May 2024
12:05pm, 1 May 2024
151,803 posts
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GregP
R2G12 closes
The oceans of Earth 24 - 15 Leaning Tower of Pisa, a 12th-century bell tower in Pisa, Italy
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May 2024
12:06pm, 1 May 2024
151,804 posts
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GregP
R2G13 closes
The Rings of Saturn 23 - 17 Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, in Halicarnassus, a city of the Achaemenid Empire in present-day Turkey
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May 2024
12:07pm, 1 May 2024
151,805 posts
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GregP
R2G14 closes
Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, in the city of Ephesus, near present-day Selçuk, Turkey 23 - 19 Empire State Building (Tallest structure in the world from 1931 to 1954; tallest freestanding structure in the world from 1931 to 1967; tallest building in the world from 1931 to 1970; first building with 100+ stories)
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May 2024
12:17pm, 1 May 2024
151,806 posts
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GregP
R2G15 closes
Amazon rainforest, located in Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana 28 - 15 Netherlands North Sea Protection Works (Delta and Zuiderzee Works) (Largest hydraulic engineering project undertaken by the Netherlands during the 20th century)
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May 2024
12:21pm, 1 May 2024
85,785 posts
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Diogenes
The lighthouse has gone out, this deathmatch is heading for the rocks. It's a wonderful world, yet we're all spaced out.
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May 2024
12:27pm, 1 May 2024
151,807 posts
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GregP
R2G16 closes
Hanging Gardens of Babylon, in Babylon, near present-day Hillah, Babylon Governorate, Iraq; or Nineveh, Mosul, Nineveh Governorate, Iraq 30 - 13 Brooklyn Bridge, in New York City, New York, United States
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May 2024
12:28pm, 1 May 2024
151,808 posts
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GregP
The Brooklyn Bridge gets knocked out by an imaginary window box. Disappointing.
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May 2024
12:36pm, 1 May 2024
151,811 posts
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GregP
R2G17 closes
Golden Gate Bridge (Longest main span of any suspension bridge in the world from 1937 to 1964) 19 - 24 Catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa, a 2nd-century funerary complex in Alexandria, Egypt.
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May 2024
12:37pm, 1 May 2024
151,812 posts
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GregP
R2G18 closes
Panama Canal (Allows passage of oceangoing vessels between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; one of the largest and most difficult engineering projects ever undertaken) 34 - 8 Cluny Abbey, a 10th-century Benedictine monastery in Cluny, Saône-et-Loire, France
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May 2024
12:38pm, 1 May 2024
151,813 posts
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GregP
R2G19 closes
Colosseum (Rome, Italy) 36 - 7 Polar ice caps
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