"Why is Potosi, Bolivia world heritage listed?"?
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In Bolivia the people said "vale un Potosí" meaning "worth a fortune"\nA big part of the Amrican Silver that was exported to Spain, was from Potosi, That was the reason because Potosi is an important place, but know is an other ghost town, with colonial buildings.
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In 1533 Spanish conquistadors destroyed the Inca cities that lay far below Machu Picchu, but they never found the mountaintop city. The Intihuatana stone at Machu Picchu is highly valued because the Spaniards systematically searched out and destroyed all Intihuatana stones they found. When a sacred stone was broken it was said to release the gods and power that inhabited it. The stone at Machu Picchu is whole, and therefore still in possession of all of its original power.
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You could always contact the Bolivian embassy.\nWhy on earth do you need Bolivia's opinion on the proposed fence between the US & Mexico? Why would Bolivia even care?
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well it's a long story. It starts with the independence process of latinoamerian countries. Originally, Bolivia used to belong to the peruvian "virreynato", but it was severed by Bolivar wishes. Since then, Peru didn' have any borderline with Chile, while Bolivia did. Time after there was a saltpeter boom worldwide. Saltpeter was used for agriculture. Bolivia had saltpeter and so did Peru, but not Chile. Then started the 1879 war. Chilean historicians say that the war started for other reasons, but peruvian an bolivean say that the reason was the saltpeter.\n\nPeru and Bolivia had a treaty: In case of being attacked any of those, the other would militarly help the other country. It was a terrible war. Bolivia was defeated and abandoned the war and lost all it's coast (that's why Bolivia does not have a sea). But the war still went on and Peru stood alone fighting. Peru was inferior militarly speaking and lost the war and land too. Chilean soldiers conquered Lima and started to destroy the cities they conquered. It was painful for peruvian people, for both losing land and having the cities raped.
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Recently, there was a part of the island of New Guinea that was "discovered" by western scientists. However, there were natives who lived there, so somebody had been there. Other than that, the only places where no one has been to are places in the ocean and perhaps (if no tribal group has) other rain forests such as those in the Amazon River Basin.
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That is a tricky question--as there is not one specific list actually.  Here's a bit of info I found:\n\nModern wonders\nThe following list of the top seven existing wonders was compiled by Hillman Wonders:[1]\n\nGreat Pyramid of Giza \nGreat Wall of China \nTaj Mahal \nSerengeti Migration \nGalapagos \nGrand Canyon \nMachu Picchu \n\nThe American Society of Civil Engineers compiled another list of wonders of the modern world:\n\nChannel Tunnel \nCN Tower \nEmpire State Building \nGolden Gate Bridge \nItaipu Dam \nNetherlands' Tidal Defences \nPanama Canal \n\nAlternative list\nThe New 7 Wonders foundation has launched a poll to decide another new list of 7 Wonders, with 21 sites on its shortlist, as follows[5]:\n\nAcropolis (Athens, Greece) \nAlhambra (Granada, Spain) \nAngkor (Cambodia) \nChichen Itza (Yucatán, Mexico) \nChrist Redeemer (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) \nColosseum (Rome, Italy) \nEaster Island Statues (Chile) \nEiffel Tower (Paris, France) \nGreat Wall (China) \nHagia Sophia (Istanbul, Turkey) \nKremlin (Moscow, Russia) \nKiyomizu Temple (Kyoto, Japan) \nMachu Picchu (Peru) \nNeuschwanstein Castle (Füssen, Germany) \nPetra (Jordan) \nPyramids of Giza (Egypt) \nStatue of Liberty (New York, United States) \nStonehenge (Amesbury, United Kingdom) \nSydney Opera House (Australia) \nTaj Mahal (Agra, India) \nTimbuktu (Mali) \n\n***Guess times really do change, wow!
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About Ethopia i only know that place is the poorest in the world. and for Nile river, Orgin is sudan and then it cross the egypt to be a part of Meditranian.\nand what is Lalibela have no idea............but want to know about these.
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Good question! I want to know about it too\n\n:/ maybe something to do with the wonder wall in china? XDDDD who knows?
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http://www.heritage.nf.ca/environment/mine/ch1p2.html
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Well, I don't know that much, but i know that the lost city is called Machu Picchu, and it was an indian city, a place that the Mexicans were trying to find. They never discovered it, so they decided to drop the search. Some people say that Indians hid their gold there from the white men.
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The legendary 'Lost City of Machu Picchu' is without a doubt the most important tourist attraction in Peru and one of the world's most impressive archaeological sites. \nMachu Picchu is also one of the Inca's best kept secrets, since they did not left written records and Spanish chronicles make no mention of the citadel, it remains a mystery. Discovered only in 1911 by the American Yale professor Hiram Bingham. The building style is "late imperial Inca" thought to have been a sanctuary or temple inhabited by high priests and the "Virgins of the Sun" (chosen women). Excavations revealed that of the 135 skeletons found,109 were women. No signs of post Conquest occupation were unearthed. \nthat makes machu pucchu so mysterius.
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For a complete list see:\nhttp://www.interaction.org/peru/
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it is under different categories. here is the list\n\n7 wonders of the ancient world :-\n\nThe Great Pyramid of Giza \n\nThe Hanging Gardens of Babylon \n\nThe Statue of Zeus at Olympia \n\nThe Temple of Artemis at Ephesus \n\nThe Mausoleum at Halicarnassus \n\nThe Colossus of Rhodes\n\nThe Lighthouse of Alexandria \n\n(the link to this list is ;-\n\nhttp://ce.eng.usf.edu/pharos/wonders/)\n\nif you are looking for the 7 wonders of the medieval world ;-\n\nStonehenge \nThe Colosseum \nThe Catacombs of Kom el Shoqafa \nThe Great Wall of China \nThe Porcelain Tower of Nanjing \nThe Hagia Sophia \nThe Leaning Tower of Pisa \n\n\n7 wonders of the modern world-\n\nas such there is no official list. this was chosen by the american society of civil engineers-\n\nThe Empire State Building \nThe Itaipú Dam \nThe CN Tower \nThe Panama Canal \nThe Channel Tunnel \nThe North Sea Protection Works \nThe Golden Gate Bridge \n \napart from these there are also the natural wonders of the world :-\n\nGrand Canyon \nGreat Barrier Reef \nHarbor of Rio de Janeiro \nMount Everest \nNorthern Lights \nParicutín volcano \nVictoria Falls \n\n\n\n\nother useful links are ; -\n\nhttp://wonderclub.com/AllWorldWonders.html\n\nhttp://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0923082.html\n\nhttp://www.cleveleys.co.uk/wonders/sevenwondersoftheworld.htm\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Wonders_of_the_World
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Interesting stuff.  I wouldn't mind if we were not alone in the universe. I found some discussion of this stuff on the internet, but if you have better sources, please post them \nThis is an article about Inca stones and the whole archeological find \nhttp://www.labyrinthina.com/ica.htm\nsome pictures here. about 1/4 down the page\nhttp://www.raphaelk.co.uk/web%20pics/Peru/Peru.htm
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Evo Morales (bolivia) a country leader should look out for its ouwn resources like the latest development by this world leader.\nOthers should follow...
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It is listed under Society & Culture
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The Mitad del Mundo (Spanish for Middle of the World) is a monument located in San Antonio de Pichincha, Ecuador, to the north of Quito, that marks one of the points where the equator goes through the country.