Seven Wonders of the World - Seven Wonders of the World The seven wonders of the ancient world are structures built by humans. The originator of the list is usually given as Antipater of Sidon, who listed the structures in a poem (around 140 BCE) as being exceptional achievements. Both Herodotus and Callimachus of Cyrene had made earlier lists but the writings did not survive except as references. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Wonders of the World list 2 Other candidates 3 Modern candidates Wonders of the World list The Wonders of the World list, with the Lighthouse of Alexandria, is medieval in origin. Antipater's list had the walls of Babylon rather than the lighthouse. In chronological order, they are: The Great Pyramid of Giza, serving as a tomb for the Egyptian.
Seven - Seven Seven (7) is the natural number following six and preceding eight. Seven is the fourth-smallest prime number; the next is eleven. Seven is a Mersenne prime. This is because 23-1=7, and seven is a prime number. 7 goes into 999,999 exactly 142,857 times, so fractions with 7 in the denominator have six-digit repeating sequences in their decimal expansions. 1/7=0.142857142... In binary code seven is 111; in ternary code seven is 21; in quaternary numeral system code seven is 13; in quinary seven is 12; in senary seven is 11; in septenary seven is 10; in octal code and all codes above (such as decimal and hexadecimal) seven is 7. In Roman numerals seven is VII. A seven-sided polygon is a heptagon. The regular n-gons for.
One-hit wonders in the UK - One-hit wonders in the UK Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Notable one-hit wonders 1.1 1950s 1.2 1960s 1.3 1970s 1.4 1980s 1.5 1990s 1.6 2000s 2 See Also Notable one-hit wonders 1950s "It's Almost Tomorrow" by The Dreamweavers "Little Things Mean A Lot" by Kitty Kallen "This Ole House" by Billie Anthony "Rockin' Robin" by Bobby Day "Seven Little Girls Sitting In The Back Seat" by The Avons "Volare" by Domenico Modugno "When" by the Kalin Twins 1960s "Dominique" by The Singing Nun (Jeanine Deckers) "Everything I Am" by Plastic Penny "Fire" by the Crazy World of Arthur Brown "Green Tambourine" by Lemon Pipers "I'm the Urban Spaceman" by Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band "In the Year 2525" by Zager & Evans "Je t'aime...moi non plus" by Jane Birkin.
World Series - World Series In baseball, the World Series is the championship series of Major League Baseball in North America, played in October after the end of the regular season between the pennant winner of the American League and the pennant winner of the National League. The Series winner is determined through a best-of-seven playoff (except in 1903, 1919, 1920 and 1921 when the winner was determined through a best-of-nine playoff). The World Series has been an annual event since 1903. There were no World Series in 1904 and 1994. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Introduction 2 Early World Series (1884-1900) 3 The Modern World Series (1903-present) 3.1 The First Attempt 3.2 The Boycott of 1904 4 List of World Series after 1904 4.3 1905-1919: The "Deadball Era".
Khufu - ruthless Pharaoh. Khufu had several sons and his immediate successor was his son Djedefre. He is most famous for the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza, the only remaining of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Little else remains in his memory, and only one miniature statuette of him has been discovered. His mummy was never discovered..
John Mandeville - by the pope is an interpolation of the English version. Part at least of the personal history of Mandeville is mere invention. Nor is any contemporary corroboration of the existence of such a Jehan de Mandeville known. Some French manuscripts, not contemporary, give a Latin letter of presentation from him to Edward III, but so vague that it might have been penned by any writer on any subject. It is in fact beyond reasonable doubt that the travels were in large part compiled by a Liège physician, known as Johains a le Barbe or Jehan a la Barbe, otherwise Jehan de Bourgogne. The evidence of this is in a modernized extract quoted by the Liège herald, Louis Abry (1643-1720), from the lost fourth book of the Myreur des Hystors of Johans.
John Jenkins - Royalist families, the Derhams at West Derham and Harmon L'Estrange of Hunstanton. In the 1650s he was a resident music-master of Lord Dudley North in Cambridgeshire whose son Roger wrote his biography. It was in the 1650s during the Commonwealth of Cromwell in the absence of much competition or orgainised music-making that Jenkins seized the opportunity to write over 70 suites for amateur house-hold players. Jenkins played the lute and was a virtuoso upon the lyra viol. After the Restoration he was employed once more as a musician to the Royal Court .The aged Jenkins played for King Charles II who wryly complimented him that he did, "wonders on an incomparable instrument". Roger North wrote- Tho' he for many years was uncapable to attend, the Court musicians had so much value.
