SEVEN WONDERS

GREAT WALL OF CHINA

• Located in China
• Built between the 5th century B.C. and the 16th century
• created to protect the borders of the Chinese Empire from invading Mongols
• actually a succession of multiple walls spanning approximately 4,000 miles, making it the world's longest manmade structure

CHRIST THE REDEEMER

• Located in Rio de Janeiro
• Has been looming over the Brazilians from upon Corcovado mountain in an awe-inspiring state of eternal blessing since 1931
• designed by Heitor da Silva Costa
• cost approximately $250,000 to build
• Chapel is built at base in case you wanted to get married

Machu Picchu

• Located in Peru
• perched between 2 towering Andean peak
• thought by scholars to have been a sacred archaeological center for the nearby Incan capital of Cusco
• Built at the peak of the Incan Empire in the mid-1400s, this mountain citadel was later abandoned by the Incas
• remained unknown except to locals until 1911, when it was rediscovered by archaeologist Hiram Bingham
• 7,970 ft above sea level

CHICHEN ITZA

• Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico
• powerful city, a trading center for cloth, slaves, honey and salt, flourished from approximately 800 to 120
• acted as the political and economic hub of the Mayan civilization.

The Roman Colosseum

• Located in Rome.
• Built between A.D. 70 and 80 A.D.
• it was in use for some 500 years
• sat nearly 50,000 spectators
• Earthquakes and stone-robbers have left the Colosseum in a state of ruin
• Portions of the structure remain open to tourists, and its design still influences the construction of modern-day amphitheaters, some 2,000 years later.

TAJ MAJAL

• Located in Agra, India
• Considered the most perfect specimen of Muslim art in India
• the white-marble Taj Majal actually represents a number of architectural styles, including Persian, Islamic, Turkish and Indian.
• mausoleum commissioned for the wife of Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan, the Taj Majal was built between 1632 and 1648

Petra

• Declared a World Heritage Site in 1985
• Located in Jordan
• Petra was the capital of the Nabataean empire of King Aretas IV
• likely existed in its prime from 9 B.C. to A.D. 40.
• members of this civilization proved to be early experts in manipulating water technology, constructing intricate tunnels and water chambers, which helped create an pseudo-oasis

MISS ZELDY, THE APPLE HEAD DOLL THAT SAVED MRS. PRITCHARD

• Mrs. Pritchard got Miss Zeldy for Christmas as a child. Her mother made Miss Zeldy out of hats, aprons, real fur coat, etc.
• Mrs. Pritchard almost died but she heard Miss Zeldy calling for water and felt that she needed to come back to take care of her.

HENRY UPTON'S BOOKSHELF

• Henry Upton moved to Garner County during a drought. He claimed he could make it rain, nobody believed him. So he went to a bridge and started making a fire with a roof so the rain wouldn't douse it.
• It started to rain, still nobody believed him. it kept raining and raining. everything started to flood. As He was forced out of the county, the bridge broke. He, his horse, and wagon fell in. the bookshelf floated, keeping him above water.
• The shelf now holds up Cully Pone's ceiling.

CALVIN SMILEY AND THE MAGICAL SAW

• Grasshoppers had been destroying everything and they were coming for Calvin Smiley's farm. So he grabbed his old saw and began to play Amazing Grace.
• Gradually, the grasshoppers began to flee and not come back.

EULIE ROWAN AND THE TABLE THAT WALKED THROUGH THE GRAVEYARD

• People began seeing a table walking through the graveyard. They noticed it made an eerie light and made the sound of wailing as it went through the graveyard.
• A woman named Rose-Ivy went to the graveyard to check it out. While waiting, she heard a human voice wailing about a woman named Mary.
• Rose discovered it was Tom Fitzgerald. He had lost his wife and had been coming to the graveyard, scaring the people in town as he did so. Eventually they got married.

RAE ELLEN AND THE SHIP IN THE BOTTLE

• Rae Ellen's Uncle Dutch used to go sailing. While sailing, he had a nasty captain who locked up all the food and kept it for himself while the crew half starved.
• At one point, an awful storm hit. The captain refused to go into harbor for the night and they kept moving. Two men went over board. When the captain came out, he dared the Lord to sink his ship. Then they saw something with glowing red eyes enter the cabin.
• When the ship tipped over, Uncle Dutch floated on a piece of wood, didn't know how long he floated. The next day, he found the ship in a bottle, floating in the ocean.

MAYOR PEEVY AND THE CLOTH WITH BUDDY WOVEN IN

• Buddy played a trick on a blind woman named Emma. She was led out to the woods and got stuck in a bush. She claimed that she would weave a cloth and that would tell her who did it.
• It read Buddy.
• He spent the rest of his life making up for all the bad things he did and helped people instead.

UNCLE ALF 'S MAGICAL CARVED VILLAGE

• A man named LaFlame came to Sassafras Springs and painted pictures for five dollars.
• He saw uncle Alf trying to carve and laughed, saying you can't just carve.Once he was shown, LaFlame told Uncle Alf he was ready now. He carved an angel and never did again.
• Years later he met a girl who looked like the angel he carved and married her and has been carving ever since.
• He does the carving, the wood does the rest. That is how the carving of Sassafras Springs came to be.

COOGIE JACKSON AND THE FLYING OUTHOUSE

• Coogie's grandpa built the outhouse with his own two hands. Said that the devil couldn't knock it down. A family liked to tip over outhouses and Coogie's grandpa built an outhouse with two seats and a window.
• Suddenly, a cyclone came and pulled the outhouse into the sky. Coogie's dad peeked out the window and saw the ocean below him.
• Soon enough he was above the North Pole and saw Santa Claus waving at him. He ended up in Sassafras Springs and found that the cyclone had killed grandfather.