[Stoat]

The Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The Taj Mahal in Agra, India.

The ruins of Peru's famed Machu Picchu

The Great Wall of China near its western-most point, at Jiayuguan, in China's northwest Gansu province.

 

The Mayan ruins of Chichen Itza in southern Mexico

The ancient Colosseum in Rome, Italy.

The Khazneh, or Treasury, is seen in Petra, Jordan.

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"Swiss adventurer Bertrand Piccard, pilot of the first hot-air balloon to fly nonstop around the world, announced one of the winners and briefly hijacked proceedings when he made an appeal for people to combat climate change and stand up for human rights before being ushered off the stage."

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"Weber said he was starting a new campaign Sunday to choose the new seven natural wonders of the world."

My apologies for the heavy, forced editing of this article.  Please click on the Fox News Link to see the full text.

[wastedyears]

I don’t see how the Statue of Liberty could be one.

Nancy Pelosi, yes

[lightman]

I would have voted for Chartres catherdral or St. Peter’s, Rome, but since they weren’t options, I abstained.

[Taxbilly]

Many in the 50,000-member audience at a soccer stadium jeered when the United States' Statue of Liberty was announced

They must have realized it was built by the French.

[kb2614]

I remember reading a funny tag line once. It said;”Portugal, Celebrating 800 years of decline.”. Ok, I thought it was funny, but I’m a geek.

;-)

[nicmarlo]

culture ping. : )

[Fester Chugabrew]

So many wonders, so little time. The St. Louis Arch is a remarkable achievement. Dubai might have something, too. But neither of these top a few molecules of DNA.

[mass55th]

"Many in the 50,000-member audience at a soccer stadium jeered when the United States' Statue of Liberty was announced as one of the candidates."

The morons probably don't even know the statue was made by a French sculptor.

[TASMANIANRED]

Some one needs to define ancient..

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Chichen Itza might be beautiful and interesting, but there’s simply no way it’s more of (anything) than Angkor Wat in Cambodia — one of the candidates which did not win. Because of course, there aren’t a lot of cell phones or broadband connections in Phnom Penh for voters to participate.

This was an elaborate publicity stunt. Appropriate it came out the same day as Al Gore’s concerts, IMHO.

[Prole]

It's a travesty that the Mosque People destroyed what I would classify as one of world's wonders:

[Cacique]

bfl

[Charles Martel]

"Only the penitent man will pass."

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

Our ex-Panama Canal is still an engineering wonder of the world put up against all those non-functioning monuments. (Thank you Jimmy Carter…You little %$@#^$^!!!)

How about our space ships?

[longtermmemmory]

UN affiliated equals meaningless.

The original “wonders” were that because they had some inovation or made a bold move into a new era of archetecture.

These are just mob rule internet votes.

I would submit MOST of “new” holders have added nothing to design or inovation.

[SunkenCiv]

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