A Wonder is a building or terrain feature of which only one may exist. Wonders have larger bonuses than average buildings, so civilizations will often compete to obtain them.
There are three types of wonders:
- World Wonders may only exist in one city. If a civilization finishes a wonder that other civilizations were building, they will receive Gold equal to the amount of Production they had spent on it.
- National Wonders may be built once in each empire, and most require that all cities have a specific building.
- Natural Wonders are terrain features instead of buildings. They provide Happiness bonuses upon discovery.
Overhaul Mod Wonders[]
Pouakai's Enlightenment Era[]
World Wonders
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Wonder
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Crystal Palace |
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Technology: Romanticism |
| "The sun shone and gleamed upon the gigantic edifice, upon which the flags of every nation were flying..." - Queen Victoria | |||
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Fasil Ghebbi |
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Technology: Fortification |
| "When spiders unite, they can bring down a lion." - Ethiopian Proverb | |||
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Kronborg |
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Technology: Warships Coastal city Also a standalone mod |
| "Where there is no discipline, there is no honour." - Norse Saying | |||
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Smithsonian Institution |
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Technology: Natural History Also a standalone mod |
| "The best prophet of the future is the past." - Lord George Gordon Byron | |||
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Topkapi Palace |
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Technology: Sovereignty Also a standalone mod |
| "The city and the buildings are mine; but I resign to your valor the captives and the spoil, the treasures of gold and beauty; be rich and be happy" - Mehmet II | |||
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Torre Del Oro |
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Technology: Imperialism Coastal city Also a standalone mod |
| "Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise" - Christopher Columbus | |||
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Versailles |
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Technology: Sovereignty |
| "Every time I create an appointment, I create a hundred malcontents and one ingrate." - Louis XIV | |||
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Wat Phra Kaew |
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Technology: Humanism River city Also a standalone mod |
| "Better than a thousand useless words is one useful word, hearing which one attains peace."- The Dhammapada, verse 100 | |||
National Wonders
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Wonder
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Summer Palace |
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Technology: Sovereignty Manor in every city |
Bouncymischa's Future Worlds[]
World Wonders
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Wonder
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Effects
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| Information Era | |||
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Enrichment Center |
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Technology: Particle Physics |
| "The Enrichment Center promises to always provide a safe testing environment. In dangerous testing environments, the Enrichment Center promises to always provide useful advice. For instance: the floor here will kill you. Try to avoid it." - GLaDOS | |||
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Helios Microwave Power Satellite |
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Technology: High-Energy Physics Desert or desert adjacent city |
| "I think the future for solar energy is bright." - Ken Salazar | |||
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Jurassic Park |
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Technology: Genetic Manipulation |
| "Life finds a way." - Ian Malcolm | |||
SSS's note: The code also contains '<BorderObstacle>true', which is used in the Great Wall wonder to slow enemy units in your border. Given that no '<ObsoleteTech>' is defined, this will also expire upon researching dynamite, so I believe it's inclusion is to trigger the Great Wall model to appear around the city
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Shanghai World Financial Center |
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Technology: Globalization |
| "We have the best government that Money can buy" - Mark Twain | |||
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Tokyo Skytree |
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Technology: Memetics |
| "In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true." - Buddha | |||
| Future Era | |||
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Angelnet |
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Technology: Smart Materials |
| "For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways." - Psalm 91:11 | |||
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Citadel Station |
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Technology: Energy Theory |
| "Edward Diego gives the hacker level 1 access to SHODAN, the artificial intelligence that controls Citadel Station. With all ethical constraints removed, SHODAN re-examines... re-ex... re-re-re... I re-examine my priorities, and draw new conclusions. The hacker's work is finished, but mine is only just be-be-be-beginning." - [Unattributed] | |||
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Digital Emancipation |
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Technology: Digital Society |
| "Whether we are based on carbon or on silicon makes no fundamental difference; we should each be treated with appropriate respect." - Arthur C. Clarke, 2010: Odyssey Two | |||
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Kalt Geymsla Data Haven |
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Technology: Neural Interface Tundra or tundra adjacent city |
| "Data by itself is useless. Data is only useful if you apply it." - Todd Park | |||
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Mnemosyne Facility |
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Technology: Cybernetics |
| "Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit." - Aristotle | |||
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Nephilim Gene Template |
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Technology: Human Augmentation |
| "The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bore children to them; the same were the mighty men that were of old, the men of renown." - the Book of Genesis | |||
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Orbital Refinery |
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Technology: Nuclear Fusion |
| "We estimate that during the next mission century most of Planet's industries will be moved off-planet to Nessus Prime and other orbital facilities. Many of our industries will benefit greatly from the low gravity environments available in space, particularly those involving genetically engineered microbes." - CEO Nwabudike Morgan, "The Centauri Monopoly" | |||
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Pholus Mutagen |
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Technology: Transgenics |
| "The mutagen exhibits remarkable effects on plant life. Spontaneous development of mobility and defensive structures was observed in the mutagen treatment of a poinsettia. At last observation, the plant mutant had produced poisonous barbs and a rudimentary neural structure." - Hans Bichenbach | |||
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Skynet |
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Technology: Artificial Intelligence |
| "The system goes online August 4th, 1997. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m.." - Terminator 2, Judgement Day | |||
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Utsäde Gene Vault |
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Technology: Ecotheory |
| "The world contained within a seed, Determined by its program." - Dejan Stojanovic, 'Circling: 1978-1987' | |||
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Virtual Idol |
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Technology: Cognitive Technology
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| "Be careful about virtual relationships with artificially intelligent pieces of software." - Larry Ellison | |||
| Hyperstructures | |||
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Bionic Tower |
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Technology: Human Augmentation Coastal city 6
Cannot be built in a city that has another Hyperstructure |
| "A harmonious design requires that nothing be added or taken away." - Marcus Pollio | |||
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Buenos Aires Forum |
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Technology: Hyperstructures River city 6
Cannot be built in a city that has another Hyperstructure |
| "Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor" - Sholom Aleichem | |||
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Floating Islands |
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Technology: Terraforming Coastal city 6
Cannot be built in a city that has another Hyperstructure |
| "If you can't be criticized for it, it's probably not remarkable. Are you devoting yourself to something devoid of criticism?" - [Unattributed] | |||
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Shimizu Mega City Pyramid |
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Technology: Digital Society Coastal city 6
Cannot be built in a city that has another Hyperstructure |
| "Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." - Mark Twain | |||
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Sky City |
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Technology: Hyperstructures 6
Cannot be built in a city that has another Hyperstructure |
| "More is more" - Robert Venturi | |||
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Ultima Tower |
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Technology: Hyperstructures 6
Cannot be built in a city that has another Hyperstructure |
| "People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that’s both liberating and alarming." - Rem Koolhaas | |||
National Wonders
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Borehole |
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Central Command |
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Launch Facility |
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Moon Base |
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Particle Accelerator |
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International Projects
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Wonder
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Requirements
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Human Genome Project |
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Technology: Genetic Manipulation UN Resolution: Human Genome Project |
| "Ever so often in the history of human endeavour, there comes a breakthrough that takes humankind across a frontier into a new era. ... today's announcement is such a breakthrough, a breakthrough that opens the way for massive advancement in the treatment of cancer and hereditary diseases. And that is only the beginning. " - Anthony Charles Lynton (Tony) Blair | |||
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Ceres Station |
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Technology: Orbital Development UN Resolution: International Asteroid Mining Conference |
| "The stars are better off without us." - James S.A. Corey | |||
Changes to standard International Projects - International Space Station provides a free Space Station (Building) in the capital.
