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Article: Our own seven wonders
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 2, 2007
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THIS SUMMER in Lisbon, a private Swiss foundation announced the
results of a global Internet poll to choose seven contemporary
wonders of the world. Topping the poll of more than 100 million votes
were the Great Wall of China, the Taj Mahal, and the 1931 statue
Christ the Redeemer, which looms over Rio de Janeiro. The United
Nations agency for world heritage sites, UNESCO, blasted the contest
as a cheap gimmick. But sometimes cheap gimmicks have their uses;
just look at speed dating. So here is a necessarily personal and
quirky list of the Seven Wonders of Massachusetts, both natural and
manmade.
- The Great Salt Marsh. Vast and green and stretching from
Gloucester to the New Hampshire ...
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