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Global Vote Selects Seven Wonders Of The World
by infomatique | July 7, 2007 at 04:43 pm
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Some really excellent photographs have been provided by NowPublic readers.
A non-profit foundation has named the Seven New Wonders of the World at a ceremony in Lisbon, Portugal.The Great Wall of China, Machu Picchu in Peru, Brazil's Statue of Christ Redeemer, the Colosseum in Rome and Jordan's Petra all made the list.
The Mayan ruins at Chichen Itza in Mexico and India's Taj Mahal were also picked, but Stonehenge in England and the Eiffel Tower in Paris missed out.
Organisers say about 100m people cast votes over the internet and by phone.
The New7Wonders campaign is the brainchild of a Swiss man, Bernard Weber, who has had a varied career as a film-maker and museum curator.
The shortlist also included the Angkor Wat temples in Cambodia, the Alhambra in Granada, Spain, the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, the Kiyomizu Temple in Japan, the Kremlin and Red Square in Moscow, Neuschwanstein Castle in southern Germany, New York's Statue of Liberty, Sydney Opera House and the ancient city of Timbuktu in Mali.
The new list is not an attempt to replace the traditional Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
Only one of the seven, the Pyramids of Egypt, still exists. The others were:
the Hanging Gardens of Babylon
the Statue of Zeus at Olympia
the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus in Asia Minor
the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus
the Colossus of Rhodes
the Pharos of Alexandria
July 7, 2007 at 04:43 pm by infomatique, 1735 views, 5 comments
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at 11:53 on July 8th, 2007
infomatique, Disappointed! Stonehenge never made it. Good stuff.
at 12:20 on July 8th, 2007
This just in from Kyle, who shared a great Chichen Itza photo with us:
"I have not formed any concrete opinions on the new list myself, though I have heard many different and controversial takes on it already. The one issue I take with the new list is the omission of Angkor Wat. I have been to a handful of the candidates in the competition for the New Seven Wonders and I must say that in my opinion Angkor Wat was the most impressive. Aside from that I have no major problems with the list though."
at 16:58 on September 15th, 2008
Should've included the Potala at Llasa in Tibet.
at 18:09 on September 16th, 2008
Most interesting. Spectacular photography.
at 02:09 on September 26th, 2008
infomatique, I like this story. It's good stuff.