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~7 Wonders Of Antiquity, Middle Ages

      THE SEVEN WONDERS OF ANTIQUITY WERE:

      *   The Pyramids first, which in Egypt were laid;

      *   Then Babylon’s Gardens for Amytis made;

      *   Third, Mausolus’s Tomb of affection and guilt;

      *   Fourth, the Temple of Diana, in Ephesus built;

      *   Fifth, the Colossus of Rhodes, cast in brass, to the sun;

      *   Sixth, Jupiter’s Statue, by Phildias done;

      *   The Pharaohs of Egypt, last wonder of old,

      *   Or the Palace of Cyrus, cemented with gold.

      THE SEVEN WONDERS OF THE MIDDLE AGES WERE:

      *   The Coliseum of Rome

      *   The Catacombs of Alexandria

      *   The Great Wall of China

      *  Stonehenge

      *   The Leaning Tower of Pisa

      *   The Porcelain Tower of Nankin

      *   The Mosque of St. Sophia at Constantinople

~Amazing Flies and Fleas

      There is a certain little fly that makes 440 steps in running three inches, and all in one half-second of time. To equal this, in proportion to its size, a man would have to run at the rate of twenty miles in a minute. The common flea leaps 200 times its own length. To show similar agility, a man six feet tall would have to leap a distance of 1200 feet.

—J. H. Bomberger

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