How the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World Work
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Seven has long been considered a magical number, and that made July 7, 2007 (7/07/07) a pretty special day. Couples raced to the altar to tie the knot; Live Earth concerts streamed across television, radio and the Internet for 24 straight hours to seven continents; and the new seven wonders of the world were announced in Lisbon, Portugal. These new seven wonders were chosen democratically by more than 100 million voters .
Was it just the lucky date that inspired the selection of new wonders? Not exactly. People have been making lists of spectacular sites for seemingly each epoch of history and stratum of the Earth. There are the seven wonders of the medieval world and the modern world, as well as the seven wonders of the natural world and underwater world — not to mention the various lists compiled by travel agencies and the media.
But what about the original seven wonders? For some of us, they’re more difficult to name than Disney’s seven dwarves. They’re the Great Pyramid of Giza (Egypt), theHanging Gardens of Babylon (modern-day Iraq), theTemple of Artemis at Ephesus (Turkey), the Statue of Zeus at Olympia (Greece), the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus (Turkey), the Colossus of Rhodes(Greece) and the Lighthouse of Alexandria (Egypt). Baca entri selengkapnya »