07/07/07

After all the "666" mania surrounding 6th of June last year (see previous blog entries), I'm glad that the 7th July 2007 (aka 07/07/07) will be remembered for a more happier purpose.

The New 7 Wonders of the World will be announced during the Official Declaration ceremony in Lisbon, Portugal on Saturday, July 7, 2007.

As a youngster I was taught the original 7 ancient wonders of the world:

• The statue of Zeus at Olympia, where the first Olympic games had been held in 776BC


• The Colossus of Rhodes


• The Mausoleum in Halicarnassus


• The Lighthouse of Alexandria


• The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus (destroyed in 401AD, with parts of its 12-metre marble columns reused in a later architectural wonder, the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople)


• The Hanging Gardens of Babylon


• The Great Pyramid of Giza (the only one of the seven ancient wonders still standing)

The new seven wonders will be voted for by millions of people around the globe. The list of potential wonders include all three pyramids of Giza, the Great Wall of China, Stonehenge, the Taj Mahal, Sydney Opera House, the Kremlin and Timbuktu.

Obviously in London the 7th July this year will be remembered for a more sombre reason - the second anniversary of the bombings across the capital in July 2005.
Still 07/07/07 is desired by couples desperate to book their weddings on a date some say is the luckiest of the century.
New 7 wonders
Stonehenge '7 Wonders' finalist