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seven wonders of India

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1. Bahubali     Bahubali ( Sanskrit : बाहुबली ) also called Gommateshwara (Kannada: ಗೊಮ್ಮಟೇಶ್ವರ Tulu: ಗೊಮ್ಮತಾ ) was a son of Arihant Adishwar. According to Jainism, he was the second of the hundred sons of the first Tirthankara, Rishabha and king of Podanpur. The Adipurana , a 10th-century Kannada text by poet Adikavi Pampa ( fl. 941 CE), written in Champu style, a mix of prose and verse and spread over in sixteen cantos, deals with the ten lives of the first tirthankara, Rishabha and his two sons, Bharata and Bahubali. [1] [2] According to the Digambaras he was the first human in this half time cycle to attain liberation. [3] A monolithic statue of Bahubali referred to as "Gommateshvara" built by the Ganga dynasty minister and commander Chamundaraya is a 57 feet (17 m) monolith and is situated above a hill in Shravanabelagola, in the Hassan district of Karnataka state, India. It was built in the 10th century AD. [ citation needed ] Hundreds of thousan...

7 wonders of Romance France

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1. The Eiffel Tower The Eiffel Tower (French: La tour Eiffel , [tuʁ ɛfɛl] ) is an iron lattice tower located on the Champ de Mars in Paris . It was named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel , whose company designed and built the tower. Erected in 1889 as the entrance arch to the 1889 World's Fair , it was initially criticised by some of France's leading artists and intellectuals for its design, but has become both a global cultural icon of France and one of the most recognizable structures in the world. [ 1 ] The tower is the tallest structure in Paris and the most-visited paid monument in the world; 6.98 million people ascended it in 2011. [ 2 ] The tower received its 250 millionth visitor in 2010. [ 2 ] The tower is 324 metres (1,063 ft) tall, [ 2 ] about the same height as an 81-storey building. During its construction, the Eiffel Tower surpassed the Washington Monument to assume the title of the tallest man-made structure in the world, a title it held ...

7 Wonders of Africa

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1. Nile river The Nile ( Arabic : النيل ‎, Eg.   en-Nīl , Std.   an-Nīl ; Coptic : ⲫⲓⲁⲣⲱ , P(h)iaro ; Ancient Egyptian :  Ḥ'pī and Iteru ) is a major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa, generally regarded as the longest river in the world. [ 2 ] It is 6,853 km (4,258 miles) long. The Nile is an "international" river as its water resources are shared by eleven countries, namely, Tanzania , Uganda , Rwanda , Burundi , Democratic Republic of the Congo , Kenya , Ethiopia , Eritrea , South Sudan , Sudan and Egypt . [ 3 ] In particular, the Nile is the primary water source of Egypt and Sudan . [ 4 ]     The Nile has two major tributaries , the White Nile and Blue Nile . The White Nile is considered to be the headwaters and primary stream of the Nile itself. The Blue Nile, however, is the source of most of the water and fertile soil . The White Nile is longer and rises in the Great Lakes region of central Africa, with the most distant s...