Seven Wonders of the World: Ancient, Modern and New

The New7Wonders Foundation (www.new7wonders.org) is organizing a worldwide movement to elect -- by online, phone and SMS voting -- the New Seven Wonders of the World. The new wonders that are selected will be the people’s choices, and they will be drawn "from the earliest time that humankind walked upon the earth up through the year 2000". The competition is down to 21 finalists, and voting ends on July 6th. The New 7 Wonders of the World will be announced during the Official Declaration ceremony in Lisbon, Portugal on Saturday, July 7, 2007 (07-07-07).
In the spirit of celebrating the "Wonders of the World", here are two recent videos I created using Google Earth. The first one presents a virtual satellite tour and images of the original and well-known Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and the second video illustrates the Seven Wonders of the Modern World, as established by the American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE) in 1994.

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World:

• Colossus of Rhodes, Greece, c.280 BC
• Pharos of Alexandria, Egypt, c.285 BC
• Mausoleum of Maussollos at Halicarnassus, Turkey, 351 BC
• Statue of Zeus at Olympia, Greece, 435 BC
• Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, Turkey, 550 BC
• Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Babylon (Iraq), 600 BC
• Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt, c.2650 BC

The Seven Wonders of the Modern World:

• Empire State Building
• Channel Tunnel
• CN Tower
• Golden Gate Bridge
• Itaipu Dam
• Delta Works
• Panama Canal

This list, established by ASCE, pays tribute to some of the greatest civil engineering achievements of the 20th century. See more details at the ASCE website about the Seven Wonders of the Modern World. The music in the video is "Modern Times" (Charlie Chaplin: The Essential Film Music Collection, by Carl Davis & City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra).