If you've been working for a while, you will probably get 6 months of benefits from the state. Then the tiers kick in, with extended benefits that are funded by the federal government. The tiers depend on the unemployment rate for the state. I've been unemployed for 14 months now, and am in Tier 2 (now that we didn't go over a fiscal cliff on Jan. 1). All the info you'll ever want to know is found on the unemployment forum, here: http://www.city-data.com/forum/unemployment/.
Trans World Airlines (TWA) was a major American airline from 1925 until 2001. It was originally formed as Transcontinental & Western Air to operate a transcontinental route from New York City to Los Angeles via St. Louis and Kansas City as well as other intermediate stops with Ford Trimotor aircraft.
However, this explanation is not universally accepted, and several alternate theories to TWA 800's demise exist. Following the crash, TWA continued to operate flights between New York and Paris under the flight number 924 (return flight number was 925) until its merger with American Airlines in 2001. It retired the number 800 (and return flight number 803) about three weeks after the disaster.