Wonders of the World

noreply@blogspirit.com () — Sun, 20 Nov 2005 13:05:00 +0800

Although we've all heard of the Seven Wonders of the World, how many of us can actually name them? I wouldn't be surprised many of us might list the Great Wall of China, Angkor Wat and the Taj Mahal as part of the Seven Wonders - but that is not true. In fact, it's been put to me that there's the Seven Wonders of the Old World and Seven Wonders of the New World. Out of curiousity and to get the facts straight, a quick google got me these:-

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
The Great Pyramid of Giza
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
The Statue of Zeus at Olympia
The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
The Colossus of Rhodes
The Pharos of Alexandria

The Seven Wonders of the Medieval Mind
Stonehenge
The Colosseum
The Catacombs of Kom el Shoqafa
The Great Wall of China
The Porcelain Tower of Nanjing
The Hagia Sophia
The Leaning Tower of Pisa

The Seven Natural Wonders of the World
Mount Everest
The Great Barrier Reef
The Grand Canyon
Victoria Falls
The Harbor of Rio de Janeiro
Paricutin Volcano
The Northern Lights

The Seven Underwater Wonders of the World
Palau
The Belize Barrier Reef
The Galapagos Islands
The Northern Red Sea
Lake Baikal
The Great Barrier Reef
The Deep Sea Vents

The Seven Wonders of the Modern World
The Empire State Building
The Itaip Dam
The CN Tower
The Panama Canal
The Channel Tunnel
The North Sea Protection Works
The Golden Gate Bridge

The Seven Forgotten Natural Wonders of the World
Angel Falls
The Bay of Fundy
Igua Falls
Krakatoa Island
Mount Fuji
Mount Kilimanjaro
Niagara Falls

The Seven Forgotten Modern Wonders of the World
The Clock Tower (Big Ben)
Eiffel Tower
The Gateway Arch
The Aswan High Dam
Hoover Dam
Mount Rushmore National Memorial
The Petronas Towers

The Seven Forgotten Wonders of the Medieval Mind
Abu Simbel Temple
Angkor Wat
Taj Mahal
Mont Saint-Michel
The Moai Statues
The Parthenon
The Shwedagon Pagoda

The Forgotten Wonders
The Aztec Temple
The Banaue Rice Terraces
The Borobudur Temple
The Inca City
The Statue of Liberty
The Mayan Temples
The Temple of the Inscriptions
The Throne Hall of Persepolis
Petra
The Suez Canal
The Sydney Opera House
The Red Fort in India

Source: Wonder Club

Spin Speed

noreply@blogspirit.com () — Sun, 06 Mar 2005 22:40:00 +0800

Source: ~A Short History of Nearly Everything~ by Bill Bryson

How fast you are spinning depends on where you are. The speed of the Earth's spin varies from something over 1,600 kilometres an hour at the equator to zero at the poles.

In London, the speed is 998 kilometres an hour.

==> know what this means? This means that in Singapore, the Earth is spinning at 1,600 km/hr underneath our feet! 1,600 km/hr! And we nary feel a thing! How scary is that?

sunshine through the fog - fun_facts

Wonders of the World

Spin Speed