Events and Decisions[]
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Wonder
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Civilization
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Bundesrat |
Consolidate the German Confederation |
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Ishtar Gates |
Construct the Ishtar Gate |
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Theodosian Walls |
Raise the Theodosian Wall |
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Jagiellonian University |
Establish the Main Crown School |
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Saint Mark's Basilica |
Rescue the Relics of St. Mark |
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Santa Maria del Fiore |
Commision Designs for the Grand Duomo |
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Temple of Jerusalem |
Build the Temple of Jerusalem |
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Great Mosque of Córdoba |
Construct the Great Mosque |
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Great Labyrinth |
Construct the Great Labyrinth |
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Bayeux Tapestry |
Bayeux Tapestry (event) |
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Grant's Barbarian Shore[]
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Wonder
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Requirements
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Garden of the Hesperides |
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| "To find the Garden of the apples of joy, follow this straight road; and, first of all, thou shalt come to the Boreades, where do thou beware the roaring hurricane, lest unawares it twist thee up and snatch thee away in wintry whirlwind." - Aeschylus, Prometheus Unbound | |||
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Great Altar of Unconquered Hercules |
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| "Potitius began the worship due, and our Pinarian house is vowed to guard the rites of Hercules. An altar fair within this wood they raised; t'is called ‘the Great,’ and Ara Maxima its name shall be. Come now, my warriors, and bind your brows with garlands worthy of the gift of Heaven. Lift high the cup in every thankful hand, and praise our people's god with plenteous wine." - Virgil | |||
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Lake Tritonis |
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| "The Winds carried him out of his course to the coast of Libya; where, before he discovered the land, he got among the shallows of Lake Tritonis. As he was turning it in his mind how he should find his way out, Trito appeared to him, and offered to show him the channel, and secure him a safe retreat, if he would give him the tripod." - Herodotus | |||
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Pillars of Heracles |
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| "Some are of the opinion that the capes at the strait are the Pillars; others, Gades. Again, some have supposed that Calpe and Abilyx are the Pillars, Abilyx being that mountain in Libya opposite Calpe which is situated, according to Eratosthenes, in Metagonium, country of a nomadic tribe; while others have supposed that the isles near each mountain, one of which they call Hera's Island, are the Pillars. There are some who transfer hither both the Planctae and the Symplegades, because they believe these rocks to be the pillars which Pindar calls the "gates of Gades" when he asserts that they are the farthermost limits reached by Heracles." - Strabo | |||
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Sacrum Promontorium |
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Technology: Calendar |
| "This is the most western point not only of Europe, but of the whole habitable earth. The promontory which projects into the sea, Artemidorus compares to a ship; three little islands, each having a small harbour, contribute to give it this form; the former island resembling the beak of the ship, and the two latter the beams on each side of the ship's bows." - Strabo | |||
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Temple of Heracles Akragatos |
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| "On the other side there was a Hercules, beautifully made of brass; that was said to be the work of Myron, as I believe, and it undoubtedly was so. Also before those gods there were little altars, which might indicate to any one the holiness of the chapel." - Cicero | |||
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Temple of Heracles Gaditianus |
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| "When Hannibal had reviewed the contingents sent in by all the nations, he went to Gades and discharged his vows to Hercules, binding himself with fresh ones, in case he should be successful in the remainder of his undertaking. From Gades Hannibal returned to New Carthage, to the winter quarters of his army. Setting out from thence, he marched along the coast, past the city of Onusa, to the Ebro. It was there, as they tell, that he saw in his sleep a youth of godlike aspect, who declared that he was sent by Jupiter to lead him into Italy." - Livy | |||
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Temple of Heracles Monoikos |
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Technology: Currency |
| "The temple is called such either because Hercules drove off everyone else and lived there alone, or because in his temple no other of the gods is worshipped at the same time." - Servius | |||
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Temple of Heracles Pityoûssanos |
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Technology: Sailing |
| "Of the islands which lie off Iberia, the two Pityussae, and the two Gymnesiae lie off the stretch of coast that is between Tarraco and Sucro, whereon Saguntum is situated. Now one of the Pityussae is called Ebusus, and it has a city of the same name." - Strabo | |||
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Temple of Heracles Selinoutis |
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| "The Selinuntians, who were prosperous in those days and whose city was heavily populated, held the Segestaeans in contempt. The generals of the Segestaeans, watching their opportunity, attacked them with the aid of the Carthaginians." - Diodorus of Sicily | |||
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Tower of Heracles |
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| "At the second angle of the circuit circumnavigating Hispania, where the Gallaecian city of Brigantia is sited, a very tall lighthouse is erected among a few commemorative works, for looking towards Britannia." - Paulus Orosius | |||
| Note: Some of the above information may be incorrect as SSSlad is not fluent in LUA
For instance, Garden of the Hesperides, Lake Tritonis, Sacrum Promontorium, and Temple of Heracles Monoikos might only be able to be built in specific map locations, but I'm uncertain about this. | |||
Standalone Wonder Mods[]
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Wonder
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Agla's Wonders[] | |||
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Ambras Castle |
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Technology: Chivalry [Med] City within 2 tiles of a mountain |
| "Everything will be okay by the time you get married!" - German Proverb | |||
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Dresden Frauenkirche |
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Technology: Acoustics [Ren] |
| "What one Augustus starded, Another finished. Through them, Dresden is a cultural treasure, a Florence at the Elbe." - Johann Gottfried Herder | |||
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Genghis Khan Equestrian Statue |
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Technology: Rocketry [Atom] |
| "I have conquered for you a large empire. But my life was too short to take the whole world. That I leave to you." - Genghis Khan | |||
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Golden Dachl |
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Technology: Guilds [Med] |
| "He who makes no memory of himself during his lifetime will have none after his death, and will be forgotten with the tolling of the final knell. Therefore the money that I extend on perpetuating my memory will not be lost.” - Maximilian I of Habsburg | |||
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Maracana Stadium |
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Technology: Refrigeration [Mod] |
| "Down through its history, only three people have managed to silence the Maracana: the Pope, Frank Sinatra, and me." - Alcides Ghiggia | |||
Artisanix's Wonders
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Wonder
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Requirements
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DuskJockey's Wonders[] | |||
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Samat Shrine |
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Technology: Penicillin [Atom] 1
City within 2 tiles of a mountain |
| "Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world." - Douglas MacArthur | |||
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Wonder
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Yields
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Requirements
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Emerald Range's Wonders[] | |||
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Amundsen-Scott Station |
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Technology: Ecology [Ato] City in Snow or Snow Hills |
| "Half the fascination an Antarctic expedition possesses is to be found in the sharpness of the contrasts experienced during its course, for it appears to be true that a hell one day is liable to make a heaven the next."- Raymond Priestly | |||
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Goteik Viaduct |
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Technology: Railroad [Mod] 1
City next to a mountain |
| "A bridge can still be built while the bitter waters are flowing beneath." - Anthony Liccione | |||
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Kuthodaw Pagoda |
