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alferret

08-07-2007 19:38

New Seven Wonders of the World

Personal favorites of mine are...
The Colosseum in Rome, Jordan's Petra - the famed Rose City.

BBC LINK

Russ	08-07-2007 19:48

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Petra is amazing, a whole city carved out of a mountain. Pretty impressed with number 2 as well ;) :)

TheDaddy

08-07-2007 19:50

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Oh dear, no British ones, I'd like to nominate the Millennium Dome if poss

RizzyKing

08-07-2007 20:25

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Wasn't stonehenge in the running at some point for inclusion might be wrong.

danielf

08-07-2007 23:29

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I'm a little surprised by #2 (which really doesn't look that impressive to me). I'm also surprised that the pyramids and Angkor didn't make the list. Angkor Wat itself is pretty impressive, but with all the other temples that make up the complex it is without a doubt the most impressive thing (structure wise) I've seen in my life. We spent 5 day there. Four days visiting the main temples, one day to revisit the really special ones, and one day visiting the 'outlying temples'. I'd go back at the drop of a hat.

Some nice photos here

punky

09-07-2007 00:29

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I'm glad Chichen Itza made the list... Its an amazing place and well worth visiting. Sad that Stonehenge didn't make it.

deathtrap3000

09-07-2007 00:45

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I dont know why they dont just scrap the whole 'seven' thing and go for a higher number like 8 or 9.

Maggy

09-07-2007 00:53

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Frankly mankind hasn't anything on mother nature.As far as I'm concerned the seven wonders of the world are all natural..There's the Grand Canyon to name one...She's also a better sculptor and artist as well. :)

TheDaddy

09-07-2007 09:59

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Originally Posted by Incognitas (Post 34346937)

Hmm Grand Canyon, we need British ones, how about the Watford Gap :erm: :D

fizgog

09-07-2007 10:33

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I think Petra is probably the best of the lot in that list.

Anyone remember what the original 7 wonders were?

TheDaddy

09-07-2007 12:04

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Originally Posted by fizgog (Post 34347049)

I think Petra is probably the best of the lot in that list.

Anyone remember what the original 7 wonders were?

Hanging gardens
Temple of Artimis aka Diana
Pyramid at Giza
Colossus of Rhodes
Lighthouse at Alexandria
Some dudes mausoleum
and something else

Shadow Demon UK

09-07-2007 12:08

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Originally Posted by TheDaddy (Post 34347089)

Hanging gardens
Temple of Artimis aka Diana
Pyramid at Giza
Colossus of Rhodes
Lighthouse at Alexandria
Some dudes mausoleum
and something else

The last two are the Mausoleum of Maussollos at Halicarnassus and the Statue of Zeus at Olympia.

danielf

09-07-2007 12:11

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Originally Posted by TheDaddy (Post 34347089)

Hanging gardens
Temple of Artimis aka Diana
Pyramid at Giza
Colossus of Rhodes
Lighthouse at Alexandria
Some dudes mausoleum
and something else

The Mausoleum is of king Mausollos apparently. I wonder where the word mausoleum comes from :)

The last one is the statue of Zeus at Apollo.

http://ce.eng.usf.edu/pharos/wonders/list.html

Edit: beaten to it.

TheDaddy

09-07-2007 12:29

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Nice work gents, does anyone know the one (apart from the pyramid) that escaped complete destruction?

danielf

09-07-2007 12:41

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Originally Posted by TheDaddy (Post 34347099)

Nice work gents, does anyone know the one (apart from the pyramid) that escaped complete destruction?

The palace at babylon?

http://ce.eng.usf.edu/pharos/wonders/gardens.html

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More recent archaeological excavations at the ancient city of Babylon in Iraq uncovered the foundation of the palace. Other findings include the Vaulted Building with thick walls and an irrigation well near the southern palace. A group of archaeologists surveyed the area of the southern palace and reconstructed the Vaulted Building as the Hanging Gardens. However, the Greek historian Strabo had stated that the gardens were situated by the River Euphrates. So others argue that the site is too far from the Euphrates to support the theory since the Vaulted Building is several hundreds of meters away. They reconstructed the site of the palace and located the Gardens in the area stretching from the River to the Palace. On the river banks, recently discovered massive walls 25 m thick may have been stepped to form terraces... the ones described in Greek references.

ikthius

09-07-2007 12:54

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the jesus christ thing is hideous...

its too modern, I am more impressed with the other lot, but not sure about 1 either

ik

NoKnowledge

09-07-2007 12:56

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Rio de Janeiro' Christ Redeemer looks good from this photograph

http://www.new7wonders.com/index.php...2_itemId=25629

ikthius

09-07-2007 12:58

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I think the rest are good cause they are old and still standing, the rio thing just seems too modern.

I know its a modern wonders, if that modern, why not that new french bridge?

ik

TheDaddy

09-07-2007 13:04

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Originally Posted by danielf (Post 34347106)

The palace at babylon?

http://ce.eng.usf.edu/pharos/wonders/gardens.html

I was thinking of the centre column from the Temple of Artemis, interesting article never the less :tu:

orangebird

09-07-2007 13:24

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Am off on a cruise of Egypt and Jordan in November - am looking forward to seeing Petra.

Thought Stonehenge might have made it.

danielf

09-07-2007 13:34

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Originally Posted by orangebird (Post 34347134)

Am off on a cruise of Egypt and Jordan in November - am looking forward to seeing Petra.

Thought Stonehenge might have made it.

I visited Stonehenge just a few weeks ago, and I was slightly surprised as it is a lot smaller than I expected it to be. Still very impressive (but not on a par with Angkor, or the Taj Mahal).

orangebird

09-07-2007 14:26

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Originally Posted by danielf (Post 34347145)

I visited Stonehenge just a few weeks ago, and I was slightly surprised as it is a lot smaller than I expected it to be. Still very impressive (but not on a par with Angkor, or the Taj Mahal).

It's not so much the monument itself that's impressive, more how the damn thing got there. I studied it many moons ago at school. Amazing.

Stuart

09-07-2007 14:41

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Unesco have announced they are not involved: http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-U...CTION=201.html

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