Victoria Falls - by Michael W. Carroll, original in [1] Victoria Falls is the world's largest, most spectacular waterfall and one of the world's seven natural wonders. It is 1.6 km wide with a maximum drop of 128 m (420 ft), in the Zambezi River, on the Zambia and Zimbabwe border. The falls are formed as the Zambezi plummets into a narrow chasm (c.400 ft/120 m wide) carved by its waters along a fracture zone in the earth's crust. Numerous islets at the crest of the falls divide the water to form a series of falls. The thick mist and loud roar produced there are perceptible from a distance of about 25 mi (40 km). The Boiling Pot, the beginning of a winding gorge (c.50 mi/80 km long) through which the river flows below.
Itaipu - is the largest hydroelectric power plant in the world. It is situated along the Paraná River and produces 25% of the power of Brazil and 90% of Paraguay's. The plant is capable of producing power of 12,600 MW (megawatts), with 18 generator units of 700 MW each. The first generators started running in May 1984 and the final generator came online on April 9, 1991. It will be surpassed only by China's Three Gorges Dam, once it is completed. Itaipu is the largest power plant but not among the largest dams in the world. It has been declared one of the modern Seven Wonders of the World by the American Society of Civil Engineers. (Picture from Itaipu's website, free for distribution as long as given the right credits).
Hanging Gardens of Babylon - known as the Hanging Gardens of Semiramis) and the walls of Babylon were considered one of the Seven Wonders of the World were both supposedly built by Nebuchadnezzar around 600 BC (present Iraq) although there is doubt as to whether or not they had a physical existence. The Hanging Gardens are extensively documented by Greek historians such as Strabo and Diodorus Siculus, yet little evidence for their existence other than some (circumstantial) evidence gathered at the excavation of the palace at Babylon has been accrued to substantiate what look like fanciful descriptions. See also Seven Wonders of the World History of Iraq Babylon Semiramis of Babylon Gardening History of gardening Other Hanging Gardens The Hanging Garden (Film).
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - of Secrets, by J.K. Rowling, is the sequel to Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. It is the second book in a series of seven Harry Potter books. The book was published in 1998. A film was theatrically released in November 2002. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Plot of the book 2 The film 3 Rumours Plot of the book The book begins with the Dursleys' guests, the Masons, coming over for dinner, an event during which Harry is to spend his time in his room "making no noise and pretending he doesn't exist". This is the culmination of Harry's generally miserable summer, during which Harry missed Hogwarts very badly, and worse, received not a single letter from his best friends, Ron and Hermione. However, as Harry enters his room in.
Herostratus - be remembered. He committed arson and set fire to the great Temple of Artemis, one of the Seven Wonders of the world. From his name derives the term herostratic fame. City Authorities afterwards forbade the mentioning of his name, on the penalty of death. This evidently did not succeed in preventing him from achieving his goal..
Helpless - adapt their own lifestyle to their ideals. But a quarter of a century or more later, circumstances have forced them to change: Will and Claire have long split up. Will is now a minor actor doing TV commercials and sharing his flat with his grown-up daughter, Frankie. Claire is abroad most of the time doing charity work in Third World countries. Although raised to be a critical and independent young woman, Frankie has nevertheless adopted one or two characteristics of her own generation. When the play opens she is having an affair with Ben, a young man her age who works in the phone centre of some courier service. Will meets a woman in her early thirties, Kate, who is desperate to find a man who will make her pregnant. She.
History of Ancient Egypt - pharaonic dynasties into which Egypt's ancient history is divided--the Old and the Middle Kingdoms and the New Empire. The pyramids at Giza (near Cairo), which were built in the fourth dynasty, testify to the power of the pharaonic religion and state. The Great Pyramid, the tomb of Pharaoh Khufu (also known as Cheops), is the only surviving monument of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Ancient Egypt reached the peak of its power, wealth, and territorial extent in the period called the New Empire (1567-1085 B.C.). The Egyptians reached Crete around 2000 BC and were invaded by Indo-Europeans and Hyksos Semites. They defeated the invaders around 1570 BC and expanded into the Aegean, Sudan, Libya, and much of southwest Asia, as far as the Euphrates. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1.
