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Apparently, it ‘; s time to turn the page on the original seven wonders of the world … Since only one of them is left standing, and since most people can’, t remember what are the rest of them, anyway, it’s a good idea for someone who has too much time on their hands and the ability to raise money. In this case, it may shrink the candidates down to one Bernard Weber. He ‘; SA.Swiss idealist who is behind the new base of 7 wonders, which he founded in 2000. Weber ‘, s motivation is simply to draw attention to the wonders possible when mankind applies positive energy. In fact, the base actually produces a profit, he intends to employ at least some of them to reconstruct the lost wonders. Specifically, he cites the Bamiyan Buddha statue, a masterpiece of cultural dated to the fifth century AD and was destroyed like mad icon blasphemous by the Taliban when they act raised Tyrannized Afghanistan. The original seven wonders were anointed as a connoisseur of antiquity, Philo of Byzantium and ancient Greek, Antipater of Sidon.

Those were the days before agents and travel guidebooks, and perhaps everyone has felt a need to fill the void. Whatever their inspiration, they were not the first to get the idea. The concept of such a list was first mentioned by Herodotus as a ’seminal; The History’, in the fifth century BC. Later, around the third century BC, Callimachus of Cyrene, the logster above the legendary Museum of Alexandria in ancient Egypt, wrote the “; A Collection of Wonders around the World.” ; These lists varied in content, but the Philo ‘, his reign, partly due to its mention in engravings by Netherlands artist Maerten van Heemskerck (1498-1574) and Johann Fischer von Erlach’, s’; History Architecture. ” Behold Philo ‘; s seven wonders:

1. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, although some historians believe was an ancient urban legend and never really existed;

2. The statue of Zeus, which honored the first Olympic Games, was later moved to Constantinople and finally destroyed by fire

3. The temple of Diana at Ephesus, the building as the widest in ancient times which took a century to build and was later destroyed like mad icon blasphemous by Christians when their intolerance Tyrannized southern Turkey,

4. The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, which accounted for 1500 years until the Maltese Knights of St. John had used its stones to build their own mega-castle near

5. The Colossus of Rhodes, who led 120 feet above the city ‘; input port s until it was destroyed by earthquake and who later inspired the French sculptor Auguste Bartholdi when he created the Statue of Liberty as a gift to U.S.

6. The lighthouse of Alexandria in Egypt, whose tag had a range of 100 miles and representing 1500 years before falling victim to an earthquake in the 1300s, and

7. The pyramids of Egypt, the only wonder still standing. Once Weber confirmed there was no seven wonders of the world not officially sanctioned by any body identified, it has established a website, collected an impressive list of professionals — architects, engineers and similar — and began process of naming structures in the world as the potential wonders. During the following years, visitors to his site have answered his call to vote and were referred to 77 peeled.Recently, they were winnowed to 21 — another multiple of seven, if you hadn ‘; your notes — with all voting to continue throughout 2006. The new seven wonders will be announced on New Year ‘, s Day, 2007. I ‘, ve gone to Weber’; location s, perused the finalists and did my duty by e-voting. All are truly worthy choice, but I didn ‘, t find it difficult at all to make my decision quickly: – The Great Wall of China, where the limit’; breathtaking ‘, is an understatement – Statues Island Easter, also known as clones stone crazy – Petra in Jordan, for its mixture of complexity and grandeur in its status as the world ‘; s most spectacular city carved out of sandstone – Stonehenge, a version Druidic of the perpetual calendar with a final design timeless – Neuschwanstein Castle in Fussen, Germany, because that ‘; s castles way are supposed to look – The Taj Mahal in Agra, India, because that was Richard Halliburton said so in one of my favorite childhood tomes ‘, The Book of Wonders’, and his vivid description in there forever sold me on it and – The cathedral of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, because I think at least marvel should contain the graffiti Viking and Halfdan did the honors — which are always clearly evident — during his assigned work with Byzantium ‘; s Varangian guard. An interesting twist to Weber ‘; the basis of s is that his house is cited as Heidi Weber Museum in Zurich, which also happens to be a landmark structure designed by Swiss architect and visual artist Charles EdouardJeanneret, who became famous in his name-d ‘; art of Le Corbusier. This building was commissioned by Mrs. Weber, to be named after its designer and to house various artworks created by him.

It was completed and opened to the public in 1962. However, conflicts have arisen between the two parties, and when Le Corbusier died, the entity that has survived took the case against the Webers. Among other things, this has resulted in a re-christening of the building to its current title and legal squabbling over everything from the exclusive right for sales of artwork to the Domain Name website. The Heidi Weber Museum is rarely opened today. The irony of his legacy creator and legal history compared to the mission report of Bernard Weber ‘, the new base 7 of s is rich. Clearly, the universal harmony in the identification and conservation of famous structures is easier said than done.