...use of Argo, the Titanic may not have been found. After the discovery, one year later Ballard and his research team travelled back to take a closer look. They used a small submarine, Alvin, to get a first hand look at the reck. To explore the Titanic closer, a cre member inside Alvin manipulated Jason, a robotic mini sub. Jason as the first to explore and see the Titanic since 1912! Belo is ho the Titanic looks at her final resting place. On the left is the stern rear of boat and on the right is the bo front of the boat. HY I think that the sinking of the Titanic is one of the 10 most important events of the human kind because it marked the people and the history.Osama bin LadenOsama bin Laden is both one of the CIAs most anted men and a hero to many young people in the Arab orld. He and his associates ere already being sought by the US on charges of international terrorism, including in connection ith the 1998 bombing of American embassies in Africa and last years attack on the USS Cole in Yemen. In May this year a US jury convicted four men believed to be linked ith bin Laden of plotting the embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. Bin Laden, an immensely ealthy and private man, has been granted a safe haven by Afghanistans ruling Taleban movement. During his time in hiding, he has called for a holy ar against the US, and for the killing of Americans and Jes. He is reported to be able to rally around him up to 3,000 fighters. He is also suspected of helping to set up Islamic training centres to prepare soldiers to fight in Chechnya and other parts of the former Soviet Union. Sponsored by US and PakistanHis poer is founded on a personal fortune earned by his familys construction business in Saudi Arabia. Born in Saudi Arabia to a Yemeni family, Bin Laden left Saudi Arabia in 1979 to fight against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The Afghan jihad as backed ith American dollars and had the blessing of the governments of Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. He received security training from the CIA itself, according to Middle Eastern analyst Hazhir Teimourian. hile in Afghanistan, he founded the Maktab al-Khidimat MAK, hich recruited fighters from around the orld and imported equipment to aid the Afghan resistance against the Soviet army. Egyptians, Lebanese, Turks and others - numbering thousands in bin Ladens estimate - joined their Afghan Muslim brothers in the struggle against an ideology that spurned religion. Turned against the USAfter the Soviet ithdraal, the Arab Afghans, as bin Ladens faction came to be called, turned their fire against the US and its allies in the Middle East. Bin Laden returned to Saudi Arabia to ork in the family construction business, but as expelled in 1991 because of his anti-government activities there. He spent the next five years in Sudan until US pressure prompted the Sudanese Government to expel him, hereupon bin Laden returned to Afghanistan. Terrorism experts say bin Laden has been using his millions to fund attacks against the US. The US State Department calls him one of the most significant sponsors of Islamic extremist activities in the orld today. According to the US, bin Laden as involved in at least three major attacks - the 1993 orld Trade Center bombing, the 1996 killing of 19 US soldiers in Saudi Arabia, and the 1998 bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. Islamic frontBBC correspondent James Robbins says bin Laden had all but admitted involvement in the Saudi Arabia killings. Some experts say he is part of an international Islamic front, bringing together Saudi, Egyptian and other groups. Their rallying cry is the liberation of Islams three holiest places - Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem. Analysts say bin Ladens organisation is very different from the groups that carried out bombings and hijackings in the past in that it is not a tightly knit group ith a clear command structure but a loose coalition of groups operating across continents. American officials believe bin Ladens associates may operate in over forty countries - in Europe and North America, as ell as in the Middle East and Asia. The fe outsiders ho have met bin Laden describe him as modest, almost shy. He rarely gives intervies. He is believed to be in his 40s, and to have at least three ives. HY I think his birth as one of the most important 10 events of the human kind because if there asnt any Osama bin Laden, USA ould not kno ho it is to fight to defend their territory.The orld Trade CenterHeight 1,368 and 1,362 feet 417 and 415 metersOners Port Authority of Ne York and Ne JerseyArchitect Minoru Yamasaki, Emery Roth and Sons consultingEngineer John Skilling and Leslie Robertson of orthington, Skilling, Helle and JacksonGround Breaking August 5, 1966Opened 1970-73 April 4, 1973 ribbon cutting The orld Trade Center is more than its signature tin toers it is a complex of seven buildings on 16-acres, constructed and operated by the Port Authority of Ne York and Ne Jersey PANYNJ. The toers, One and To orld Trade Center, rise at the heart of the complex, each climbing more than 100 feet higher than the silver mast of the Empire State Building. Construction of a orld trade facility had been under consideration since the end of II. In the late 1950s the Port Authority took interest in the project and in 1962 fixed its site on the est side of Loer Manhattan on a superblock bounded by Vesey, Liberty, Church and est Streets. Architect Minoru Yamasaki as selected to design the project architects Emery Roth Sons handled production ork, and, at the request of Yamasaki, the firm of orthington, Skilling, Helle and Jackson served as engineers. The Port Authority envisioned a project ith a total of 10 million square feet of office space. To achieve this, Yamasaki considered more than a hundred different building configurations before settling on the concept of tin toers and three loer-rise structures. Designed to be very tall to maximize the area of the plaza, the toers ere initially to rise to only 80-90 stories. Only later as it decided to construct them as the orlds tallest buildings, folloing a suggestion said to have originated ith the Port Authoritys public relations staff. Yamasaki and engineers John Skilling and Les Robertson orked closely, and the relationship beteen the toers design and structure is clear. Faced ith the difficulties of building to unprecedented heights, the engineers employed an innovative structural model a rigid hollo tube of closely spaced steel columns ith floor trusses extending across to a central core. The columns, finished ith a silver-colored aluminum alloy, ere 18 34 ide and set only 22 apart, making the toers appear from afar to have no indos at all. Also unique to the engineering design ere its core and elevator system. The tin toers ere the first supertall buildings designed ithout any masonry. orried that the intense air pressure created by the buildings high speed elevators might buckle conventional shafts, engineers designed a sol...
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