The Seven Wonders Reconsidered
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PARIS, March 12 -- Maybe it simply feeds modern society's obsession with lists and rankings, but more than 2,000 years after ancient Greeks  identified  the Seven Wonders of the World, millions of people around the globe are casting Internet ballots to update the list.
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Ian Desai was so curious about maps he found in a book that he retraced the ancient voyage of Jason and the Argonauts, one of the most enduring Greek fables.
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A team revives the debate over whether a Bronze Age disc from Germany is one of the earliest known calendars.
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ATHENS -- How many gilded fairy tales do you want? There was the Magnificent 7 in Atlanta in 1996 and the Fantastic 5 in Anaheim last summer. Was anyone really counting on dethroning the Romanians at an ...
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Exploding through the newsnets is the discovery of the remains of seven members of a tiny, previously unknown human species that survived until at least 13,000 years ago, and perhaps co-existed with modern humans right up to the present day.  Adult Homo Florensiensis, nicknamed "Hobbits" by the dig workers who helped uncover the remains at the Liang Bua cave on the island of Flores in Indonesia, were about the size of a three-year-old modern human child, but had a brain one-third the size. Stone tools and pygmy elephant bones found at the site indicate that these "Hobbits" hunted co-operatively together in groups, meaning that they must have had language. "The whole idea that you need a particular brain size to do anything intelligent is completely blown away by this find," commented Dr Henry Gee of Nature magazine to the BBC.
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A sculptor, an architect, a photographer and a writer were involved. Collisions may have been inevitable.
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LIMASSOL - The legend of Atlantis is claimed to be true. The theory of the land lost deep in waters has been the matter for scaled discussions for many years.
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One of the world's most bizarre scientific collections has gone on show.
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Thu 25th Nov, 11:25 AM. Orienteers love a puzzle and a fascinating new theory has highlighted a centuries old enigma on the doorstep of next yearâs JK.
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After 2,000 years, the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World are finally getting an update. Voting ends Friday night  -  at new7wonders.com  -  on these 21 choices
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The names of the characters have also changed.
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The Great Wall's leap to the top of the new seven wonders of the world list has restored China's sense of national pride and eased frazzled nerves, state media said on Monday.
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One hundred and fifty years on, the Lincoln-Douglas debates enjoy the dubious status of myth. This searching and illuminating book does the great service of bringing them back down to earth.
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A Seventh Avenue cornerstone returned.
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A fabled fossil goes on view for the first time in decades  -  and ignites a controversy
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The masters of the plastic universe are baffled. From their imaginations, their computers, from their calloused fingers, magnificent kingdoms have sprung. They can re-create the Seven Wonders of the World in a literal snap. But now they huddle in their model shop of Legoland California and contemplate the seemingly impossible:...
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The Acropolis in Athens and Mexico's  Mayan ruins at Chichen Itza are among the leaders in a  competition, ending in one month, to choose the New Seven  Wonders of the World, the organizers said on Thursday.