In Battery Park, NYC stands a damaged memorial. From the plaque:
For three decades, this sculpture stood in the plaza of the World Trade Center. Entitled “The Sphere,” it was conceived by artist Fritz Koenig as a symbol of world peace. It was damaged during the tragic events of September 11, 2001, but endures as an icon of hope and the indestructible spirit of this country. The Sphere was placed here on March 11, 2002 as a temporary memorial to all who lost their lives in the terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center.
This eternal flame was ignited on September 11, 2002 in honor of all those who were lost. Their spirit and sacrifice will never be forgotten.
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Hi all, we’re having an issue right now with the Facebook connect and logging out. We’ll be looking over it these next few days and see what we can to figure out how to get it to work again correctly. Logging in works, just can’t log out (if you signed up as a member, as compared to just using Facebook connect). If you need to log out, you can go into Your Settings and log out there (upper right).
Any problems, let me know.
Thanks
Mark
The Duomo di Pisa is the heart of the Piazza del Duomo in the center of the city of Pisa, Italy. Famously know for the Leaning Tower which is situated just to the east of the Duomo. Building starting in 1064 with a fire destroying most of the interior artwork and doors in 1595. The church contains the bones of St Ranieri, the patron saint of Pisa and the tomb of the Holy roman Emperor Henry VII. Pope Gregory VIII was also buried in the cathedral but his tomb was destroyed by the fire. The building, like it’s famous neighbor has also tilted slightly since it’s construction. (Info from Wikipedia)
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I would imagine, when you book a guided tour through a country like Italy, the last thing you’d expect to see is a knife fight between a local and your tour guide. At least, it wasn’t one of the optional excursions listed for our trip. But that free entertainment comes later in the evening.
Travel Off The Cuff is an active user of Twitter. Given that, I wanted to take a moment of your time to explain how we use Twitter and hopefully it’ll help you decide if you want to follow us on Twitter.
First thing to note, we are a high volume Twitter feed. As I write this, we are just about to pass 50,000 tweets. That’s a lot and if you’re not following a lot of other people, chances are, you’re getting flooded with our tweets. We encourage you to try our following us, if it gets to be too much, there are other great ways to follow the content here. First, you can always visit the site on a regular basis and view the latest stories right on our home page. Second, we provide two RSS feeds as well.
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This is a low angle shot of Trump Tower Chicago. The saturation in the image was created by running it through a “toy camera” filter and adding some vignette to the edges. From Wikipedia:
The Trump International Hotel and Tower, also known as Trump Tower Chicago and locally as the Trump Tower, is a skyscraper condo-hotel in downtown Chicago, Illinois. The building, named after real estate developer Donald Trump, was designed by architect Adrian Smith of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. Bovis Lend Lease built the 92-story structure, which reached a height of 1,389 feet (423 m) including its spire, its roof topping out at 1,170 feet (360 m). It is adjacent to the main branch of the Chicago River, with a view of the entry to Lake Michigan beyond a series of bridges over the river. The building received publicity when the winner of the first season of The Apprentice television show, Bill Rancic, chose to manage the construction of the tower.
The day began with the warm Italian sun rising from behind the hills of Rome and birds in the trees twittering like teenagers with cell phones. Or it would have, had I had the shutters on the windows up. As it was, I awoke to the alarm in a dark room.
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