Various lists of the Wonders of the Apple accept been aggregate from antique to the present day, to archive the world's best amazing accustomed wonders and human-built structures.
The Seven Wonders of the Age-old Apple is the aboriginal accepted account of the best arresting creations of classical antiquity; it was based on guidebooks accepted amid Hellenic sightseers and alone includes works amid about the Mediterranean rim and in Mesopotamia. The cardinal seven was called because the Greeks believed it represented accomplishment and plenty, and because it was the cardinal of the bristles planets accepted anciently, additional the sun and moon.[1] Abounding agnate lists accept been made. In the 19th and aboriginal 20th centuries, some writers wrote their own lists with names such as Wonders of the Middle Ages, Seven Wonders of the Middle Ages, Seven Wonders of the Medieval Mind, and Architectural Wonders of the Middle Ages. However, it is absurd that these lists originated in the Middle Ages, because the chat "medieval" was not invented until the Enlightenment-era, and the abstraction of a Middle Age did not become accepted until the 16th century. Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable refers to them as "later list[s]",[2] suggesting the lists were created afterwards the Middle Ages.
Many of the structures on these lists were congenital abundant beforehand than the Medieval Ages but were able-bodied known.[3][4]
Typically adumbrative are:[2][3][5][6]
Catacombs of Kom el Shoqafa amid in Alexandria, Egypt.
Colosseum in the centre of the burghal of Rome, Italy.
Abundant Wall of China congenital beyond the actual arctic borders of China.
Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey.
Leaning Tower of Pisa in Pisa, Italy.
Porcelain Tower of Nanjing amid on the south coffer of alien Qinhuai River in Nanjing, People's Republic of China.
Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England.
Other sites sometimes included on such lists:
Cairo Citadel[7] is a medieval Islamic barricade in Cairo, Egypt.
Cluny Abbey[8] in Cluny, Saône-et-Loire, France.
Ely Cathedral[9] in Ely, Cambridgeshire, England.
Taj Mahal[10] on the south coffer of the Yamuna river in the India burghal of Agra.
Recent lists
Following in the attitude of the classical list, avant-garde bodies and organisations accept fabricated their own lists of admirable things age-old and modern. Some of the best notable lists are presented below.
American Society of Civilian Engineers
CN Tower in Toronto, Canada
In 1994, the American Society of Civilian Engineers aggregate a account of Seven Wonders of the Avant-garde World, advantageous accolade to the "greatest civilian engineering achievements of the 20th century".[11][12]
American Society of Civilian Engineers Wonders Admiration Date started Date accomplished Location Significance
Channel Adit December 1, 1987 May 6, 1994 Strait of Dover, amid the United Kingdom and France The longest undersea allocation of any adit in the world
CN Tower February 6, 1973 June 26, 1976 Toronto, Ontario, Canada Tallest freestanding anatomy in the apple 1976–2007
Empire Accompaniment Architecture March 17, 1930 April 11, 1931 New York City, New York, United States Tallest anatomy in the apple 1931–1954, tallest freestanding anatomy in the apple 1931–1967, tallest architecture in the apple 1931–1970, aboriginal architecture with 100+ stories
Golden Gate Arch January 5, 1933 May 27, 1937 Golden Gate Strait, arctic of San Francisco, California, United States. The longest abeyance arch capital amount in the apple from 1937 to 1964
Itaipú Dam January 1970 May 5, 1984 Paraná River, amid Brazil and Paraguay The better operating hydroelectric ability in the apple in agreement of anniversary activity generation[13]
Delta and
Zuiderzee Works 1920 May 10, 1997 Zeeland, South Holland, Arctic Holland, Friesland and Flevoland, Netherlands The better hydraulic engineering activity undertaken by the Netherlands during the twentieth century
Panama Canal January 1, 1880 January 7, 1914 Isthmus of Panama One of the better and best difficult engineering projects anytime undertaken
USA Today's New Seven Wonders
Old Burghal of Jerusalem
In November 2006 the American civic bi-weekly USA Today and the American television appearance Good Morning America appear a account of "New Seven Wonders" as called by six judges.[14] The Grand Canyon was added as an eighth admiration on November 24, 2006, from eyewitness feedback.[15]
USA Today's New Seven Wonders Admiration Location
Potala Palace Lhasa, Tibet
Old Burghal of Jerusalem Israel and Palestine [n 1]
Polar ice caps Polar regions
Papahānaumokuākea Abyssal Civic Monument Hawaii, United States
Internet
Mayan charcoal Yucatán Peninsula, México
Great Migration of Serengeti and Masai Mara Tanzania and Kenya
Grand Canyon (viewer-chosen eighth wonder) Arizona, United States
Seven Accustomed Wonders of the World
Victoria Falls
Similar to the added lists of wonders, there is no accord on a account of seven accustomed wonders of the world, and there has been agitation over how ample the account should be. One of the abounding absolute lists was aggregate by CNN in 1997:[16]
Aurora in the high-latitude regions (around the Arctic and Antarctic).
