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1) This is a white marble bell tower in Italy. Its foundations were laid in
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the year 1173. By the time the builders were up to the third tier, the
tower began to lean and continues increasing its leaning by 2.56
centimetres every nine years. Leaning Tower of Pisa.
2) This suspension bridge is in San Francisco, California. It was designed
4 by Joseph B. Strauss in 1937. It is 7,721 metres long.
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Golden Gate Bridge.
3) It is located in Wyoming’s Yellowstone National Park in the USA. It is a
geyser, which is a spring that shoots hot water up from beneath the
earth with a very explosive force.
3 Old Faithful.
4) This huge clock tower is in England. There is a huge bell inside it 9
which got its name from Sir Benjamin Hall.
Big ben.
5) This is one of the highest dams in the world. It stands 221 metres high
and 379 metres long. It is in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River,
USA. Hodver Dam.
2 6) This is in the Himalaya mountain range between Tibet and Nepal in 11
Asia. It is 8,787 metres high and it is the highest place in the world.
The first people to climb to the “top of the world” were Sir Edmund
Hillary and Tenzing Norgay on the 29th of May, 1953.
Mount Everest.
12 7) This statue stands on Liberty Island in New York Harbor. Its real name
is “Liberty Enlightening the World”. It was a gift from France to the 6
USA and it was designed by Frederic Auguste Bartoldi in 1885.
Statue of Liberty.
8) This city in Italy lies on 118 islands linked by over 400 bridges. The
• Great Wall main water street is called the Grand Canal. The traditional means of
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• Leaning Tower
of Pisa transport are called gondolas. Canals of Venice.
• Hoover Dam 9) This is a temple in the name of Jesus Christ. It is in Utah, USA. It took
• Golden Gate
40 years to construct. Salt Lake Temple.
Bridge
• Old Faithful 10) It was designed and built in Paris in 1889 to honor the French
• Big Ben Revolution. It is 298 metres tall and was designed by Alexandre- 13
• Suez Canal
• Mount Everest
Gustave Eiffel. Eiffel Tower.
• Statue of 11) This place is in Egypt and joins the Mediterranean and Read Seas. It
Liberty was opened in 1869 and it’s about 188 kilometres long.
• Salt Lake
Temple Suez Canal. 1
• Canals of 12) This is a volcanic rock that rises straight up from the land around it. It
Venice
• Eiffel Tower
is 262 metres high and it is in the USA. Devils Tower.
• Devils Tower 13) This construction is 6,400 kilometres long and it was built by hand. It
twists and turns like a dragon over mountains and hills and around
deserts. It is in China. Great Wall.