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  2. National September 11 Memorial & Museum - Wikipedia

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    The National September 11 Memorial & Museum (also known as the 9/11 Memorial & Museum) is a memorial and museum that are part of the World Trade Center complex, in New York City, created for remembering the September 11, 2001, attacks, which killed 2,977 people, and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, which killed six. [4]

  3. Timeline for the day of the September 11 attacks - Wikipedia

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    8:48:08: WNYW breaks into a Paramount Pictures movie trailer for Zoolander to make the first broadcast report of an incident at the World Trade Center, less than two minutes after Flight 11's crash. One of the station's camera crews, already out on location at City Hall Park that morning for New York's mayoral primary election, takes the first ...

  4. Casualties of the September 11 attacks - Wikipedia

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    The September 11 Memorial fountain at the footprint of where the North Tower once stood and the museum associated with it at left in the photo 2,606 people who were in the World Trade Center and on the ground perished as a result of the attacks and the subsequent collapse of the towers .

  5. Pica (typography) - Wikipedia

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    4.2333 mm. The pica is a typographic unit of measure corresponding to approximately 1⁄6 of an inch, or from 1⁄68 to 1⁄73 of a foot. One pica is further divided into 12 points. In printing, three pica measures are used: The French pica of 12 Didot points (also called cicero) generally is: 12 × 0.376 = 4.512 mm (0.1776 in).

  6. Technical drawing tool - Wikipedia

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    Rulers come in two types according to the design of their edge. A ruler with a straight edge can be used with lead pencils and felt pens, whereas when a technical pen is used the edge must be grooved to prevent the spread of the ink. An architect's scale. A scale ruler is a scaled, three-edged ruler which has six different scales marked to its ...

  7. Rule of thirds - Wikipedia

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    The tree is at the intersection of two lines, sometimes called a power point[1] or a crash point. [2] The rule of thirds is a rule of thumb for composing visual images such as designs, films, paintings, and photographs. [3] The guideline proposes that an image should be imagined as divided into nine equal parts by two equally spaced horizontal ...

  8. Scale ruler - Wikipedia

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    Scale ruler. A scale ruler is a tool for measuring lengths and transferring measurements at a fixed ratio of length; two common examples are an architect's scale and engineer's scale. In scientific and engineering terminology, a device to measure linear distance and create proportional linear measurements is called a scale.

  9. Slide rule - Wikipedia

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    Slide rule. Typical ten-inch (25 cm) student slide rule (Pickett N902-T simplex trig) A slide rule is a hand -operated mechanical calculator consisting of slidable rulers for evaluating mathematical operations such as multiplication, division, exponents, roots, logarithms, and trigonometry.