| Show The S Seven ven Wonders I Nearly everyone e has heard of the seven wonders onders of the world orId hut but probably few could name themI them and fewer could tell ten whit what became I of them Those Thoe interested ted in 10 such things might clip this out for their scrap boo book I The seven en wonders ponders of the world acre r so co 0 named by aI a I of Palestine about B BC BC BC C as follows Babylon The Hanging Girdens G of Baby Baby- lon destroyed in Be B C more than years before they were listed among the wonders The Temple of Diana at nt Ephesus burned in A D The Statue of Zeus at Olympus Oh destro destroyed ed in The Colossus of Rhodes sold for Junk in The Lighthouse of Pharos at Alexandria fell in an nn earthquake In 1375 The Mausoleum of Artemisia destroyed in 1402 The Pyramid of the only one of the Seven Wonders still in 10 existence Such were ere the seven wonders of the ancient world orld Many lists or of modern wonders ha have hae e been made but a n recent writer selects not the perishable works of man but th dl discoveries and inventions which h have re revolutionized civilization lie names the thc radio the tele telephone telephone telephone phone the antiseptics spectrum analysis an and radIUm Whether his IllS list is the best that th might be made or not the wonders wonder mentioned will survive e as long n as humanity exists elsts bestowing untold benefits upon mankind J |