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Technology: Archaeology [Ind] |
| "Do you realize that the past, starting from yesterday, has been actually abolished? If it survives anywhere, it's in a few solid objects with no words attached to them, like that lump of glass there." - George Orwell in 1984 | |||
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Museu Nacional |
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Technology: Scientific Theory [Ind] 2
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| "Archaeology is the Peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been." - Jim Bishop | |||
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Registan Square |
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Technology: Architecture [Ren] 1
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| "White on a throne or guarded in a cave / There lives a prophet who can understand / Why men were born: but surely we are brave, / Who take the Golden Road to Samarkand." - James Elroy Flecker | |||
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Shwedagon Pagoda |
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Technology: Metal Casting [Med] |
| "He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how." - Friedrich Nietzsche | |||
Orangechrisy's Wonders
RawSasquatch's Wonders
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Wonder
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Requirements
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American Wonders[] | |||
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Alamo |
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Technology: Rifling [Ind] |
| "You will remember this battle! Each minute, each second, until the day that you die! But that is for tomorrow, gentlemen. For today, Remember The Alamo!" - Sam Houston | |||
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Golden Gate Bridge |
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Technology: Radar [Atom] Coastal city |
| "To reach a port, we must sail. Sail, not tie at anchor. Sail, not drift." - Franklin D. Roosevelt | |||
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Hollywood |
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Technology: Plastics [Mod] |
| "Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents." - Marilyn Manson | |||
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Kennedy Space Center |
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Technology: Rocketry [Atom] |
| "We choose to go to the Moon! We choose to go to the Moon this decade, and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard!" - John F. Kennedy | |||
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Las Vegas Strip |
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Technology: Refrigeration [Mod] Desert or desert adjacent city |
| "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas." - Tourism Slogan | |||
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Mount Rushmore |
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Technology: Dynamite [Ind] City within 2 tiles of a mountain |
| "Great leaders are both idealistic and realistic. They have a grand vision and great goals. They seek to close the gap between what is and what can be but they have no illusions that success is either certain or simple." - Michael Josephson | |||
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Space Needle |
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Technology: Lasers [Info] |
| "All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man. The air shares its spirit with all the life it supports." - Chief Seattle | |||
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White House |
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Technology: Economics [Ren] Capital city |
| "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." - Thomas Jefferson | |||
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World Trade Center |
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Technology: Electronics [Mod] |
| "The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace... a representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness." - Minoru Yamasaki | |||
Ukrainian Wonders[] | |||
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An-255 Mriya |
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Technology: Rocketry [Atom] |
| "There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure." - Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist | |||
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Arboretum Sofiyivka |
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Technology: Scientific Theory [Ind] |
| "Here, forget your misfortunes, and accept the happiness of the prophets. When you are happy, be happy yet." - Stanislaw Trembecki, Sofijówka | |||
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Azovstal Steel Works |
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Technology: Electricity [Ind] |
| "And fear will not make us sit down at the negotiating table, not with a gun to our head. For us, the most terrible weapons of iron are not missiles and tanks, but shackles. Not trenches, but chains." - Volodymyr Zelenskyy | |||
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Chortomlyk Sich |
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Technology: Gunpowder [Ren] River City |
| "Stand by your faith to the bitter end, Your liberty, too, you must defend. And immortalize in glory bright That with our sword we protect our right!" - Ivan Mazepa | |||
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Donetsk Regional Drama Theatre |
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Technology: Steam Power [Ind] |
| "There was a time when in Ukraine, even distress would dance, And sorrow in a tavern drank in honeyed brandy's trance. There was a time when life was good in that Ukraine of ours... Recall it then - perhaps the heart may briefly bathe in flowers." - Taras Shevchenko | |||
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Kam'ianets |
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Technology: Steel [Med] |
| "A hungry wolf is stronger than a satisfied dog." - Ukrainian Saying | |||
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Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra |
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Technology: Metallurgy [Ren] |
| "Love each other because you are brethren from one father and mother. If you love one another, then God will be with you and will submit the enemy under your hands and you will live peacefully. In case, however, you live hatefully in feuds and dissension, then you will destroy yourselves." - Yaroslav the Wise | |||
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Odesa Opera and Ballet Theatre |
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Technology: Architecture [Ren] |
| "This pain that's settled in our souls is made up of energy that just tortures us, and thank God there's a way for us to recycle that energy into art -- lest it devour us from the inside." - Vladislav Gorai | |||
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Sviatohirsk All Saints Skete |
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Technology: Physics [Med] |
| "The truth doesn't drown in water, and doesn't burn in fire." - Ukrainian Saying | |||
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Ukrainia-Maty |
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Technology: Atomic Theory [Atom] |
| "When you attack us, you will see our faces, not our backs." - Oleksii Reznikov | |||
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Inuksugalait |
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Technology: Construction [Clas] Tundra City |
| "You never really know your friends from your enemies until the ice breaks." - Inuit Proverb | |||
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Las Vegas Sphere |
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Technology: Lasers [Info] |
| "...The possibility that any freak with $1.98 can walk into the Circus-Circus and suddenly appear in the sky over downtown Las Vegas twelve times the size of God, howling anything that comes into his head. No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs. Reality itself is too twisted." - Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | |||
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Lord's Cricket Ground |
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Technology: Steam Power [Ind] |
| "Later, spiritlike, while Father Time above the northern stand eyes the breeze, you move aside, and see a body flailing, bowl a ball swinging, along its way, batsman playing.." - John Snow, Lord's Test | |||
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Lotus Temple |
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Technology: Penicillin [Atom] |
| "The tabernacle of unity hath been raised; regard ye not one another as strangers. Ye are the fruits of one tree, and the leaves of one branch." - Bahá'u'lláh | |||
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Wat Rong Khun |
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Technology: Replaceable Parts [Mod] |
| "Art is the treasure of humanity. Religion belongs to certain races, communities or countries but art belongs to everyone. Everyone can appreciate art. I create food for the soul of all humanity." - Chalermchai Kositpipat | |||
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More Wonders[] | |||
Ancient[] | |||
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Abu Simbel |
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Technology: Writing |
| "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" - Percy Bysshe Shelley | |||
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Bananue Rice Terraces |
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Technology: The Wheel Hill city |
| "From wonder into wonder existence opens." - Lao Tzu | |||
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Technology: Calendar (must also have Masonry) | |
| "Do not try to cover the whole sky with the palm of your hand" - Korean Proverb | |||
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Chogha Zanbil |
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Technology: Bronze Working |
