What incredible Eighth Wonder of the World vanished 150 years ago?

The next day, on 10 June 1886, the so-called eighth Wonder of the World was destroyed when a volcanic eruption at Mount Tarawera shook the lands, and Te Wairoa, the village founded in 1848 to service tourists, was buried under choking layers of scoria, ash and mud.



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Delta Works, the Dutch provinces of Zeeland and South Holland, the Netherlands. The Delta Works has been called one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World by Quest magazine and the American Society of Civil Engineers, and the Eighth Wonder of the World by several other sources.

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Pyramids of Giza, the oldest of the wonders and the only one of the seven substantially in existence today.

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