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Draugnar (0 DX)
02 Mar 10 UTC
Sailing the Gree Isles - Two More Needed.
gameID=22532
48 hour, Anonymous, WTA, 20 point buy-in
Ancient Med (4 player) Map.
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obiwanobiwan (248 D)
28 Feb 10 UTC
The Seven Wonders of the MODERN World
The title says it all... what are the Wonders, not just great structures but structures that MEAN something just at the very SIGHT of them... which Seven post-1000 AD are on your list (1. Pyramids DON'T count, they're "honorary" as they're still standing from the old list 2. structures repaired but not BUILT post-1000 such as The Great Wall and Coliseum don't count 3. Can have been already build and destroyed/gone)
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pi r round (0 DX)
28 Feb 10 UTC
Just one right here would have to be the panama canal in my opinion
Tolstoy (1962 D)
28 Feb 10 UTC
Another would have to be The Internet.
warsprite (152 D)
28 Feb 10 UTC
1 Apollo program, 2 Panama Canal, 3 US Interstate Highway System, 4 Eiffel Tower, 5 Hoover Dam, The next 2 have yet to be built.
obiwanobiwan (248 D)
28 Feb 10 UTC
Wow, no respect for some golden oldies?

The Globe Theatre in London, THE most important theatre ever (SHAKESPEARE'S!) from 1599-163, 1614-1642, and the reconstruction of it now from 1997 to the present...

Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris...

The Taj Mahal in Agra...

The Statue of Liberty in NYC...

The Empire State Building in NYC...

The Eifel Tower in NYC...

The Forbidden City in Beijing....

7 Greats right there...
flashman (2274 D(G))
28 Feb 10 UTC
The Eifel Tower in NYC? That is a truly wonderful answer...
Octavious (2701 D)
28 Feb 10 UTC
The US Interstate Highway System? Really??? I'd say it inspires frustration more so than wonder. The Hoover dam may well have been a wonder when it was built, but now it is just one of several large dams... It's tricky, is this...

The International Space Station

The internet

The (I can't believe I'm saying this...) European Union

GPS

International flight paths/international flight/call it what you will

Clockwork and the timezones they tick in

To hell with the rules! The pyramids!
spyman (424 D(G))
28 Feb 10 UTC
The Big Pineapple near Nambour (Queensland, Australia)
The Big Banana at Coffs Harbour (NSW, Australia)
The Big Prawn (Ballina, NSW)
The Big Cow (somewhere in NSW, I can't remember where)
The Big Cherry (somewhere in Victoria)
I am running out of ideas here, but all of the above are wonders of fibreglass construction and major tourist attractions.
Houses of Parliament in London is a very nice building.
The Golden Gate Bridge is very nice.
1)The Grand Canyon
2)The Space Station
3) Standing at the 'Western Wall', looking up at the Dome Of The Rock.
4) The internet
5) Tivo (and its bastard children)
6) The iPod (and its parents)
7) My son :P
spyman (424 D(G))
28 Feb 10 UTC
If its okay I might substitute one of my suggestions above (the Big Prawn is overated).
Ankor Wat in Cambodia - this really should be on any post 1000 AD list.
spyman (424 D(G))
28 Feb 10 UTC
That should read *Angkor Wat
flashman (2274 D(G))
28 Feb 10 UTC
Angkor Wat: 800 AD to 1200 AD - it crosses the age barrier.
spyman (424 D(G))
28 Feb 10 UTC
Really? Wikipedia says it was built during the 12th century. I have another source TTC audio course - Human Prehistory and the First Civillizations by Professor Brian M. Fagan
which says that it was built for King Suryavarman II in A.D. 1117.
spyman (424 D(G))
28 Feb 10 UTC
I just read a little more: the Angkorian period dates from 802 A.D. but I think the temple was built much later.
JECE (1248 D)
28 Feb 10 UTC
The Great Wall as we know it was built by the Ming. The old Great Walls were in different positions (take a look at http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9 D/Map_of_the_Great_Wall_of_China.jpg). It is only the idea that was reused, so I think it should count.
Note that I didn't vote for anything.
London Underground - and more specifically the London Underground (tube) map, which is seen as a British icon.

Brooklyn Bridge.

Concorde.

