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- From: magnus@bark-fddi.ii.uib.no (Magnus Alvestad)
- Subject: Re: Great Wall of China
- In-Reply-To: dan@cubmol.bio.columbia.edu's message of Thu, 19 Nov 1992 02:22:50 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.031316.19221@alf.uib.no>
- Sender: usenet@alf.uib.no (Bergen University Newsaccount)
- Reply-To: magnus@ii.uib.no
- Organization: UVBS -> SFK/T-DSA / SOPS - HOS / RNoN
- References: <1992Nov19.022250.15553@news.columbia.edu>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 03:13:16 GMT
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- > The Great Wall
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- I think it was quite effective because the mongols used horses
- extensively. It's pretty hard to get a horse across one of these
- walls. Well, we all know the mongols won, so it didn't work. :-)
-
- -Magnus
-