I wouldn't want to repoint that.
"Work started on the Great Wall in 500BC to protect China's northern border"
No finishing date, the lazy f****rs.
I'm impressed by their accuracy - to the nearest 10 cm! ;-)
To the nearest 10m! Yeah, right.
I reckon it was just a job creation scheme.
Brian
Like Homeland Security in the US.
When we went there (to Badaling? I forget) it was obvious the wall was a reconstruction. One of the hardier souls on our trip hiked a couple of miles and he said out of sight of the "touristy" bit it just turned into a strip of rubble covered in weeds.
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