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May 2024
1:43pm, 2 May 2024
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GregP
R3G6 closes
Great Pyramid of Giza, in Giza, Egypt, the earliest of the wonders to be completed, as well as the only one that still exists in the present day 27 - 11 The Great Red Spot of Jupiter, a massive and persistent anticyclonic storm in the planet's southern hemisphere
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May 2024
1:43pm, 2 May 2024
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GregP
R3G7 closes
Great Barrier Reef, off the coast of Queensland, Australia 26 - 12 The Rings of Saturn
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May 2024
1:44pm, 2 May 2024
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GregP
R3G8 closes
Aurora, in the Earth's high-latitude regions (around the Arctic and Antarctic) 26 - 12 Catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa, a 2nd-century funerary complex in Alexandria, Egypt
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May 2024
1:44pm, 2 May 2024
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GregP
R3G9 closes
Hanging Gardens of Babylon, in Babylon, near present-day Hillah, Babylon Governorate, Iraq; or Nineveh, Mosul, Nineveh Governorate, Iraq 22 - 14 Iguazu Falls, on the border of the Argentine province of Misiones and the Brazilian state of Paraná
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May 2024
1:45pm, 2 May 2024
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GregP
R3G10 closes
Channel Tunnel (Longest undersea portion of any tunnel in the world) 11 - 26 Machu Picchu (Urubamba Province, Peru)
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May 2024
1:46pm, 2 May 2024
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GregP
R3G11 closes
London sewerage system, serving London, England 22 - 15 Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, in the city of Ephesus, near present-day Selçuk, Turkey
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May 2024
1:46pm, 2 May 2024
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GregP
R3G12 closes
Stonehenge, a Neolithic henge monument in Wiltshire, England dated to the 3rd millennium BC. 20 - 16 Petra (Ma'an, Jordan)
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May 2024
1:47pm, 2 May 2024
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GregP
R3G13 closes
Colossus of Rhodes, in the harbour of the city of Rhodes, on the Greek island of the same name 26 - 11 Olympus Mons, an enormous shield volcano on Mars and the tallest planetary mountain in the Solar System
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May 2024
1:48pm, 2 May 2024
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GregP
R3G14 closes
Great Migration of Serengeti and Masai Mara (Tanzania & Kenya) 23 - 11 Ely Cathedral, an Anglican cathedral originally built in the 11th century in Ely, Cambridgeshire, England
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May 2024
1:48pm, 2 May 2024
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GregP
R3G15 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) 26 - 11 The asteroid belt, a region of innumerable small solid bodies located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter
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The Summer silly season "Untrue facts" deathmatch
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