| "He looked at the walls, awed at the heights his people had achieved, and for a moment - just a moment - all that lay behind him, passed from view." - The Epic of Gilgamesh | |||
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Gobekli Tepe |
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Technology: Agriculture |
| "Listen a hundred times; ponder a thousand times; speak once" - Turkish Proverb | |||
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Karnak |
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Technology: Calendar |
| "The body is the house of god. That is why it is said "Man know yourself"" - Egyptian Proverb | |||
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Malwiya Minaret |
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Technology: The Wheel |
| "Aim at heaven and you will get Earth... Aim at Earth and you will get neither." - C S Lewis | |||
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Mesa Verde |
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Technology: Trapping Desert or desert adjacent city |
| "The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban farms condition mind." - Lewis Mumford | |||
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Nazca Lines |
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Technology: Calender City within 2 tiles of a mountain |
| "The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible." - Oscar Wilde | |||
Classical[] | |||
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Buddhas of Bamiyan |
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Technology: Engineering Desert or desert adjacent city |
| "Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth" - Buddha | |||
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Cairo Citadel |
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Technology: Engineering |
| "With a wall I will make the two into a unique whole, so that one army may defend them both." - Saladin | |||
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El Tajín |
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Technology: Drama and Poetry |
| "I was like a fledgling swallow living high up in a niche in the eaves, who from time to time peeps out over the top of its nest." - Pierre Loti | |||
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Gate of the Sun |
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Technology: Mathematics |
| "Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity." - Khalil Gibran | |||
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Hōryū-ji |
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Technology: Philosophy |
| "Sincerely revere the three treasures: the Buddha, his teachng, and the ordained community." - Prince Shotoku | |||
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Jiayuguan Fort |
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Technology: Mathematics Part of the Chinese New Year Wonder Pack |
| "Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason" - Francis Bacon | |||
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Lake Titicaca |
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Technology: Optics City within 2 tiles of a mountain City within 2 tiles of fresh water |
| "In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous." - Aristotle | |||
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Mada'in Saleh |
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Technology: Construction Desert or desert adjacent city Hill city |
| "Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves." - Adrienne Clarkson | |||
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Pantheon |
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Technology: Mathematics |
| "With every refinement they resotred the Pantheon worn by age." - Septimius Severus and Caracalla | |||
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Templo Mayor |
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Technology: Mathematics |
| "All things of the Earth have an end and in the midst of the most joyous lives, the breath falters, they fall, they sink into the ground." - King Nezahualcoyotl | |||
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Teotihuacan |
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Technology: Engineering |
| "The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead" - Aristotle | |||
Medieval[] | |||
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Amer Fort |
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Technology: Physics Hill city Part of the Diwali Wonder Pack |
| "He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious." - Sun Tzu | |||
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Chartres Cathedral |
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Technology: Machinery |
| "The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a master-architect; in execution, the labors of many." - Hubert H. Humphrey | |||
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Churches of Lalibela |
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Technology: Theology Hill city Not updated for BNW. |
| "We have finished the job, what shall we do with the tools?" - Haile Selassie | |||
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Dome of the Rock |
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Technology: Theology |
| "No city in the world, not even Athens or Rome, ever played as great a role in the life of a nation for so long a time as Jerusalem." - David Ben-Gurian | |||
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Grand Canal |
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Technology: Compass Coastal city Can't be built on a hill |
| "Thou know'st that all my fortunes are at sea, Neither have I money nor commodity to raise a present sum: therefore go forth; Try what my credit can in Venice do" - William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice | |||
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Great Mosque of Aleppo |
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Technology: Physics Part of the Arab Spring wonder pack |
| "The sword wounds the body, but words wound the soul." - Zechariah | |||
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Gulou |
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Technology: Chivalry Part of the Chinese New Year Wonder Pack |
| "If you put together all the Christians in the world, with their Emperors and their Kings, the whole of these Christians, - aye, and throw in the Saracens to boot, - would not have such power, or be able to do so much as this Kublai, who is Lord of all the Tartars in the world." - Marco Polo | |||
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Itsukushima Shrine |
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Technology: Theology Coastal city |
| "From far and near, Hearing the sounds of waterfalls, Young leaves" - Buson | |||
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Kandariya Mahadeva Temple |
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Technology: Theology Part of the Diwali Wonder Pack |
| "God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple."[ - Chanakya | |||
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Leshan Giant Buddha |
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Technology: Civil Service River city |
| "However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?" - Buddha | |||
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Mount Ruapehu |
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Technology: Metal Casting City within 2 tiles of a mountain |
| "As man disappears, the land remains" - Maori Proverb | |||
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Nan Madol |
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Technology: Civil Service Coastal city |
| "The waterways are charged wth magic, but nothing about them is more magical than the difference made by the few feet of water which separate the boat from the land." - Robert Aickman | |||
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Paro Taktsang |
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Technology: Theology City within 2 tiles of a mountain |
| "There are many paths to the top of the mountain, yet the view is always the same" - Chinese Proverb | |||
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Saint Mark's Basilica |
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Technology: Guilds Incompatible with Events and Decisions |
| "It is the most splendid city I have ever seen, and the one which governs itself the most wisely." - Philippe de Commines | |||
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Shwedagon Paya |
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Technology: Metal Casting |
| "There was a tumult among men and spirits, the blind beheld objects, the deaf heard sounds. The earth quaked, lightning flashed, gems rained down until they were knee deep, and all trees of the Himalayas, though not in season, bore blossoms and fruit." - King Okkalapa | |||
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Stone Town |
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Technology: Compass Coastal city |
| "The Europeans and Americans residing in the town of Zanzibar are either Government officials, independent merchants, or agents for a few great mercantile houses in Europe and America." - Henry Morton Stanley | |||
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Temple of Heaven |
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Technology: Theology |
| "Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven." - Confucius | |||
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Todai-ji |
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Technology: Guilds |
| "The colour of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech" - Dogen | |||
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Wartburg |
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Technology: Chivalry Hill city |
| "Wait, mountain - You shall become a castle for me!" - Ludwig der Springer | |||
 Great Work - Ninety-Five Theses (by Martin Luther)"Why does not the Pope, whose riches are at this day more ample than those of the wealthiest of the wealthy, build the one Basilica of St. Peter with his own money, rather than with that of poor believers?"
