Friday, February 04, 2011

An artist's concept of the 1 World Trade Center in New York.
Silverstein Properties

PHOTO OF THE DAY... The image below shows the Freedom Tower, officially known as 1 World Trade Center, three days after construction on the skyscraper reached the halfway point (at the 52nd floor level) in New York on December 19, 2010. Once the building reaches its full height (around the end of this year), it will stand 1,776 feet above sea level...making it the tallest building in the United States. In case you’re not a U.S. citizen or are a Yank who flunked American History class in high school, the 1,776 feet height symbolizes the year 1776...when the U.S. Declaration of Independence was signed. That is all.

The 1 World Trade Center as of December 19, 2010.
Photo courtesy of Luigi Novi

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