Saturday, July 07, 2007

The new SEVEN wonders


A lot of debate has been going on all over the media for the NEW 7 WONDERS. Unfortunately, being the 5-minutes-late individual I am (I will write about the difference between individual and person some time later), I missed voting or even posting about it to enlighten others to vote.
Anyhow...
So this Swiss-based corporation, The New Open World Corporation, took upon itself the burden of proposing the new wonders. Before I speak of the new ones, let's see if you know what the old ones are. Yeah, you're right, the Pyramids of Giza is one of them (everyone knows that, you silly), the Hanging Gardens of Babylon is another, but what about the rest?
They are, and it took me months to memorize as a child (I earned the title nerdy!):
1- The Statue of Zeus at Olympia
2- The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
3- The lighthouse of Alexandria
4- The Colossus of Rhodes
5- The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus

The new ones could be found here, among which is the beautiful monuments of Petra (photo above) in Jordan.

The interesting part is that the voting wasn't as benign as they claim. If you've got money you got more votes. If you've got internet, you were lucky too.

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