Verb tenses are so imprecise. I was debating whether to use past or present tense for that one, but I think past tense is better. We're no longer in the ancient world.
They not only lived there but they also were all regular customers at the Café Central, a coffeehouse were people used to sit and discuss current affairs or play cards or chess. To think that Stalin and Hitler might have played a game of chess there while Freud walked by casually saying something along the lines of, Meine Herren, this does not look good at all...
Considering that Herodotus (likely) made the original list of the 7 Wonders of the World, using the past tense here makes sense. This is not a current list that gets updated. When people refer to the 7 Wonders of the World, they are by default referring to the list made thousands of years ago.
During the Middle Ages, Buddha was recognized as a Christian saint who was named Josaphat.
Coincidence? I don't think so!!!!!
BTW is the Great Pyramid no longer one of the seven wonders of the ancient world?
There were more German soldiers who died in January of 1945 than American soldiers who died in the entirety of World War II.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/practiced
Was it one of them? Still Yes.
I don't see the problem here.
(Comment if you get the reference but don't say what it's from)