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Truly Wonderful Tweets VI – The Taj Mahal

The Taj Mahal

To end this series of real-time Twitter searches for the very latest information on our 7 Wonders of the World it’s time for a short feature on the Taj Mahal, Karen’s destination. I hadn’t realised just how problematic this would be. I mean there is only one Taj Mahal isn’t there? Only one that is [...]

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Truly Wonderful Tweets V – The Great Wall of China

Great Wall

Having already taken in 4 of the new 7 Wonders of the World in our real-time search result Twitter study it is now time to see what The Great Wall of China’s visitors, admirers, tour-guides et al have served up for us in the last 24 hours. If the 7 Wonders in 7 Days project [...]

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Truly Wonderful Tweets IV – Christ The Redeemer

Christ the Redeemer

The Christ The Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro is next up in our series of real-time twitter searches concerning our 7 Wonders. This one starts off particularly well thanks to @glauberdorotheu who posted a spectacular video of Fernando Salis’s projections on the stunning 40-metre high, 635-tonne monument! Clearly it’s a great project that slightly [...]

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Truly Wonderful Tweets III – The Colosseum

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In September everyone at 7 Wonders in 7 Days was saddened to hear that Rome’s grandest amphitheatre, the Colosseum, was being forced to turn to commercial ideas to help fund the structure’s ongoing renovation. Serving as a disquieting presentiment, global advertising agency, Saatchi & Saatchi, even created a mock-up showing the iconic building projecting a [...]

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Truly Wonderful Tweets II – Machu Picchu

Machu Picchu

@Mikeincusco provides us with the starting point for today’s look at what the world’s tweeters are saying about Machu Picchu. Mike tweeted a great link to the Guardian’s travel awards 2010 which reveals new ways to experience the world’s greatest attractions. ‘Experiencing’ a Wonder is all well and good, but I don’t see anyone in [...]

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Truly Wonderful Tweets – Chichen Itza

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Our project has sent frissons of excitement through the twittersphere with its plans to criss-cross the globe to see all of the 7 Wonders in just 7 days. Each of our travel companions has blogged and tweeted enthusiastically about his or her preparations, expectations, hopes and fears and as such we have created a huge [...]

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Game Over: 7 Degrees of Separation

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The 7 Degrees of Separation game has now finished; further tweets are futile! We will be reviewing the entries over the weekend and the lucky winner, who has successfully secured the highest number of retweets, will be announced on Monday 13th September. All of us here at 7 Wonders in 7 Days really appreciate all [...]

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A Fresh Face

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Greetings, my name is Kyle and I’ll be keeping yourself and all the fantastic people getting involved with Chi-Chi’s inspirational and ambitious Seven Wonders in Seven Days project up to date with events and happenings in the build-up to the big event.

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7 Wonders in 7 Days to raise £111,000 in support of Sport Relief 2010

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Tough decision to select a new ’7th charity’ has been made.

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Competition: Win 2 pairs of tickets to the Southport Flower Show in August

David Bellamy OBE at the Southport Flower Show

Just the ticket for a memorable family day out in August!

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