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Sixteenth fort discovered at Gorgan Great Wall  -  20 Aug 2007
MehrNews.com,Archaeologists estimate that it was built at about the same time as the Great Wall of China and that it was used as a defense system against the invasions

Massive Freedom Banner Unvield on the Great Wall of China  -  20 Aug 2007
World Wide base of reporters, based in UK,...“By protesting at the Great Wall, the most recognizable symbol of Chinese nationhood, we're sending a clear message that China's dream of international

Dragons, drums and other small wonders  -  20 Aug 2007
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription),The festivities also served as a ribbon-cutting ceremony for Tan's pet project -- an authentic replica of the Great Wall of China, built at the restaurant's

Herlovitch a civic-minded globetrotter  -  20 Aug 2007
Niagara Falls Review,He may occasionally recall the aching muscles, the short breaths, the heat and the dryness that marked the 42 kilometres of the Great Wall Marathon he ran

30 years after Voyager launch, time to again ask who we are  -  20 Aug 2007
Christian Science Monitor,The team chose 116 pictures, everything from the Great Wall of China to Greek fishing boats to Jane Goodall studying chimpanzees.

Wall-to-wall effort  -  20 Aug 2007
Kingston Daily Freeman,In 2004, the not-for-profit World Monuments Fund included the barn in its biennial watch list of 100 endangered historic sites, along with the Great Wall of

Jeff Probst Reveals Details on 'Survivor: China', Cast Revealed  -  20 Aug 2007
BuddyTVCBS was granted almost unheard of access to some of China's most heralded cultural landmarks for filming, including the Shaolin Temple and the Great Wall.

Lost luggage auctions  -  20 Aug 2007
Times Online,The back wall is piled high with luggage, though, sadly, there’s no sign of my pink Kipling case in the great wall of Antler.

MAADD - Mothers Against Astronauts Driving Drunk  -  20 Aug 2007
Welland Tribune,Veering off course, they accidentally grazed the top of the Great Wall of China. We'll know if Dave Williams has been drinking when an hour into his

Cars stay away but Beijing smog remains  -  20 Aug 2007
Guardian Unlimited,Despite taking more than a third of Beijing's cars off the roads and a race course that took in the less polluted climes around the Great Wall,

Shedding Light on Business Accounts  -  20 Aug 2007
Barron's (subscription)Increasingly, that capital could only come from the great Wall Street banks, of which JP Morgan & Co. was the apotheosis. These banks needed to be sure the

China: is it all just spit and polish..?  -  20 Aug 2007
Belfast Telegraph,The country is awash with Olympic fever, even at the Great Wall it is possible to buy a Beijing 2008 T-shirt - replicas of course, but it is heartening to

These greedy bankers have cost us billions  -  20 Aug 2007
Khaleej Times,BY WILLIAM REES-MOGG THREE months after the great Wall Street Crash of 1929, Andrew Mellon, the multimillionaire banker from Pittsburgh who was Secretary of

Officer running for cause: State policeman headed to China for ...  -  20 Aug 2007
Newszap Delaware,He said he hopes to run on the Great Wall of China. “Even if I run 10 yards, I just want to get on there and run it just so I can say I did,� he said.

Zen-sational eats  -  20 Aug 2007
University of Central Oklahoma Vista,The zen-tacular food was brought out in magnificent proportions, large enough to do justice to the Great Wall of China. Zen offers the usual choices

Other Sports The great wall of smog hits Evans  -  Aug 18, 2007
Fox Sports,...to check the Olympic cycling courses, Evans rated the 174km road race, which took in sections of the Great Wall, as "harder than it looks on paper".

Experts uncover Orkney's new Skara Brae and the great wall that ...  -  Aug 13, 2007
Scotsman,It appears to go right across the peninsula, so the team here now calls it the Great Wall of Brodgar. It's probably a symbolic barrier.

Fun and games  -  Aug 19, 2007
Pioneer Press,Visitors are stunned into submission by the Forbidden City, the Great Wall and Tiananmen Square, then quickly shuttled to buying sprees at the Pearl Market

It's the great wall of APEC  -  Aug 16, 2007
Daily Telegraph,By Bruce McDougall, Political Reporter LARGE parts of central Sydney will be turned into a virtual fortress during next month's APEC summit in the biggest

Air quality gets mixed reviews in test event  -  Aug 18, 2007
South China Morning Post (subscription),..."But the course is great and I had some great emotions when we reached the Great Wall." Alexandr Dyachenko of Kazakhstan was second, just three seconds

The Great Wall of money  -  Aug 10, 2007
Sydney Morning Herald,China and the other emerging giants have started to use their colossal reserves to buy Western companies. Liam Halligan and Helen Power report.

Behold the Mighty Qin  -  Aug 18, 2007
The Observer,He also conscripted hundreds of thousands of men in the construction of the defence system that became the Great Wall. Historians now speculate that this

Los Gatos chamber leading group on trip to China  -  Aug 17, 2007
San Jose Mercury News,The Town of Los Gatos Chamber of Commerce will lead a group of community members on a nine-day trip to the land of the Great Wall, the Forbidden City and

Gail to supply gas across the Great Wall  -  Aug 9, 2007
Economic Times,NEW DELHI: Gail India, along with its joint venture partner China Gas, is likely to supply gas to 45 Chinese towns. Gail India’s entry into individual

RC Sports Notebook: It’s not going to be the Great Wall of China  -  Aug 15, 2007
The Record-Courier,The RC Sports Notebook is a weekly online-exclusive column that appears every Tuesday on www.recordcourier.com. It contains observations, rumors,

Canadians detained in China after protest on Great Wall  -  Aug 8, 2007
National Post,OTTAWA - Two Canadians are among six protesters being detained by Chinese authorities after unfurling a "Free Tibet" banner on the Great Wall of China,

Free Tibet banner on Great Wall fuels official fears of more ...  -  Aug 7, 2007
Sydney Morning Herald,The Free Tibet Campaign said the banner remained on the Great Wall for about two hours before police detained the six protesters.

