7 Keajaiban Dunia Versi Terbaru

Tembok Besar Cina

Tembok Raksasa Cina atau Tembok Besar Cina Li merupakan bangunan terpanjang yang pernah dibuat oleh manusia, terletak di Republik Rakyat Cina. Panjangnya adalah 6.400 kilometer (dari kawasan Sanhai Pass di timur hingga Lop Nur di sebelah barat) dan tingginya 8 meter dengan tujuan untuk mencegah serbuan bangsa Mongol dari Utara pada masa itu. Lebar bagian atasnya 5 m, sedangkan lebar bagian bawahnya 8 m. Setiap 180-270 m dibuat semacam menara pengintai. Tinggi menara pengintai tersebut 11-12 m.

Taj Mahal

Tāj Mahal adalah sebuah monumen yang terletak di Agra, India. Dibangun atas keinginan Kaisar Mughal Shāh Jahān, anak Jahangir, sebagai sebuah musoleum untuk istri Persianya, Arjumand Banu Begum, juga dikenal sebagai Mumtaz-ul-Zamani atau Mumtaz Mahal. Pembangunannya menghabiskan waktu 23 tahun (1630-1653) dan merupakan sebuah adi karya dari arsitektur Mughal. Shah Jahan, kaisar dari Kekaisaran Mughal memiliki kekayaan yang besar selama masa kejayaannya. Pada 1631 istri keduanya wafat sewaktu melahirkan putrinya Gauhara Begum, anak ke-14 mereka.

Kristus Penebus

Patung Kristus Penebus adalah patung Yesus Kristus dengan gaya arsitektur Art Deco terbesar dan terdapat di Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. Patung memiliki tinggi 38 meter dan terletak di puncak dari Gunung Corcovado yang tingginya 710 m di Taman Nasional Hutan Tijuca, yang menghadap ke kota. Patung ini menjadi simbol umat Kristen, dan menjadi simbol kebanggaan kota. Tangan patung ini yang terbuka dilihat banyak orang sebagai tanda dari kehangatan penduduk Brasil.

Petra

Petra adalah sebuah situs arkeologikal di Yordania, terletak di dataran rendah di antara gunung-gunung yang membentuk sayap timur Wadi Araba, lembah besar yang berawal dari Laut Mati sampai Teluk Aqaba.

Machu Picchu

Machu Picchu  adalah sebuah lokasi reruntuhan Inca pra-Columbus yang terletak di wilayah pegunungan pada ketinggian sekitar 2.350 m diatas permukaan laut. Machu Picchu berada di atas lembah Urubamba di Peru, sekitar 70 km barat laut Cusco.

Colesseum

Koloseum adalah sebuah peninggalan bersejarah berupa gedung pertunjukan yang besar berbentuk elips yang disebut amfiteater atau dengan nama aslinya Flavian Amphitheatre, yang termasuk salah satu dari Tujuh Keajaiban Dunia Pertengahan. Situs ini terletak di ibukota negara Italia, Roma, yang didirikan oleh Raja Vespasian pada masa Kekaisaran Romawi dan diselesaikan oleh anaknya Titus, dan menjadi salah satu karya terbesar dari arsitektur Romawiyang pernah dibangun.

Chitchen Itza

Chichén Itzá adalah suatu Situs Peradaban Maya di Meksiko pada abad 800 SM. Piramida Kukulcan di kompleks situs bersejarah ini dipercaya sebagai pusat kegiatan politik dan ekonomi peradaban bangsa Maya yang terletak di Semenanjung Yucatan (kini wilayah Meksiko). Itza merupkan titik sentral kompleks bangunan lainnya seperti Piramida Kukulcan, Candi Chac Mool, dan bangunan Seribu Tiang.

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Pantai - pantai Terindah di Bali

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Lovina Beach

Lovina Beach is located about 9 km west of Singaraja, this is one tourist attraction in northern Bali. Both foreign and local tourists who visited there a lot, other than to see the unspoiled beaches, and also to see the dolphins which is widely available in this beach. By hiring a local fishing boat, we can approach the dolphins. A variety of accommodation ranging from the Inn until Cottages are available with a very affordable price.

