The 7 'New Wonders' of the World

[TxRedMan]

the statue of liberty is hardly deserving of a nomination. i'm just as much red white and blue as anyone else, but putting the statue of liberty in the same field as the pyramids and stone henge is ridiculous.

[Kevin8423]

IMO it should have been these and for most it isn't even close. Some of my choices are probably because I'm an Architecture major.

The Acropolis - Greece
The Colosseum - Italy
Stonehenge - UK
The Pyramids of Giza - Egypt
Hagia Sophia - Turkey
The Great Wall of China - China
The Easter Island Statues - Chile

[DrunkIrish05]

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IMO it should have been these and for most it isn't even close. Some of my choices are probably because I'm an Architecture major.

The Acropolis - Greece
The Colosseum - Italy
Stonehenge - UK
The Pyramids of Giza - Egypt
Hagia Sophia - Turkey
The Great Wall of China - China
The Easter Island Statues - Chile

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aren't the easter island statues all knocked down? what about angkor?

[Kevin8423]

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IMO it should have been these and for most it isn't even close. Some of my choices are probably because I'm an Architecture major.

The Acropolis - Greece
The Colosseum - Italy
Stonehenge - UK
The Pyramids of Giza - Egypt
Hagia Sophia - Turkey
The Great Wall of China - China
The Easter Island Statues - Chile

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aren't the easter island statues all knocked down? what about angkor?

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I'm pretty sure there are many left standing, the island has a ton of those stone heads all over.

These are definites:

The Acropolis - Greece
The Colosseum - Italy
Stonehenge - UK
The Pyramids of Giza - Egypt
The Great Wall of China - China

And these are debatable:

The Easter Island Statues - Chile
Hagia Sophia - Turkey

I've always wanted to see the Easter Island statues and personally think they are very cool especially after learning about all the background of what is known of the construction and the civilization that built them.

[happyhappyhappy]

I don't know about The Great Wall imho. Sections of wall built over hundreds of years that mostly connected but not really, and has since deteriorated quite a bit? I don't know where the 'Wonder' is in that personally.

I really want to see Machu Picchu and Petra in my life. Easter Island too.

Got to see Stonehenge so far, thats it.

[Peter Harris]

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I don't know about The Great Wall imho. Sections of wall built over hundreds of years that mostly connected but not really, and has since deteriorated quite a bit? I don't know where the 'Wonder' is in that personally.

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seen any other 5,000 mile walls that scale mountain sides? I think it's impressive - and until very recently it was the only man made construction visible from space. There isn't a single thing on the list that could rightly bump it into 8th.

That said, I think the Redeemer seems an odd addition to the other 7 which seem very reasonable new wonders.

[pa3lsvt]

Gotta add my 2 cents for the Hoover Dam. Any geeks would love the 'Hard Hat Tour' (not sure if they still run them). Something like 20+ construction and engineering innovations were developed during the project that are still used to this day.

I got the biggest kick out of seeing the world's largest Cincinnati machine mill, on site to manufacture impellers (because it would be near impossible to transport impellers that size LDO). It was 3+ stories tall.

[Jack of Arcades]

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I don't know about The Great Wall imho. Sections of wall built over hundreds of years that mostly connected but not really, and has since deteriorated quite a bit? I don't know where the 'Wonder' is in that personally.

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seen any other 5,000 mile walls that scale mountain sides? I think it's impressive - and until very recently it was the only man made construction visible from space.

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Urban Legend

[KotOD]

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[React1oN]

-Statue of Liberty

-Machu Picchu

-Sydney Opera House