Golden Gate Bridge - completed in April 1937 and opened to pedestrians on May 27 of that year. The next day, President Roosevelt pushed a button in Washington, DC signaling the start of vehicle traffic over the Bridge. The cost to build it was $35 million. It is 1.22 miles (1970 m) long, the distance between the towers ("main span") is 4200 ft (1280 m) and their height is 750 feet (230 m) above the water. The bridge has been declared one of the modern Seven Wonders of the World by the American Society of Civil Engineers. It was for many years the suspension bridge with the longest main span in the world, but was superseded by the 1298m long Verrazano Narrows Bridge, New York City in 1964, and several other bridges since. It also.
Great Pyramid of Giza - of Giza The Great Pyramid of Giza, one of the Seven Wonders of the World and the most famous pyramid in the world, served as a tomb for the 4th dynasty Egyptian Pharaoh Khufu (also known under his Greek name Cheops). The estimated date of its completion is 2570 BC and it is the earliest and largest of the three great pyramids in the Giza necropolis on the outskirts of modern Cairo, Egypt. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Description 2 Construction 3 Paranormal interest and encoded numbers 4 See also 5 External Links Description Great Pyramid of Giza 19th century stereopticon card photo'' South-west of Khufu's Great Pyramid lies the pyramid of Khafre, one of Khufu's successors who also built the Sphinx, and further south-west there's the pyramid of Menkaure, Khafre's.
Empire State Building - built in 1930. It is 390 m to the 102nd floor observatory; it is the tallest building in the city (before the construction, and following the destruction, of the World Trade Center), and was the tallest building in the world for many years. The construction was hurried to completion, in order to take the title of "world's tallest building" from the Chrysler Building. The Empire State Building was officially opened on May 1, 1931. Much of the office space went unrented until the 1940s. A public observatory at the top of the building offers impressive views of the city, and is a popular tourist destination. Floodlights illuminate the top of the building at night, in colors chosen to match seasonal and other events; they were red, white, and blue for several.
Ephesus - of Roman Republic proconsular Asia, which was the western part of Asia Minor. In the time of the Romans it bore the title of "the first and greatest metropolis of Asia." It was distinguished for the Temple of Artemis (Diana), who had her chief shrine there, for its library, and for its theatre, which was the largest in the world, capable of holding 50,000 spectators. It was, like all ancient theatres, open to the sky. Here were exhibited the fights of wild beasts and of men with beasts. Ephesus is mentioned in the Bible. The Epistle to Ephesians is a letter written by Paul to the Christians at Ephesus. According to one legend, the Virgin Mary settled in Ephesus after the crucifixion. There is also a letter written by Ignatius of.
Delta Works - Among other things, dunes along the entire seashore were raised by as much as five meters and several large scale construction projects were undertaken, mainly in the province of Zeeland, which consisted mainly of islands, which have now been joined together by dams. The most sophisticated and famous of these dams (sometimes referred to as the eighth wonder of the world) is the Oosterscheldedam, which can be opened and closed keeping the violence of the sea out while preserving the saltwater climate in the river delta for wildlife and the fishing industry. It has been declared one of the modern Seven Wonders of the World by the American Society of Civil Engineers. See also Zuiderzee Works.\n.
1956 in film - - The film Love Me Tender staring Elvis Presley (his first film) opens. Top Grossing Films of the Year The Ten Commandments Seven Wonders of the World War and Peace Moby Dick Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much, starring James Stewart The Eddy Duchin Story The Conqueror Love Me Tender Rock Around the Clock Forbidden Planet Births January 3 - Mel Gibson, actor and director January 7 - David Caruso, actor January 18 - Ray Dolby, inventor of the Dolby noise reduction system February 11 - Kathleen Beller, actress. July 9 - Tom Hanks, actor Deaths December 12 - Ewald André Dupont, German director December 16 - Nina Hamnett, artist Other Movies Released Around the World in Eighty Days The Invasion of the Body Snatchers The King and I.