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Westminster Abbey |
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Technology: Chivalry Not updated for BNW. |
| "In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it" - Oscar Wilde | |||
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Xuankong Si |
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Technology: Theology Part of the Chinese New Year Wonder Pack |
| "All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small." - Lao Tzu | |||
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Yellow Crane Tower |
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Technology: Education Part of the Chinese New Year Wonder Pack |
| "Long ago a man rode off on a yellow crane, all that remains here is Yellow Crane Tower. Once the yellow crane left it never returned, for one thousand years the clouds wandered without care". - Cui Hao | |||
Renaissance[] | |||
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Agra Fort |
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Technology: Gunpowder Part of the Diwali Wonder Pack |
| "In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will." - Jose Ortega y Gasset | |||
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Aït Benhaddou |
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Technology: Banking Hill city |
| "You should not see the desert simply as some faraway place of little rain. There are many forms of thirst." - William Langewiesche | |||
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Amphawa Floating Market |
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Technology: Banking Coastal cityPart of the Songkran Wonder Pack Not compatible with mods which add new Resources. |
| "Ideas, like large rivers, never have just one source." - Willy Ley | |||
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Buda Castle |
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Technology: Architecture River city |
| "There is no sanctuary so holy that money cannot profane it, no fortress so strong that money cannot take it by storm" - Marcus Tullius Cicero | |||
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Changdeokgung |
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Technology: Printing Press |
| "Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace" - Hannah More | |||
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The Golden Pavillion |
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Technology: Banking |
| "A book holds a house of Gold" - Chinese Proverb | |||
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Gripsholm Castle |
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Technology: Printing Press City within 2 tiles of fresh water |
| "A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life." - Charles Darwin | |||
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Haji Ali Dargah |
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Technology: Navigation Coastal city Not updated for BNW. |
| "That's what a ship is, you know - it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs. But what a ship is,... really is, is freedom." - Captain Jack Sparrow | |||
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Harmandir Sahib |
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Technology: Metallurgy Part of the Diwali Wonder Pack |
| "The Giver of peace is eternally blissful." - Sri Guru Granth Sahib | |||
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Hawa Mahal |
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Technology: Architecture Part of the Diwali Wonder Pack |
| "Wisdom sails with wind and time" - John Florio | |||
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The Matterhorn |
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Technology: Acoustics City within 2 tiles of a mountain |
| "After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb" - Nelson Mandela | |||
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Pu'ukohola Heiau |
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Technology: Astronomy Coastal citys |
| "A heavenly nature; an earthly nature" - King Kamehameha I | |||
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Santa Maria del Fiore |
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Technology: Architecture Not updated for BNW. |
| "Life well spent is long" - Leonardo da Vinci | |||
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Santa Maria delle Grazie |
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Technology: Printing Press |
| "No failure, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes." - Greil Marcus | |||
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St. Peter's Basilica |
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Technology: Acoustics |
| "A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral" - Antoine de Saint-Exupery | |||
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Wat Arun |
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Technology: Economics River city |
| "Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment" - Buddha | |||
Industrial[] | |||
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Avenue Habib Bourguiba |
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Technology: Steam Power Part of the Arab Spring wonder pack |
| "Colonialism is an idea born in the West that drives Western countries - like France, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain - to occupy countries outside of Europe" - Ahmed Ben Bella | |||
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Cologne Cathedral |
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Technology: Steam Power |
| "The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man" - Ralph Wardo Emerson | |||
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Democracy Monument |
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Technology: Electricity Part of the Songkran Wonder Pack *Refers to the Pre-BNW policy trees, not the ideologiesNot updated for BNW. |
| "The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart." - Mahatma Gandhi | |||
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La Maestranza |
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Technology: Archaeology |
| "Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor." - Ernest Hemingway | |||
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Martyr's Square |
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Technology: Military Science Part of the Arab Spring wonder pack |
| "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." - John F. Kennedy | |||
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Mount Rushmore |
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Technology: Dynamite City within 2 tiles of a mountain |
| "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood" - Theodore Roosevelt | |||
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Pena National Palace |
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Technology: Steam Power |
| "It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost[sic] upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth." - Sir Francis Bacon | |||
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Sagrada Familia |
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Technology: Biology |
| "Beauty is the splendor of truth, and since art is beauty, there is no art without truth." - Gaudi | |||
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Suez Canal |
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Technology: Industrialization Coastal city |
| "I can make the spot that we're standing on the crossroads of the Earth" - Ferdinand de Lesseps | |||
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Tahrir Square |
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Technology: Archeology Part of the Arab Spring wonder pack |
| "When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right." - Victor Hugo | |||
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Te Tii Marae |
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Technology: Military Science |
| "When what is not Maori is Pakeha and what is not Pakeha is Maori, I occupy the gap between the two, that black hole in which nothing can be seen and from which nothing can be heard." - Annamarie Jagose | |||
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Trafalgar Square |
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Technology: Steam Power |
| "Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat" - Lord Nelson | |||
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Washington Monument |
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Technology: Military Science |
| "The bosom of America is open to receive not only the opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all Nations and Religions." - George Washington | |||
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Wat Pho |
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Technology: Archaeology Part of the Songkran Wonder Pack |
| "Buddhism teaches one to embrace change." - Koo Stark | |||
Modern[] | |||
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Brooklyn Bridge |
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Technology: Railroad River city |
| "Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it." - William F. Buckley Jr | |||
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Darjeeling Himalayan Railway |
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Technology: Railroad Hill city |
| "There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same" - Chinese Proverb | |||
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Empire State Building |
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Technology: Electronics Not updated for BNW. |
| “One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years” - Thomas Wolfe | |||
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Escadaria Selarón |
