Great Wall of China
About Great Wall of China
The Great Wall of China is a series of fortifications in China. They were built across the historical northern borders of ancient Chinese states and Imperial China as protection against various nomadic groups from the Eurasian Steppe. The first walls date to the 7th century BC; these were joined together in the Qin dynasty. Successive dynasties expanded the wall system; the best-known sections were built by the Ming dynasty (1368–1644).
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On the Great Wall of China, you know the whole thing about whether you can see it from space or not. In 2003, China sent its first astronaut, or as they call them, Tyco-naught, because Tyco is Chinese for space. They sent the first astronaut up Yang Liwei, and he said, guys, I can't see it, and everyone panicked.
from 90: No Such Thing As The Brilliant Billion, 2015-12-04 at 00:06:44 · read transcript
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I read the other day. I don't have any solid information on this. They found in 2009, I think it was, about 60 kilometres more of the Great Wall of China that they didn't know existed. When they were doing a Google Earth survey of it, they discovered a missing bit of the wall. They discovered a local. village nearby who had just obviously come across this wall and gone, well, no one seems to be using this.
No Such Thing As The Mountains of Kong, 2014-03-28 · listen
In addition to the obvious vacuum in the eunuch world, of course. It was a new emperor as well. Zhong He's emperor who took him on had died. A new emperor came on. He became part of the expansion of the Great Wall of China. There were lots of different projects going on. He tossed him into one final adventure going out and Zhong He died on the way back. Then that was kind of it.
540: No Such Thing As The Three Gorgeous Dams, 2024-07-18 · listen
Why haven't they done that? I find it weird. There have been, there were two conceptual artists who walked the length of the Great Wall of China towards each other, and then they met in the middle and kissed each other once, and then they never met again. That sounds like a dream or a very Ponzi film, but it's not, it did happen. The guy died this week, who was the person who kissed at the end of World War II.
4: No Such Thing As The Mountains of Kong, 2014-03-29 · listen
I have one more thing on the Great Wall. Yeah. Just going along the Steve Coogan line, the first man, we think, to walk the complete Great Wall of China was an American. He's an American adventurer called William Edgar Gile and he was a really incredible guy and he trekked across Africa and he travelled along the Yanksy River he did all these amazing expeditions and no one's heard of him these days.
No Such Thing As The Brilliant Billion, 2015-12-04 · listen
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