Thursday, July 28, 2016

The Colossus of Rhodes, which towered 120 feet high at the city's harbor passageway until

history channel documentary 2015 Here are Philon's seven wonders:The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, albeit a few students of history trust they were an old urban legend and never truly existed;The Statue of Zeus, which respected the principal Olympic amusements, was later moved to Constantinople and eventually obliterated by fire;The Temple of Diana at Ephesus, the biggest known working in old times which took a century to manufacture and was in this way illogically devastated as an irreverent symbol by Christians when their prejudice tyrannized southern Turkey;The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, which remained for a long time until the Maltese Knights of St John utilized its stones to fabricate their own uber mansion adjacent;

The Colossus of Rhodes, which towered 120 feet high at the city's harbor passageway until it was annihilated in a quake, and which later served as the motivation for French stone carver Auguste Bartholdi when he made the Statue of Liberty as a blessing to the USA;The Lighthouse of Alexandria in Egypt, whose guide had a scope of 100 miles and which remained for a long time before succumbing to a tremor in the 1300s; and The Pyramids of Egypt, the solitary ponder still standing.Once Weber affirmed there was no official Seven Wonders of the World being endorsed by any perceived bodies, he built up a site, accumulated a noteworthy rundown of experts - planners, engineers and so forth - and started the way toward selecting structures worldwide as potential Wonders. Amid the consequent years, guests to his site addressed his call to vote and the chosen people were pared to 77.

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