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Ceiling Cat

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Wow, according to this:
http://www.paulnoll.com/China/Tourism/history-Great-Wall-3-defense.html
Over a million people died building the Great Wall of China, many falling into the ditches and being buried there. That would have been a good trivia question to ask.

If a million people died during the construction of The great Wall it was over 1800 years. ( approx 550 a year ) Moving large stone in ancient times was very dangerous. The construction pace was not so hurried that they could not stop to pull a person out of ditch, dead or alive. I saw a documentary of when the canal was being built in Soviet times to bring water to Moscow. The work boss was being interviewed and he was telling of how he was first given 2 years to complete a section of the canal, then he was later told that the time table has bee rolled back to 6 months. The 24 hr. a day hurried pace of pouring cement was so fierce that when people fell in with wheel barrels they could not stop to pull them out because of the difficulty of doing so, the backing up of lines of men with wheel barrels of cement and the loss of time to do so.
 

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As I learned it in the Boy Scouts (age 11) the history is:

In 1606, the flag of England (St Georges's cross - red upright cross on white background) was combined with the flag of Scotland (St Andrew's cross - white diagonal cross on blue background), to form the first Union Flag, marking the union of England and Scotland.

In 1801, the Irish flag (St Patrick's cross - red diagonal cross on white background) was added, to mark the further union with Ireland.

This latter flag was called the Union Jack.

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The Roman used lead to sweeten their wines, which is suspected to have cause the fall of the Roman Empire as ingestion of lead leads to impotence, sterility and loss of mental capacity.
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The Order of Maternal Glory

It was conferred to mothers :

1st class: mothers bearing and raising 9 children;
2nd class: mothers bearing and raising 8 children;
3rd class: mothers bearing and raising 7 children.



The order was conferred upon the first birthday of the last child, provided that the other children necessary to reach the qualifying number (natural or adopted) remained alive. Children who had perished under heroic, military or other respectful circumstances, including occupational diseases, were also counted. The award was created simultaneously with the Mother Heroine order and the Maternity Medal
 
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