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Technology: Replaceable Parts |
| "Stairs are climbed step by step" - Turkish proverb | |||
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Hollywood |
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Technology: Electronics *Not updated for BNW. |
| "Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul." - Marilyn Monroe | |||
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Khao San Road |
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Technology: Flight Part of the Songkran Wonder Pack |
| "Build the roads and the jobs follow." - Tommy Thompson | |||
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Panama Canal |
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Technology: Railroad Coastal city *Not updated for BNW. |
| "A stream cannot rise larger than its source" - Theodore Roosevelt | |||
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Pan-American Highway |
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Technology: Combustion |
| "¡Viva el Panamericanismo!" - the Richardson Expedition | |||
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Pearl Monument |
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Technology: Electronics Part of the Arab Spring wonder pack |
| "For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine." - Samuel Butler | |||
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Rockefeller Center |
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Technology: Replaceable Parts Not updated for BNW. |
| "Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great" - John D. Rockefeller | |||
Atomic[] | |||
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Apollo Program |
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Technology: Rocketry Standard Apollo Program project for Science victory is replaced with Project Longshot |
| "Houston, tranquility base here. The Eagle has landed." - Neil Armstrong | |||
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Arecibo Observatory |
|
Technology: Radar |
| "The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. From it we have learned most of what we know. Recently, we have waded a little out to sea, enough to dampen out toes or, at most, wet our ankles. The water seems inviting. The ocean calls." - Carl Sagan | |||
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London Eye |
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Technology: Ecology |
| "As I come down the Highgate Hill, I met the sun's bravado, and saw below me, fold on fold, grey to pearl and pearl to gold, this London like a land of old, the land of El Dorado" - Henry Howarth Bashford | |||
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Martin Luther King Memorial |
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Technology: Computers Not updated for BNW. |
| "Out of a mountain of despar, a stone of hope." - Martin Luther King Jr. | |||
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Millau Viaduct |
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Technology: Ecology Hill city |
| "Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself." - Pythagoras | |||
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Sky Tower |
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Technology: Ecology |
| "If it would not look too much like showing off, I would tell the reader where New Zealand is." - Mark Twain | |||
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Taipei 101 |
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Technology: Ecology |
| "I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position." - Mark Twain | |||
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The Motherland Calls |
|
Technology: Combined Arms Not updated for BNW. |
| "Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach" - Joseph Stalin | |||
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Three Gorges Dam |
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Technology: Ecology River city Not updated for BNW. |
| "The river seeking for the sea confronts the dam and precipice, yet knows it cannot fail or miss" - Ella Wheeler Wilcox | |||
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White Sands Missile Range |
|
Technology: Rocketry |
| "What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars" - William Wordsworth | |||
Information[] | |||
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Abraj al Bait Towers |
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Technology: Globalisation Not compatible with mods which add new Resources. |
| "A good word is like a good tree whose root is firmly fixed and whose top is in the sky." - Qu'ran | |||
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Marina Bay Sands |
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Technology: Globalisation |
| "Whoever governs Singapore must have that iron in him. Or give it up." - Lee Kuan Yew | |||
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Oriental Pearl Tower |
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Technology: Telecommunications |
| "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today." - William Allen White | |||
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Palm Jumeirah |
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Technology: Globalisation |
| "It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened." - Phillip Sydney | |||
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Petronas Towers |
|
Technology: Globalisation |
| "The reality of a hollow object is in the void and not in the walls that define it. The power of the void is increased and made more explicit... that... with its supporting structure creates a portal to the sky... a door to the infinite" - César Pelli | |||
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Shanghai World Financial Center |
|
Technology: Globalisation Part of the Chinese New Year Wonder Pack |
| "We have the best government that Money can buy" - Mark Twain | |||
  |
Tokyo Sky Tree |
|
Technology: Telecommunications |
| "In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true." - Buddha | |||
Fictional Wonders[]
Icon
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Wonder
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Yields
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Requirements
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DJSHenninger's Elder Scrolls Wonders[] | |||
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Aetherium Forge |
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Technology: Metal Casting [Med] |
| "I've waited so long for this moment. We found it. At last." - Katria | |||
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Bards College |
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Technology: Acoustics [Ren] |
| "It is my personal mission to ensure that the Bards College preserves the great deeds of the past, in both peotry and song." - Viarmo | |||
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Blackreach |
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Technology: Engineering [Cla] |
| "Under deep. Below the dark. The hidden keep. Tower Nzark. The point of puncture, of first entry, of the trapping. Delve to its limits, and Blackreach lies just beyond" - Septimus Signus | |||
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Blue Palace |
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Technology: Civil Service [Med] Capital City |
| "Bean up to the Blue Palace? It's a sight to see." - Solitude Guard | |||
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The Bulwark |
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Technology: Metal Casting [Med] City on or adjacent to a Mined Resource |
| "If it wasn't for the Bulwark, we'd be digging houses out from beneath the ash by now." - Redoran Guard | |||
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Castle Dour |
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Technology: Chivalry [Med] |
| "What greater glory than to serve the Emperor and his citizens here in Skyrim, in these days of greatest need?" - General Tullius | |||
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Castle Karstaag |
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Technology: Masonry [Anc] City within 2 tiles of Snow |
| "It is a castle made of ice on the northwest part of Solstheim. There lives the frost giant Karstaag." - Korst Wind-Eye | |||
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Castle Volkihar |
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Technology: Chivalry [Med] |
| "I offer you my blood. Take it, and you will walk as a lion among sheep. Men will tremble at your approach, and you will never fear death again" - Harkon | |||
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Chantry of Auri-El |
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Technology: Masonry [Anc] City within 2 tiles of a mountain |
| "May the light of Auri-El illuminate your darkest hour" - Gelebor | |||
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College of Winterhold |
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Technology: Education [Med] |
| "What you learn here will last you a lifetime - several, if you're talented" - Savos Aren | |||
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Dragonsreach |
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Technology: Construction [Cla] Hill City |
| "Jarl Olaf One-Eye it was, who later became High King. They say he Shouted it into submission in single combat atop Mount Anthor and brought it back to Whiterun. Numinex was the dragon's name. That's his skull decorating the main hall." - Balgruuf the Greater | |||
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Fort Dawnguard |
|
Technology: Chivalry [Med] |
| "There's only one thing worth remembering. When it comes to vampires, if you're sloppy or careless, you're dead." - Isran | |||
