![]() ![]() Similarly to how the Titanic lacked enough lifeboats for all of its passengers, the World Trade Center buildings lacked adequate escape routes, as safety restrictions were eased by a 1968 code, after real estate industry advocates claimed new technologies made old requirements obsolete. The impact destroys stairwells, traps elevators between floors, and creates an inferno inside the poorly-fireproofed towers. In the aftermath, chaos and confusion reigns, as employees trapped above the point of impact are desperate to escape the flames that soon swallow their office spaces. Fifteen minutes later, at 9:01 a.m., United Airlines Fight 175 strikes the south tower. When they reach the lobby, a trade-center security person informs them the issue is in Tower One, so they return to work. Employees at Muziho/Fuji, a banking firm which has offices from the 79th to 82nd floors, evacuate their south tower office. People in the south tower are not sure what has happened. More than 14,000 people were inside the Trade Center when United Airlines Flight 11 smashed into the north tower at 8:46 a.m.Īs the narrative progresses, flames swallow the upper floors. Sixteen minutes later, America is forever changed. Others arrive after dropping off their children at school. The day begins like many others, with workers inside the buildings comprising over 220 vertical acres checking emails and sipping coffee at 8:30 a.m. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() To be a European is to be descended from the people whom they beat into submission or who helped kick them when they were eventually down. They are familiar because they haunt Europe's imagination they are our story of how absolute power corrodes the soul but gets to wear clean, white linen or golden armour along the way. The scary thing is how many of them look just as we expect – Caligula has calculating, brutal eyes Heliogabalus is so achingly pretty, and mildly deranged. You walk in from the heat of a Roman morning, and there they are, 40 pairs of marble eyes, sneering coolly across the ages. ![]() There is a room in the Capitoline Museum that is full of the heads of emperors. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The A-team of investigators includes Othello, the "bad-boy" black ram Mopple the Whale, a merino who eats a lot and remembers everything and Zora, a pensive, black-faced ewe with a weakness for abysses. Led by Miss Maple, the smartest sheep in Glennkill (and possibly the world), they set out to find George' s killer. The daily exposure to literature has made them far savvier about the workings of the human mind than your average sheep. George has cared for the sheep, reading them a plethora of books every night. On a hillside near the cozy Irish village of Glennkill, the members of the flock gather around their shepherd, George, whose body lies pinned to the ground with a spade. ![]() A witty philosophical murder mystery with a charming twist: the crack detectives are sheep determined to discover who killed their beloved shepherd. ![]() |