Tuesday 8 January 2008

Wonder Of The World

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
List was originally compiled around the second century BC. The final list was compiled during the Middle Ages, even then most of them were gone.
-Great Pyramid of Giza (the only one left)
-Hanging Gardens of Babylon
-Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
-Statue of Zeus at Olympia
-Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
-Colossus of Rhodes
-Pharos of Alexandria
The Seven Wonders of the Medieval Mind
-Stonehenge (will see in just over a week)
-Colosseum
-Catacombs of Kom el Shoqafa
-Great Wall of China
-Porcelain Tower of Nanjing (gone)
-Hagia Sophia
-Leaning Tower of Pisa
The Seven Natural Wonders of the World
-Mount Everest
-Great Barrier Reef
-Grand Canyon
-Victoria Falls
-Harbor of Rio de Janeiro
-Paricutin Volcano
-Northern Lights (have seen a number of times)
The Seven Wonders of the Modern World
List compliled by the American Society of Civil Engineers.
-Empire State Building
-Itaipú Dam
-CN Tower (have seen and been up)
-Panama Canal
-Channel Tunnel
-North Sea Protection Works
-Golden Gate Bridge

I am not doing nearly as well as I thought I was with seeing things. If I include lists of 'Forgotten Wonders Of The World' or 'Travel Wonders Of The World' I do a little better, but still not great. There are also other lists like 'Seven Underwater Wonders Of The World' or the new lists recent complied by Internet vote. There are also books with titles like '50 Places To See Before You Die' and even '1000 Places To See Before You Die.' I think the easiest thing would be to make your own list, or don't even think about lists at all.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I always thought Niagara Falls was somewhere on there.

Teri