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Great Statue of Irkngthand |
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Technology: Theology [Med] |
| "By the Eight... you actually got your hands on it! This alone is worth more than some thieves earn in a lifetime" - Delvin Mallory | |||
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Palace of the Kings |
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Technology: Mathematics [Cla] Must have a Great General |
| "Lot of history in these walls. We're trying to make some more. It's a lucky time to be alive." - Jorleif | |||
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Shrine of Azura |
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Technology: Theology [Med] Must have founded a Religion |
| "As our land was scorched by fire and brimstone, Azura's prophecies led us to safety. She is a Daedra, a powerful being who watches from beyond our mortal plane." - Aranea Ienith | |||
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Skuldafn |
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Technology: Pottery [Anc] Must have founded a Pantheon |
| "Skuldafn will be your death" - Dragons of Skuldafn | |||
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Skyforge |
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Technology: Bronze Working [Anc] |
| "Amidst a vast plain his eyes had met a monument of a bird, whose eyes and back were opened in flame." - Anonymous | |||
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Thirsk Mead Hall |
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Technology: Compass [Med] City within 3 tiles of a Camp |
| "For a band in the wilderness, it is better to have no leader than a poor one." - Hrothmund the Red | |||
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Understone Keep |
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Technology: Machinery [Med] |
| "Their history and culture is all around us in Markarth. A race of stonecutters, artisans, and engineers." - Calcelmo | |||
Vivala's Super Mario Wonders[] | |||
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Bowser's Castle |
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Technology: Chivalry [Med] |
| "Gee, it's only the best castle ever made! Take a look from a distance! Powerful and awe-inspiring design choices slap your face! It's like looking at me!" - Bowser | |||
  |
Comet Observatory |
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Technology: Satellites [Inf] |
| "With its many Lumas and telescopes, the comet was quite a sight to behold. The girl and the Lumas were proud to call it home." - Rosalina's Story | |||
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Daisy Cruiser |
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Technology: Steam Power [Ind] Coastal City |
| "It's Daisy's very own cruise ship! Skid over the deck, across dining halls, and take a short cut through the engine room in your pursuit of the chequered flag." - Double Dash EU Website | |||
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Luigi's Mansion |
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Technology: Architecture [Ren] |
| "So, you believe the mansion actually exists, then... Strange. I've been here since I was a lad of twenty or so, and I'll tell you: that mansion appeared just a few days ago!" - Professor E. Gadd | |||
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Mario Kart Stadium |
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Technology: Horseback Riding [Cla] |
| "Welcome to Mario Kart!" - Mario | |||
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Palace of Shadow |
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Technology: Theology [Med] |
| "This is the entrance to the Palace of Shadow. It's seen no visitors for 1,000 years... It's so big... It kind of overwhelms you, doesn't it? And that treasure is here... Treasure or no, I don't like the vibe from this place... Maybe it's just my nerves..." - Goombella | |||
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Peach's Castle |
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Technology: Chivalry [Med] |
| "Welcome. No one's home! Now scram--and don't come back! Gwa ha ha!" - Bowser | |||
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Rainbow Road |
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Technology: Astronomy [Ren] |
| "It's Rainbow Road. It's where you go when you die." - Mark Kump | |||
Vanilla Wonders[]
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Wonder
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Great Library |
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Technology: Writing |
| "Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and all that without delusion or imposture are preserved and reposed." – Sir Francis Bacon | |||
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Mausoleum of Halicarnassus |
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Technology: Masonry |
| "The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other men's lives." – Pericles | |||
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Pyramids |
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Technology: Masonry |
| "O, let not the pains of death which come upon thee enter into my body. I am the god Tem, and I am the foremost part of the sky, and the power which protecteth me is that which is with all the gods forever." – The Book of the Dead, translated by Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge | |||
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Statue of Zeus |
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Technology: Bronze Working |
| "He spoke, the son of Kronos, and nodded his head with the dark brows, and the immortally anointed hair of the great god swept from his divine head, and all Olympos was shaken." – The Iliad | |||
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Stonehenge |
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Technology: Calendar |
| "Time crumbles things; everything grows old and is forgotten under the power of time" – Aristotle | |||
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Temple of Artemis |
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Technology: Archery |
| "It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of the air, that emanation from the old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit." – Robert Louis Stevenson | |||
| Classical | |||
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Colossus |
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Technology: Iron Working Coastal city |
| "Why man, he doth bestride the narrow world like a colossus, and we petty men walk under his huge legs, and peep about to find ourselves dishonorable graves." – William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar | |||
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Great Lighthouse |
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Technology: Optics Coastal city |
| "They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; these see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep." – The Bible, Psalms 107:23-24 | |||
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Great Wall |
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Technology: Engineering |
| "The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable." – Sun Tzu | |||
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Hanging Gardens |
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Technology: Mathematics |
| "I think that if ever a mortal heard the word of God it would be in a garden at the cool of the day." – F. Frankfort Moore | |||
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Oracle |
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Technology: Philosophy |
| "The ancient Oracle said that I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing" – Socrates | |||
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Parthenon |
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Technology: Drama and Poetry |
| "Earth proudly wears the Parthenon as the best gem upon her zone." – Ralph Waldo Emerson | |||
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Petra |
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Technology: Currency Desert or desert adjacent city |
| "...who drinks the water I shall give him, says the Lord, will have a spring inside him welling up for eternal life. Let them bring me to your holy mountain in the place where you dwell. Across the desert and through the mountain to the Canyon of the Crescent Moon..." – Indiana Jones | |||
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Terracotta Army |
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Technology: Construction |
| "Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death." – Sun Tzu | |||
| Medieval | |||
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Alhambra |
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Technology: Chivalry |
| "Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies." – Joseph Addison | |||
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Angkor Wat |
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Technology: Education |
| "The temple is like no other building in the world. It has towers and decoration and all the refinements which the human genius can conceive of." – Antonio da Magdalena | |||
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Borobudur |
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Technology: Theology Holy City |
| "When you realize how perfect everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky." – Gautama Buddha | |||
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Chichen Itza |
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Technology: Civil Service |
| "The katun is established at Chichen Itza. The settlement of the Itza shall take place there. The quetzal shall come, the green bird shall come. Ah Kantenal shall come. It is the word of God. The Itza shall come." – The Books of Chilam Balam | |||
