Word: giza
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...mega-projects across Alberta's oil sands rival some of humankind's greatest engineering achievements, including the pyramids of Giza and the Great Wall of China. After thousands of years, those ancient projects still bear witness to history. Conservative estimates predict the tar sands will give out in just 70 years. Their legacy to Canada is yet to be written, but it may be a great deal bigger than expectations. With new deposits still being found and technologies improving, the sands could produce for a couple of hundred years more. Forget Venezuela. Canada may become the new Saudi Arabia...
...masses do not write history.' ZAHI HAWASS, secretary-general of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, on the "New 7 Wonders of the World." Egyptian authorities are angry that the Great Pyramids of Giza did not make the list of winners, which were tallied in a global online vote...
...Number of people who have voted in an Internet campaign to choose seven "new" wonders of the world out of 21 historic buildings and monuments 2,200 Estimated years since intellectuals in the Mediterranean and Middle East named the ancient seven wonders. Only one, Egypt's Great Pyramid of Giza, survives...
...Approximate number of years since intellectuals in the Mediterranean and the Middle East selected the ancient seven wonders. Today, only one, Egypt's Great Pyramid of Giza, survives...
...business with Israelis even as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict still rages. But he insists that such deals will benefit the region by forming business bridges. "This is a very big step," says Sawiris, sipping an espresso in his 26th-floor office overlooking downtown Cairo, the Nile River and the Giza pyramids. "I am betting that peace will prevail...