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next to the site of the World Trade Center

can spin the hoop around their waists

The building was called Times Tower and at 375 feet the gothic fortress was the second-tallest building in the world

"France's Gift Accepted

double-decker buses - manned by a driver and conductor - lent a certain quaint flavor to New York's Fifth Avenue

Mark Twain processing-sub-front-page next to the site ofMark Twain relaxes in a rocking chair in New Hampshire in 1905. Twain would turn 70 the year this photo was taken, and he had told The New York Times that he had never done a day's work in his life. "No, Sir, not a day's work in all my life," he is quoted in The New York Times in 1905, "What I have done I have done, because it has been play. If it has been work I shouldn't have done it."