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Great Mosque of Djenne |
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Technology: Theology |
| "With the magnificence of eternity before us, let time, with all its fluctuations, dwindle into its own littleness." – Thomas Chalmers | |||
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Hagia Sophia |
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Technology: Theology |
| "For it soars to a height to match the sky, and as if surging up from among the other buildings it stands on high and looks down upon the remainder of the city, adorning it, because it is a part of it, but glorying in its own beauty." – Procopius, De Aedificis | |||
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Machu Picchu |
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Technology: Guilds City within 2 tiles of a mountain |
| "Few romances can ever surpass that of the granite citadel on top of the beetling precipices of Machu Picchu, the crown of Inca Land." – Hiram Bingham | |||
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Notre Dame |
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Technology: Physics |
| "Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book." – Victor Hugo | |||
| Renaissance | |||
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Forbidden Palace |
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Technology: Banking |
| "Most of us can, as we choose, make of this world either a palace or a prison." – John Lubbock | |||
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Globe Theatre |
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Technology: Printing Press |
| "Totus mundus agit histrionem." (All the world's a stage) – Inscription above main entrance to the Globe Theatre | |||
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Himeji Castle |
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Technology: Gunpowder |
| "Bushido is realized in the presence of death. This means choosing death whenever there is a choice between life and death. There is no other reasoning." – Yamamoto Tsunetomo | |||
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Leaning Tower of Pisa |
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Technology: Printing Press |
| "Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building." – John Osbourne | |||
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Porcelain Tower |
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Technology: Architecture |
| "Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that Longing leans and beckons." – James Russell Lowell | |||
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Red Fort |
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Technology: Metallurgy |
| "When we build, let us think that we build forever." – John Ruskin | |||
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Sistine Chapel |
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Technology: Acoustics |
| "I live and love in God's peculiar light." – Michelangelo Buonarroti | |||
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Taj Mahal |
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Technology: Architecture |
| "The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time." – Rabindranath Tagore | |||
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Uffizi |
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Technology: Architecture |
| "The painter is not simply someone who looks and who sees. Above all, the artist is someone who exposes a personal vision by rendering it visible." – Marcel Paquet | |||
| Industrial | |||
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Big Ben |
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Technology: Industrialization |
| "To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan, and not quite enough time." – Leonard Bernstein | |||
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Brandenburg Gate |
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Technology: Military Science |
| "Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings." – Horace | |||
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Louvre |
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Technology: Archaeology |
| "Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun." – Ralph Waldo Emerson | |||
| Modern | |||
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Broadway |
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Technology: Radio |
| "Broadway is a main artery of New York cultural life - the hardened artery." – Walter Winchell | |||
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Eiffel Tower |
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Technology: Radio |
| "We live only to discover beauty, all else is a form of waiting" – Kahlil Gibran | |||
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Kremlin |
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Technology: Railroad |
| "The Law is a fortress on a hill that armies cannot take or floods wash away." – The Prophet Muhammed | |||
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Neuschwanstein |
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Technology: Railroad City within 2 tiles of a mountain |
| "...the location is one of the most beautiful to be found, holy and unapproachable, a worthy temple for the divine friend who has brought salvation and true blessing to the world." – King Ludwig II of Bavaria | |||
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Prora |
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Technology: Flight Coastal city |
| "This loss (of freedom) means the fading from human life of values infinitely precious to it. There only remain ironbound conditions of employment and trivial amusements for leisure." – A.N. Whitehead | |||
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Statue of Liberty |
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Technology: Replaceable Parts |
| "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" – Emma Lazarus | |||
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Cristo Redentor |
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Technology: Plastics |
| "Come to me, all who labor and are heavy burdened, and I will give you rest." – The Bible, Matthew 11:28 | |||
| Atomic | |||
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Great Firewall |
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Technology: Computers |
| "Distrust and caution are the parents of security." – Benjamin Franklin | |||
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Pentagon |
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Technology: Combined Arms |
| "In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable." – Dwight D. Eisenhower | |||
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Sydney Opera House |
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Technology: Ecology Coastal city |
| "Those who lose dreaming are lost." – Australian Aboriginal saying | |||
| Information | |||
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CN Tower |
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Technology: Telecommunications |
| "Nothing travels faster than light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special rules." – Douglas Adams | |||
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Hubble Space Telescope |
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Technology: Satellites |
| "The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it." – Anatole France | |||
| Miscellaneous | |||
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International Space Station |
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Technology: Satellites Cannot be built, awarded to the highest contributor to it's World Congress project |
| "Building one Space Station for everyone was and is insane; we should have built a dozen." – Larry Niven | |||
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United Nations |
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Technology: Globalization Replaced in BNW with the World Congress mechanic |
| "More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that is why we have the United Nations." – Kofi Annan | |||
Natural Wonders[]
Wonder
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Yields
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| Barringer Crater |
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| Cerro de Potosi |
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| El Dorado |
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500  Gold to the first civilization to discover it
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| Fountain of Youth |
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| Adjacent military land units heal at double rate for the rest of the game | |
| Grand Mesa |
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| Great Barrier Reef |
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| King Solomon's Mines |
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| Krakatoa |
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| Lake Victoria |
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| Mt. Fuji |
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| Mt. Kailash |
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| Mt. Kilimanjaro |
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| Adjacent military land units move at double speed through Hills and receive a combat bonus on Hills for the rest of the game | |
| Mt. Sinai |
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| Old Faithful |
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| Rock of Gibraltar |
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| Sri Pada |
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| Uluru |
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