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POPS Seven Wonders Of The World The list of manmade wonders was first compiled by a Hellenistic traveler in the second century B.C Of these, only the pyramids at El Gizeh remain. In ancient times, the pyramids of Egypt; the Hanging Gardens of Babylon; Phidias's statue of Zeus at Olympia; the temple of Artemis at Ephesus; the tomb, or mausoleum, of King Mausolus at Halicarnassus; the Colossus of Rhodes; and either the Pharos, or lighthouse, at Alexandria or the walls of Babylon. http://www.answers.com/topic/seven-wonders-of-the-world
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POPSWow! Orientalism Still Lives! Just how much cultural violence can a travel journalist do in just 36 hours? When he's not playing up the in-born psychological traits of the Chinaman in his natural environment, this guy is romancing up the seedy side of the city. Notice he struggles to describe a neighborhood without including references to prostitution? I ran a bar in Sanlitun, and sure we had whores, expatriates, and Nigerian drug dealers. So does America! That's life in a public high-school! There is an insane level of romanticization and Orientalization of China. Everyone's dreams of striking it rich in the wonder economy guided by the ancient stratagems of Fu Manchu. Seriously, does nobody realize: its too good to be true? China is just a normal country, like any other.
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