Taj Mahal Officially Joins New 7 Wonders of the World
July 8th, 2007The worldwide effort to find the New 7 Wonders of the World which started in 2000, ended on 07/07/07 with the official declaration at Lisbon. After hectic worldwide campaigning and international voting for the 21 finalists and effort by their countries to get their top monuments to win, the results are out… and the Taj Mahal is now a New Wonder of the World.
The New 7 Wonders of the World are
Chichén Itzá, Mexico
Christ Redeemer, Brazil
The Great Wall, China
Machu Picchu, Peru
Petra, Jordan
The Roman Colloseum, Italy
The Taj Mahal, India
In a star-studded ceremony featuring musical performances and lots of world dignitaries, the event was hosted by Actresses Hilary Swank and Bipasha Basu and actor Ben Kingsley at the Benfica Stadium in Lisbon, Portugal. There were performances by Jennifer Lopez and Jose Carreras, as well as Dulce Pontes, Chaka Khan, Alessandro Safina and Joaquín Cortés.
I have been promoting the Vote for Taj campaign since last year, with a last effort a week back. This is my small contribution towards promoting the amazing Taj Mahal, and I am glad it won. Here are some beautiful photos of the Taj Mahal.
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Wah Taj!
And if you just can’t get enough wonders today, here is another such list: “The 7 Wonders of the Internet.”
http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/16806&page=0%2C0&t51hb=
At least, India’s population did some wonders! ;)
Cyberbuff’s comment is unwanted.
If you say about india’s population like that, what about china? Great wall got into the list coz of their huge population.
chillax, zilo. this is not the kinda right way to make a list of 7 wonders. whoever gets the max no of votes would be first. so, we indians voted a lot because of our …whatever…
i believe the taj is pretty amazing too,
im in summer school and having too write a research paper.
any suggestions??
please and thank you verrrry much.