My Seven Wonders

I am passionate about history, cultures and achievements of man. Taking into accounts who and what we are - the tasks of accomplishing something is next to impossible. Yet, around us we see what mankind can do when they put their minds together. Allow me to share The seven wonders list celebrates monumental engineering and construction feats of the 20th century. Let me share to you:

1. Empire State building: finished in 1931, and towers 1,250 feet over New York City - the tallest building in the world for 41 years.

2. Itaipu Dam: built by Brazil and Paraguay on the Parana River, the world's largest hydroelectric power plant, completed in 1991. It took 16 years to finish whose lengths totals 25,406 feet.

3. CN Tower: In 1976, it became the first world's tallest freestanding structure. It soars about one-third of a mile (1,815 feet) above Toronto, Canada.

4. Panama Canal: it took 34 years to create this 50-mile-long canal across the isthmus of Panama. Its huge locks connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

5. Channel Tunnel: known as Chunnel, it links France and England. It is 31 miles long and 23 0f those miles are 150 feet below the seabed of the English Channel. High speed trains whiz through its side-by-side tubes.

6. North Sea Protection: The Netherlands is below sea level, so a series of dams, floodgates and surge barriers have been built to keep the sea from flooding the country during storms. The biggest part of the project, which some compare in scale to the Great wall of China, was a 2-mile-long surge barrier across an estuary.

7. Golden Gate bridge: For many years, this suspension bridge that connects San Francisco and Marin County was the longest in the world. Begun in 1933, it took about four years - and 80,000 miles of steel wire-to complete the graceful 1.2 mile long bridge. Well, here's mankind's engineering feats -what do you think? great isn't it? Yet, as I think about all these greatest world's infrastructures - i was reminded of the ancient tower built by mankind - the Tower of Babel, showing man's monumental effort to make a name for himself- least the whole world forget its passing.

Think about this: "People are like grass that dies away; their beauty fades quickly as the beauty of wildflowers. the grass withers and the flowers fall away. But the Word of the Lord will last forever." Anyway, I'm not through yet, I'll be sharing to you my own seven wonders, and you can tell me what do you think about it....Ciao!