Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'The Great Wall' has mentioned 'Moon' in the following places:
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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 |
From the Moon | WIKI |
The notion that the wall can be seen from the moon (with an average orbital radius of 385,000xc2xa0km (239,000 miles)) is a well-known but untrue myth. | WIKI |
One of the earliest known references to the myth that the Great Wall can be seen from the moon appears in a letter written in 1754 by the English antiquary William Stukeley. | WIKI |
Stukeley wrote that, "This mighty wall [Hadrian's wall] of four score miles [130xc2xa0km] in length is only exceeded by the Chinese Wall, which makes a considerable figure upon the terrestrial globe, and may be discerned at the Moon. | WIKI |
"[66] The claim was also mentioned by Henry Norman in 1895 where he states "besides its age it enjoys the reputation of being the only work of human hands on the globe visible from the Moon. | WIKI |
The claim that the Great Wall is visible from the moon also appears in 1932's Ripley's Believe It or Not! | WIKI |
The claim that the Great Wall is visible from the moon has been debunked many times[69] (the apparent width of the Great Wall from the Moon would be the same as that of a human hair viewed from 3xc2xa0km (2xc2xa0mi) away[70]) but is still ingrained in popular culture. | WIKI |
The only work built by human hands on this planet that can be seen from the moon, the Wall constitutes, on the vast scale of a continent, a perfect example of architecture integrated into the landscape. | UNESCO |