New New SEVEN WONDERS of the World

[HH]

New New SEVEN WONDERS of the World ...

Wonder No 1 : See ... You Can See NEW Sights & Insights... Even As You Have Grown "Older"

Wonder No 2 : Hear ... You Can Hear NEW Melodies ... Even As You Have Grown "Deaf" To The Noise Everyehere

Wonder No 3 : Taste... You Can Taste NEW Foods ... Even As You Have Grown "Fonder" of Old ALL TIME Favourites

Wonder No 4 : Touch ... You Can Touch NEW Heights & Objectives... Even As You Have Grown "Tougher" & "Rougher"

Wonder No 5 : Smell ... You Can Smell NEW Delights of Nature, Home & Hearth... Even As You Have Grown "Tolerant" of The Stinkers ... Everywhere

Wonder No 6 : Know ... You Can Know NEW Facts, Facets & Figures... Even As You Have Grown "Full & Fuller"

Wonder No 7 : Known! ... You Can Know and Get Known ... NEW People, Their Perceptions and Perspectives... Even As You Have Grown "Grand & Grander"

[Sharjeel]

Those are the real ones!

[HH]

:D

Those are the real ones!

Thank You, "Sharjeel" ... For Your Insight ... Yes, Life Is Indeed Wonderful ... Every Moment ... Have Wonderful Times!

[The Jackal]

Nice list HH Sir.

[HH]

Nice list HH Sir.

[color=maroon]Thank You, "The Jackal"... For Your Interest ... Yes, Life Is Ever Wondersome ... Every Moment ... Have Wonderful Times![/icolor]

[HH]

Nice list HH Sir.

Thank You, "The Jackal"... For Your Interest ... Yes, Life Is Ever Wondersome ... Every Moment ... Have Wonderful Times!

[HH]

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* Although most people know that a list exists of the Seven World Wonders, only few can name them. The list of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World was originally compiled around the second century BC. The first reference to the idea is found in History of Herodotus as long ago as the 5th century BC.

* The final list of the Seven Wonders was compiled during the Middle Ages.

* Today, archaeological evidence reveals some of the mysteries that surrounded the history of the Wonders for centuries. For their builders, the Seven Wonders were a celebration of religion, mythology, art, power, and science. For us, they reflect the ability of humans to change the surrounding landscape by building massive yet beautiful structures, one***** of which stood the test of time to this very day.

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1 - The Great Pyramid of Giza - A gigantic stone structure near the ancient city of Memphis, serving as a tomb for the Egyptian Pharaoh Khufu



2 - The Hanging Gardens of Babylon - A palace with legendary gardens built on the banks of the Euphrates river by King Nebuchadnezzar II



3 - The Statue of Zeus at Olympia - An enormous statue of the Greek father of gods, carved by the great sculptor Pheidias



4 - The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus - A beautiful temple in Asia Minor erected in honor of the Greek goddess of hunting and wild nature



5 - The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus - A fascinating tomb constructed for King Maussollos, Persian satrap of Caria



6 - The Colossus of Rhodes - A colossus of Helios the sun-god, erected by the Greeks near the harbor of a Mediterranean Island



7 - The Lighthouse of Alexandria - A lighthouse built by the Ptolemies on the island of Pharos off the coast of their capital city



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Man Fears Time, Yet Time Fears The Pyramids

Arab Proverb

#***** It is the one and only Wonder which does not require a description by early historians and poets. It is the one and only Wonder that does not need speculations concerning its appearance, size, and shape. It is the oldest, yet it is the ***** only surviving of the Seven Ancient Wonders. It is the Great Pyramid of Giza.

# It is located at the city of Giza, a necropolis of ancient Memphis, and today part of Greater Cairo, Egypt.

# Contrary to the common belief, only the Great Pyramid of Khufu (Cheops), not all three Great Pyramids, is on top of the list of Wonders. The monument was built by the Egyptian Pharaoh Khufu of the Fourth Dynasty around the year 2560 BC to serve as a tomb when he dies.

# The Great Pyramid is believed to have been built over a 20 year period.

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[~akidna~]

as usual....Enlightening HH ji

[HH]

as usual....Enlightening HH ji

Thank You, "~akidna~"! ... You Cheer ... For The Three Es of LIFE - Education, Entertainment and Enlightenment!