Water rule will protect Great Wall, Gansu oasis  -  Aug 6, 2007
China Daily,Li Bingcheng, an expert on the Great Wall, which was built in the Western Han Dynasty (206BC-AD24) and Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), said the ancient monument

• TV producer channels China interest to Internet  -  Aug 18, 2007
The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com,If asked what they know about China, most people answer the Great Wall, Tiananmen Square and the NBA's Yao Ming. "After that, they're done.

Sydney to become walled city for summit  -  Aug 19, 2007
INQ7.net,In a letter to The Daily Telegraph, John Keeble dubbed the fence "The Great Wall of APEC" and said it was a reason to avoid Sydney.

Diving for dollars  -  Aug 19, 2007
Montreal Gazette,Real heroes: Can we just say how profoundly we admire Mélanie Raoul and Sam Price, those two youngsters who dropped the banner on the Great Wall of China.

Michael Deaver, 69, Dies; Shaped Reagan’s Image  -  Aug 19, 2007
New York Times,Mr. Deaver was widely known for creating photo ops that showed Reagan atop the Great Wall of China, at the cliffs of Normandy and filling sandbags to show

Four New Showmen and the Great Wall of Lenox Avenue  -  Jul 27, 2007
New York Times,By TAL PINCHEVSKY The Harlem Globetrotters, already known in more than 118 countries for their traveling basketball circus, are attempting to liven up the

Runner hits Wall at 60  -  Aug 16, 2007
Preston Citizen,By Andrew Greaves A former Preston deputy headteacher is finally set to realise his lifelong ambition of running the Great Wall of China - as part of his

A great wonder faces a grave threat, let's save it  -  Aug 5, 2007
China Daily,The Great Wall by all accounts is 6300-km long. But 90 percent of this architectural and engineering marvel is under threat of disappearing, says a leading

MICHAEL DEAVER: 1938-2007  -  Aug 19, 2007
San Francisco Chronicle,...which positioned the former actor in visually irresistible locations where troublesome press questions could not intrude: atop the Great Wall of China,

Ken Griffiths  -  Aug 19, 2007
Actuphoto.com,Griffiths’ photographs of the Three Gorges Dam – China’s largest building project since the Great Wall, depict a lost landscape and the emergence of a new

Two Canadians detained in China after protest on Great Wall  -  Aug 7, 2007
Canada.com,OTTAWA — Two Canadians are among six protesters being detained in Beijing after unfurling a banner on the Great Wall of China protesting China’s presence in

Free Tibet Protest Marks Beijing Countdown at the Great Wall  -  Aug 8, 2007
Indymedia UK,Six activists have unfurled a massive banner at the Great Wall of China on the eve of the one year countdown to the Beijing Olympics.

Chen Changfen  -  Aug 19, 2007
Actuphoto.com,1941) began to photograph the Great Wall twenty years before the Chinese government officially adopted it as the national symbol in 1984.

Getting into the spirit of Merdeka  -  Aug 18, 2007
Malaysia Star,...“They will perform at Beijing World Park before singing on the Great Wall of China,� said Tourism Malaysia Beijing office director Michael Tay.

Two Canadians Among Those Reportedly Detained For Protest On The ...  -  Aug 7, 2007
AHN...were reportedly detained by Chinese authorities after posting a banner on the Great Wall of China that said, "One World, One Dream, Free Tibet 2008.

China detains 6 for Tibet protest at Great Wall  -  Aug 6, 2007
Reuters India,BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese police have detained six protesters who unveiled a banner calling for a free Tibet on the Great Wall, a campaign group said on

Diving the Wall off Rubicon Point, Lake Tahoe  -  Aug 15, 2007
Scuba Diver Info,I just hovered over the edge of the great wall, hanging in the water. We then slowly descended down the wall which really wasn'ta cohesive wall as I had

Runner hits Wall at 60  -  Aug 15, 2007
This Is Lancashire,By Chris Gee A running fanatic from Wheelton is to realise his lifelong ambition of running the Great Wall of China - as part of his 60th birthday present.

Piedmont Tech to host “Best of Chinaâ€? trip  -  Aug 17, 2007
Greenwood Index Journal,A two-week "Best of China" trip sponsored by Piedmont Tech’s Foundation may be just the ticket for a memorable tour of Beijing, the Great Wall and many

My fabulous globetropping adventures with dear 'Uncle' Bill Deedes ...  -  Aug 18, 2007
Daily Mail,We decided to visit the Great Wall. I persuaded Bill to take an open chairlift up to the path – the kind that you get at ski resorts.

Canadians proud of their protest, but glad to be home  -  Aug 10, 2007
Globe and Mail,Sam Price, one of two protesters who rappelled down the Great Wall of China on Tuesday to unfurl a huge pro-Tibet banner, said he found the speed of his

Bay Area Activists Detained After Daring Action on Great Wall of China  -  Aug 7, 2007
Bay Area Indymedia,By protesting at the Great Wall, the most recognizable symbol of Chinese nationhood, we’re sending a clear message that China’s dream of international

The world as a classroom  -  Aug 8, 2007
Chicago Sun-Times,These students spend 16 days traveling through China, walking on the Great Wall, watching pandas munch on bamboo in the Beijing Zoo and experiencing life in

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