Grand Canyon in Arizona, United States.
Abundant Barrier Reef off the bank of Queensland, Australia.
Harbor of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Mount Everest claimed by Nepal, as able-bodied as China.
Parícutin abundance amid in the Mexican accompaniment of Michoacán, Mexico.
Victoria Falls at the bound amid Zambia and Zimbabwe.
New7Wonders of the World
El Castillo at Chichen Itza
In 2001 an action was started by the Swiss association New7Wonders Foundation to accept the New7Wonders of the Apple from a alternative of 200 absolute monuments through online votes.[17] The Abundant Pyramid of Giza, the alone actual of the Seven Age-old Wonders, was not one of the winners appear in 2007 but was added as an honorary candidate.[18][19]
Wonder Date of architecture Present-day Location
Great Wall of China Since 7th aeon BC[20] China
Petra c. 100 BC Jordan
Christ the Redeemer Opened October 12, 1931 Brazil
Machu Picchu c. AD 1450 Peru
Chichen Itza c. AD 600 Mexico
Colosseum Completed AD 80 Italy
Taj Mahal Completed c. AD 1648 India
Great Pyramid of Giza (honorary candidate) Completed c. 2560 BC Egypt
New7Wonders of Nature
Jeju Island
New7Wonders of Nature (2007–2011), a abreast accomplishment to actualize a account of seven accustomed wonders called through a all-around poll, was organized by the aforementioned accumulation as the New7Wonders of the Apple campaign.
Iguazu Falls on the bound of the Argentine arena of Misiones and the Brazilian accompaniment of Paraná.
Hạ Long Bay in Quang Ninh Province, Vietnam.
Jeju Island in the Jeju Arena of South Korea.
Puerto Princesa Underground River in Palawan, Philippines
Table Mountain overlooking the burghal of Cape Town in South Africa.
Komodo one of the 17,508 islands that comprise the Republic of Indonesia.
Amazon rainforest amid in Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname and France (French Guiana)
New7Wonders Cities
Calle Crisologo, Vigan City
New7Wonders Cities is the third all-around vote organized by New7Wonders.
Durban, South Africa
Vigan, The Philippines
Havana, Cuba
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Beirut, Lebanon
Doha, Qatar
La Paz, Bolivia
Seven Wonders of the Underwater World
The Abundant Barrier Reef
The Seven Underwater Wonders of the Apple was a account fatigued up by CEDAM International, an American-based non-profit accumulation for divers, committed to ocean canning and research. In 1989 CEDAM brought calm a console of abyssal scientists, including Dr. Eugenie Clark, to aces underwater areas which they advised to be aces of protection. The after-effects were appear at The Civic Aquarium in Washington DC by amateur Lloyd Bridges, brilliant of TV's Sea Hunt:[21]
Palau.
Belize Barrier Reef, Belize.
Abundant Barrier Reef, Australia.
Deep-Sea Vents.
Galápagos Islands, Republic of Ecuador.
Lake Baikal, Russia
Arctic Red Sea, belted by Saudi Arabia and Yemen on the eastern shore, Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea and Djibouti on the western shore.
Seven Wonders of the Automated World
Bell Rock Lighthouse
British columnist Deborah Cadbury wrote Seven Wonders of the Automated World, a book cogent the belief of seven abundant feats of engineering of the 19th and aboriginal 20th centuries.[22] In 2003, the BBC aired a seven-part docudrama exploring the aforementioned feats, with Cadbury as a producer. Each adventure dramatised the architecture of one of the afterward automated wonders:[23]
SS Abundant Eastern
Bell Rock Lighthouse, off the bank of Angus, Scotland.
Brooklyn Bridge, New York City, United States.
London sewerage system, confined London, England.
Aboriginal Transcontinental Railroad in the United States.
Panama Canal, Panama.
Hoover Dam, on the bound amid Nevada and Arizona in the United States.
Seven Wonders of the Solar System
Enceladus
In a 1999 article, Astronomy annual listed the "Seven Wonders of the Solar System". This commodity was after fabricated into a video.[24]
Enceladus, a moon of Saturn
The Abundant red atom of Jupiter
The Asteroid belt
The apparent of the Sun
The Oceans of Earth
The Rings of Saturn
Olympus Mons on Mars
Other lists of wonders of the world
Abounding authors and organisations accept composed lists of the wonders of the apple that accept been appear in book or annual form.
Seven Wonders of the Apple is a 1956 blur in which Lowell Thomas searches the apple for accustomed and bogus wonders and invites the admirers to try to amend the age-old Wonders of the Apple list.
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