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Q: What are the HISTORY’S MOST FAMOUS WALLS ?
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| 1 | Berlin Wall In the 28 years (1961-1989) it stood as a grim barrier between East and West Berlin, this wall as the Cold \ar’s boldest symbol. The East Gel74rman government that erected it claimed “as a protective barrier shielding its subjects from \sesterii agents and provocateurs. The West said (lie al I as a prison harrier, designed to keep people iii. By 1989, the West’s view was vindicated: Once the wall came down. East (Jennany could no longer control its vassals and ceased to exist within little more than a year. Great Wall of China No, its an urban myth that you can see the Great Wall Ii’om outer space. But, what the heck, if any manipulate object rates over sized praise. this is it. Built or restored over a 2,000-year period by several ruling dynasties, the wall was an ambitious attempt to keep raiders and nomads of the Chinese heartland. When it succeeded, it had worldwide repercussions: The Huns resisted and harassed on their east by tribes that had been unable to push through the Great Wall into China, turned west instead, with disastrous consequences for Rome. When it failed, it failed spectacular: The Mongols simply swept over and around it and seized China — en route to conquering a Eurasian empire four times the size of’ Australia. Green Monster, Fenway Park, Boston Built in 1912. the Boston Red Sox’s Fenway Park is showing its age. A bevy of newer parks. such as Baltimore’s Camden Yards. Denser’s Coors Field and San Francisco’s SBC Park emulate Fenway intimate layout and short sight lines, but boast bigger seats, better bathrooms more abundant concession stands. But the one thing then can’t imitate is Fenway’s Green Monster, the 57-loot-high left field ‘tence” that has intimidated generations of American League sluggers. The huge sall is so inextricably associated with Red Sox (and Major League) history talks about replacing Fenway with a new stadium begin and end with the demand that the Green Monster have its usual pride of place in any s | |
| 2 | Wails of Jericho Actually, Jericho has several walls, built one atop the other. That’s because the town has been inhabited since around 8,000 B.C., and each time a flood, fire or earthquake knocked down one set of walls, or new occupants moved in, a fresh set of walls would be constructed. Nobody’s quite sure which set Joshua’s trumpeters in the Old Testament knocked down, but archaeological evidence says it’s not implausible that the Hebrews could have been in the neighborhood when something big went down. For Jericho’s inhabitants, Joshua’s arrival probably wasn’t all that big a deal. After all, the town had been a going concern for 7.000 years by the time he arrived — long enough to have established a habit of rising from the rubble. Walls of Troy It took the Greeks 10 years to figure out how penetrate Troy’s walls. The solution, of course, was to be invited in rather than constantly try to crash the party. Alas, the Trojans were the original teenage girls from those schlock horror films where, despite the audience yelling out, Don’t open the door! Don’t open the door!” they go ahead and do it anyway. The upside: We got the Iliad and the Odyssey out of it, two of the greatest poems ever recited and the basis — along with the Bible — of western literature. The Western (Wailing) Wall, Jerusalem This high, scarred wall on the western edge of Temple Mount is believed to be a remnant of one of the colonnades that enclosed the Second Temple, Bolton by King Herod around 19 B.C. and razed by the Romans in 70 A.D. (The first great temple of the Jews, built by King Solomon around 970 B.C., was destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 B.C.) For many Orthodox Jews, coming to pray at this wall is the equivalent of a journey to Mecca for Muslims or a pilgrimage to Rome for Roman Catholics. Over a 2,500-year period, the Jews have been exiled or persecuted by Babylonians, Ronians, Europeans and Arabs. Here, in the heart of their ancient capital, lies a remnant from a better | |
| 3 | Pink Floyd’s The Wall “We dont’ need no edukayshun, we dont’ need no thought control.” The British rock group’s 1980s anthem to school kid surliness summed up in just a few ungrammatical sentences why civilization is always just one generation away from savagery. |
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