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World Trade Center 1972
Reworked to bring out more detail of both the image and the paper on which it was printed. Hope you like it. Taken in 1972 before the South Tower was 100% complete.
Tunnel to Towers Run, NYC, 2009
All gave some; some gave all.
Simulation shows why World Trade Center towers fell..
National Geographic has a fascinating simulation of why the US World Trade Center towers collapsed after the planes hit them on September 11 2001.
It's part of a program investigating "science and conspiracy".
Basically, it's because the fuel in the (nearly-full) tanks caught fire, which weakened the columns, which bent slightly, which meant that the roof - and other floors- fell in.
We know that from the real-life example, of course. But it's interesting to see it demonstrated here. Not, of course, that this will satisfy the wingnuts who think it was a conspiracy. Their loss.
But sometimes this is what engineering is about: figuring out why things happen after the event. (Other videos on the National Geographic site ask whether controlled demolition could have done the same job, and whether the hijacked planes were replaced by planes carrying explosives. Enjoy.)
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National September 11 Memorial & Museum
Check out the website of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center.
Remember 9/11 and learn about future plans for the site.
Twin Towers Under Construction
Twin Towers Under Construction
My father-in-law took this picture when construction of the World Trade Center when it was nearing completion. He had them developed a few years ago. This shot has been my desktop image ever since.
RIP to those we lost on 9/11/01.
My Latest Visual Arts Mashup - News of 9/11
A Memorial to the Victims of 9/11
A pivotal moment in our history and a defining event in our collective conscious, the attack on "ground zero" - the twin towers of the world trade center in new york city, affected all of us deeply, disturbed some of us profoundly, and changed our way of life forever.
I could not take my eyes off the news - the papers, the TV broadcasts, and the nascent Internet news media. As I remember, that was when Google started its news section, including something new on its front page for the first time! During that period, I collected the outstanding work of the photojournalists featured on the front pages of every major newspaper in the United States.
I have created this visual arts mashup of the work of those professionals as a tribute to their photojounalism, as a memorial to that tragedy's innocent victims, and as a continuing reminder that we must all work together if we are ever to find peace.
We must never forget.
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Also overthere
by Just Me, Aline
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Also overthere
9 / 11 even elsewhere
thoughts in our head
3rd Worldwar
chaos, fear, confusion
thoughts:
back home now
work not important
our children, our love
nothing mathers more
together, each holding
the ones who you love
after 9 / 11
hope, hope for
a beautiful world
a world of peace
expect too much?"
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2009.105: September 11, 2001 in Bordeaux
We frequently pass by our "first address" in Bordeaux, the Grand Hôtel
Français on the rue du Temple. It was a few days ago that I was walking
by and was reminded of that September 11th we spent in Bordeaux. The day
before an important meeting, we were sitting on a café terrace when the
waitress came out and told people, "100,000 people just died in an
terrorist attack in New York!" Sitting on this sunny peaceful patio, it
didn't seem real. During the day, more details came out and were
reported on kiosk newspaper headlines, correcting the death toll to
"over 1,000". When we returned to the hotel in the evening, CNN was on
in the lobby and although there were few Americans in the hotel, all
eyes were on that screen. The images of planes flying into buildings
were chilling, even as they were looped all night.
What I remember most though about this was not the event itself but the
next day when every person I met expressed their shock and sympathy in
the most sincere way. I try to imagine a reverse situation where a
French person would be meeting business people in New York, and I wonder
if the people in New York would know much or care about such an event as
the subway bombings in Paris, or Madrid or Tokyo. If they did, I wonder
if they would make it a point to open the meeting with heartfelt
condolences.
