Notes & Queries response - What would be included on an up-to-date list of the seven wonders of the world?
This is my response to a question that appeared on the Notes & Queries page of The Guardian website on 5th February, 2023. The Guardian is apparently no longer happy to host my comments on their site, so it is appearing here instead. This blog is obviously not affiliated with The Guardian. Its reference to a question that appeared in Notes & Queries is presented here under the terms of fair use. ~ What would be included on an up-to-date list of the seven wonders of the world? image generated by Craiyon I have limited my selection to three places that I have visited, and can vouch for as being sufficiently 'wondrous' to qualify. The Hotline Traversing the Ploskiysneg (Southern Russian Tundra) and therefore, in the present political turmoil, inaccessible to Westerners, the Hotline is a miracle of 1960s engineering filtered through the prism of the previous decade's science fiction utopianism. It is a ground-based monorail that uses guided fluctuations in the track tem...