The motor car.
Zybodia (355 D)
28 Feb 10 UTC
No love for Machu Picchu?
JECE (1248 D)
28 Feb 10 UTC
Ha ha with that link. Try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_the_Great_Wall_of_China.jpg.
Thucydides (864 D(B))
28 Feb 10 UTC
Prolly

Machu Picchu
Angkor Wat
Chichen Itza
Burj Dubai
Panama/Suez Canals
Oh hell idk
Thucydides (864 D(B))
28 Feb 10 UTC
Oh the Chunnel yes!!!
and uh... the proposed bridge across the bering strait, whenever they build it.
Eiffle Tower
Britain's canal system c1700 -main artery of the industrial revolution.
Panama/Suez canals
The Concorde.
The Saturn Five (I believe the final version is still the most powerful machine ever made).
Clockwork.
The integrated circuit
The Human Genome project
obiwanobiwan (248 D)
28 Feb 10 UTC
er... oops that's Eiffel Tower in PARIS... lol.

I like The International Space Station as One, that IS really something pretty incredible... maybe swap that and the Empire State Building...

And Machu Picchu? I will NEVER understand why it's considered a Wonder... looks neat, but is it REALLY so significant as the GLOBE THEATRE (Shakespeare's plays) Statue of Liberty (Symbol of America) Eiffel Tower (Symbol of France) Notre Dame Cathedral (So epic even atheists might say it's awesome) The Forbidden City (Cultural AND has a really cool title... FORBIDDEN, that just adds to the mystique) Taj Mahal (a globally recognized structure like the Eiffel Tower or Statue of Liberty) or the International Space Station (Men living IN SPACE... that's pretty special.)

Also- come ON,
obiwanobiwan (248 D)
28 Feb 10 UTC
TEAM USA... down 1-0 early? come on!
checkmate (0 DX)
28 Feb 10 UTC
hubble telescope
Thucydides (864 D(B))
28 Feb 10 UTC
its more like... not what the structure means, but just the physical impressiveness.

so that rules out paltry structures like Statue Liberty, Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, etc.
sean (3490 D(B))
28 Feb 10 UTC
Masjid al-Haram, largest mosque in the world and means an awful lot to a lot of people.
how about the Large Hadron Collider ?
figlesquidge (2131 D)
28 Feb 10 UTC
I don't quite see what we're aiming for here.
Still, for me it would probably be:

Eiffel Tower - hard to say as a Brit though!
CN Tower
Iron Bridge [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Iron_Bridge - first large-scale use of iron]
Suez Cannal - without it the world would have been a very different place, as a lifeline of the British Empire.
Golden Gate - just looks beautiful.
Statue of Liberty - (just ahead of Christ the Redeemer)
Taj Mahal
those would probably be my suggestions
warsprite (152 D)
01 Mar 10 UTC
@Octavious Your thinking of the less than 10% of the milage near large metro areas. It was never made for local traffic thus the name Interstate. The remaining 90% carries the life blood of the US economy. The only thing comparable is the Roman road system.
obiwanobiwan (248 D)
01 Mar 10 UTC
@figlesquidge:

Really... the whole British Empire's a Wonder? ALL of it? The whole nation, from Big Ben and the Queen to some broken toilets in a Yorkshire slum and a couple prostitues?

EVERY bit of the Empire...? Come on, even we Americans have to admit that theirs parts of our country that are SHIT... the dealers and gangsters and broken EVERYTHING in East Los Angeles, for example. ;) *Ducks as offended East LA gangsters who have the intellect and free time to come onto Diplomacy... oh, wait...*

;)

Also, it IS the meaning of the structure and NOT just the size or complexity of it!

Look at the OLD Wonders- Pyramids were for pharoahs and gods, Temple of Zues was for their chief God, Hanging Gardens for their king and his wife, Colossus also I believe for gods...

So I'd say the meaning behind the NEW Colossus (Statue of Liberty, which you better not call paltry or cheap in the States!) or the meaning of Notre Dame Cathedral (insult it and God AND a Hunchback will get you) or the Globe Theatre (you think saying "MACBETH" is bad luck, just try and insult the Globe...) is pretty significant, and MUST be taken into account...

And that's why Statue of Liberty beats Empire State Building or CN Tower or Sears Tower... bigger meaning CAN sometimes trump bigger structure...
obiwanobiwan (248 D)
01 Mar 10 UTC
And as impressive as the Interstate IS, it's not Lady Liberty.

The Interstate is very important.

The Statue of Liberty is our international SYMBOL... the test-

Any monster/blow-up-the-world disaster flick you see, what nearly ALWAYS gets knocked down or destroyed if it's taking place in America?

