New Seven Wonders of the World

[LAL]

For a bit of fun:

http://www.new7wonders.com/index.php?id=315&L=0

I picked the following (based on beautiful designs, engineering feats and recognisability):

- Angkor Wat

- Great Wall

- Hagia Sophia

- Machu Picchu

- Neuschwanstein Castle

- Statue of Liberty

- Sydney Opera House

No $2 certificates for me though...

[brownie]

My 7 Wonders:

- Acropolis,

- Colosseum,

- Alhambra,

- Pyramids of Ginza,

- Taj Mahal,

- Petra,

- Machu Picchu

Hope to see those last three before my days on earth are done

[connoisseur series500]

Hard to choose from the list because the pictures are incomplete and we don't see the interiors of the structures.

Alhambra, for example, is ornate inside; while Angkor Wat has beautiful stone carvings inside the outer wall as well as inside the actual temple.

[RDK]

Bogus! I don't see Jessica Alba anywhere on that list.

[J Larsen]

Given the alleged criteria, how can there not be a single bridge to choose from?

[Scott Dolan]

They aren't serious, are they? What happens to the old seven wonders?

Can we nominate Michael Jackson? The Howard Hughes of our time.

[Noj]

Sangrey's post count

Lon's Hendrix collection

Lon's Ellington collection

Rostasi's collection of musical oddities

Magnificent Goldberg's soul jazz collection

Durium's collection of early jazz

BFrank's concert attendance count

[B. Clugston]

chichen itza

giza

easter island

machu picchu

great wall

colosseum

angkor

[Scott Dolan]

I'll go with Petra and the Pyramids. Add those to the previous seven, make it nine, and be done with it.

[Alexander]

The original Seven Wonders of the Ancient World:

The Great Pyramid of Giza

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon

The Statue of Zeus at Olympia

The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus

The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus

The Colossus of Rhodes

The Lighthouse of Alexandria

How do you improve on that?!

[Alexander]

The Great Wall is an amazing feat of engineering, and had the ancients known of it, they might well have included it. The problem with the more modern "wonders" is that their construction is not a mystery to us. When the ancients compiled their list, they had good reason to call these structures "wonders." They were so vast, so complex, that their construction seemed feats of magic as much as engineering. But the Statue of Liberty? The Eiffel Tower? Even the Taj Mahal and the Kremlin? Beautiful buildings, no doubt, but hardly "wonders." They may inspire admiration, but do they inspire the kind of awe that the Lighthouse of Phaeros inspired in those who lived in Alexandria?

I might give a bye to Ankor Watt or Stonehenge. Even the statues of Easter Island. Again, these are ancient structures that the ancients themselves might have included in their list. But I can't include modern structures. We know too much about their builders.

[Scott Dolan]

Agreed.

I just don't get the point of all of this. Maybe folks are mad because all but one no longer exist?

For some reason I thought the Great Wall was one of the original seven and not the Pyramids. My mistake. Thank you for the correction, Alexander.

Edited January 8, 2007 by Scott Dolan

[porcy62]

I assumed that everybody should have his seven wonders, no matters what some experts decide for you. So the seven place I was most emotionally impressed , not in an exact order (and there are many more I could add and at the moment I don't remember), are:

King's Valley because I sensed the Passing of Time. (Egypt)

Auschwitz and Birkenau where I sensed the meaning of 'Evil' (Poland)

the Maya city of Tikal because I loved walking in the jungle between monkeys, parrots and toucans looking for the temples (Guatemala).

The 1000 buddhist temples of Bagan because I climbed on almost all of them and everytime was a new experience (Burma)

Madikwe Park at the sunset when wild animals go to water (S.Africa)

Dolomiti Mountains because is where my dad teached to me to love mountainering (Italy)

Coral Reef of South Egypt because I discovered the underwater world

About the Colosseum, nice place, five minutes walk from my house

Edited January 9, 2007 by porcy62

[LAL]

The Great Wall was constructed over a period of many centuries starting from the three kingdoms period and completed by the Mings, some 2000 years later in the 17th century. Most of the current Great Wall is built by the Mings and much of the parts built earlier during Qin and three kingdoms period, using wood, small stones and mud, has crumbled away apparently.

Frankly, I'd rather substitute the Great Wall with the Mogao Grottoes (Thousand Buddha Caves). IMO, as awe inspiring if not more.

http://www.chinatravel.com/china-travel-gu.../dunhuang.shtml

Edited January 9, 2007 by LAL

[RDK]

Does Randy's Donuts make the list?

[connoisseur series500]

The 1000 buddhist temples of Bagan because I climbed on almost all of them and everytime was a new experience (Burma)

Yes, the Pagan temples are often overlooked perhaps because no single temple quite ranks as one of the 7 Wonders (magnificent as they may be.) The city of Pagan and all its temples definitely enters my top 7. Wonderous place....

Edited January 9, 2007 by connoisseur series500

[Chuck Nessa]

Human creations from now on.

[Scott Dolan]

Even McDonalds?

[White Lightning]

The 1000 buddhist temples of Bagan because I climbed on almost all of them and everytime was a new experience (Burma)

Yes, the Pagan temples are often overlooked perhaps because no single temple quite ranks as one of the 7 Wonders (magnificent as they may be.) The city of Pagan and all its temples definitely enters my top 7. Wonderous place....

Here are some pics I took in Bagan/Pagan in 2001. Bagan is an amazing place.

[J Larsen]

Here are some pics I took in Bagan/Pagan in 2001. Bagan is an amazing place.

I should say so!

[(BB)]

Does Randy's Donuts make the list?

Or how about Bob's?

Edited January 9, 2007 by (BB)

[Brownian Motion]

[LAL]

This, Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple, should be the representative from India. A most magnificent building indeed..

http://www.answers.com/topic/sri-ranganath...emple-srirangam

Edited March 20, 2007 by LAL

[JSngry]

The Eighth Wonder Of The World:

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

I like Porcy's list. But most, I like the IDEA behind it.

My places would be small places that no one has photographed, I suspect.

The Battling Siki Bar, in St Louis, Senegal. (Actually, I think I have a photo of Archie Shepp there.)

Kolmanskop, Namibia - a ghost town that was based on diamonds - here's a shot

A certain corner of the Gyokusen-en garden, Kanazawa, Japan

That'll do for the time being.

MG