THE SEVEN WONDERS.
A MODERN VERSION. Times-Sydney Sun Special Cables. A London, February IC. v A hundred and fifty thousand voters fi in a newspaper competition placed the seven wonders of the world in the fol- ( i lowing order:—Wireless telegraphy, the f Panama Canal, the dirigiMe, the aero- J plane, radium, the kincmatograph, and the steamer Imperator. 0 The seven wonders as known to the t Greeks were as follow:—The Pyramids of Egypt, the Hanging Gardens of Semi- " ramis at Babylon, the Temple of Diana 1 at Ephesus, Phidias' Statue of Jupiter 1 Athens, the Mausoleum at Halicar- < nassus, the Colossus at Rhodes, and the ■' I Pharos, or lighthouse, at Alexandria. J ——— *
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 197, 18 February 1914, Page 5
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112THE SEVEN WONDERS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 197, 18 February 1914, Page 5
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