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Stonehenge makes list in new seven wonders vote
Reuters via Yahoo ^ | 10/17/2006 | N/A

Posted on 10/17/2006 12:19:29 PM PDT by 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.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: acropolis; archaeoastronomy; druidsmyass; godsgravesglyphs; megaliths; sevenwonders; stonehenge; tajmahal; unitedkingdom
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To: rock_lobsta

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

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


41 posted on 10/17/2006 1:24:15 PM PDT by PhilipFreneau ( Don't be a sucker for the MSM smear campaign. Vote GOP!)
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To: WinOne4TheGipper
Where is Detroit's Giant Tire & Stove on this list?


42 posted on 10/17/2006 1:28:48 PM PDT by Tokra (I think I'll retire to Bedlam.)
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To: Mugwump

Great tagline!


43 posted on 10/17/2006 1:31:50 PM PDT by Cecily (`)
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To: BenLurkin
Funny...she doesn't look Druish.
44 posted on 10/17/2006 1:32:21 PM PDT by Famishus (I wish my grass was emo so it would cut itself.)
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To: RightWhale
Why is the Statue of Liberty on the ancient wonders list?

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

45 posted on 10/17/2006 1:33:37 PM PDT by paudio (Universal Human Rights and Multiculturalism: Liberals want to have cake and eat it too!)
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To: WinOne4TheGipper

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


46 posted on 10/17/2006 1:34:15 PM PDT by Dreagon
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To: WinOne4TheGipper

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


47 posted on 10/17/2006 1:41:51 PM PDT by bobjam
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To: rock_lobsta
4 Chichen Itza Aztec site, Yucatan, Mexico

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

48 posted on 10/17/2006 1:46:10 PM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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To: paudio

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

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


49 posted on 10/17/2006 1:47:41 PM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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To: rock_lobsta
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
50 posted on 10/17/2006 1:48:42 PM PDT by Atlas Sneezed (Your FRiendly FReeper Patent Attorney)
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To: rock_lobsta
Great Wall of China gets my vote.

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

51 posted on 10/17/2006 1:50:09 PM PDT by Churchillspirit (We are all foot soldiers in this War On Terror.)
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To: Gamecock

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


52 posted on 10/17/2006 1:53:14 PM PDT by TET1968 (SI MINOR PLUS EST ERGO NIHIL SUNT OMNIA)
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To: Wally_Kalbacken; BenLurkin

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


53 posted on 10/17/2006 1:54:31 PM PDT by rock_lobsta (Offending liberals since 1993)
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To: WinOne4TheGipper

Who are these people?




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54 posted on 10/17/2006 1:54:47 PM PDT by Atlas Sneezed (Your FRiendly FReeper Patent Attorney)
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To: RightWhale

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


55 posted on 10/17/2006 1:57:20 PM PDT by WinOne4TheGipper (Sometimes those who scream loudest for "justice" are the ones that want real justice the least.)
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To: Churchillspirit

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


56 posted on 10/17/2006 1:59:27 PM PDT by TET1968 (SI MINOR PLUS EST ERGO NIHIL SUNT OMNIA)
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To: Beelzebubba

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.


57 posted on 10/17/2006 2:05:21 PM PDT by nofaceveils
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To: Famishus

LOL!


59 posted on 10/17/2006 2:18:38 PM PDT by BenLurkin ("The entire remedy is with the people." - W. H. Harrison)
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To: WinOne4TheGipper

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'.


60 posted on 10/17/2006 4:27:27 PM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
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