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Late Great Wall.(preserving the Great Wall of China)
The Great Wall of China can't quite match the myths that have grown up around it. Still, the truth is astonishing enough. The Chinese call it the Long Wall of 10,000 Miles--an exaggeration, even though its actual length would stretch from Paris to Karachi. The wall wasn't built 2,000 years ago, as some sources claim, and yet a few parts are centuries older. In fact, it's really not a single wall at all, but a tangle of parallel and proximate fortifications. The pieces weren't organized into a unified system until the Ming dynasty, which lasted from 1368 to 1644. And one more quibble: it's not visible from the moon.
The sad part is, less and less of it is visible ...
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