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A fact from The Falling Man appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 19 March 2006. The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that The Falling Man is a photograph by Richard Drew depicting a man who had jumped from the World Trade Center during the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2006/March.

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Section sizes Section size for The Falling Man (11 sections) Section name Byte count Section total (Top) 3,596 3,596 Background 6,119 6,119 Publication history 1,599 1,599 Identification 460 6,151 Norberto Hernandez 3,367 3,367 Jonathan Briley 2,324 2,324 Other uses 3,398 3,398 See also 96 96 References 646 646 Further reading 651 651 External links 865 865 Total 23,121 23,121

The novel Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close includes this photo in the character Oskars flip book. The end of the book also includes a sequence of the man "falling" (the novel shows the images upside down and the man is "rising"). Should this be included in other uses? Melofy (talk) 18:14, 13 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]