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TDY_GreatWallMyths.appHeader = "Truth vs. myth | What do you know about the Great Wall?";
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TDY_GreatWallMyths[i-1].body = "<headline/><br>This summer, the world's attention is on China, host of the 2008 Olympic Games. How much do you know about one of the country's best-known landmarks, the Great Wall of China?";

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TDY_GreatWallMyths[i-1].body = "<headline/><br>The men who died building the Great Wall were buried within it.";

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TDY_GreatWallMyths[i-1].body = "<headline/><br>There is simply no evidence of this, but this myth does reflect the resentment of some Chinese commoners.  In the early wall-building days, many men were forced into servitude and worked on the Wall against their will.  ";

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TDY_GreatWallMyths[i-1].body = "<headline/><br>The Great Wall can be seen from the moon.";

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TDY_GreatWallMyths[i-1].body = "<headline/><br>The Wall was first proclaimed to be visible from the moon before anyone had gone into space. In fact, in a \"Ripley's Believe It or Not!\" cartoon from May 1932, it was claimed that the Wall is \"the mightiest work of man, the only one that would be visible to the human eye from the moon.\" But this is just a myth. No lunar astronaut has ever claimed to see the Wall from the moon.";

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TDY_GreatWallMyths[i-1].body = "<headline/><br>The Great Wall is one of the New Seven Wonders of the World.";

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TDY_GreatWallMyths[i-1].body = "<headline/><br>Built over centuries, the Wall is one of the most impressive man-made structures in the world.";

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TDY_GreatWallMyths[i-1].body = "<headline/><br>The Great Wall is one continuous structure.";

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TDY_GreatWallMyths[i-1].body = "<headline/><br>The Great Wall is actually a series of disconnected walls, hundreds, maybe thousands of walls. It was not necessary for the wall to be continuous to work for the military. Low-lying areas were of highest importance because they were easiest for raiders to get through. In some of the steeper inclines and in very rugged areas, a wall simply wasn't needed.";

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TDY_GreatWallMyths[i-1].body = "<headline/><br>The entire length of the Great Wall has been measured.";

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TDY_GreatWallMyths[i-1].body = "<headline/><br>There is just too much wall to measure. Every Chinese dynasty had a hand in building the Wall, and some of its sections are little more than mounds of dirt. And people are constantly finding new sections. But China is making an effort to document the Wall by 2010. ";

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TDY_GreatWallMyths[i-1].body = "<headline/><br>The Chinese word for this landmark translates as \"long wall.\" ";

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TDY_GreatWallMyths[i-1].body = "<headline/><br>The Chinese word for the Great Wall is \"changcheng,\" which does indeed translate as \"long wall.\" ";

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TDY_GreatWallMyths[i-1].body = "<headline/><br>This was not Matt Lauer's first visit to the Great Wall.";

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TDY_GreatWallMyths[i-1].body = "<headline/><br>A more well-tressed Matt Lauer reported from the Great Wall back in 1999 as part of the \"Where in the World is Matt Lauer?\" series. <p><li>His first impressions here: <a href=\"http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/3079585/\">Greetings from the Great Wall!</a> <br><li>His more recent video report: <a href=\"http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/26007424#26007424\">Matt Lauer reports from Badaling</a> ";

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