Notice: This is the official website of the All Empires History Community (Reg. 10 Feb 2002)

  FAQ FAQ  Forum Search   Register Register  Login Login

Seven wonders of your country!

 Post Reply Post Reply Page  12>
Author
Cyrus Shahmiri View Drop Down
Administrator
Administrator
Avatar
King of Kings

Joined: 07-Aug-2004
Location: Iran
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 6240
  Quote Cyrus Shahmiri Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Topic: Seven wonders of your country!
    Posted: 17-Apr-2005 at 12:43

I'm thinking to make a list for Iran but what do you think about your country?

Back to Top
Exarchus View Drop Down
General
General
Avatar

Joined: 18-Jan-2005
Location: France
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 760
  Quote Exarchus Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 17-Apr-2005 at 12:53
Well, for France it shouldn't be too hard.

Eiffel Tower, 300m tall, once world tallest structure. Symbol of the nation.



Arc de Triomphe, once world biggest triomphal Arch.



The Mont Saint Michel, built during the Dark Ages.
 


Carcassonne, a fortified city that survived the muslim invasions and many many wars.



Notre Dame de Reims, the gothic cathedral where the Kings of France where crowned.


The Millau Viaduct, world tallest bridge (343m tall).



Shared with UK. The Channel Tunnel.



Edited by Exarchus
Vae victis!
Back to Top
Quetzalcoatl View Drop Down
General
General

Suspended

Joined: 05-Aug-2004
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 984
  Quote Quetzalcoatl Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 17-Apr-2005 at 20:23

 

 Same as Exarchus except, I'll favour the louvre over the Euro tunnel and Versaille over Cathedral of Reims.

 

 Versaille

Back to Top
Quetzalcoatl View Drop Down
General
General

Suspended

Joined: 05-Aug-2004
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 984
  Quote Quetzalcoatl Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 17-Apr-2005 at 20:24

 

 If anyone was seaching for proof that their was no such thing as the dark age here is one.

Back to Top
dirtnap View Drop Down
Colonel
Colonel
Avatar

Joined: 28-Mar-2005
Location: Virgin Islands
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 605
  Quote dirtnap Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 17-Apr-2005 at 22:10
Those are amazing... I hope to visit them all some day... For the U.S. my
list is as follows:

Natural:
1)The Grand Canyon - Awesome site to see in person.
2)Niagara falls - w/Canada Waterfall Monster
3)El Capitan Yosemite - Worlds tallest monolith
4)The great Lakes - Huge freshwater lakes carved from ancient glaciers.
5)Old Faithful - Yellowstone Park Natural geyser
6)Mammoth cave - Largest subterrenial cavern labrynth
7)Redwood Forest - I mean huge ancient Giant Sequoias.
8)Sunset Crater - Meteor impact Site

ManMade:
1)Mount Rushmore - Dude carved out a mountain!!!
2)Statue of Liberty - Gift from France
3)GoldenGate Bridge - Think this was just outsized.
4)Sears Tower - Tallest structure for a long time.
5)Hoover Dam - Just look up the concrete tonage
6)Indian ruins - Thousands year old cliff dwellings, Walnut Canyon.
7)St Louis Arch _ Try and count the rivets...
8)Las Vegas - Need I say more...

I had images but I can not figure out how to get them to work. No
hyperlinks seem to work and my html effort didn't work so sorry no
images, I tried...

Edited by dirtnap
Back to Top
Tobodai View Drop Down
Tsar
Tsar
Avatar
Retired AE Moderator

Joined: 03-Aug-2004
Location: Antarctica
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 4310
  Quote Tobodai Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 18-Apr-2005 at 01:12
Many other great monuments to the US grand cultural heritage is the worst biggest plastic hotdog, a drunken goat thats mayor of a town in Arizona, and the freakshows in carnivals.
"the people are nothing but a great beast...
I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value."
-Alexander Hamilton
Back to Top
white dragon View Drop Down
Consul
Consul
Avatar

Joined: 27-Aug-2004
Location: United States
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 356
  Quote white dragon Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 18-Apr-2005 at 11:37
Originally posted by dirtnap

Those are amazing... I hope to visit them all some day... For the U.S. my
list is as follows:

