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First, some background music, Maestro
http://www.nurple.com/sideshow/
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Be patient. We'll get to the Great Wall of China
construction project as soon as you've had your briefing.)
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But first things first...
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BOTH ATHEISTS, CREATIONISTS ARE WRONG
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.astro.amateur/msg/15b2f408f49e8501
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HOW "COLOMBO" DISCOVERED AMERICA...
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.astro/msg/9c350823040c0512
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EXTRATERRESTRIALS SUPERVISED
CONSTRUCTION OF PYRAMIDS
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.astro/msg/a113359482eaad9a
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  WHY GREAT WALL OF CHINA WAS BUILT
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http://www.ckchina.ca/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/great_wall_001.jpg
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http://www.sacredsites.com/shop/images/africa/egypt/building-blocks-great-pyramid-750.jpg
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One of the world's most perplexing mysteries
 is WHY the Great Wall of China was built.
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Almost everyone believes the Great Wall was built for
only one reason: to prevent China from being invaded.
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Some others, including some Chinese historical scholars,
claim it was built to serve as a permanent barrier between
the agricultural Chinese in the south and the Xiong Nu
(the nomadic cattle-raisers) in the north, since they
pparently got along like cats and dogs.
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Nonsense!
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Anyone with a semblance of common sense realizes
that, if the Great Wall had been constructed to keep
an enemy out, it never would've have been extended
to such a great length -- nearly 4,000 miles -- and
continue through so many isolated areas, through
mountain chains and deserts, far from civilization.
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And, besides, the Great Wall --- about 25 feet high --
ouldn't have done an adequate job of protecting the
Chinese from an invasion anyway.
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This was proven explicitly eight centuries ago when
the Mongolian hordes of Genghis Khan successfully
scaled the wall at numerous locations and eventually
conquered most of China.
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The real reason The Great Wall of China was originally
constructed had nothing whatsoever to do with
Preventing an invasion but, instead, to keep their
people inside China and keep outsiders from coming in
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China's leaders adamantly opposed the prospect of
the mingling of their race with those in neighboring
countries - that they ordered the start of the mind-boggling,
gargantuan undertaking to make such intermingling
virtually impossible on a large scale.
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They were concerned about the possible contamination  of their race by
mingling -- and mating -- with non-Chinese.
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Many scientific textbooks claim that construction of the original
section of The Great Wall began around 400 B.C. but various
scientists, especially the Chinese, seriously question this dating and
believe it had begun much earlier.
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Indeed, it did.
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The original Great Wall was some 2,000 miles long and, later,
construction began on another 2,000 miles
or so, through the mountains and deserts.
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The desire was simply to keep the Chinese race pure
and it happened again in the 1930s in Germany under
the Third Reich (but utilizing other despicable tactics).
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MAN AS OLD AS COAL
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Petrified bones, etc. -- SOME HUMAN -- discovered
by Ed Conrad between coal veins, confirming that the
Theory of Evolution is a farce.
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http://www.edconrad.com/pics/FINGERSx.jpg
http://www.edconrad.com/pics/OldestHumanSkull.JPG
http://www.edconrad.com/pics/z11calv.jpg
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http://www.edconrad.com/pics/z8femur.jpg
http://www.edconrad.com/FOSSILS08/HumanFemur.jpg
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http://www.edconrad.com/pics/FirstDiscovery.jpg
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http://www.edconrad.com/pics/newtibia.jpg
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http://www.edconrad.com/pics/InSlate3.jpg
http://www.edconrad.com/pics/InSlate2.jpg
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http://www.edconrad.com/pics/GallBladdery.jpg
http://www.edconrad.com/pics/Fetus8.jpg
http://www.edconrad.com/pics/Scorpion.jpg
http://www.edconrad.com/pics/PetrifiedPP.jpg
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http://www.edconrad.com
Ed Conrad
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edconrad@edconrad.com
(Substitute rad for dot-dot-dot -- if they appear)
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(No explosives in your attachment, PLEASE.)
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Ed Conrad's Collection of Dirty Pictures
http://www.edconrad.com/pics/TightFit.jpg
http://www.edconrad.com/pics/SaveTheWhale.jpg
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Ed Conrad does not bite over the telephone.
The number is 570-985-7220 (daytime Eastern U.S.)
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The pseudos, their interests so vested
And Poor Truth, for too long molested.
Their deceit and deception
Near the point of perfection
If it were my call, they'd ALL be arrested
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THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE
(1962 Movie Review)
http://www.filmsite.org/manc.html
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100 University of Rome La Sapienza Italy
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No. 3,416 Manchurian Candidate University
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PROFESSIONAL SCIENTIFIC SOCIETES, etc.


American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Anthropological Association
American Association of Physical Anthropologists
American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy
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American Mathematical Society
American Medical Association
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American Nuclear Society
American Oil Chemists' Society
American Physical Society
American Physiological Society
American Phytopathological Society
American Psychiatric Association
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American Society for Information Science
ASM International
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American Society for Quality Control
American Society of Aesthetics
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American Society of Zoologists
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Association of Research Libraries
Association of Southeastern Biologists
Association for Women in Science
Astronomical Society of the Pacific
Biophysical Society
Crop Science Society of America
Ecological Society of America
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FASEB Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology
Geological Society of America
General Accouting Office GAO
History of Science Society
Industrial Research Institute
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
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Institute of Navigation
Instrument Society of America
International Association for Impact Assessment
International Communication Association
International Society for Measurement and Control
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Marine Technology Society
Mathematical Association of America
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Microscopy Society of America
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Society for Applied Anthropology
Society for Economic Botany
Society for Industrial Microbiology
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Society of Women Engineers
Soil Science Society of America
Speech Communication Association
U.S. Department of the Interior
Volunteers in Technical Assistance (VITA)
The Wildlife Conservation Society
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