Christ the Redeemer, Rio de Janeiro

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1. Story
2. A 30 m concrete and soapstone figure, 38 m including its pedestal, standing on the summit of Corcovado above Rio de Janeiro. It was inaugurated on 12 October 1931, designed by the sculptor Paul Landowski with the Brazilian engineer Heitor da Silva Costa, who worked with the French engineer Albert Caquot on the structure. It is the youngest of the 2007 winners by a wide margin and the only one built in the twentieth century. In form it is the closest modern analogue to the lost Colossus of Rhodes: a colossal divine figure placed where arriving ships would see it first.
3. Knowledge
4. Christ the Redeemer, Rio de Janeiro
5. Colossus of Rhodes
6. New7Wonders Foundation
7. Connections
8. Colossus of Rhodes
9. New7Wonders Foundation
10. The New7Wonders of the World are declared in Lisbon
11. Christ the Redeemer, Rio de Janeiro
12. Lighthouse of Alexandria (the Pharos)
13. The canon of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
14. Antipater of Sidon writes the earliest surviving list of seven wonders
15. An earthquake breaks the Colossus of Rhodes at the knee
16. The bronze of the Colossus is sold for scrap
17. Great Pyramid of Giza (Pyramid of Khufu)
18. Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheatre), Rome
19. Petra
20. Machu Picchu
21. Taj Mahal
22. Great Wall of China
23. Chichen Itza
24. Christ the Redeemer, Rio de Janeiro
25. Egypt forces the Great Pyramid out of the New7Wonders ballot
26. UNESCO publicly disowns the New7Wonders campaign
27. The New7Wonders of the World are declared in Lisbon
28. Evidence
29. 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.