Seven wonders of the world, created using information from Wikipedia and Images from Google images

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2. GREAT WALL OF CHINA
The Great Wall of China is an ancient wall
in China. The wall is made of cement, rocks,
bricks, and powdered dirt. It was built to protect
the north of the empire of China from enemy
attacks. It is the longest structure humans have
ever built. It is about 21,196 kilometres (13,171
miles) long, 9.1 metres (30 feet) wide and 15
metres (50 feet) high. The earlier sections on the
wall are made of compacted dirt and stone. Later
in the Ming Dynasty they used bricks. There are
7,000 watch towers, block houses for soldiers
and beacons to send smoke signals
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3. PETRA
Petra is a famous archaeological site
in Jordan's southwestern desert.
Dating to around 300 B.C., it was the
capital of the Nabatean Kingdom.
Accessed via a narrow canyon called
Al Siq, it contains tombs and temples
carved into pink sandstone cliffs,
earning its nickname, the "Rose City."
Perhaps its most famous structure is
45m-high Al Khazneh, a temple with
an ornate, Greek-style facade, and
known as The Treasury.
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4. CHRIST THE REDEEMER
Christ the Redeemer is an Art Deco statue of Jesus
Christ in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, created by French
sculptor Paul Landowski and built by Brazilian
engineer Heitor da Silva Costa, in collaboration
with French engineer Albert
Caquot. Romanian sculptor Gheorghe
Leonida fashioned the face. Constructed between
1922 and 1931, the statue is 30 metres (98 ft)
high, excluding its 8-metre (26 ft) pedestal. The
arms stretch 28 metres (92 ft) wide
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5. MACHU PICCHU
Machu Picchu is a pre-
Columbian 15th-century Inca site
in Peru, in South America.
The Incas built the city on a mountain
ridge, 2430m above sea level. They
lived there between 1200 and 1450
AD. Other people lived there before
about 650 AD.
The Incas built houses, fields and
temples by cutting the rock on the
mountain so it was flat. They built
an Observatory to look at the stars.
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6. CHICHÉN ITZÁ
Chichén Itzá is a large Mayan city famous
for a large, pyramid temple built by the
Maya civilization. It is on the Yucatán
Peninsula, about 120 km to the east
of Mérida. The temple, called Castillo, is
about 1 km in diameter. There are many
temples and pyramids at Chichen Itza.
Tourists, or visitors, were once able to
climb some of the pyramids, but it was
quite challenging because the steps are
very steep and small. Climbing is no
longer permitted.
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7. COLOSSEUM
The Colosseum, originally known as
the Flavian Amphitheatre, is a
large amphitheatre in the city of Rome.
The construction of the Colosseum
started around 70–72 AD and was
finished in 80 AD. Emperor
Vespasian started the work, and
Emperor Titus completed it.
Emperor Domitian made some changes
to the building between 81–96 AD.[1] It
had seating for 50,000 people.[2] It was
156 metres (512 ft) wide, 189 metres
(620 ft) long and 57 metres (187 ft) tall.
It is the biggest amphitheatre built by
the Roman Empire.
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8. TAJ MAHAL
The Taj Mahal is a white tomb built in the
16th century by the Mughal emperor, Shah
Jahan in memory of his wife, dank rishu.
The building is in the city of Agra, Uttar
Pradesh. Widely thought as one of the most
beautiful buildings in the world, it is one of
India's biggest tourist attractions.
It is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site,
together with the Agra Fort, 2.5 kilometers
away. It was listed as one of the 7 Wonders
of the World in 2007.It is located on the
south bank of Yamuna river in Agra.
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