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| | Great Wall of China hoax - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The Great Wall of China hoax was a faked story, published in U.S. newspapers on June 25, 1899, about plans to tear down the Great Wall of China. | | | The backdrop of this was the geopolitics of China in the late 19th-century. | | | In the aftermath, China was forced to pay $320 million by the coalition of the invading countries, and China was forced into economic concessions. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Wall_of_China_hoax
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| | Great Wall of China - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Great Wall seen today was built during the Ming Dynasty, on a much larger scale and with longer lasting materials (solid stone used for the sides and the top of the Wall) than any wall built before. | | | The government ordered people to work on the wall, and workers were under perpetual danger of being attacked by brigands. | | | The primary purpose of the wall was not to keep out people, who could climb the wall, but make it difficult for semi-nomadic people outside the wall to cross with their horses or return with stolen property. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Wall_of_China
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| | China |
| | China proper consists of three great river systems: the Yellow River (Huang He), 2,109 mi (5,464 km) long; the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang), the third-longest river in the world at 2,432 mi (6,300 km); and the Pearl River (Zhu Jiang), 848 mi (2,197 km) long. | | | China, which has now outlawed the sect, was thought to consider the apolitical spiritual group threatening because its numbers exceeded the membership of the Chinese Communist Party. | | | China remained largely isolated from the rest of the world's civilizations, closely restricting foreign activities. |
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http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0107411.html
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| | The Great Wall of China Hoax |
| | But in actuality the Great Wall of China hoax had nothing to do with the Boxer Rebellion. | | | It said that the Chinese were going to tear the Great Wall down and build a road in its place, and that to complete this project they were taking bids from American firms. | | | The story might have ended there and been remembered as nothing more than a minor hoax, but many years later a rumor began to circulate about what happened when the news reached China. |
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http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/wallchina.html
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| | Building the Green Wall of China |
| | Reuters - The Great Wall of China is shrinking as tourism and development take their toll on one of the world's most famous monuments, state media said Monday. | | | Jiang Yanyong, hero of the SARS epidemic, imprisoned in China. | | | When I was a boy, during the summers in Great Barrington, Mass., my mother used to take us to the Green Spot bottling plant in town where Maybe 40 years ago, they shut down the plant and that was the end of Green Spot for us. |
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http://www.stargeek.com/item/9019.html
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| | U.S. Draft Bill to Punish China for Deporting N.Koreans With Chinas deportation of North Korean defectors to their Stalinist homeland looming like a black cloud over Seoul-Beijing ties, some U.S. lawmakers and activists are drawing up a bill to impose trade sanctions on China unless it stops the practice. | | | China's Coming People Power By Arthur Waldron Tuesday, October 11, 2005; A17 As the Communist Party's congress begins in Beijing, the media are full of speculation -- not about potential reforms but about power. | | | Harare - China has turned down an offer by President Robert Mugabes government to take over farms seized from whites apparently because Beijing feared there was no guarantee that such an investment would be secure in the long term, authoritative sources said. |
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=china
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| | Tales of the Weird and Bizarre Hoaxes |
| | Four reporters from Denver's newspapers decided to invent a story that a group of American engineers had been hired by the Chinese government to demolish the Great Wall of China. | | | After the hoax Safeway closed its web site for a number of weeks. | | | Panorama's spaghetti harvest broadcast was one of the first hoaxes to use the new medium of television. |
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http://www.thestudentzone.com/articles/weird5.html
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| | Seeing the Great Wall of China from space (Myth?) - Bad Astronomy and Universe Today Forum |
| | Anyway, the Great Wall of China is visible from orbit, but not the moon, like peopl will claim. | | | The Great Wall itself would almost certainly be invisible but it acts as aterminator or boundary between different parts of the countryside- the land use might very different on each side of the wall, and this would make the Wall itself very visible. | | | There might be long stretches of the Great Wall that has rocks and debris cleared away for hundreds of yards on each side of it, rocks that were used in its construction, also trees and shrubs cleared away. |
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http://ww.badastronomy.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=11980&sid=3cd803a64c97d8e1d3db158e4c8cfe13
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| | Old Patriot's Pen |
