This contains twenty-five wonders of the world which includes ancient, modern, and natural.
English architect, Sir Christopher Wren (1632-1723) achieved a feat which no architect had done before. He designed and completed St. Paul’s Cathedral (in London) in just 35 years. Built between 1675 and 1710, the Cathedral was built in place of another which was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666. The finest feature of St. …
Africa’s highest mountain, Kilimanjaro, lies in northern Tanzania, on the Kenyan border. At a height of 19,340 feet, Kili manjaro includes three main extinct vol canoes, Kibo (the tallest), Mawenzi and Shira. Though Kibo appears as a smooth, snowcapped dome, when seen from the air, the dark and gaping crater is awe some. On the …
The city of Babylon with its glory, was fortified by King Nebopolassar and his son Nebuchadnezzar II; only their splen did royal palace rose high above the city. According to legend, around mid-500 B.C., Nebuchadnezzar’s queen, Semi ramis, missed the hills of her Persian homeland. To please her, the king built a man-made hill in …
In the harbour of Alexandria, Egypt, stood one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, a remarkable lighthouse, on the island of Pharos, called the Phar os of Alexandria. Built in white marble around 270 B.C. by King Ptolemy II of Egypt, the Pharos was designed by the famous Greek architect, Sostratos. Standing at …
Rising from the dense jungles in the Gran Sabana region of eastern Vene zuela is the world’s highest waterfall, the Angel Falls. It spurts from the side of the great tableland or mesa known as Au yan-Tepui or Devil Mountain and is fif teen times higher than the famous Niagara Falls. The Angel Falls were …
