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   ocr: From the CD-RUM: "What's the only manmade artifact visible from the moon: The Great Wall of China. You probably knew that, but we bet you didn't know that this fact is prefigured in a Chinese legend dating back to the third century B.C. "The story goes that in the very darkest hour of the night, the First Emperor of China dreamed that his soul traveled to the moon. Gazingback from the moon's surtace, Emperor Qin's soul saw that his kingdom was barely a dot on the surface of the planet. At that very moment, the idea ofbuilding the Great Wall came to him. His soul returned to earth, and when the ...