[HH]

The Seven Wonders

The ancient Greeks and Romans, like us, loved to make lists. Organizing things in a series made them easier to remember, and the very fact of having organized them was as psychologically satisfying to them as it is to us. One of the most enduring lists ever drawn up is that of the "Seven Wonders of the World" - a phrase that has entered most Western languages and is known even to those who would be hard put to name them.

# The first known list of the seven wonders occurs in a poem by Antipater of Sidon, a Greek-speaking epigrammatist who lived around 100 B.C. The poem is primarily in praise of the Temple of Diana at Ephesus - for him the seventh, and ultimate, wonder (See Aramco World, January-February 1971) -but he also lists the other six: the Walls of Babylon, the Statue of Zeus at Olympia, in Greece, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Colossus of Rhodes, the Pyramids and, finally, the magnificent Tomb of King Mausolus at Halikarnassosin today's Turkey - which has given us our word "mausoleum".

# The most famous classical list of the seven wonders was the work of an obscure writer and engineer named Philo of Byzantium, in a short account called "The Seven Sights of the World." ... As the manuscript of the little book is incomplete, it only lists six wonders, giving a short description of each.

# Today the "official" list of the Seven Wonders of the Classical World is :
Wonder No 1 : The Pyramids

Wonder No 2 : The Hanging Gardens of Babylon

Wonder No 3 : The Statue of Zeus at Olympia

Wonder No 4 : The Temple of Diana at Ephesus

Wonder No 5 : The Mausoleum of Halikarnassos

Wonder No 6 : The Colossus of Rhodes

Wonder No 7 : The Lighthouse of Alexandria.

# Of these, only the[b] Statue of Zeus at Olympia (site of the ancient Olympic games) and the Colossus of Rhodes, in Greece, lay outside what is now the Middle East.

# Because the seven wonders were man-made, modern man might be inclined to ask how they compare with today's achievements. How, for example, would the Colossus of Rhodes measure up to the Statue of Liberty? The answer, cruelly, is that, with the exception of the Lighthouse at Pharos and the Pyramids, they don't come off too well. The 100-foot Colossus, for example, was only two thirds the size of the 151-foot Statue of Liberty - without the pedestal.

# In another sense, however, the seven wonders were far more wondrous than today's Superdomes and Pentagons. Given the technology of the times in which they were built - and the previous achievements by which they were judged - they were remarkable structures, one reason they went into the record books and onto the lists of Antipater, Martial, the pseudo-Philo, the pseudo-Bede and Gregory of Tours.

# There are other reasons too. While some of the wonders won fame because of their sheer size and magnificence, others did so because they were particularly beautiful or had endured a long time. Already legendary when Antipater wrote, the Statue of Zeus - the work of Phidias, greatest of the classical sculptors - was only a bit more than 30 feet high, but the entire surface was made of ivory and gold, and it stood for almost 900 years.

# The Colossus caught and held the imagination of the world like no other wonder except the Pyramids ... Muslim writers of the Middle Ages ... record vague legends of gigantic statues keeping guard over abandoned cities in the furthest west, or warning mariners not to proceed beyond the Pillars of Hercules into the "Sea of Darkness" - the Atlantic.

# Almost directly opposite Rhodes, on the mainland of Turkey, stood another of the seven wonders - in the ancient city of Halikarnassos, modern Bodrum. This is where the Canan ruler Mausolus was buried in the tomb which bore his name and which Pausanias says was "of such great size and so wonderfully constructed that it has amazed even the Romans, who use the word 'mausoleum' for their own largest tombs."

# Built by Mausolus' wife Artemisia in 353 B.C., it was decorated with sculptured friezes depicting, among other things, a battle between the Greeks and the Amazons, the work of the leading artists of the time. Above the rectangular tomb 36 columns supported a pyramid, which in turn supported a chariot containing statues of Mausolus and his wife. The statue of Mausolus may be the one now in the British Museum; the tomb was excavated in 1857, and many fragments of it survive, both in the British Museum and in Turkey. The Mausoleum stood for more than 1,000 years, partially falling sometime in the Middle Ages as the result of an earthquake. By 1522, nothing of it remained.

