THE NEW SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD Vote Now!

In My Humble Opinion
1

There’s a group trying to put together a new list of the Seven Wonders of the World. There are 21 nominees and you can vote for your “seven”.

Here’s the list of nominees:

01 Acropolis, Athens, Greece
02 Alhambra, Granada, Spain
03 Angkor, Cambodia
04 Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico
05 Christ Redeemer, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
06 Colosseum, Rome, Italy
07 Easter Island Statues, Chile
08 Eiffel Tower, Paris, France
09 Great Wall, China
10 Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, Turkey
11 Kyomizu Temple, Kyoto, Japan
12 Kremlin/St.Basil, Moscow, Russia
13 Machu Picchu, Peru
14 Neuschwanstein Castle, Füssen, Germany
15 Petra, Jordan
16 Pyramids of Giza, Egypt
17 Statue of Liberty, New York, USA
18 Stonehenge, Amesbury, United Kingdom
19 Sydney Opera House, Australia
20 Taj Mahal, Agra, India
21 Timbuktu, Mali
Here’s the website:

http://www.new7wonders.com/index.php?id=307

Here’s mine:

Angkor Wat
Colosseum
Easter Island
Kyomizu Temple (been there)
Petra
Pyramids
Taj Mahal (been there)

What are your picks?

2

Angkor Wat
Chichen Itza
Christ Redeemer
Eiffel Tower
Great Wall of China
Petra
Pyramids of Giza

3

06 Colosseum, Rome, Italy
07 Easter Island Statues, Chile
09 Great Wall, China
12 Kremlin/St.Basil, Moscow, Russia
13 Machu Picchu, Peru
16 Pyramids of Giza, Egypt
20 Taj Mahal, Agra, India

4

One from each continent except Antarctica — one from the Middle East to make up for it. Too bad the one from Australia wasn’t also a relic of an ancient civilization.

18 Stonehenge, Amesbury, United Kingdom
09 Great Wall, China
16 Pyramids of Giza, Egypt
07 Easter Island Statues, Chile
04 Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico
15 Petra, Jordan
19 Sydney Opera House, Australia

5

Ali Landry should be somewhere on that list.

6

What’s the big debate? The Seven Wonders of the Modern World are the Manhattan Project, the Apollo Program, the United Nations, the Cure for Cancer, SETI, the Hoover Dam and Women’s Suffrage.

Once you’ve got all that, you can build nuclear weapons and spaceships, see the whole world map, and have other leaders offer you peace in negotiations. You also get free happy people and hydroelectric power in every city, double your science output, and can move troops into the field without causing riots.

(The sad thing is that I did most of that from memory)

7

Cool, I’ve actually visited seven of those. :slight_smile:
I vote for them, since I know they’re real. I haven’t seen the others. How do I know they really exist?

8

Why do we have to choose seven? Why can’t they all be considered wonders? They are all really wonderful. :wink: Although, I do think they should be grouped by era. The Eiffel tower and Neushwannstein are impressive they’re not in the same league as the Pyrimads and the Great Wall.

9

Correct me if I’m wrong, but weren’t some of these in the “old” list of seven wonders? Namely, the pyramids and the great wall of China?

10

The pyramids were, but not the great wall of china (well, except in the context Kingspades provided :stuck_out_tongue: Oh and the Hagia Sophia is a WotW in Civ:Call to Power which is my particular poison)

11

I really do think Uluru should be on the list. It’s not a human wonder, but it is a wonder.

I’d also like to see Chix-… er… the crater near the Yucatan as a wonder.

Of the list:

Petra
The Taj Mahal
The Great Wall of China
Macchu Picchu
The Pyramids of Giza (to differentiate them from all the other pyramids.)
Kyomizu Temple

And the other vote going to my two natural “wonders”

12

I can’t even believe the statue of liberty is on there. I mean, it’s cool and all. But it’s not particularly interesting outside of it’s cultural context. Makes it hard to take this poll seriously.

13

That and the Eiffel Tower are a bit… odd for the list.

14

Maybe we should make a list of the natural wonders of the world.

I fear the only reason the Statue of Liberty is there is so the U.S. has a shot at a wonder of the world. Pretty stupid reason, if you ask me; her designer wasn’t even an American citizen, if I recall.

15

I’ll vote for the Statue of Liberty. They’re all pretty amazing feats, including the SoL.

16

I have a hard time calling things built by us with modern techniques as wonders. It just seems like something we should be doing so those would be the first I take out.

After that I’d question those where the solution was to throw as many men at it as they could.

What I like are those built with elegance where you can’t really believe how they built it. Ones where the science they used is still very impressive especially when considered against where they were at the time.

17

Ditto the Opera House.

The Great Wall, Pyramids, and the Colosseum have to be on any list, I just can’t see any argument there.

As for the others, Neuschwanstein Castle and Chichen Itza are the only ones which I’ve personally visited. The former would make my list, the latter wouldn’t.

Interestingly, I’ve heard some people discuss Trajan’s Market as being the most impressive structure in ancient Rome.

18

I agree, and if you’re going to include modern technological wonders such as the Eiffel, Lady Liberty, and the Opera House, then items like the Hoover Dam and Panama Canal surpass them, though they lack any artistic value.

19

No Golden Gate Bridge?

C’mon…see it for the first time, looming out of the fog as you leave the Waldo tunnel and tell me it doesn’t belong in the big seven.

20

RE: The Eiffel Tower

It was, as the time it was built, the tallest structure in the world. It was almost twice as tall as the former record holder, the Washington Monument (300 m. vs. 169 m.). The use of structural steel as a building material was just becoming commonplace, and it was really a great feat of “modern” engineering.

My list:

The Eiffel Tower
The Great Wall of China
The Taj Mahal
Hagia Sophia
Neuschwanstein Castle
Angkor Wat

and, of course,

The Pyramids of Giza (is there any possible argument against this one?)
On preview, I have to second Ranchoth’s objection to the absence of the Golden Gate Bridge from the list.