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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 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   (2275 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - World Trade Center
World Trade Center, complex of seven commercial buildings in New York City, demolished by a terrorist attack on September 11, 2001.
The best-known buildings of the World Trade Center were twin skyscrapers designed by American architect Minoru Yamasaki with the firm Emery Roth and Sons.
The towers briefly ranked as the world’s tallest buildings, but they were surpassed in 1974 by the Sears Tower in Chicago, Illinois, which has a height of 442 m (1,450 ft).
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_701505572/World_Trade_Center.html   (789 words)

  
 World Trade Center   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
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.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/W/World-Trade-Center.htm   (1559 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 - 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)

  
 World Trade Center
The World Trade Center: Rescue, Recovery, Response tells the history of the World Trade Center, the September 11 attacks, the rescue efforts, the evidence recovery operation at the Fresh Kills landfill, and the public response to the September 11th events.
The World Trade Center, Rescue, Recovery, Response tells the story of the World Trade Center, the rescue efforts after the attacks, the evidence recovery operation at the Staten Island landfill, and the public response to the September 11th events.
A large collection of firearms from WTC Building 6 are on exhibition along with several destroyed street lampposts, fire hydrants, and a destroyed elevator door from one of the Trade Towers.
www.nysm.nysed.gov /wtc   (547 words)

  
 World Trade Center New York Destruction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Opened in 1970, the World Trade Center was constructed by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
The World Trade Center was connected by a land bridge to the World Financial Center complex located to its west and is close to the New York and American Stock Exchanges.
At 110 floors, The World Trade Center was New York's tallest building and the among tallest buildings in the world.
www.solcomhouse.com /Worldtradecenter.htm   (1315 words)

  
 Feature Article - A Towering Achievement
As the engineers and architects of the World Trade Center Towers began their work some 30 years ago, they feared that a similar disaster could occur.
And their columns, Klemencic says, were very closely spaced—only 40 inches on center compared with a distance of 30 feet on center on a typical high rise.
Most of the trade center occupants probably never thought twice about the emergency telephones located on each floor prior to September 11.
www.graduatingengineer.com /articles/feature/01-11-02a.html   (2828 words)

  
 World Trade Center on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
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.encyclopedia.com /html/W/WorldT1rd.asp   (815 words)

  
 South Carolina World Trade Center - Building SC's Trading Community
The South Carolina World Trade Center first established the World Trader of the Year Award in 1999 to recognize the outstanding achievement of South Carolina firms who were successful in helping to create a trading community in our state.
Global Markets: The globalMARKETS vision is to establish the World Trade Career Pathways that provides a curriculum which teaches students to become more globally minded in order to actualize their career goals and to achieve wealth in our competitive world.
WT-PERC: This stands for World Trade Park and Research Center and represents an initiative that is well underway with the support of Orangeburg and Dorchester Counties, US Congressman Clyburn, Rep. Harrell, and Sen. McConnell.
www.scwtc.org   (687 words)

  
 World Trade Center History
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.infoplease.com /spot/wtc1.html   (917 words)

  
 The Joint Terrorism Task Force: The World Trade Center Bombing
On Friday, February 26, 1993, a massive explosion occurred in the public parking garage of the World Trade Center in New York City.
As a result of the explosion, 6 persons were killed, and more than 1,000 injured.
The World Trade Center bombing will be remembered as the gravest attack of international terrorism to occur directly on American soil.
www.adl.org /learn/jttf/wtcb_jttf.asp   (421 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...
On Tuesday, September 11, 2001, at 8:45am New York local time, One World Trade Center, the north tower, was hit by a hijacked 767 commercial jet airplane, loaded with fuel for a trans-continental flight.
www.greatbuildings.com /buildings/World_Trade_Center.html   (2070 words)

  
 World Trade Center - Are We There Yet?
Finally, on the financial front, I hope that investors remember that America is still here, that we are still the strongest country in the world, that our businesses are still the best businesses in the world, that our people are the most generous of all, and that we are not going anywhere anytime soon.
he famous World Trade Center in New York City, designed by Minoru Yamasaki, is a complex of seven office buildings and an enormous underground shopping concourse.
Of course what makes the World Trade Center famous is the two towers, 1 WTC and 2 WTC.
www.fieldtrip.com /ny/24357379.htm   (603 words)

  
 World Trade Center Facts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
The excavated material was placed in the Hudson River to create 23.5 acres of new land deeded to the City of New York.
• The 425,000 cubic yards of concrete used in building the World Trade Center is enough to build a five-foot wide sidewalk from New York City to Washington, D.C. • At peak periods of construction, some 3,500 workers were on the site daily.
• With 60,000 tons of cooling capacity, the World Trade Center's refrigeration plant is the largest in the world.
users.otenet.gr /~adgeki/ustra/at4.htm   (380 words)

  
 World Trade Center Attack
Our Brooklyn office was across the river from Manhattan, and has a full view of the World Trade Center.
World Trade Center Building #7 collapes, at roughly 6:00pm (building 7 is a 57-story building that caught on fire as a result of the attack)
Morgan Stanley, the largest tenant in the World Trade Center, established an emergency contact phone number for employees and their families: 1-888-883-4391.
www.rubensteintech.com /resources/wtc   (1044 words)

