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Voters told to get behind Great Wall

THE Academy of the Great Wall of China has launched a last-minute campaign to encourage people to vote the wall as one of the "New Seven Wonders of the World" after it was revealed it had fallen out of the top seven just over a month before public voting... ...full story at Shanghai Daily

from Shanghai Daily on Thu, May 31 2007

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