- Paul Lunde

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[lonewolf]

Wow.. thanks for posting info (and pictures) of the seven wonders



~lonewolf

[HH]

Wow.. thanks for posting info (and pictures) of the seven wonders

~lonewolf

Thank You, "lonewolf"! ... You Cheer Those Who Wonder! ... Wish You A Wonderful Day ... Wonderful Week ... In Fact, WONDERFUL TIMES ... Let All Share Your Wonders

[akhilis2cool]

# The first known list of the seven wonders occurs in a poem by Antipater of Sidon, a Greek-speaking epigrammatist who lived around 100 B.C. The poem is primarily in praise of the Temple of Diana at Ephesus - for him the seventh, and ultimate, wonder (See Aramco World, January-February 1971) -but he also lists the other six: the Walls of Babylon, the Statue of Zeus at Olympia, in Greece, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Colossus of Rhodes, the Pyramids and, finally, the magnificent Tomb of King Mausolus at Halikarnassosin today's Turkey - which has given us our word "mausoleum".

Had this guy visited India, there surely wld. have been more than seven wonders.



BTW does neone know why the list is restricted to only seven monuments?

[HH]

# The first known list of the seven wonders occurs in a poem by Antipater of Sidon, a Greek-speaking epigrammatist who lived around 100 B.C. ...

Had this guy^^^ visited India, there surely wld. have been more than seven wonders.

BTW does neone know why the list is restricted to only seven******* monuments?

Thank You, "akhilis2cool" ... ^^^In Those Ages, Visitors From Europe ... To India ... Were Rare & Fewer ... Our Country, Rather "Countries", Had All Along That Magical / Mystical Aura ... Here Something Now ... Nothing Next ... What To See & What To Believe ... The Whole Sub-Continent Must Have Many WONDERS! ... A Few of Which We Could Be Shown By Others, The English and The Europeans, Perhaps, From18th Century Onwards.

*******Why Seven Rishis ... Why Seven Swaras ... Why Seven Hills ... Why Seven Seas ... Why Seven Days Of The Week ... Why Seven Years (itch) ... Why Seven Minutes To Bliss ... ... Seven May Stand For "Mystery" & "Mystical" Aspects of Our Life

[akhilis2cool]

Thanks saar for the info.



I heard there was this statue of lord krishna at saarnaath, made of gold. They say it used to float in the air because of the magnets positioned around it. the moghal invaders were amazed when they went to loot the temple.



is that true HH sar?

[CtrlAltDel]

I heard there was this statue of lord krishna at saarnaath, made of gold. They say it used to float in the air because of the magnets positioned around it.

:? but gold is not magnetic...

[jaszalcatraz]

Wahan bhi corruption chalra honga.......gold plating karra deke gold statue bol diye honge

[akhilis2cool]

I heard there was this statue of lord krishna at saarnaath, made of gold. They say it used to float in the air because of the magnets positioned around it.

:? but gold is not magnetic...

Its a fact that if u have enuf magnetic power at ur disposal u can make nething float.

[HH]

Why Seven ... Why Seven Colours of "White" Light of SUN ... More of Seven ...

# *SEVEN* the significance of this number? : Why does the number 7 pop up in so many religions, folklore, and fairy tales? Where does this obsession with the number stem from? We have 7 skies, 7 heavens, 7 seas, 7 climes, 7 days in the week, 7 dwarves, 7 sins... ALso, becoming 7 years old is considered to be a turning point in child development. And there's the so called 7-year-itch in marriage. There's a definite cyclicality about the number 7 and I was just wondering if anyone has any insight regarding the sociological significance of 7.

# Seven corresponds to the seven days of the week, the seven planets, seven rungs of perfection, seven spheres of celestial stairs, the seven petals of the rose, the seven branches of the shaman's cosmic tree and so on. Seven denotes the fullness of the planetary orders, the fullness of the energies and principles in spiritual order. Seven was the Ancient Egyptian symbol of eternal life, and symbolizes the dynamic perfection of a completed cycle. Seven conveys the fresh start after a cycle has been completed and of positive regeneration. Seven occurs in countless Ancient Greek traditions and legends-the seven gates of Thebes, Niobe's seven sons and seven daughters, the seven strings of the lyre, the seven spheres, etc. There are seven emblems of the Buddha and seven primary chakras in the subtle energy system.

# Number 7 : You asked about the number 7. I think it stems from observation of natural events and cycles in nature. There are 4 seasons, 28 days in each moon cycle, so 4 into 28 goes 7, hence 7 is a mystical and important number. It's probably as good an explanation as any as to why it's so important! You might also like to ponder on the Plough (Ursa Major) with its 7 bright stars going round the Polar Star.

# Significance of Seven : Any number between zero and twelve has at least fifty connections that make it significant; seven is only one of a dozen that have multiple meanings. The seventh power of any number is both a square and a cube; seven metals used in alchemic "the Work"; and seven is conveniently both 3 and 4, which allows one to include those plenary meanings.

