Great Wall of China, Taj Mahal named as ‘new’ world wonders
Good boost to tourism in India and China
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yeh tou hona hee thaa ..............................
(formula is simple :the no of votes is directly propotional to respective country's population) my wishes were with jordan , china & peru though , i'll definitely visit those one day
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I propose a new wonder: Lal Masjid.
We can set up a nice little tourism package. A scenic walk through the damaged remains of the building, a solemn review of the lives of the poor kids who died for a lunatic's cause, a stone throwing session at Ghazi's burial spot, culminating in a round of beers in front of the complex just to piss off the maulvis walking by.
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i voted, i was disappointed that turkey pamukkale was not on der. google it ul c natural calcium "baths".its beautiful.
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You beat me on this. i was gonna propose this idea.
neways my reason for declaring it wonder of world was the whole world is wondering whats gonna happen next in lal masjid.
Re: Great Wall of China, Taj Mahal named as 'new' world wonders
I propose a new wonder: Lal Masjid.
We can set up a nice little tourism package. A scenic walk through the damaged remains of the building, a solemn review of the lives of the poor kids who died for a lunatic's cause, a stone throwing session at Ghazi's burial spot, culminating in a round of beers in front of the complex just to piss off the maulvis walking by.
i got one more idea. like theme parks have a mascot that place will have a mascot too. a big guy with big beard and wearing a burqa dancing around and waving at kids and distributing candies . kids can take pics with him too for 5USD :D
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Why don’t you just stick to your country and concentrate on stealing Muslim history and passing it off as Hindu (e.g. Fundo Pundits trying to pass Taj of as an ex-Temple). Maybe even a rabid unwashed Hindu Pundit outside “Ram Mandir” (Baabri Masjid)? 
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Great Wall of China, Taj Mahal named as 'new' world wonders
Good boost to tourism in India and China
How is such 'declaration' going to "boost" tourism? Great Wall and Taj Mahal have been inviting tourists for decades already.
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why dont u get some more education and try to learn some current affairs and while u are at it .. read some history too..
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i thort taj mahal ws already a wonder of the world wsnt it so ws d great wall of china
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they were made part of the seven wonders list yearsss ago,so they thought of making a new 7 wonders of the world list. and this time too,the taj and the wall are in the list.
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unesco aint too happy with this though and feels there need to be a lot more than 7.
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This whole campaign was more directed towards “Money Making” than anything else.
In Mumbai SMS charges were around 1 rupess. As expected “paise” going to the promotion companies.
Surprisingly, for the first time our Tabloid looking media has got it correctly and in this case Times of India , has written a very nice editorial which has nailed all this hype created to make quick bucks…
Read this recently…
""Just hours after this story goes to press, the verdict will be out. In Lisbon, a list of the “New7Wonders” will be announced in a glitzy ceremony. The fortunate monuments will be the winners of an 18-month-long worldwide poll through phones and the Internet. And the fate of the Taj Mahal will be clear. The last few weeks, millions of Indians were implored through various forms of media to vote for the Taj in the interest of national loyalty. It is easy to appeal to the patriotic fervour of Indians, especially when hard work is not involved, but what many did not realise is that the whole New7Wonders (N7W) campaign was a private commercial enterprise.
The brainchild of Bernard Weber, a Swiss businessman who has also dabbled in films, the campaign was orchestrated by his for-profit corporation called New Open World Corporation (NOWC). Weber roped in Federico Mayor, a former UNESCO director-general, to be part of this project, but UNESCO itself was not involved. Needless to say, this campaign has miffed experts who question the integrity of a private body that will declare a new set of seven wonders. History gives sanctity to only one list of Seven Wonders, the one that was compiled by Greek mathematician Philon of Byzantium in 200 BC.
The money-spinner for the campaign was mobile phone voting. In India, the voting rights belonged to a private company called I Media Corporation Limited (IMCL). It controls the number 4567 you sent your SMS votes to. For every rupee spent on sending the SMS, 15 paise went directly to the government in the form of a wireless planning coordination fee. Sixty-four paise went to the cellphone operator you used to vote. The bulk of the remaining rupee was divided in equal halves between a company called IMI which collected all the votes in an electronic vault-like space and media partners like IMCL. Weber made two to three paise for every rupee that was spent on the voting. A remarkable aspect of this poll was that nothing stopped a person from voting many times.
Egyptian Culture Minister Farouk Hosni has said that the project was “absurd” and described Weber, as a man, “concerned primarily with self-promotion”. Nagib Amin, an Egyptian expert on world heritage sites, has pointed out that, “In addition to the commercial aspect, the vote has no scientific basis.” Egypt has voiced its concerns that such campaigns may undermine the preeminence of its pyramids, the only surviving Wonder among the historical Seven Wonders of the World compiled by Philon. In reaction to such opposition, Weber made the pyramids of Giza an “Honorary New7Wonders Candidate”. This meant that the place of the pyramids was secure as an additional Wonder to the seven being voted upon.
There was no such outrage in India. Instead, radio jockeys and advertisements tried to whip up a fear. They said grimly that the Taj is lagging by millions of votes and that Indians must quickly do something about this. They said, if you really loved India and by that association, the Taj, you must vote. A commercial even had a blind boy asking Indians to vote. “I have heard it is beautiful,” he said in a heartbreaking way. The N7W campaign proved how overtly and how easily nationalism can be exploited to make money for a few. :grumpy: :grumpy:
Meanwhile, the Taj is yellowing. T**he pollution around it is slowly destroying it. The Yamuna, on whose banks this monument has stood for centuries, is a national embarrassment. And Agra continues to be a miserable, filthy town, an unworthy host to a magnificent symbol of love. Saving the Taj will require the kind of heroic political effort that has not been witnessed in free India. **And it is improbable that such an effort will be undertaken. When it comes to expressing vacant patriotism, Indians have always chosen the easier option. In the case of Weber’s gambit, lakhs of Indians had to just press some buttons. And they apparently did.“”
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but 7 is such a good number !!!!!
7 days,7 original wonders,the recent 7/7/7 date,the 7th part of the HP series realeing on 21, a day that is multiple of 7,of 7th month of the year year '07 !!!!
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hahahahahhahaa
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i think the kaaba should have been one of the worlds wonders.
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i think the kaaba should have been one of the worlds wonders.
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The problem with the kaaba is that each of the other 7 wonders can be visited by the general population- and they do not let just anyone get near the kaaba. Besides, while the kaaba is of course a very important place it is not exactly a feat of mechanical engineering- which is what the 7 wonders entail.
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oh..i c mara..thanks....makes sense
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Great Wall of China, Taj Mahal named as 'new' world wonders
Good boost to tourism in India and China
well, its upto india how they maintain there TAJJ