;)

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Troodonte (3379 D)
02 Mar 10 UTC
Problem with orders
Loading order...
I'm getting this message where i should input orders and I can't input them. Anyone else? Using Firefox.
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noiseunit (853 D)
02 Mar 10 UTC
Live Game, Ancient Med, Anonymous gunboat - Booyea
http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=22972
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Jean d'Arc (236 D)
02 Mar 10 UTC
TUES Gunboat
TUES GUNBOAT BEGINS IN LESS THAN 7MINS
WE NEED TWO MORE BRAVE PLAYERS
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Jean d'Arc (236 D)
02 Mar 10 UTC
Tues Gunboat
JOIN THE TUES GUNBOAT GAME WE NEED 4 MORE MEMBERS TO JOIN STARTS IN 17MINS.
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orathaic (1009 D(B))
02 Mar 10 UTC
Religious?
I know i bring this up a bit when talking about the universe (whether that is in religious debates or not) but this guy explains it better than i do: http://www.ted.com/talks/sean_carroll_on_the_arrow_of_time.html
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obiwanobiwan (248 D)
02 Mar 10 UTC
FIRST EVER WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!
gameID=22941

Gunboat, and a variant, but I'll take it... I LOVE fleets, and my 11 here served me well. ;) FINALLY!
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sean (3490 D(B))
01 Mar 10 UTC
Looting
A sign of a dysfunctional unequal messed up society or Humanity's inherent nature coming to the fore ?
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dskippy (139 D)
26 Feb 10 UTC
Fleet Rome
Why is Fleet Rome disabled? I would like to play it in my next game.

-mike
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doofman (201 D)
02 Mar 10 UTC
live now please
http://www.webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=22961
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Boodaboy (104 D)
02 Mar 10 UTC
Live Med. Gunboat 30 min start.
http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=22960
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Boodaboy (104 D)
02 Mar 10 UTC
Live Med. Gunboat 30 min start.
Game is http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=22957

Just looking for some late night fun.
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doofman (201 D)
02 Mar 10 UTC
live game for anyone online and interested
7bet, 5min phase, wta, anon
http://www.webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=22956
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oyenegra (100 D)
01 Mar 10 UTC
Which Country is Best in World Variation?
I'm fascinated by this new World Map Variation, and I wanted to see if I could start deciphering which countries are the best to play. So I took some statistics on previously/currently playing games online.
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wydend (0 DX)
02 Mar 10 UTC
New 101d WTA.
Anonymous Players
36 Hour Phases
http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=22925
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thatwasawkward (4690 D(B))
02 Mar 10 UTC
Live Ancient Mediterranean Gunboat game starting in half an hour.
http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=22941

Come play!
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Happymunda (0 DX)
02 Mar 10 UTC
NEW WORLD GAME(WORLD WAR 3(THE ONE WHERE......)
hey can you guys join my world-wide game, it has 8 more days and only 5 people the turns are 1 day and the pot is 5 per person
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Jean d'Arc (236 D)
02 Mar 10 UTC
live boat
WE NEED PPL TO SIGN UP FOR LIVE GUNBOAT...-4
only 2 more spots
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curtis (8870 D)
02 Mar 10 UTC
live gunboat in 13 minutes
http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=22949
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Stukus (2126 D)
01 Mar 10 UTC
What do you do when you can't do anything?
So you're in a Diplomacy game. Too weak to do anything, don't want to attract the attention of the superpowers, what do you do?
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tmg996 (147 D)
02 Mar 10 UTC
Tell me you dont love this!
Dont ya love it when somebody goes offline then comes back while their ally protects their cd land, then they pop back up out of no where and kill you! is that even legal? if it is that should be changed
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5nk (0 DX)
02 Mar 10 UTC
Live wta gunboat in 1 hr
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5nk (0 DX)
02 Mar 10 UTC
Live AncMed WTA Gunboat
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klokskap (550 D)
02 Mar 10 UTC
Need Austria replacement IN VERY GOOD POSITION
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chemkrafty (100 D)
01 Mar 10 UTC
Drawing or not drawing
So when you are in a situation with a 2v2 stalemate, one side wants to draw but the other side refuses. (there is no possible way to break through without a stab) What do you do?
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azzaron (1765 D)
02 Mar 10 UTC
New Live Game!!!
http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=22937
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azzaron (1765 D)
02 Mar 10 UTC
New Live Game
http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=22934
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KarlTheLittle (311 D)
02 Mar 10 UTC
Live Gunboat in 30 Min.
http://www.webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=22935
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mel1980 (0 DX)
01 Mar 10 UTC
Live Gunboat Classic
http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=22932
starts in 30 mins, 15 join
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