Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'The Great Wall' has mentioned 'Earth' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
|---|---|
| Contents 1 Names 2 History 2.1 Early walls 2.2 Ming era 2.3 Foreign accounts 3 Course 3.1 Han Great Wall 3.2 Ming Great Wall 4 Characteristics 5 Condition 6 Visibility from space 6.1 From the Moon 6.2 From low Earth orbit 7 Gallery 8 See also 9 Notes 10 References 11 Further reading 12 External links | WIKI |
| [7] The Chinese character xe5x9fx8e, meaning city or fortress, is a phono-semantic compound of the "earth" radical xe5x9cx9f and phonetic xe6x88x90, whose Old Chinese pronunciation has been reconstructed as *dexc5x8b. | WIKI |
| [14] Poetic and informal names for the wall included "the Purple Frontier" (xe7xb4xabxe5xa1x9e, Zxc7x90sxc3xa0i)[17] and "the Earth Dragon" (t xe5x9cx9fxe9xbex8d, s xe5x9cx9fxe9xbex99, Txc7x94lxc3xb3ng). | WIKI |
| Built to withstand the attack of small arms such as swords and spears, these walls were made mostly of stone or by stamping earth and gravel between board frames. | WIKI |
| While stones and tiles were used in some parts of the Liaodong Wall, most of it was in fact simply an earth dike with moats on both sides. | WIKI |
| The size and weight of the bricks made them easier to work with than earth and stone, so construction quickened. | WIKI |
| From low Earth orbit | WIKI |
| A more controversial question is whether the wall is visible from low Earth orbit (an altitude of as little as 160xc2xa0km (100xc2xa0mi)). | WIKI |
| Veteran US astronaut Gene Cernan has stated: "At Earth orbit of 100 to 200 miles [160 to 320xc2xa0km] high, the Great Wall of China is, indeed, visible to the naked eye." | WIKI |