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unusual facts about Great Wall



Beijing–Yuanping Railway

Along the way, the line passes through scenic areas including Shidu, the Great Wall at Zijingguan, and the Eastern Qing Tombs.

China Expeditionary Army

The North China Area Army was maintained as a subordinate unit headquartered in Peking and was responsible for operations in the north China plains from the Yellow River to the Great Wall, including Inner Mongolia.

Demilitarized Zone Peace Preservation Corps

The Demilitarized Zone Peace Preservation Corps was a police force created by the Tanggu Truce to patrol and maintain order in the demilitarized zone extending from south of the Great Wall, to a line north east of the Bai River in Hebei province in northern China during the late 1930s.

John Trewick

During West Brom's visit to China he entered football history by, in reply to a question about the Great Wall, remarking "Impressive, isn't it? But once you've seen one wall, you've seen them all!".

Macao Special Administrative Region passport

Pages in the passport are special-purpose papers printed with the watermark of Great Wall, Rainbow pattern at the bottom of pages and the embossment of Lotus flower.

Marselan

A collaboration between the Chinese and French government brought Marselan to China to where it is now planted in the Sino-French Demonstration Vineyard in Huailai County in the northwestern reaches of the Hebei province near a section of the Great Wall.

Xu Bing

Using his background in print-making, in May and June 1990 Xu Bing and a team of art students and help from local residents began a monumental project: creating a rubbing from a section of the Great Wall at Jinshanling.


see also

A Great Wall: Six Presidents and China

A Great Wall: Six Presidents and China: An Investigative History (1999) is a history of international relations written by journalist Patrick Tyler.

Beinn Achaladair

The mountain looks impressive from the north west throwing down steep wall like slopes and along with the three adjoining Munros of Beinn Dorain, Beinn an Dothaidh, and Beinn a' Chreachain it forms the historical Great Wall of Rannoch, which was the boundary between the old Pictish Kingdom of Alba to the east and the Dál Riata kingdom of the Scots in the west.

Dubai Chinatown

Dubai Chinatown is an 800-hectare development near Dubai International Airport; it includes a business district shaped like a dragon, its own great wall, and a forbidden city.

Einar Englund

His score for Erik Blomberg’s Valkoinen peura (The White Reindeer) which won a Jussi Award (the Finnish Oscar), and his score for Max Frisch’s play The Great Wall of China are particularly notable.

Great Wall Airlines

The airline suspended operations on 18 August 2006 after its parent company, China Great Wall Industry, had sanctions imposed on it by the United States Department of the Treasury for allegedly supplying missile technology to Iran.

Great Wall Haval H3

The Great Wall Haval H3 complies with the Euro-III emissions standard.

Great Wall Peri

The Great Wall Peri complies with the Euro-III emissions standard.

Guandao

The heaviest known "testing guandao", which resides in a museum at Shanhaiguan (山海關), the site of one of the gates on the Great Wall and a Ming Dynasty outpost that marked the division between territories controlled by Han Chinese and Manchu forces, weighs a whopping 83 kilograms.

Jean-Baptiste Régis

In four days they reached the Gulf of Zhili (8 June 1708) and began operations on the great Wall.

King Kang of Chu

Chu was defeated and lost all of its territory north of Fangcheng, the Great Wall of Chu.

Lomas Brown

Behind the blocking of Brown and his Great Wall teammates, the Gators' quarterback Kerwin Bell, fullback John L. Williams and halfback Neal Anderson led the Gators to a 9–1–1 overall win-loss record and won their first SEC championship with a conference record of 5–0–1.

Morten Vågen

He wrote, together with Oystein Alme, the book Silenced - China’s Great Wall of Censorship, published by Amaryllis Media in late May 2006.

Øystein Alme

He wrote, with Morten Vågen, the book "Silenced - China’s Great Wall of Censorship", published by Amaryllis Media in late may, 2006.

Silenced: China's Great Wall of Censorship

Silenced : China's Great Wall of Censorship is a political book by Oystein Alme and Morten Vågen, published by Amaryllis Media in 2006.

Su Tong

His other works available in English translation are Rice, My Life as Emperor, Binu and the Great Wall (tr. Howard Goldblatt), Madwoman on the Bridge and Other Stories, Tattoo: Three Novellas and The Boat to Redemption, also translated by Goldblatt.