The Seven Wonders of the World in Antiquity:

The Pyramid of Cheops
The Gardens of Semiramis
The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
The Tomb of Mausolus
The Statue of Zeus
The Colossus of Rhodes
The Pharos Lighthouse.

The Seven Wonders of the World under Soviet Power:

The Dnieper Hydroelectric Station
The Stalin White Sea–Baltic Canal
The Apennine Tunnel
The Eiffel Tower
The Empire State Building
The Mont-Valérien Lighthouse
The Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works.

1935, the children's magazine "Yozh" [The Hedgehog]

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free. So, here is the

Frederic Leighton

Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least

The Seven Wonders of the World in Antiquity:

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

Frederic Leighton

Attempts to resolve the problems of many years of uncontrolled mass migration

Characters from Gogol's "Petersburg Tales" on the pedestal of the monument to Nikolai Gogol on Nikitsky Boulevard, photograph of the 1960s