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By: Felipe Argote

Photo: Daniel Argote

The only man that can be seen from the moon. Stated that in 1938 a writer born in 1900 named Richard Halliburton, in his book "Second Book of Marvels." This author is very related to our country, as it was the same as in August 1929 he swam across the Panama Canal, and tolls paid by the volume of water displaced the sum of $ 0.36, thirty-six cents. Halliburton in 1939 disappeared at sea while pretending to comply with the feat of crossing the Pacific Ocean in 1939 from Hong Kong to San Francisco California on a Chinese junk called the Sea Dragon

Richard Halliburton

crossing the Panama Canal

This adventurer and writer was the first to ensure that the Great Wall of China could be seen from the moon. At the same time, "Although you may not believe in Ripley" claimed the same. Then the American astronaut William Pogue, who worked on Skylab in 1973, he seemed to see the Great Wall from space lab. Finally, Sen. Jake Garn uploaded into space by NASA as a payload specialist said he saw the Great Wall from space in 1985.

The Chinese taikonaut Yang Liwei

The controversy of whether or not it is possible to see the Great Wall of China the Chinese astronaut Yang closed Liwei (杨利伟) first Chinese taikonaut (American astronaut and cosmonaut for the Russians). Born in 1965 and whose formation is a fighter pilot, Yang, who was released by the so-called Long March 2F rocket from Jiuquan in northern China, gave fourteen laps of the planet three hundred twenty-five miles high in October 2003. This made China the third country after Russia and the United States, to place a man in space. As the famous taikonaut exhaustively said after his flight on the Shenzhou 5 capsule to the Great Wall was hardly possible to see from space.

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With a length estimated at eight thousand eight hundred fifty-two miles and between six and seven feet wide the great wall wriggle through valleys and mountains from North Korea to the Gobi Desert in Inner Mongolia.

This wonder of the world was begun in the V century BC when the state of Qi begins to build a wall to defend against attacks from the northern peoples and their neighbors. These walls are still up some parts. A century after the states of Wei, Yan and Zhao also started building walls. The technique was simple: rammed earth through joints wood which were then removed.

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This was the beginning of a process that turned twenty centuries later, in the sixteenth century to repel the attacks of Mongols and Manchuria. During the twenty centuries-long construction is estimated that killed tens of millions of workers. A legend is that they were buried in the same wall. Really were buried nearby.

The second phase of construction was in 221 BC when Qin Shi Huang the First Emperor 秦始皇 of a unified China starts Quin dynasty and builds a wall beyond the Yellow River and connect the existing fortifications in northern empire.

Then during the reign of Emperor Han Wudi in 129 BC, the wall was rebuilt and several parts were connected thereto to extend into what would become the "silk route" through which she traveled to Europe fine silk from China, whose production was kept secret from Westerners. Now we know that the silk worm, which only breeds in China, was the source of this tissue so appreciated by the Europeans since Roman times.

in 21 d. C. Guang Wudi emperor ordered the construction of four new walls to contain the invasions of the Xiongnu who attacked from the north of China.

There were no major advances until the Ming dynasty ruled, who developed stronger buildings using bricks and stone, especially around Beijing from 1449.

portion of the Great Wall erected in Badalaing is currently the most visited by tourists because it is just an hour from Beijing, the capital of China and is known since the fifteenth century, then changed the name to Beijing in 1928 and after the triumph of the revolution led by Mao Tse Tung's original name was returned to Beijing in 1949.