SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD Various lists of the Wonders of the World have been compiled from antiquity to the present day‚ to catalogue the world’s most spectacular natural wonders and manmade structures.The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World is the first known list of the most remarkable creations of classical antiquity‚ and was based on guide-books popular among Hellenic sight-seers and only includes works located around the Mediterranean rim. The number seven was chosen because the Greeks believed
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15 Oct 2009 Sample Essay: 7 Wonders of the Ancient World Introduction The seven wonders of the ancient world is a list of very important buildings a great Greek historian called Herodotus wrote‚ over two thousand years ago. They are seven because he only wrote about the greatest structures he knew‚ he did not know much Asia and the Americas. People have always felt the need to create lists. Lists are accounts of vital places‚ places‚ people or events. About two thousand five hundred years
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New Seven Wonders of the World From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia This article is about the New 7 Wonders Foundation list. For other uses‚ see Wonders of the World . New Seven Wonders of the World was a project that attempted to update the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World concept with a modern list of wonders. A popularity poll was led by Canadian-Swiss Bernard Weber[1] and organized by the Swiss-based‚ government-controlled New7Wonders Foundation‚[2] with winners announced on July 7‚ 2007
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The new Seven Wonders of the World were announced in July 2007. They are Taj Mahal of India‚ Christ Redeemer of Brazil‚ the Great Wall of China‚ Roman Colosseum of Italy‚ Petra of Jordan‚ Pyramid at Chichen Itza of Mexico‚ and Machu Picchu of Peru. The sites were selected on the basis of a tally of around 100 million votes cast by people around the world over the Internet and cell-phone text messages. These attractions were on the shortlist of 21 before the announcement of the results in a glittering
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to become a wonder. Egyptian people building the pyramid‚ would have never imagined that their work will one day be studied and listed in the wonders of the world. Wonders that people will keep wondering about. Funny? May be‚ but it is a fact. It is tough to imagine how people with minimum tools and equipments could build a pyramid of such a size or a complete village at the height of 8000 ft. Yes‚ everyone is wondering‚ that is why may be‚ man decided to make a list of seven wonders‚ so that‚ there
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Nature has provided us with? Including all her extraordinary‚ mind boggling wonders that are present on our very own planet Earth? Have you ever thought about where you would like to go to explore or just too purely indulge in what nature has to offer? Every day‚ we normally do the routine things that we do in life like‚ going to school‚ occupying our occupations and simply living life. But‚ do we really know what our world has to offer?? Well‚ today‚ I will be enlightening you all about the magnificent
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About a hundred years after the Statue of Zeus came the Temple of Artemis. It was built in the ancient city of Ephesus‚ or modern day Turkey. The architect Theodorus probably built the incredible temple‚ and he most likely did so to honor the Greek Goddess of the Moon‚ Artemis. Tragically‚ a man named Herostratus set the Temple of Artemis on fire along with a group of Goths in an attempt to have his name go down in history. He managed to do so and city officials tried to enforce a new law stating
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The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World (often called simply‚ the Seven Wonders of the World) is a list of man-made structures built during the classical era. Scholars believe that ancient historians began compiling the list in the second century B.C. The final list of the Seven Wonders that we currently reference was defined in the Middle Ages. The Great Pyramid at Giza Cairo‚ Egypt Noted for being the only surviving member of the Seven Ancient Wonders of the World‚ the Great Pyramid is the largest
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The Seven Wonders of the World The film “7 Wonders of the World” presented by John Romer is a film full of great artwork and remarkable from all over the world. The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World is the first known list of remarkable man-made creations of classical antiquity‚ and was based on guide-books popular among Hellenic sight-seers and only includes works located around the Mediterranean rim. The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World are: 1. Lighthouse of Alexandria 2. Colossus of Rhodes
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7 Ancient Wonders of the World 1. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon Located approximately 50km south of Baghdad‚ Iraq on the east bank of the Euphrates River. King Nebuchadnezzar II (604-562 BC)‚ grandson of the famous King Hammurabi‚ is credited to have commissioned the construction of the gardens. Although no tablets were found in Babylon referring to the Gardens‚ accountings from the ancient Greek historian‚ Strabo‚ state that the "The Garden is quadrangular‚ and each side is four plethra long
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