Natural:
1)The Grand Canyon - Awesome site to see in person.
2)Niagara falls - w/Canada Waterfall Monster
3)El Capitan Yosemite - Worlds tallest monolith
4)The great Lakes - Huge freshwater lakes carved from ancient glaciers.
5)Old Faithful - Yellowstone Park Natural geyser
6)Mammoth cave - Largest subterrenial cavern labrynth
7)Redwood Forest - I mean huge ancient Giant Sequoias.
8)Sunset Crater - Meteor impact Site

ManMade:
1)Mount Rushmore - Dude carved out a mountain!!!
2)Statue of Liberty - Gift from France
3)GoldenGate Bridge - Think this was just outsized.
4)Sears Tower - Tallest structure for a long time.
5)Hoover Dam - Just look up the concrete tonage
6)Indian ruins - Thousands year old cliff dwellings, Walnut Canyon.
7)St Louis Arch _ Try and count the rivets...
8)Las Vegas - Need I say more...

I had images but I can not figure out how to get them to work. No
hyperlinks seem to work and my html effort didn't work so sorry no
images, I tried...


i thought that this was seven wonders of your country not eight
Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.
-Francis Cardinal Spellman
Back to Top
Le Renard View Drop Down
Baron
Baron
Avatar

Joined: 14-Jan-2005
Location: United States
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 443
  Quote Le Renard Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 18-Apr-2005 at 12:43

Originally posted by dirtnap

Those are amazing... I hope to visit them all some day... For the U.S. my
list is as follows:

Natural:
1)The Grand Canyon - Awesome site to see in person.
2)Niagara falls - w/Canada Waterfall Monster
3)El Capitan Yosemite - Worlds tallest monolith
4)The great Lakes - Huge freshwater lakes carved from ancient glaciers.
5)Old Faithful - Yellowstone Park Natural geyser
6)Mammoth cave - Largest subterrenial cavern labrynth
7)Redwood Forest - I mean huge ancient Giant Sequoias.
8)Sunset Crater - Meteor impact Site

ManMade:
1)Mount Rushmore - Dude carved out a mountain!!!
2)Statue of Liberty - Gift from France
3)GoldenGate Bridge - Think this was just outsized.
4)Sears Tower - Tallest structure for a long time.
5)Hoover Dam - Just look up the concrete tonage
6)Indian ruins - Thousands year old cliff dwellings, Walnut Canyon.
7)St Louis Arch _ Try and count the rivets...
8)Las Vegas - Need I say more...

I had images but I can not figure out how to get them to work. No
hyperlinks seem to work and my html effort didn't work so sorry no
images, I tried...

I would have to say that the Hoover Dam would be number 2. It is an amazing dam

"History repeats itself because nobody listened the first time."
Back to Top
eaglecap View Drop Down
Tsar
Tsar
Avatar
Retired AE Moderator

Joined: 15-Feb-2005
Location: ArizonaUSA
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 3959
  Quote eaglecap Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 18-Apr-2005 at 12:46
You forgot the St. Joe River! That is the only river in the world that flows through a lake. I have seen it in N.Idaho and it is interesting. I will post a pic later.


Here we go!!


Not the best photo but the river meanders through the lake with banks on both sides.



Edited by eaglecap
Back to Top
Le Renard View Drop Down
Baron
Baron
Avatar

Joined: 14-Jan-2005
Location: United States
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 443
  Quote Le Renard Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 18-Apr-2005 at 12:47

..............edited............



Edited by Le Renard
"History repeats itself because nobody listened the first time."
Back to Top
Perseas View Drop Down
General
General
Avatar
Retired AE Moderator

Joined: 14-Jan-2005
Location: Canada
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 781
  Quote Perseas Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 18-Apr-2005 at 17:56

7 wonders of Greece in random order and...personal preference....

1) Parthenon

2) Zeus Temple on Sounion

3) White Tower in Salonica

4) Knossos in Crete

5)Atreus Tomb in Mycenae

 

6) Delphi

7) Hellenic Parliament " Vouli ton Ellinon"

Back to Top
RED GUARD View Drop Down
Earl
Earl
Avatar

Joined: 06-Mar-2005
Location: China
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 292
  Quote RED GUARD Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 18-Apr-2005 at 18:57
Lets see:
  • Great Wall of China
  • Qin shi-Haung's Terracotta Warriors
  • Mt. Everest (not exatcally a part of China)
  • Hall of Supreme Harmony
  • Temple of Heaven
  •  Dun Huang Caves
  • Silk Road
Quotes by your's turly:

"I came, I saw, and I conquered... but only for the weekend"

"This is my tank, this is my weapon, and this is my pride."