| | Yet the Islamofascists take great glee in the apparent POLITICAL weakness expressed by the Democratic Party leadership. | | | Most of my Internet family hold strong religious beliefs, are conservative in their thinking, and love their homeland, whether it's the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Germany, or some other nation. | | | There are far too many names on that wall that to me are flesh-and-blood people, friends I've known over the almost-60 years of my life. |
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http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com
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| | Themed Reviews, SPACE: Science Fiction |
| | The Great Wall of Trudd, like a supernatural Great Wall of China, appears to be impossible to go over or under, leaving Akiko and her merry band faced with having to find a way through it, only to find themselves crossing a seemingly endless bridge. | | | Arriving on the Basidium-X, David and Chuck encounter the not-so-very-wise men of Great Ta, ruler of the planet. | | | A CD with the book includes a screen saver, wallpaper and a great game to practice the new vocabulary, along with information about the creative pair and their other publications. |
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http://www.childrenslit.com/th_sp0603.html
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| | Commentary Archive |
| | May 20, 2005 LA Times Off the Wall, Whoops — Again, Dirty Bibles Are "Saved," Trouble in Paradise, Those Pragmatic Germans, Formal Preparation of Mythology, Challenge Rebuffed, Talk About Wrong, Playing With Fire, and In Conclusion.... | | | February 23, 2001 A Medium Well-Done, Naivety in Academe, The Great Moon Hoax, and a UFO crashes.... | | | July 20, 2001 Clarke on the Moon Hoax Hoax, Geller Notice Notice, Oberg Opines, Dates of Birth, Synchronicity?, and God Chimes In On Chandra..... |
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http://randi.org/jr/archive.html
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| | Great Wall of China Hoax |
| | June 25, 1899: The Great Wall of China Hoax. | | | As a member you also won't have to enter your personal info every time you leave a comment. |
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http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/weblog/comments/608
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| | The Occult: Occultopedia - letter H index |
| | It's both a great quick reference for writers and an enjoyable read for fantasy fans who want to know more about the origins of their favorite creatures. | | | With the use of dichromatic glass the iridescence of wings, scales and nature come to life...from easy to advanced this is a great pattern book for the lovers of nature and myth. | | | When she could turn up no written descriptions of the find, she turned to other scientists for help, touching off a worldwide wave of interest in the creature that would come to be called the "coelacanth," long thought to be extinct, and now celebrated as one of the world's oldest species. |
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http://www.occultopedia.com/h.htm
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| | Political Theory Daily Review |
| | From China, to avoid its own “color revolution” the government is now quietly cracking down on those who would dare to show dissent, and the beating of a well-known campaigner exposes trouble in the villages. | | | An excerpt from Dick Morris' Condi vs Hillary: The Next Great Presidential Race. | | | A review of books on the US Supreme Court. |
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http://www.politicaltheory.info
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| | CAVE WALL 0.21 |
| | AP - Alicia Keys will perform at the "Wall of Hope — China 2004" international pop music concert at the Great Wall of China's "Ju Yong Guan" North Gate in Beijing on Sept 25. | | | AP - Archaeologists think they've found a cave where John the Baptist baptized many of his followers — basing their theory on thousands of shards from ritual jugs, a stone used for foot cleansing and wall carvings telling the story of the biblical preacher. | | | This is an incredible National Geographic piece on the exploration of the Priest's Grotto, a cave system in the Ukraine where 38 Jews hid from the Nazis for nearly a year. |
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http://www.stargeek.com/item/220825.html
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| | AlterNet: Bush and the Great Wall |
| | Unlike China's Great Wall, the new wall is only partially visible from space. | | | This Great Wall of Capital, which separates a few dozen rich countries from the earth's poor majority, completely dwarfs the old Iron Curtain. | | | When delirious crowds tore down the Berlin Wall in 1989, many hallucinated that a millennium of borderless freedom was at hand. |
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http://www.alternet.org/story/17636
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| | What's Visible from Outer Space |
| | You may have heard it said that the Great Wall of China is the only man-made object visible to the naked eye from outer space. | | | As a matter of fact, astronaut Ed Lu told Space.com recently, a great many human artifacts can be seen on earth from space — cities, airports, roads dams, ships, the Great Wall and the pyramids of egypt — and he's got digital photographs to prove it. | | | Squirrels on Crack "I was chatting with my neighbour who told me that... |
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http://urbanlegends.about.com/b/a/033127.htm
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| | China Changes Its View of Great Wall |
| | This contradicts China's first astronaut, Yang Liwei, who last week was quoted as saying the opposite - prompting the education ministry to order the rewriting of elementary school textbooks. | | | Civil Rights in China: Protests Surge As Reforms Fail to Match Rising Hopes | | | Mr Cernan, who has logged more than 556 hours in space, claimed it is all a matter of knowing where to look. |
