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korel9: For me to be the FTC is a confirmation of how this thread (or is it the message) sucks!

RoyalBlak007: 1. The number of children who lost a parent in the events of 9/11was 3,051. Seventeen babies were subsequently born to women whose husbands died during the attacks. Nine months after 9/11, the number of births in New York City rose by 20 per cent compared to the same month in 2000.
2. According to researchers, alcohol consumption in Manhattan in the week after 9/11 increased by 25 per cent compared to the same period the year before. Tobacco consumption rose by 10 per cent, marijuana consumption by 3.2 per cent and church and synagogue attendance by 20 per cent.
3. The total value of art lost when the Twin Towers collapsed exceeded $100million. Items included Alexander Calder’s sculptureWTC Stabile, Joan Miró’s epicWorld Trade Center Tapestry, a painting from Roy Lichtenstein’sEntablatureseries, and others by Picasso and David Hockney.
4. One of the unsung heroes of 9/11 was a guide dog, Roselle, a yellow Labrador who led her blind owner, Michael Hingson, down 78 storeys of the North Tower and to the home of a friend.
5. It took firefighters 100 days to extinguish all the fires ignited by the attacks in New York.
6. Only 291 dead bodies were recovered “intact” from Ground Zero. The parents of Lisa Anne Frost, 22, who was a passenger on United Flight 175, which hit the South Tower, had to wait almost a year before anything belonging to their daughter was found by workers sifting through debris.
7. In total, workers sifted through more than one million tons of debris looking for remains and personal effects. They found 65,000 items, including 437 watches and 144 wedding rings.
8. Three hours before the attacks, a machine called a Random Event Generator at Princeton University predicted a cataclysmic event was about to unfold.
9. The section of the Pentagon hit by Flight 77 had just undergone a $258  million rearmament, in which walls had been strengthened and reinforced windows had been installed. Many right next to the plane’s point of impact remained intact.
10. The top four search-topics on Google in the week of 9/11, in descending order, were for: Nostradamus; CNN; The World Trade Center; and Osama bin Laden.
11. The bestselling American novel of 2001 was Desecration:Antichrist Takes the Throneby Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins.
12. When the 9/11 ringleader, Mohamed Atta, checked in at Logan airport, in Boston, his name triggered an alert on the airport’s security system and his bags were never put in the plane’s hold.
13. Hundreds of memorials, dedications, flagpoles, crucifixes and artworks have been made using steel from Ground Zero. These include a cross in Shanksville, Philadelphia, where United Flight 93 crashed, made out of steel from the North Tower, and aMemory and Lightmonument in Padua, Italy.
14. In an exercise named “Vigilant Guardian”, NORAD (the North American Aerospace Defense Command), which is responsible for defending US airspace, simulated at least four plane hijackings in the week prior to 9/11 and was scheduled to simulate another on the morning of the attacks.
15. Property developer Larry Silverstein bought the 99-year lease on the World Trade Center for $3.2 billion just six months before they were destroyed. He is now rebuilding a commercial office and shopping complex, alongside a memorial and museum, on the site.
16. Earlier this year, the official death count for 9/11 was raised by one to 2,753. New York’s Medical Examiner’s Office ruled that Jerry Borg, an accountant and part-time actor, had died in late 2010 from a lung disease caused by inhaling dust close to the World Trade Center.

passion007: This is what Enugu needs!
The SE automotive cluster is taking form.
Since Innoson isn't into manufacture of heavy duty trucks, this is no threat to our homemade brand.
Congratulations to the visionary ENSG.
I hope the new company sticks to the timeline... October is only next month!

100Cents: I subscribe.

God bless GOODLUCK Jonathan...

Very soon, we will be able to buy affordable trucks to transport cement.

Alpet: I can see u re mentally sick. Do you think it's because we are poor that makes us to attend public unoversity.
It's because u can't secure admission into public university that makes you to go for private university.

INNOisBACK: This was just too harsh

taiwolusol: Don't tell me this is another Public vs Private thread

timilehing: Full of emptiness and still, we listen, watch & dance to their songs?? Its not empty yet

On a serious note, that yans.h, brea.st & co is what Nigerians are looking for in an hip hop artist