What are the expections for a first time visitor to the greatest and largest construction- site known to human kind? To walk along man-made fortifications, that are reputed to be "the only human-made structures discernible from the moon", and are an amazing 16,000 miles long? Whose planning and building began some 3,000 years ago, one thousand years before the birth of Christ, and still being improved by the Ming Dynasty less than 350 years ago, while Louis IV reigned supreme over France? (The 16 Ming Emperors alone contributed defensive works made up of some 4,500 miles, and they are the best preserved.) How is it possible to describe a super-fortification, whose bricks alone, could create and "encircle" the earth in a 16 foot high wall? Whose millions of hand-chisseled-stones snake over thousands of miles, atop some
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