The campaigns and the organization are sometimes spelled as one word and sometimes as a single word | "" July 10, 2007 September 28, 2007, at the• Hortus said he was the only participant to receive such an apology |
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reports the campaign was so pervasive that: One morning in June, Rio de Janeiro residents awoke to a beeping text message on their cell phones: "Press 4916 and vote for Christ | Location of the New 7 Wonders winners The Great Pyramid of Giza, largest and oldest of the three pyramids at the Giza in Egypt and the only surviving of the original , was granted honorary status |
The popularity poll via free Web-based voting and small amounts of telephone voting was led by Canadian-Swiss Bernard Weber and organized by the New 7 Wonders Foundation N7W based in Zurich, Switzerland, with winners announced on 7 July 2007 in , at.
17com, 2007-07-22 August 9, 2007, at the• World of New 7 Wonders | This number is estimated as the New 7 Wonders Foundation never released such details about the campaign |
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[ ] However, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization UNESCO , in a press release on June 20, 2007, reaffirmed that it has no link with the initiative | Wonder Location Image Year honorary status , Egypt 2560 BC China 700 BC , Jordan 312 BC , Italy AD 80 , Mexico AD 600 , Peru AD 1450 , , India AD 1643 , Brazil AD 1931 Reactions [ ] United Nations [ ] In 2007, the New 7 Wonders Foundation contracted a partnership with the United Nations in recognition of the efforts to promote the UN's Millennium Development Goals |
— UNESCO Brazil [ ] In Brazil there was a campaign Vote no Cristo Vote for the Christ which had the support of private companies, namely telecommunications operators that stopped charging voters to make telephone calls and SMS messages to vote | From left to right, top to bottom: , , , , , , and New7Wonders of the World was a campaign started in 2000 to choose from a selection of 200 existing monuments |
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External links [ ] Wikinews has related news: | After the final announcement, New 7 Wonders said it did not earn anything from the exercise and barely recovered its investment |