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http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/3-14-2004-51686.asp
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| | ViewZone Magazine |
| | The Great Wall of China A refreshing look at this famous landmark from a Western tourist. | | | The Great Fluoride Scam: It was added to water and toothpaste as a mircale drug that prevented cavities... | | | Although they are old, they show what appears to be astronauts, dinosaurs and illustrations of open heart surgery! |
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http://www.viewzone.com
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| | 4um: No way: skater soars over Great Wall of China? Way! |
| | He's the first person to jump across the Great Wall of China without any motorized aid. | | | Way adds that he's honored to have his skateboarding visions embraced by the people of China. | | | CHINA - Skateboarder Danny Way has rolled his way into history. |
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http://freedom4um.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=8399
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| | PGG : articles : Index of all authors and their articles |
| | 1998 10 04 -- Great Wall of China, The (semireal) | | | 1995 07 24 -- Merits Of Beating Your Head Against The Wall, The (unreal) | | | 1995 10 04 -- Moon Hoax, The (semireal) |
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| | Great Wall of China |
| | The wall, running mostly along the southern edge of the Mongolian plain, was erected to protect China from northern nomads. | | | The eastern part of the wall is earth and stone faced with brick, but in the west it is merely an earth mound. | | | Laborers were conscripted from all over China to build it, and many of them died during the project. |
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http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/history/A0821693.html
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| | Great wall of china - InfoIndex.org |
| | Great Wall of China, The, Beijing, China: This is the most massive construction project undertaken in ancient times. | | | Author of The Great Wall of China from History to Myth and other books. | | | BEIJING -- The Great Wall of China is the symbol of a nation, a wonder of the world and a tourist cash cow that generates millions of dollars a year. |
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http://www.infoindex.org/l/Great-wall-of-china.htm
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| | BBC - Science & Nature - Space - The Earth |
| | It's often said that the Great Wall of China is the only artificial object visible from space. | | | However, at nearly 6400km long, The Great Wall remains the largest artificial structure on the planet. | | | In higher orbits even the Great Wall is impossible to spot. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/solarsystem/earth/index.shtml
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| | The Great Wall of China |
| | So, obviously this is not genuine and is a hoax. | | | Finally, they found out that the skull was switched to confuse the matter even more. |
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| | New Zealand's source for oddstuff - strange, weird & bizarre news on Stuff.co.nz: Skateboarder jumps the Great Wall |
| | LOS ANGELES: California skateboarder Danny Way has jumped over a 18.6m gap in the Great Wall of China, becoming the first person to clear the ancient fortification without motorised aid, his sponsor said. | | | WAY OUT: Danny Way became the first person to jump over the Great Wall on a skateboard in an attempt to set world records for unaided height and distance. | | | Way then went on to jump the wall three more times at the weekend, taking off from a specially built ramp at the nearly 3000-year-old Ju Yong Guan Gate, and adding in 360-degree spins as spectators looked on. |
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http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3341342a4560,00.html
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| | Ten Year Index 1994 - 2003 |
| | Great Dishes of Yung Kee by Kimsen Kan and Hui Hin Leung 5(4): 15-16 | | | When China Ruled the Seas by Louise Levathes 10(2): 23 | | | Food in China: Five Years After Tiananmen 1(1): 4-8 |
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http://www.flavorandfortune.com/f_F-10-year-index-1994-2003.htm
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| | Musik FM |
| | Alicia Keys, Cyndi Lauper and other artists to play at Great Wall of China | | | Alicia Keys plays at Great Wall of China | | | Alicia Keys Plays at Great Wall of China |
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http://archive.wn.com/2004/09/24/1400/musikfm
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| | Great Wall of China |
| | a system of fortified walls with a roadway along the top, constructed as a defense for China against the nomads of the regions that are now Mongolia and Manchuria: completed in the 3rd century b.c., but later repeatedly modified and rebuilt. |
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http://www.factmonster.com/ipd/A0463179.html
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| | Celebrity Cola: New Blog Carnival Showcase Extravaganza No. 2 |
| | Pratie Place doesn't "write about Iraq or kitties," opting instead to cover such diverse topics as religion in Transylvania, strange verbs in England, and the demolishing of the Great Wall of China. | | | Stupid Beautiful Lies is the "outlet for a twenty-something musician hidden deep in the nation of Canada," tracking such diverse topics as a scientist finding God (this story appears to be a fake, hoax, or misleading meme) and why Mediocrity Sells. | | | Quid Nimis ("something in excess") is a political blog with a dash of humor. |
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http://celebritycola.blogspot.com/2005/02/new-blog-carnival-showcase.html
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