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	I would like to give special thanks to my wife Holly, who has been so supportive of me throughout this entire project. Without her, this site would not have been possible. I would also like to give special thanks to Cesar and Raphael Pelli of Cesar Pelli and Associates. To Cesar for the inspiration I received from his writings in preparation for this project, and to Raphael for personally and thoughtfully responding to my inquiries concerning the damage assessment of the World Financial Center structures after the September 11th tragedy. As I embarked on this project with no money to fund it, I was entirely dependent upon the generosity of strangers who donated the use of their photographs with only the vaguest knowledge that the site had something to do with architecture. Here I have listed the people who so graciously gave me permission to use their photographs on this web site: Robert Szantner and Minoru Yamasaki Associates: for the use of the black and white photograph of Minoru Yamasaki, Lead Architect of the World Trade Center Complex. Please go here to view their web site: http://www.m-yamasaki.com/home.html Olivier Cassou: for the use of his photograph of the Eiffel Tower and the Paris skyline. Andrei D. Caraman: for the use of his photograph of the CN Tower and the Toronto skyline. Please go here to view his web site: http://photos.floater.org/ Judith Berger: for the use of her photograph of the Oriental Pearl TV Tower and the Shanghai skyline. Please go here to view her web site: http://community.webshots.com/user/jlb82348 Jonathan Enns: for the use of the photograph of Dallas Reunion Tower and the Dallas skyline. Please go here to view his web site: http://www.worldcityphotos.hpg.ig.com.br/index.htm Max Smolev: for the use of his photograph of the Reunion Tower in Dallas at night. Please go here to view his web site: http://www.masmol.com/ Dr. Gerd Dürner: for the use of his photograph of the Europaturm and the Frankfurt skyline. Please go here to view his web site: http://www.uni-frankfurt.de/fb14/goebel/duerner.htm Oliver Klaus Graf: for helping me track down the elusive origins of the aforementioned nighttime photo of the Europaturm and the Frankfurt skyline. Kim Novak: for the use of her photograph of the Space Needle and the Seattle skyline. Please go here to view her web site: http://www.strangesandwich.com/kimnovak Ivan Lam: for the use of his photograph of the Theodosius Obelisk in Istanbul, Turkey. Please go here to view his web site: http://www.hat.net/album/ Roy Winkelman and the Florida Center for Instructional Technology: for the use of their photograph of the Obelisk at the Bergen-Belsen Holocaust Memorial. Please visit their Holocaust site. It contains a wealth of information made available to students and teachers and is an excellent resource for the subject. http://fcit.usf.edu/Holocaust/ Dr. James Baer: for the use of his photograph of the Buenos Aires Obelisk. Please go here to view his web site: http://www.nv.cc.va.us/home/jbaer/INDEX.htm John Ferry and the Buckminster Fuller Estate: for waving any licensing fees and offering help in tracking down photos needed for my project. Also, another thanks to Deborah at the Buckminster Fuller Institute for pointing me in the direction of John and the Bucky Estate. Please visit the web site of the Buckminster Fuller Institute to learn more about this fascinating earthling: http://www.bfi.org Keith Martin: for the use of two of his photographs of the Eden Project at Cornwall, England. Please go here to view his web site: http://www.eden-project.co.uk Coz and Genee of Disneymania: for helping me find a good royalty free Disney promotional photograph of "Spaceship Earth" at Epcot Center, Disney World. Please go here to view their web site: http://pages.cthome.net/coz/disney/ Chris Damore and the Chrysler Building Organization for helping me track down royalty free Chrysler Building photographs. Please go here to view the official Chrysler Building web site: http://www.chryslerbuilding.org Romulus: for sharing with me his royalty free Peter Warner photographs of the Trylon and the Perisphere. Please go here to view his web site: http://www.creativedynamix.com/pix/scrapidx.html I would like to thank Michael Lee for taking that stunning photograph of my wife and I at our Wedding Reception with a cardboard disposable camera... without even using the viewfinder! How does he do it? I would like to thank Ben Brumfield for assisting me as a translator in some of my foreign e-mail correspondence. I would like to thank James Massenburg and Joseph Hall for the use of their digital camera. I would like to thank Rick Bono for writing the freeware application of Dome 4.6 and Marc St. Jean for porting it to the Mac platform. I wouldn't have been able to provide proper visuals without it. http://www.cris.com/~rjbono/html/domes.html I referenced a number of books throughout the course of this project. Two that I found especially helpful for fact finding are: AIA Guide to New York City, The Classic Guide to New York City Architecture By Norval White & Elliot Willensky. - Available at Amazon Skyscrapers, A History of the World's Most Famous And Important Skyscrapers By Judith Dupré - Available at Amazon I also made tremendous use of the web as a general resource tool when building this site. I gleaned valuable little snippets of information from more sources than I could possibly codify in this thank you page. However, a few sites were able to provide me with enough information that I feel it proper to list them here: Both Skyscrapers.Com and GreatBuildings.Com were helpful in a plethora of circumstances for quickly finding out facts and figures. http://www.greatbuildings.com/ http://www.skyscrapers.com/english/index.html I read information from many sites while researching the 1939 World's Fair in New York. However, the site I found held the richest number of facts in one location was this student essay by James Yu: http://www.lib.umd.edu/ARCH/honr219f/1939nyci.htm While researching obelisks, I found these two sites most helpful: http://www.kaisei-hosp.com/tanaka/chronology.htm http://members.aol.com/Sokamoto31/obelisk.htm To educate myself about Chinese gardens, I used this page as a resource: http://www.chinesegarden.org/ And last, but certainly not least, Google.Com. Thank you Google, I couldn't have done it without you!: http://www.google.com