"Power comes from a barrel of a gun."

Back to Top
Quetzalcoatl View Drop Down
General
General

Suspended

Joined: 05-Aug-2004
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 984
  Quote Quetzalcoatl Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 18-Apr-2005 at 19:54

 

 We forget this one. THe Lascaux caves, a preserve and complete example of prehistoric art.

Back to Top
ramin View Drop Down
General
General


Joined: 16-Feb-2005
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 921
  Quote ramin Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 22-Apr-2005 at 19:51
Originally posted by Exarchus

Arc de Triomphe, once world biggest triomphal Arch.
which one is the biggest now?

Originally posted by Exarchus

The Mont Saint Michel, built during the Dark Ages.
 
God... I have to see this. Visiting France only in a few hours only in Paris wasn't so much fun
"I won't laugh if a philosophy halves the moon"
Back to Top
Exarchus View Drop Down
General
General
Avatar

Joined: 18-Jan-2005
Location: France
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 760
  Quote Exarchus Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 23-Apr-2005 at 05:47
Pyongyang has a bigger one, but only from a few meters.

The Grande Arche in Paris isn't a triomphal arch, otherwise it would be the biggest.
Vae victis!
Back to Top
tzar View Drop Down
Baron
Baron
Avatar

Joined: 02-Jan-2005
Location: Bulgaria
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 472
  Quote tzar Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 23-Apr-2005 at 09:46

1) Rila monastery - founded by Ivan Rilski in around 900 BC

2) Madara horseman - it's made on vertical rock, on 23m height. It is in natural size

3) Rock monasteries - this is one of them

4) Tarnovo - the Great capital of  the Second Bulgarian empire

5) The Belogradchik fortress

6) The covered bridge at Lovec

7) Architectural sanctuary of Bojenci, Koprivshtica...

Bojenci

Koprivshtica

Everybody listen only this which understands.
Back to Top
King Chulalongkorn View Drop Down
Samurai
Samurai
Avatar

Joined: 23-Apr-2005
Location: Thailand
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 121
  Quote King Chulalongkorn Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 23-Apr-2005 at 12:42
I must say that the examples all of you provided for your countries were simply majestic. Beautiful! I am from the nation of Thailand and our seven wonders are as follows.

















Edited by Cywr
Kha Wora Phutthachao Nop Phra Phumiban Bunya Direk
Back to Top
Frederick Roger View Drop Down
Colonel
Colonel
Avatar

Joined: 09-Jan-2005
Location: Portugal
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 658
  Quote Frederick Roger Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 23-Apr-2005 at 14:40

These are my favorite 7 in Portugal. I could't find any pictures that pleased me, so here are the names, in portuguese, and you can google them yourselfs.

1- Convento de Cristo/Templar Castle in Tomar.

2- University of Coimbra.

3- Palacio da Pena, in Sintra.

4- Mosteiro dos Jernimos.

5- Torre de Belm.

6- Almeida.

7- S Velha de Coimbra.

Back to Top
Gubook Janggoon View Drop Down
Sultan
Sultan
Avatar
Retired Global Moderator

Joined: 08-Aug-2004
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 2187
  Quote Gubook Janggoon Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 23-Apr-2005 at 14:48
Originally posted by King Chulalongkorn










Fascinating, that's one of the business wonders in my country...


Edited by Gubook Janggoon
Back to Top
Paul View Drop Down
General
General
Avatar
AE Immoderator

Joined: 21-Aug-2004
Location: Hyperborea
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 952
  Quote Paul Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 23-Apr-2005 at 19:27

Originally posted by Gubook Janggoon

Originally posted by King Chulalongkorn










Fascinating, that's one of the business wonders in my country...

It's not the cityscape or the sign that's the wonder, it's the fact the Tollway doesn't have a traffic jam. Positively a miracle. (Oh yeah, no smog either, practically a weeping madonna)

Light blue touch paper and stand well back

http://www.maquahuitl.co.uk

http://www.toltecitztli.co.uk
Back to Top
 Post Reply Post Reply Page  12>

Forum Jump Forum Permissions View Drop Down

Bulletin Board Software by Web Wiz Forums® version 9.56a [Free Express Edition]
Copyright ©2001-2009 Web Wiz

This page was generated in 0.109 seconds.