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[akhils2cool]

Thanks for the update HH saar.

[HH]

# Seven Sustainable Wonders of the World 1 - Bicycle; 2 - Clothesline; 3 - Ceiling Fan; 4 - Condom; 5 - Public Library; 6 - Pad Thai; 7 - The Ladybug

# Here are some more:
Root Cellar, Basket, Olive Tree, Sari, Compost Pile, Knitting Needle, Canoe

This is fun..

# What do all these wonders have in common? Well, their kindness to the earth and to human health is what qualifies them for a sustainability list. They are accessible to anyone, inexpensive to obtain and maintain. Many of them serve not only practical but also esthetic needs; they satisfy the eye, the palate, or the soul. Most are old in concept, though they may have modern variations. Something like them has evolved in many different cultures. Most are objects you can buy, but usually from a local maker, not a multinational corporation.

# Maybe that's why we don't much appreciate the humble, sustainable wonders around us. Their value is too obvious to need touting. You only have to spend billions "marketing" something if its worth is in doubt.

- Donella Meadows' The Global Citizen, August 26, 1999

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[akhilis2cool]

Thanks HH saar.

more wonders please

[HH]

The Mystical Number Seven!

The Number 7 has for ages been regarded as the Number of mystery relating to the spiritual side of things. It may be remarked that all through the Bible and other sacred books, the seven, whenever mentioned, always stands in relation to the spiritual or mysterious God force, and has a curious significance in this sense whenever employed.

For a few instances of this, take the seven days (or cycles) of the creation as referred to in Genesis:

The seven heavens, so often referred to.
The seven thrones.
The seven seals.
The seven churches.

The seven days' march round the walls of Jericho, when, on the seventh day, the walls fell, before that mysterious God force symbolized in the number of seven. It is also remarkable that there are exactly seven generations from David to the birth of Christ. In Revelation we read of the seven spirits of God sent forth into all the earth. Ezekiel speaks of The seven angels of the Lord that go to and fro through the whole earth, which is believed to be a reference to the magnetic influences of the seven creative planets which radiate through the earth.

Again, we have the seven Spirits referred to in the Egyptian religion.

The seven Devas of the Hindus' Bible.
The seven Angels of the Chaldeans.
The seven Amschaspands of Persian faith.
The seven Sephiroth of the Hebrew Cabala.
The seven Archangels of Revelation, etc. etc.

Let's take another look of this strange number. If we were to examine every class of occult teaching from the Hindu, Chinese, Egyptian, Greek, Hebrew, or modern school, whichever one may choose, in every case - and without a single exception - we will find that the quality of the number 7 stands for the expression of that mysterious God force in Nature that I referred to previously.

In the most ancient rules of occult philosophy we find the rule laid down that the number 7 is the only number capable of dividing the number the number of Eternity, and continuing in itself as long as the number representing Eternity lasts, and yet, at at every addition of itself producing the number 9, or in other words it produces the basic number on which all materialistic calculations are built and on which all human beings depend and the whole edifice of human thought finds expression.

EXAMPLE

The number 1 is the first number. It represents the First Cause, Creator, God or Spirit, call it as you like. A circle of the zero, 0, has always been take as the symbol of endlessness - otherwise Eternity. Place the 1 and the figure zero by its side, and you get the significant symbol of eternity such a figure as 1,000,000. Divide by the mystic number 7 and you get the number 142857.

7)1,000,000 ----------- 142857.

Add as many zeros as you like, and keep on dividing by the 7, and you yourself may go on through all eternity and you can only get repetitions of the same 142857, which from time immemorial has been called the sacred number. Now add this number whenever you find it by natural addition, it will give you the figure 27, and as you have seen by the rule of natural addition described previously, you keep adding till only one number remains, to arrive at what is known as the root of the number. You add again 27 by natural addition, and a 2 plus 7 equals 9, or in other words, you get the full range of the first series of numbers on which all materialistic or human calculations can be built.
Now let's return to the symbolism of seven for a moment. You know, of course, that Buddha is always represented as sitting in the center of a Lotus. Let us examine, then, the secret of such a selection. It is not perhaps generally known that the 7 is reproduced in many strange ways in Nature herself, and that flowers that have not been crossed by intermingling with other flowers have their outside petals in the number of seven, but as flowers are so easily crossed with other varieties, and it is so difficult to find a pure type, Buddha took the Lotus, which never becomes crossed or loses its individuality, as the emblem of the religion he taught, because, first, its seven foundation petals are always in evidence, and further, the religion he taught was that the creative Spirit was the foundation and origin of all things, and thus again bore silent but unmistakable testimony to the creative action of the seven planets from which all religions have had their origin.

