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New7Wonders Foundation

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The private foundation created by the Canadian-Swiss businessman Bernard Weber, which from 2000 ran a global campaign to elect a new set of seven wonders by public vote. Twenty-one finalists were announced on 1 January 2006 and the winners declared in Lisbon on 7 July 2007 after what the foundation reported as more than 100 million votes cast by internet and telephone. UNESCO publicly disowned the exercise. The foundation went on to run further campaigns for natural wonders and cities. It is included here as an object because the 2007 list cannot be understood without knowing who convened the vote and on what terms.

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    1. Story
    2. The private foundation created by the Canadian-Swiss businessman Bernard Weber, which from 2000 ran a global campaign to elect a new set of seven wonders by public vote. Twenty-one finalists were announced on 1 January 2006 and the winners declared in Lisbon on 7 July 2007 after what the foundation reported as more than 100 million votes cast by internet and telephone. UNESCO publicly disowned the exercise. The foundation went on to run further campaigns for natural wonders and cities. It is included here as an object because the 2007 list cannot be understood without knowing who convened the vote and on what terms.
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    4. New7Wonders Foundation
    5. Connections
    6. Great Pyramid of Giza (Pyramid of Khufu)
    7. Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheatre), Rome
    8. Petra
    9. Machu Picchu
    10. Taj Mahal
    11. Great Wall of China
    12. Chichen Itza
    13. Christ the Redeemer, Rio de Janeiro
    14. Egypt forces the Great Pyramid out of the New7Wonders ballot
    15. UNESCO publicly disowns the New7Wonders campaign
    16. The New7Wonders of the World are declared in Lisbon
    17. Evidence
    18. The campaign's own account of the seven elected sites, the reported vote volume, and the special status given to the Great Pyramid after Egypt's objection.
    19. That the intergovernmental heritage body publicly refused to endorse the 2007 list and questioned its representativeness.
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