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| The Wonderful Wonders of the World were very interesting to us. Read on to find out why.......... |
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| The Natural Wonders |
| Imagine: standing 29,028 feet up in the air, and being able to get a close up on clouds, while you feel like you`re standing on an ice cube... This is Mount Everest! |
| Imagine: you are standing at the bottom and looking up 3,212 feet to see a miraculous site... This is Angel Falls! |
| Just think: you are paddling down the Nile River in a canoe, and seeing all of the beautiful sites! |
| What if you are watching Ayers Rock magically change its brilliant colors before your eyes? |
| What would you do if you were standing on the edge of the Grand Canyon and you slipped, you fell 5,000 feet down, down, down? |
| Imagine: helplessly searching for water in a place where the sand is stinging your face and burning your feet... This is the Sahara Desert! |
| Just think: you are swimming alongside a giant sea turtle in the beautiful waters of the Great Barrier Reef! |
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| The Ancient Wonders |
| Imagine: looking up to see 127 columns, towering 60 feet above your head ,and see the great Goddess of Childbirth and wild beasts... This is the Temple of Artemis! |
| Just think: you are standing in a garden of almost every type of exotic plant and animal... you would be in the Hanging Gardens of Babylon! |
| What would you do if you were looking up at the most amazing tomb in the world... The Mausoleum of Halicarnassus! |
| Imagine: if you were looking up at the biggest 4 million ton tomb... the Great Pyramid of Giza! |
| Imagine: taking a picture of a statue made of ivory and gold... the Statue of Zeus! |
| Imagine: you are seeing the biggest structure to straddle a harbor... The Colossus of Rhodes! |
| Imagine: You are a sailor lost in the fog. Suddenly, you see a bright beacon from the Lighthouse of Alexandria, the first lighthouse with a beacon! |
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| The Modern Wonders |
| Imagine: you are standing at the bottom of a long, hollow shaft, looking up 555 feet to the top of the Washington Monument! |
| Just think: you are 1,250 feet up in the air, looking across the New York skyline...you are on top of the Empire State Building! |
| What if... you were standing, looking up at the tallest wrought iron structure ever... The Eiffel Tower! |
| Just imagine: you are standing on the steps, looking up at the great white marble tomb...Taj Mahal! |
| Just think: you are standing next to the huge paw of the Great Sphinx of Giza. |
| What would happen if 170 years from now, you are on a tower, and inch by inch, it slowly hits the ground? The Leaning Tower of Pisa would have finally fallen! |
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| The Middle Aged Wonders |
| Imagine: that you are one of the 50,000 spectators watching the brave gladiators defeat the wild animals. If this is you, you would be at the Colosseum of Rome. |
| What if you are in space, and the only man-made object visible on Earth stretches 1,500 miles? You are seeing the magnificent Great Wall of China! |
| Imagine: that 55 B.C., not cranes nor bulldozers are moving those huge stones, but the man himself, with very elementary tools. If this is you, you are witnessing the creation of Stonehenge! |
| Put yourself in the place of a Christian refugee, hiding from the Romans in the sacred Catacombs of Alexandria! |
| The year is 1853, and the T`ai P`ing rebels are destroying a tower that stood for hundreds of years...This is the Porcelain Tower of Nanking! |
| Imagine: as you step closer and closer to this great church, you feel the Holy Wisdom entering you. You are standing by Hagia Sophia! |
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