Long before man made his creeds, or civilizations their laws, the influence of these seven planets had become known on the earth. Out of the dark night of antiquity their light became law, and as far as we can penetrate, even to the very confines of prehistoric days, in all races, in all countries, we find the influence of the seven planets through all and in all.

Days of the Week

The seven days of the week have been the outcome of the influence of the seven creative planets and gave the names of the days of the week, in every land or clime. Take any nation you may choose, this fat remains the same, and is so expressed in almost every language, Chinese, Assyrian, Hindu, Egyptian, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, French, German, or English. In modern languages Monday or Moonsday in English becomes Montag in German or Lundi (Lune) in French, Lunes in Spanish, and so on until one comes to Saturday or Saturn's day, the day on which God ordered the Hebrews that no work should be done, and in giving them this command He said, It is a sign between Me and the children of Israel for ever. And strange as it may seem, Saturday, year by year, in our modern civilization is becoming more and more a day of rest.

In connection with this thought, it is worthy of remark that Saturn, the last planet in the series of the seven creative planets of our solar system, in all religions, Hebrew or otherwise, represents cessation, or rest from labor in another sense. In this strange example one can see the connection between the seven days of the week and the seven creative planets, and it throws a new light on the verse, God made the sun, moon and stars and appointed them for signs and for seasons and for days and for years. ...

But as everything on the earth and above the earth has its meaning, and especially its secret or soul meaning, its place, position, and number, in the order of things, which is the highest form of design, every day of the week, every hour of the day, and every minute of the hour, has both its meaning and number.

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[HH]

Several "Seven Wonders"


There are many different lists of Seven Wonders which include Natural Wonders, Ancient Wonders, Engineering Wonders, etc. Seek The Wondrous!

Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World include objects that were built between 3000 B.C. and A.D. 476. The Ancient Wonders include objects made by human beings that were considered important because of their size or some other unusual quality:
The Great Pyramid, The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, The Temple of Zeus, The Colossus of Rhodes, The Lighthouse of Alexandria, The Temple of Artemis, and The Mausoleum of Halicarnassus

Seven Wonders of the Natural World
The Seven Wonders of the Natural World are "Ever Wonders" They include the following:

Mount Everest, The Matterhorn, The Meteor Crater, Victoria Falls, Ayers Rock, The Grand Canyon[i] and [i]The Great Barrier Reef

Seven "Should Be Wonders" of Our World
The Seven Wonders of Our World Which Should Be Wonders of the World. The Wonders are still around Today ... But, some of them like Rainbows, The Butterfly Migration, and The Great Wall of China can only be seen in certain parts of the world, or certain times of the year. If you could create a wonder of your own, what would you choose?

Seven "Should Be Wonders" of Our World

Stonehenge, Rainbows, The Giant Redwoods, Wisconsin Dells, Aurora Boarialis, The Butterfly Migration and The Great Wall of China.

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[HH]

Several "Seven Wonders" : Ayers Rock


There are many different lists of Seven Wonders which include Natural Wonders, Ancient Wonders, Engineering Wonders, etc. Seek The Wondrous!


Ayers Rock is one of the oldest rocks on Earth. It is located in Australia. "Uluru," as Ayers Rock is called by Aborigines, is a sacred site for them. Aborigines have rights over Uluru. Uluru is in the middle of Simpson Desert. Aborigines think of it as a symbol of all creation.
Uluru was formed over a period of about 500 million years, and it was created when sand piled up on the bottom of an ocean that once covered the middle of Australia. Over the years, wind and rain have beat at the rock. By now, the flattened top is 1,142 feet above the plains and the base is an amazing 5 miles around!
Uluru is covered with caves. The aborigines believe these caves hold a spiritual significance. Along with caves, the sides of Uluru have many grooves, formed by rain running down its sides. There is a national park surrounding Uluru, called, (of course,) Uluru National Park. This park is home to over 150 types of birds and 26 types of mammals.
There is an Aborigine legend that Uluru was once an ocean, but after a great battle at its shores, it rose up in revolt at the bloodshed, forming the great blood-colored rock.

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