  
 The World Trade Center (built in 1999 & 2000): A LEGO® creation by Sean Kenney : MOCpages.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Me and my brother built a trade centre after the attacks and although they were only 3ft high we had two of them and they looked really like them.
I was at the World Trade Center in June 2001, 3 months before the attack.
I want that someone is rebuild the WORLD TRADE CENTER because this is one of the greatest building in the usa and in the world too.
www.mocpages.com /moc.php/2   (4993 words)

  
 6 World Trade Center - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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6 World Trade Center was the U.S. Customs House: a 537,693 square foot (49,953 m²), 7 story low rise building, in Lower Manhattan, New York City.
It was mostly destroyed on September 11, 2001 from the collapse of 1 World Trade Center and 2 World Trade Center, however, a small portion survived which was then demolished to make way for reconstruction.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/6_World_Trade_Center   (117 words)

  
 9/11/2001 - World Trade Center Photo Gallery
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Two World Trade Center, the south tower, was hit by a similar hijacked jet 18 minutes later at 9:03am.
The south tower, World Trade Center 2, which had been hit second, was the first to suffer a complete
www.geocities.com /artboook2003/wtcenter.htm   (356 words)

  
 World Trade Center Tribute, Firefighters Tribute
The entire site and videos were inspired in my heart by Jesus, and I know now why, to help lift from your heart and any that have lost a loved one, that Antonio and many others are now with God, that we carry on, strong in our faith.
All my life I've felt more American than French, I sort of feel like I belong there, and I felt desperate, and in danger, and a lot of other terrible feelings words can't even describe as the images were broadcasted over and over again.
I felt American, and I think the whole world felt American on that day, and I'll keep praying for all of you who still suffer from these terrible attacks.
fp.sherwoodparkbiz.com /Ricon/start2.html   (2327 words)

  
 World Trade Center, Observatory
We want to let people around this country and around the world see what it was or remember their visit here.
The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center have been making their presence felt over many parts of NYC since 1973.
When arriving at the World Trade Center, the easiest way to enter is here at Liberty Street.
www.nyctourist.com /wtc_new1.htm   (290 words)

  
 6 hours in Lower Manhattan, October 13, 2001   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
From Broadway, the burned-out 5 World Trade Center
From Broadway, the burned-out 5 World Trade Center with 3 World Financial Center in the background
From Broadway, the shredded 6 World Trade Center is on the right with 2 World Financial Center in the background and the ruins of World Trade Center Tower 1 on the left
www.manhattanrising.com   (1464 words)

  
 List of World Trade Center tenants
Built in 1970, the World Trade Center housed more than 430 companies from 28 countries.
They were engaged in a wide variety of commercial activities, including banking and finance, insurance, transportation, import and export companies, customs brokerage, trade associations and representatives of foreign governments.
Below is a list of tenants that had office space in the twin towers and four other buildings in the complex.
chetcop.tripod.com /WAR/10916WTCtenants.htm   (431 words)

  
 World Trade Center Official Documents
NOAA Photographs of the World Trade Center, Using Aerial Photography and Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) Technology, September 23 - October 15, 2001.
To establish the Office of World Trade Center Attack Claims to pay claims for injury to businesses and property suffered as a result of the attack on the World Trade Center in New York City that occurred on September 11, 2001, and for other purposes.
Condemning the ruthless acts of terrorism committed at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and upon the passengers and crew of United Flight 93, American Flight 11, American Flight 77 and United Flight 175, and mourning the tragic loss of life and injury to innocent Americans.
www.columbia.edu /cu/lweb/indiv/usgd/wtc.html   (5146 words)

  
 California's Gateway for Global Trade
For informative reports about the global trade industry in California, see our new Trade Stats section.
View the World Trade Week Events Calendar for information on upcoming California Global Trade events.
MBITA is a nonprofit organization based in the Monterey Bay Area that provides trade promotion services to California, U.S. and foreign markets.
www.tradeport.org   (314 words)

  
 NYC WTC Reconstruction
East to west view of the north end of the World Trade Center site.
Most of the construction is taking place on the north end of the World Trade Center site.
West end of World Trade Center site, West Side Highway and the World Financial Center to the right.
indizuelo.org /wtc   (155 words)

  
 World Trade Center - New York - 9/11/2001   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
World Trade Center - New York - 9/11/2001
World Trade Center > 9-11-2001 > New York City > Manhattan > Twin Towers
Visual art gallery dedicated to the World Trade Center, New York and the victims of September 11th 2001
www.geocities.com /artboook2000/wtcenter.htm   (324 words)

  
 CNN.com - Terror attacks hit U.S. - September 11, 2001
Bin Laden is the Saudi millionaire who has been blamed for terror attacks against U.S. interests and is believed to be in Afghanistan.
All U.S. embassies and U.S. forces around the world are put on high alert.
• The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta is evacuated.
archives.cnn.com /2001/US/09/11/worldtrade.crash   (898 words)

  
 Jedi Council Forums - OFFICIAL THREAD: Plane Crashes into World Trade Center
There are reports of 2 airplanes crashing into the World trade Center.
There is NO WAY two planes crash into the World Trade Center tower on a clear day within ten minutes of one another.
If it is terrorism and we find out the **** country responsible I hope we fly some cruise missiles directly up their asses.
boards.theforce.net /message.asp?topic=4049615&page=1   (945 words)

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