Building 10 Wonders of the World

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Apr. 1844 - Nelson's Column under Construction, Trafalgar Square, London.

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1882 - Workers build the Statue of Liberty inside French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi's workshop in Paris.

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1880s - The bell-tower of the Sacre Coeur Basilica under construction on the Montmartre Hill in Paris.

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1889 - Tower Bridge was begun in 1881 and opened in 1894.

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1888 - Construction of the Eiffel Tower, Paris.

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1920 -A view of a trilithon being re-erected during Lieutenant-Colonel Hawley's excavations and renovations at Stone Henge in 1919 and 1920.

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May 31, 1932Gutzon Borglum and supt. inspecting work on the face of Washington, Mt. Rushmore, South Dakota.

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1935 - Officials ride in one of the penstock pipes of the soon-to-be-completed Hoover Dam, Arizona.

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1934 -The Golden Gate Bridge under construction, San Francisco, California.

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Restoration of the Taj Mahal, Agra, India. Three American soldiers trying to catch a goldfish in the marble-lined pool at the approach to the Taj Mahal.