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Sanur beach

Sanur  is a coastal stretch of beach of Denpasar city of southeast Bali, about 30 minutes drive from Ngurah Rai International Airport, which has grown into a little town in its own right. The northern part of Sanur beach was used as the landing site for the Dutch invasion troops during the Dutch intervention in Bali (1906). During World War II, Sanur was again the entry point through which the Japanese forces landed to occupy the island of Bali.Today Sanur contains a number of resorts such as the Medina and Bali Hyatt (not to be confused with the Grand Hyatt in Nusa D ua) and is a popular tourist destination.

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Dreamland beach

Dreamland Beach is a beach located on the Bukit peninsula, on the island of Bali, Indonesia. The beach provides basic accommodation and cafes for surfers and day-trippers. One of the most beautiful beaches on the island, it is also renowned for its dangerous shorebreak. It is the site of the failed Pecatu Graha development, planned by Tommy Suharto, the corrupt youngest son of the former president Suharto. As of 2008 this is an active building site with all the previous Warongs having been levelled for a hotel complex.

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Legian beach

Is a no-holds barred beach where locals, expatriates and tourists mingle, bargain with the best, play paddle ball and football, indulge in a massage and manicure, catch up on reading, meditate, exercise, you name it. The two camps are easily recognized; the workers have as many clothes on as possible and the westeners wear as little as possible. Be prepared for scantily clad Brazilians, G-stringed Italians, copper toned Germans, Australians in designer surf gear and pretty Indonesian girls in multi-platform sandals - it is the united nations of beaches. Sunset is peak time at Legian Beach, when the beach bars fill up, the football field is at its busiest and the locals knock off work and wade fully clothed, skirts swirling, into the waves.

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Padangbai Beach

Padangbai is a small town in eastern Bali, Indonesia near Candidasa. It serves as a ferry port for travel to Lombok, The Gilis and other of the Lesser Sunda Islands. It is also a lovely beach town that is popular with those who prefer a small town atmosphere over the large scale beach party that is Kuta. Besides the beach near the ferry terminal there is a beach just to the north known locally as the Blue Lagoon and the especially nice Secret Beach just to the south of town. Blue Lagoon has two family owned warungs that will be glad to prepare a meal and serve beer. Many people go to Padangbai to Scuba Dive.

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Candi Dasa Beach

Candi Dasa is the gateway to east Bali. The beach here has been mostly washed away due to the heavy coral picking that used to provide a livelihood for locals. This has now been stopped and tidal walls have been erected in an effort to restore the beach. Slowly the coral is returning, and Candi Dasa is developing as a popular tourist destination. Amankila at Candi Dasa has a lovely beach club which tourists can visit for a daily fee – use the beach and the pool and enjoy delicious food at their restaurant.

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Money Matters

One of the popular things in this world: MONEY. Sure you know that money is not everything, even thought it’s important. It can make people happy, sad, proud, and angry. But how did money come into our lives?

Long before there was money, people bartered. Barter is the exchange of goods or services. The problem occured when people couldn’t agree with the worth of things they want the other person had.  Because of that, people invented money.

The first money was not coins or bank notes like those that we know today. People used commodities – basic items used by amost everyone – instead. Therefore, in the pastm the scene of people carrying bags of salt, tea, rice, tobacco, or seeds or waking here and there with their catte was a common thing. But carrying commodities around was certainly no picnic!

Herodotus, a greek historian who is also known as the father of history in Western culture, stated that it was the Lydians, who were the first people to introduce the use of gold and silver coins and also the first to establish retail shops in permanent locations. Lydia was an Iron Age kingdom located in Turkey. Nobody is really sure about the date when the Lydians stared to produce the first coins. But the most common belief was that they were minted during or at the beginning of the reign of King Alyatess, who ruled Lydia approximately 610-550 BC. Other countries soon started to mint their own series of coins with specific values.

If the Lydians were the first to use coins, the Chinese were the first to use paper money. It started when Chinese merchants felt that it was not easy to carry around heavy coins. To solve problem, they left their coins with a trustworthy person who gave them a slip of paper on which was written how much money was with the person. By showing and returning the paper to the money holder, anyone could regain the money.

