Stonehenge makes list in new seven wonders vote

Reuters via Yahoo ^ | 10/17/2006 | N/A

[WinOne4TheGipper]

LONDON (Reuters) - Only one of the ancient wonders of the world still survives -- now history lovers are being invited to choose a new list of seven.

Among 21 locations shortlisted for the worldwide vote is Stonehenge, the only British landmark selected.

The 5,000-year-old stones on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, will be up against sites including the Acropolis in Athens; the Statue of Liberty in New York; and the last remaining original wonder, the Pyramids of Giza in Cairo.

[PhilipFreneau]

>>>The whole list...<<<

I am astonished the Hoover Dam and the Golden Gate Bridge are not on the list.

[Tokra]

Where is Detroit's Giant Tire & Stove on this list?

[Cecily]

Great tagline!

[Famishus]

Funny...she doesn't look Druish.

[paudio]

Why is the Statue of Liberty on the ancient wonders list?

I think because it's made in France, an ancient European country.

[Dreagon]

If I was to select a modern wonder from the US, it wouldnt be the Statue of Liberty. I would pick

1. The US Interstate Highway system
2. The Pentagon
3. or maybe this http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/KSCAWtwine.html

[bobjam]

My vote:
Colisseum
Hagia Sophia
Great Wall of China
Great Pyramids at Giza
Machu Picchu
Stonehenge
Taj Mahal

[Alas Babylon!]

4 Chichen Itza Aztec site, Yucatan, Mexico

Cichen Itza was made by the Mayans, not the Aztecs.

[Alas Babylon!]

Q: Why did the French give us the Statue of Liberty?

A: Because with only one arm raised, they couldn't really use it!

[Atlas Sneezed]

These, I have seen. I consider Chichen Itza to be most "wondrous", even though it is awfully primitive compared to what was being done in Europe at the time.

2 Alhambra, Granada, Spain
4 Chichen Itza Aztec site, Yucatan, Mexico
5 Christ the Redeemer, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
6 Colosseum, Rome
8 Eiffel Tower, Paris
14 Neuschwanstein Castle, Fussen, Germany
17 Statue of Liberty, New York

Where are the friggin' cathedrals?! St. Peters, for one, maybe the one in Toledo (Spain). La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. The stained glass at Saint Chappelle in Paris is wondrous. The cathedral in a mosque in Cordoba in incredible.

And if you want to include modern wonders like the Sydney Opera House, I'd add the VLA Building on Cape Canaveral, as well as the Panama Canal. I'm also a big fan of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao Spain

The following I intend to see in the next 5-10 years:
1 Acropolis, Athens, Greece
3 Angkor Wat temple, Cambodia
7 Easter Island Statues, Chile
9 Great Wall, China
10 Hagia Sophia church, Istanbul, Turkey
13 Machu Picchu, Peru
15 Petra ancient city, Jordan
16 Pyramids of Giza, Egypt
18 Stonehenge, Amesbury, United Kingdom
19 Sydney Opera House, Australia
20 Taj Mahal, Agra, India

[Churchillspirit]

Great Wall of China gets my vote.

The only man-made object that can be seen clearly from space.

[TET1968]

You want to see rocks? Try the alignments in Carnac, Brittany...What a hoot.

[rock_lobsta]

Funny... She doesn't look Druish...

[Atlas Sneezed]

Who are these people?

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[WinOne4TheGipper]

It's not an anmcient wonders list. To qualify, the "wonder" has to have been built before 2000.

[TET1968]

Check out Google's Earth shot of the Forbidden City.
Longmens Cave is a must see as well.

[nofaceveils]

We visited Stonehenge last year. It was OK, but it's right next to a highway and the grounds are surrounded by ugly plastic fences to keep non-paying punters out. You access the site itself via an ugly 1960s-era tunnel and the atmosphere is sort of ruined by constant car and air traffic and tourists chattering away in a zillion languages, and getting in between you and Stonehenge to take photos of it from every concievable angle.

It also takes forever to get to, and there's not much else in that part of Wiltshire. ;-) Worth a trek out if you MUST see it, though.

[BenLurkin]

LOL!

[RightWhale]

Seems like they could have picked one or more of the modern large football/baseball stadiums as being just as much a wonder as most of the ones on the list. Both as engineering wonders and 'wonder why they built that, must be some kind of religious thing'.