First Ever Global Election
15th July 2007 (Sun)
I felt so outdated. Didn't even know about the new 7 Wonders of the World until yesterday.
Anyway, the new list was announced in an Official Declaration ceremony on 07/07/07 in Lisbon, Portugal which turned out to be a pretty big even actually. Stars like J. Lo and Christiano Ronaldo were present as well.
The means of voting includes worldwide online, SMS and telephone voting. And for this reason, I believe, they claimed this process to be the first global election which sounds cool to me. But then I kept thinking, "Does it take that long for this world to have its first global election?" Aha, it struck me that the World Idol voting process was pretty global as well. Wasn't that the suppose to be the first? Maybe it didn't cover all the countries around the world.
Back to the list, behold.... the New 7 Wonders of the World:-
The Taj Mahal, 
The Roman 
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Machu Picchu, Peru
Christ Redeemer, Brazil
Petra, Jordan
The Great Wall, ChinaSome interesting facts to end this entry with
"7 Wonders were chosen because the original list of Ancient Wonders, drawn up more than 2,000 years ago, contained 7 and because 7 has been shown time and time again to be the number of things that the average person can remember. "
"The Pyramids of Giza also were honored by the New7Wonders project as the only remaining of the 7 Ancient Wonders of the World."
(Source: http://www.new7wonders.com)
Thanks for reading!
posted by syyeam @ 7/14/2007 10:45:00 PM
7 Comments:
Interesting =)
The 4th one sounds like Pikachu xp
Oh ya..now that you've mentioned it =)
In fact, the pre-evolve form of Pikachu is Pichu!
Aiks.... I like the old ones, the hanging gardens, oracle, and many more... the new ones like ....Neh...
Oh ya..... If you played a game called civilization, u will notice that there is actually more wonders of the world.... these include The great Library, the lighthouse, the hanging gardens, oracle...... Love that game man... go try it
man, honestly, i thank you for this post coz i didnt know theres such thing as global election for new 7 wonders of the world! so pyramids of giza are no longer 7 wonders of the world?? *blur*
how can they leave out the famous pyramids?
To Rhun Kiet,
Haha..duwan..scared i'll get addicted =p
To Danial and Peifei,
What to do..ppl's votes =(
haha, it's coming out already. Before many of my friends and I voted for this new 7 wonder, coz we all want to keep the Great Wall in it~~~!! Although the Great Wall is kept, the result is not good enough. I prefer the old 7,2.
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