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World Trade Center

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
former building complex in lower Manhattan, New York City, consisting of seven buildings and a shopping concourse on a 16-acre (6.5-hectare) site; it was destroyed by a terrorist attack on Sept. 11, 2001. Prior to its destruction, the World Trade Center had been the world's largest commercial complex, home to many businesses, government agencies, and international trade organizations. 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 some $750 million. For a brief period (until the completion of the Sears Tower, now the Willis Tower , in Chicago in 1974), the World Trade towers were the tallest buildings in the world. They remained the largest structures on the Eastern Seaboard of the United States, an internationally known…
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A former building complex in lower Manhattan, New York City, which attracted about two hundred thousand visitors daily and was the workplace for some fifty thousand. It was the world's largest commercial complex, home to many businesses, government agencies, international trade organizations, and a…
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From Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase and Fable
. A building complex in Lower Manhattan, New York City, whose 381m (1250ft) 'twin towers' were destroyed on the morning of 11 September 2001 when two hijacked passenger airliners were deliberately flown, one after the other, into each of the towers ( see also Pentagon ). The impact of the second…
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From Encyclopedia of American Studies
The Twin Towers in New York City. 1992. Sander...
The World Trade Center was a massive building complex in lower Manhattan, New York City, that included two nearly identical 110-story office towers, known as the Twin Towers, both admired and criticized for their purity of form. Also found on the 16-acre (6.5-hectare) site were numerous lesser…
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From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
Complex formerly consisting of seven buildings around a central plaza near the southern tip of Manhattan. Its huge twin towers (completed 1970–72) were designed by Minoru Yamasaki (1912–86). At 1,368 ft (417 m) and 1,362 ft (415 m) tall, they were the world’s tallest buildings until surpassed in…
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Full text Article The World Trade Center Bombing

From World of Criminal Justice, Gale
Police cordon off New York’s World Trade Center...
Terrorism is the unlawful use of force or violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social goals. Terrorists seek to engender fear and to gain media attention to further specific goals. …
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The World Trade Center
Architect: Minoru Yamasaki Completed: 1973 (begun 1966) Location: New York, New York, United States Style/Period: Modernism Although U.S. architect Minoru Yamasaki was aware that his twin towers at the World Trade Center (WTC) were (briefly) the tallest buildings in the world on their completion in…
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Full text Article World Trade Center

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
former building complex in lower Manhattan, New York City, consisting of seven buildings and a shopping concourse on a 16-acre (6.5-hectare) site; it was destroyed by a terrorist attack on Sept. 11, 2001. Prior to its destruction, the World Trade Center had been the world's largest commercial…
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2001 The United States of America and, in fact, the world, would not be the same after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. The term 9/11 was added to the U.S. vocabulary, symbolizing armed aggression holding humankind for ransom. American Airlines…
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Full text Article WORLD Trade Center bombing (1993)

From The Encyclopedia of Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories
At 12:18 P.M. on February 26, 1993, a massive explosion rocked the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan. The blast killed six persons, injured more than 1,000, and trapped thousands more in the Twin Towers office complex while emergency workers swarmed over the scene. Initial speculation centered…
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A massive crater lies underneath the World Trade...
On February 26, 1993, at approximately 12.18 P.M., an improvised explosive device exploded on the second level of the World Trade Center parking basement. The resulting blast produced a crater, approximately 150 feet in diameter and five floors deep, in the parking basement. The structure consisted…
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