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Dear “ Wiki” Members,

I wonder if you ever ignored voting for one of the most expensive construction and greatest building of the 21st century on earth: The LHC (Large Hadron Collider)?

If so, I would strongly suggest that we should vote for LHC the Eighth Wonder of The World, considering the following facts and reasons:

· The LHC is the most advanced engineering machine in the world. The cost to build LHC is estimated at nearly 10 billions, the highest price for any single building on earth. It has also broken many engineering records: (http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/en/LHC/Facts-en.html)

· Each of the current wonders usually stands for one of our past and great civilization. For instance: The Giza Pyramid Complex for Egypt (African) Civilization; The Colosseum for Roman (or Mediterranean) Civilization; the Great Wall of China for Chinese (Asian) Civilization. So, the LHC should be a very good symbol for European Civilization standing for the past 300 years of advanced technology and scientific research for the human kind.

· Within the next 10 or 20 years, LHC will be the most attractive place on earth for tourism in Europe. Any good investor should think of at least a billion $E. annual income for the region.

Thank you for your consideration and your votes.

Regards,

Cuong Nguyen, P.E. Phucuong (talk) 23:39, 25 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm wondering if we are still an industrial world, given that in these terms it means non-technological. The Hadron Collider would be a wonder of the technological world, like the first moon rocket, the Internet, Colossus maybe, etc. 92.20.192.84 (talk) 21:37, 1 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

92.20.192.84 (talk) 21:37, 1 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Bell Rock Lighthouse[edit]

I have seen neither the book nor the TV programme, but the claim here that this was the world's first offshore lighthouse is wrong. Stevenson based the design on Smeaton's Eddystone Lighthouse in south west England, the third at that location. Bell Rock was Scotland's first offshore stone lighthouse. According to the BBC website and [1], it is the oldest offshore (or more precisely seawashed) lighthouse still in use. The point being not that it was the first but that the original building is still standing nearly 200 years later despite the location and its base being underwater except at low tide. -- JBellis 10:04, 21 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Changed Gloop 17:50, 13 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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no mention of critical reception? 203.62.236.200 02:05, 23 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]