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The Great Wall Gives History The Middle Finger

Two millennia ago, the Chinese began to build a big wall, a tremendous wall, though it’s now simply called Great. It took 17 centuries and cost as many as a million lives, mostly workmen who collapsed alongside the rubble. At one corpse for every 30 feet, the locals called it “the longest cemetery in the… Read more »

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The Great Wall Gives History The Middle Finger