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The Twin Towers, two 110-story skyscrapers at the World Trade Center, dominated the Manhattan skyline for three decades before their destruction in 2001. Although initially criticized for their audacious height and severe architectural style, the buildings took on iconic status in the public imagination, becoming emblematic of New York City and America as a whole.
- Snapshots of Work Life
Corporate Culture the World Trade Center. Viewed as a symbol...
- Snapshots of Work Life
The World Trade Center seen from a nearby street in 2000. The original World Trade Center created a superblock that cut through the area's street grid, isolating the complex from the rest of the community. [91] [247] [248] The Port Authority had demolished several streets to make way for the towers within the World Trade Center. The project ...
- Rome: The Village That Became An Empire
- Roman Victory in Africa and The East
- The Conquests of Caesar and Beyond
- The Roman Empire at Its Height
- What Made Rome Expand?
The story of Romulus and Remus is just a legend, but Rome’s mighty empire did growfrom what was little more than a village in the 8th century BC or even earlier. In the 6th century BC Rome was subservient to the Etruscans, part of a Latin League of city states that operated as loose federation, cooperating on some matters, independent on others. By...
In southern Italy, they butted up against another great power, Carthage, a city in modern Tunisia. The two powers first fought in Sicily, and by 146 BC Rome had utterly defeated their great maritime rival and added large parts of North Africa and all of modern Spain to their territory. With Carthage swept aside, there was no credible rival for Medi...
Julius Caesar took Roman power to the north, conquering Gaul (roughly modern France, Belgium and parts of Switzerland) by 52 BC in the wars that gave him the popular reputation to seize power for himself. He also explored further expansion into modern Germany and over the English Channel to Britain. Caesar is a fine example of a Roman general expan...
Emperor Trajan (ruled 98 – 117 AD) was Rome’s most expansionist ruler, his death marking the high water mark of Rome’s size. He campaigned against Dacia (modern Romania and Moldova, and parts of Bulgaria, Serbia, Hungary, and Ukraine), adding most of it to the Empire by 106 AD. He also made conquests in Arabia and took on the Parthian Empire to add...
Why Rome was so successful at conquest and what drove it to expand from so early in its history and for so long is an interesting question with complex and inconclusive answers. Those answers might include everything from early population growth to the birth of a very military society; a belief in Roman superiority to economics and urbanisation.
- Colin Ricketts
Nov 12, 2024 · Hellenistic age - Rome, Greek Culture, Expansion: Rome encroached on Greek settlements in southern Italy and Sicily. Earthquakes and other calamities devastated the cities of Anatolia. Tiberius met these disasters with constructive aid. Nero made a tour of Greece and carried away prizes. In 330 Constantine inaugurated New Rome (Constantinople), to be the capital of the new Christian empire.
The roof of One World Trade Center reached to 1,368 feet (417 metres), and Two World Trade Center was 1,362 feet (415 metres) tall. Designed by architect Minoru Yamasaki and officially opened in April 1973, the towers were very briefly the world’s tallest buildings until surpassed by the Sears (now Willis) Tower in Chicago , which was completed in May 1973.
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Dec 3, 2009 · The iconic twin towers of downtown Manhattan’s World Trade Center were a triumph of human imagination and will. Completed in 1973, the towers stood at 110 stories each, accommodating 50,000 ...
Feb 17, 2011 · Roman archaeology is revealing ever more of the cultural diversity of the empire, and increasingly we sense that different ways of life, world-views and value systems could co-exist with the ...