With the introduction of coins and paper currency, people stopped carrying round rice, salt or cattle when shopping.

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biography Avril Lavigne

Avril Ramona Lavigne Whible lahir di Kanada, 27 September 1984; umur 26 tahun, atau lebih dikenal dengan nama Avril Lavigne, adalah seorang penyanyi pop-punk, musisi, dan aktris asal Kanada. Pada tahun 2006, Majalah Bisnis Kanada memposisikannya dalam posisi ke-7 wanita Kanada paling mengagumkan di Hollywood, dan pada tahun 2007 dia memenangkan 9 nominasi Jabra Music Contest untuk kategori Best Band In The World, berdasarkan pilihan penggemar diseluruh dunia.

Avril Lavigne dilahirkan disebuah kota kecil, Napanee, Ontario dalam lingkungan keluarga Kristen. Kemampuan Avril dalam bernyanyi telah diketahui sejak ia berumur 2 tahun, ketika ibunya mengatakan bahwa Avril telah mulai ikut menyanyi lagu-lagu rohani di gereja. Keluarga Avril pindah ke Napanee saat dia berumur 5 tahun. Pada tahun 1998, Avril memenangkan kompetisi bernyanyi dalam tour resmi penyanyi Kanada, Shania Twain. Avril menyanyikan lagu Shania yang berjudul What Made You Say That.
Saat usia Avril menjelang 16 tahun, dia didaftarkan oleh Ken Krongard, seorang artis dan jurnalis, wakil dari perusahaan rekaman Arista. Ken mengundang Antonio "L.A." Reid untuk mendengarkan nyanyian Avril disebuah studio rekaman milik Peter Zizzo di New York. Selanjutnya Avril melengkapi kontrak album perdananya, Let Go.

Keluarga Avril Lavigne :

• John Lavigne (ayah)
• Judy Lavigne (ibu)
• Matt Lavigne (kakak laki-laki)
• Michelle Lavigne (adik perempuan)
• Vitha Lavigne (adik perempuan

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TENSES (PAST FUTURE)

A. Past Future Tense

• S + Should/would + Verb-1 + Keterangan

Past Future Tense dapat digunakan untuk:

1. Menyatakan suatu peristiwa yang akan terjadi pada waktu yang akan sudah terjadi di masa lampau. Contoh: I should go to Semarang last year.
2. Menyatakan suatu peristiwa, tindakan, dan perbuatan yang menjadi suatu kebiasaan. Contoh: I would sit here for a long time.
3. Menyatakan suatu peristiwa, tindakanm dan perbuatan yang menjadi suatu keharusan. Contoh: We should help the poor man. 

 B. Past Future Continuous Tense

• S + Should/would + Be + Verb-ing + O + Keterangan

Past Future Continuous Tense digunakan untuk:

1. Menyatakan suatu peristiwa yang akan terjadi pada waktu yang akan (sedang) terjadi pada masa lampau. Contoh: I should be finishing this job.
2. Menyatakan suatu peristiwa yang seharusnya sedang terjadi di masa lampau. Contoh: I would be cleaning my room in the morning yesterday.

C. Past Future Perfect Tense

• S + Would have + Verb 3 + O + Keterangan

Past Future Perfect Tense digunakan untuk:

1. Menyatakan suatu peristiwa yang akan (sudah) dilakukan pada masa lampau. Contoh: He would have written the letter last night.
2. Menyatakan pengandaian yang tidak akan terjadi, karena menunjukkan suatu peristiwa, perbuatan yang lampau. Contoh: If you had met her, he would have felt happy on Monday last week.

D. Past Future Perfect Continuous Tense

• S + Would/should have been + Verb-ing + O + Keterangan

Past Future Perfect Continuous Tense digunakan untuk:

1. Menyatakan akan lamanya suatu perbuatan yang akan sudah (sedang) terjadi pada masa lampau. Contoh: I should have been living here for two years by last June.
2. Menyatakan suatu perbuatan yang waktunya sedang berlangsung, sudah terjadi dan akan berlangsung di masa lampau. Contoh: By last July I should have been working in this office for five years.

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