Egypt
- New 7 Wonders Announced
BBC News The BBC News website has the "New 7 Wonders" listing, in pictures (rather better photographs than those on the New 7 Wonders site, linked to below). If you haven't been bored/horrified to death with the whole thing, or if you just can't...
- New 7 Wonders Vote Closes
At last! Today's the day when the voting closes. Results will be announced tomorrow. This is just possibly the best news all year - maybe now we can all start forgetting all about the new wonders and get on with finding out more about some of the...
- More Re New 7 Wonders
http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2007/03/b6f87c2d-b14b-4a44-bc18-a81dab777f3e.htmlAnother article about the New 7 Wonders vote, the results of which will be announced on 7th July 2007: "Tia Viering, the project's spokeswoman, said Internet votes...
- Update On The New7wonders
http://tinyurl.com/yar4tp (today.reuters.com) "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...
- 7 New Wonders
http://www.etravelblackboard.com/index.asp?id=43564&nav=21 In a recent poll to find a new "7 wonders of the world", readers of a UK travel magazine relegated the pyramids to 8th place: "Readers of Wanderlust , Britain's leading magazine for real...
Egypt
Yet more on the New 7 Wonders
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/837/he1.htm
"The final seven will be chosen from a shortlist of 21 nominated sites across the planet. Yet, even though the Giza Pyramids have maintained their place through the ages, the idea of a new list has fallen flat here in Egypt where the Antiquities Authorities are bent on opposing the concept of a popular vote.
When the poll was launched in 2001, 77 candidates were nominated, all of them meeting the criteria that they were built before 2000, and were still standing. Telephone and Internet votes have so far whittled this number down to 21. These are, in no particular order, the Taj Mahal; Stonehenge; the Athens Acropolis; the Great Wall of China; the Giza Pyramids; the Statue of Liberty; the Eiffel Tower; Peru's Machu Picchu; Istanbul's Haghia Sophia; the Kremlin and St Basil's Cathedral in Moscow; the Colosseum; Germany's Neuschwanstein Castle; Spain's Alhambra; Japan's Kiyomizu Temple; the Sydney Opera House; Cambodia's Angkor; Timbuktu; Petra; Brazil's Statue of Christ Redeemer; Easter Island; and Chichen Itza, Mexico."
When the poll was launched in 2001, 77 candidates were nominated, all of them meeting the criteria that they were built before 2000, and were still standing. Telephone and Internet votes have so far whittled this number down to 21. These are, in no particular order, the Taj Mahal; Stonehenge; the Athens Acropolis; the Great Wall of China; the Giza Pyramids; the Statue of Liberty; the Eiffel Tower; Peru's Machu Picchu; Istanbul's Haghia Sophia; the Kremlin and St Basil's Cathedral in Moscow; the Colosseum; Germany's Neuschwanstein Castle; Spain's Alhambra; Japan's Kiyomizu Temple; the Sydney Opera House; Cambodia's Angkor; Timbuktu; Petra; Brazil's Statue of Christ Redeemer; Easter Island; and Chichen Itza, Mexico."
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- New 7 Wonders Announced
BBC News The BBC News website has the "New 7 Wonders" listing, in pictures (rather better photographs than those on the New 7 Wonders site, linked to below). If you haven't been bored/horrified to death with the whole thing, or if you just can't...
- New 7 Wonders Vote Closes
At last! Today's the day when the voting closes. Results will be announced tomorrow. This is just possibly the best news all year - maybe now we can all start forgetting all about the new wonders and get on with finding out more about some of the...
- More Re New 7 Wonders
http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2007/03/b6f87c2d-b14b-4a44-bc18-a81dab777f3e.htmlAnother article about the New 7 Wonders vote, the results of which will be announced on 7th July 2007: "Tia Viering, the project's spokeswoman, said Internet votes...
- Update On The New7wonders
http://tinyurl.com/yar4tp (today.reuters.com) "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...
- 7 New Wonders
http://www.etravelblackboard.com/index.asp?id=43564&nav=21 In a recent poll to find a new "7 wonders of the world", readers of a UK travel magazine relegated the pyramids to 8th place: "Readers of Wanderlust , Britain's leading magazine for real...