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41) The walk
Pub. Date
[2016?]
Description
In 1974, Philippe Petit assembled a team to help him achieve his dream of walking between the World Trade Center towers.
Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
Presents articles on the September 11 attacks, including firsthand accounts of the destruction at the World Trade Center, speeches by George W. Bush and Tony Blair, and discussions of patriotism, racism, and the Arab world. Includes an appendix of evidence against Osama bin Laden and a chronology of the day's events.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
n late 2014, One World Trade Center—or the Freedom Tower—opened for business. It took nearly ten years, cost roughly four billion dollars, and required the sweat, strength, and stamina of hundreds of construction workers, digging deep below the earth’s surface and dangling high in the air. It suffered setbacks that would’ve most likely scuttled any other project, including the ousting of a famed architect, the relocation of the building’s...
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Description
The renowned architect introduces his iconoclastic approach to public space and shares his vision for the most important architectural project of our time, the 1776 Freedom Tower at the World Trade Center site. Drawing on his uncommon background and global perspective, in Breaking Ground Daniel Libeskind explores ideas about tragedy and hope, and the way in which architecture can memorialize-and reshape-human experience. Born in 1946 to Holocaust...
47) The walk
Pub. Date
[2016?]
Description
In 1974, Philippe Petit assembled a team to help him achieve his dream of walking between the World Trade Center towers.
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
"Like millions of people around the world, Karl Koch III watched in disbelief as the World Trade Center collapsed right before his eyes on the morning of September 11, 2001. But the sadness that tormented him in the days and weeks that followed was fueled not only by the compassion and anger that most of us felt but also by his intimate connection with every beam and column in the Twin Towers." "In 1966, the Karl Koch Erecting Company, founded by...
55) Twin towers
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
The Harlem based division of the NYPD EMS, who were among the first to respond to the 9/11 crisis, are profiled on the job prior to the attacks ... then revisited in the aftermath of the tragedy.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Welles Crowther didn't see himself as a hero. He was just an ordinary kid who played sports, volunteered for the fire department in his town, and eventually headed off to college and then to Wall Street to start a career. Throughout it all, he always kept a red bandanna in his pocket, a gift from his father when he was little. On September 11, 2001, Welles was at his job on the 104th floor of the South Tower of the World Trade Center when the Twin...
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
On September 11, 2001, with the terrorist attack on the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, the United States entered one of the greatest trials in its history. There were thousands of deaths in the wake of that tragedy -- and thousands of heroes. This book salutes the brave men and women of New York Police Department (NYPD) and the New York Fire Department (FDNY), who proved to the nation and the world the strength and heroism...
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
"Susan Greer, middle-aged and divorced, had just about given up on love and romance when she met a stranger who, oddly, was jogging in his bare feet." "Born in Britain on the eve of World War II, Rick Rescorla became an American citizen and a much-decorated soldier. His extraordinary life is woven into the military conflicts of his time, from the battlefields of colonial Africa, where he and his best friend, U.S. Army officer Dan Hill, led lives of...
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