, the south tower, was hit by a similar hijacked jet 18 minutes later at 9:03am.
www.greatbuildings.com /buildings/World_Trade_Center.html   (2070 words)

  
 World Trade Center Tacoma Home Page
As a trade association for exporters, importers and service providers, and supported by the private and public sectors via memberships, sponsorships and contracts, we offer great programs to stimulate international trade.
Feel free to come meet all of the delegates and hear their fascinating story, including highlights of the trip as well as some potentially lucrative trade connections that were made on their visit.
As a member you have access to the resources of the World Trade Center headquarters in New York.
www.wtcta.org   (368 words)

  
 Columbia Earth Institute - News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
While the ground shaking was consistent with the energy released by small earthquakes, it was not sufficient to cause the collapse of or damage to the surrounding buildings, as some have thought.
Rather, the buildings around the Twin Towers were impacted both by the kinetic energy of falling debris and by the pressure exerted on the buildings by a dust- and particle- laden blast produced by the collapse.
However, the authors add that because there were no seismographic stations in or even near the World Trade Center, it is impossible to know for sure that the ground-shaking did not have any impact on the neighboring buildings.
www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu /news/story11_16_01.html   (857 words)

  
 river-WTC-home3
WTC New Orleans is a non-profit organization of 2,000 corporate and individual members which was started in 1943 as International House and in 1945 as International Trade Mart, its two predecessor organizations, which merged in 1985.
Dating back to its origins more than 50 years ago, WTC New Orleans was the first of what are today 278 World Trade Center organizations in 78 countries which are members of the World Trade Centers Association.
The mission of the World Trade Center is to add wealth and jobs in Louisiana through international trade, port development, and allied activities.
www.wtc-no.org   (145 words)

  
 13 Days: The World Trade Center, Comments   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
As for your statement that living so close to the World Trade Center it was widley known it was a mjor target, I have to say that Living in San Diego County has always felt like that to me. We have a huge military presence here.
The other side of the world from New York and the World Trade Centres and yet we had the dubious distinction of watching the events unfold live on prime time TV - ironically during the West Wing.
The architect of the World Trade Centres saw them as a symbol of peace, it is a travesty that they should be desecrated in this fashion.
www.13days.org /comments.html   (17038 words)

  
 Why Did the World Trade Center Collapse? Science, Engineering, and Speculation
The collapse of the World Trade Center (WTC) towers on September 11, 2001, was as sudden as it was dramatic; the complete destruction of such massive buildings shocked nearly everyone.
Prior to the World Trade Center with its lightweight perimeter tube design, most tall buildings contained huge columns on 5 m centers and contained massive amounts of masonry carrying some of the structural load.
Second, there is no lateral load, even the impact of a speeding aircraft, which is sufficient to move the center of gravity one hundred feet to the side such that it is not within the base footprint of the structure.
www.tms.org /pubs/journals/JOM/0112/Eagar/Eagar-0112.html   (3217 words)

  
 Alex Jones Presents Infowars.com to Fight the New World Order --Silverstein, FDNY Decided to 'Pull WTC 7': An In-Depth ...
Ben Fountain, a financial analyst who worked in the World Trade Center Complex, told People Magazine that in the weeks before 9/11 there were numerous unnanounced and unusual drills where sections of both the twin towers and building 7 were evacuated for quote ‘security reasons'.
Televised images of the attacks on the World Trade Center suggest that explosives devices caused the collapse of both towers, a New Mexico Tech explosion expert said Tuesday.
The top three designers of the World Trade Center say they designed it to be able to absorb a large commercial airliner without collapsing.
www.infowars.com /print/Sept11/pp_fdny.htm   (3188 words)

  
 News Full List - World Trade Center Cleveland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The exhibition, workshops and luncheons will be held at the I-X Center June 26 and 27.
In addition to a wide variety of exhibitors and networking opportunities, the workshops, luncheons and panel discussions will concentrate on the skills necessary for Northeast Ohio companies to operate in a global environment.
The World Trade Center Cleveland is owned and operated by the Greater Cleveland International Trade Alliance, a public-private partnership.
www.wtccleveland.org /newsDetails.asp?id=27   (330 words)

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