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Article: Chinese schoolbooks will finally tell truth of Great Wall visibility
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- March 13, 2004
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Chinese schoolbooks will finally tell truth of Great Wall
visibility
Associated Press
Saturday, March 13, 2004
Beijing -- The myth about China's Great Wall has come tumbling
down, thanks to the nation's first man in space.
For decades, the Chinese propagated the myth that their most
famous creation was visible from space. Elementary school textbooks
in the world's most populous nation still proclaim that the structure
can be seen by the naked eye of an orbiting cosmonaut.
But the myth was shattered upon Yang Liwei's return from a 21 1/2-
hour space jaunt last year, so schoolbooks will be rewritten, the
Beijing Times newspaper reported Friday.
The wall stretches thousands of miles across ...