President to Brazilians: Christ the Redeemer Needs Your Vote!

Travel Blog  •  Jim Benning  •  06.25.07 | 4:42 PM ET

imageAs we noted last week, the New 7 Wonders of the World will be announced July 7. Sure, the final list may not mean a whole lot more than bragging rights, but voting for the pageant sponsored by the NewOpenWorld Foundation ends in 11 days and competition among the finalists is heating up. How much? “In Brazil, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva recently used his weekly radio address to urge people to vote for the Christ the Redeemer statue,” notes the San Francisco Chronicle. “Jordan’s royal family has publicly lobbied for Petra, and the government of Peru set up free computer terminals so its citizens could vote for Machu Picchu.”

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* USA Today’s Seven New Wonders of the World
* Egypt: We Don’t Need Your Vote to be Among the New Seven Wonders

Photo by markbarkaway via Flickr, (Creative Commons).



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