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13 unusual facts about Great Wall of China


Alan Towers

During this time, he also raised thousands of pounds for charity by walking the Great Wall of China and riding a motorbike across Canada.

Amy Sky

In April, Sky joined Newton-John and dozens of international musicians, actors, athletes and cancer survivors to walk the Great Wall of China in order to raise money for the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Centre in Melbourne, Australia.

Camp Holcomb

Chinwangtao is a strategic deep water port near where the Great Wall of China meets the sea.

Chaos Wastes

The mighty empire of Cathay has built a huge wall, known as 'The Dragon's Spine' (similar to the Great Wall of China) to protect their lands from invasion from the Chaos Wastes.

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Taking advantage of expensive technology, the City commissions the owner of City Wok, Mr. Lu Kim to build a huge wall around the city similar to the Great Wall of China.

Don Lessem

Another of Mr. Lessem's companies, DKV Sponsorship, Inc. holds the sponsorship rights to the principal entry to the Great Wall of China.

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!".

Monsters of Grace

When he realized the enormous costs and effort that would be involved in performing such a project (which included such tableaux as a gigantic hand pulling a sword from the ocean and a helicopter flying over the Great Wall of China), Wilson and producer Jed Wheeler began looking into creating the entire visual end of the production with 3D computer graphics.

Roman military frontiers and fortifications

The so-called Limes Britannicus is perhaps the best example of the ultimate limes - like the Great Wall of China, it was an attempt to construct a continuous man-made fortification along the length of an entire border, a massive undertaking.

The Cryonic Woman

As the ship is piloted on a round-the-world joyride, the building is dragged behind it, smashing into a number of landmarks, including the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, the Leaning Tower of Pisa and the Great Wall of China (which allows the Mongols to invade).

Tjhit Liap Seng

When Tjin Hoe realises that he is not bankrupt, he attempts to prevent his death, tracking Lauw Seng down to the Great Wall of China.

William Edgar Geil

He is believed to be the first person to have travelled the entire length of the 2,500 kilometer-long Ming section of the Great Wall of China.

Xifengite

It was first described in 1984 and named for the eastern passageway, Xifengkou, of the Great Wall of China.


Cape Neddick Light

The Voyager spacecraft, which carries photographs of Earth’s most prominent man made structures and natural features should it fall into the hands of intelligent extraterrestrials, includes a photo of Nubble Light with images of the Great Wall of China and the Taj Mahal.

Chuang Guandong

Inner Manchuria, also called Guandong (literally, "east of the pass" referring to Shanhai Pass at the eastern end of the Great Wall of China) or Guānwài (關外; "outside of the pass"), used to be a land of sparse population, inhabited mainly by the Tungusic peoples.

Clay Graham

In 1998, Graham and Drew Carey took a small production crew overseas and became the first Americans to film a sitcom in China, using locations such as The Great Wall and the Beijing McDonald's.

Gonbad-e Qabus

This wall, which is the largest defensive wall in the world after the Great Wall of China, starts from the Caspian sea coast, circles north of the city of Gonbad-e Kāvus, continues towards the northeast, and vanishes into the Pishkamar Mountains.