Much of the time, though, Clinton and his family were touring, gazing at the fabulous terra-cotta army of Xian, the Great Wall, the neon-lit Shanghai Bund at night, the ethereal karst mountains of Guilin and the towering tangle of Hong Kong's skyscrapers.
About 20 months ago -- and this was almost 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall -- I had the great honor and privilege to address both houses of Congress, a wonderful moment.
Apparently, those that won - the Great Wall of China, for example, Machu Picchu - even the governments in those country appeal to the citizens to go online because it was an online vote, and vote.
Mr. Prinz von Preussen, who is the great-great-grandson of Wilhelm II, the last German kaiser, spoke with The Wall Street Journal by email.
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QUIST-ARCTON: There's the Great Wall of China, Petra in Jordan, Christ the Redeemer - the Statue in Brazil - Machu Picchu in Peru, Chichen Itza in Mexico, the Coliseum in Rome and the Taj Mahal in India.
The staff in the restaurant is professional and pleasant, the by-the-glass wine list is decent, and my linguine with clams last night was much better than the linguine with radicchio I had at that little hole-in-the-wall (with a great sense of place) near the Grand Hotel Gianicolo yesterday before heading for the station.
Angel Pagan hit an RBI double and two-run single for San Francisco, also making a great leaping catch against the center-field wall.
About Jimmy Carter, the late great Wall Street Journal editorial page editor Robert Bartley observed about the micro-managing president that he knew he would fail the minute he heard Carter was overseeing use of the White House tennis court.
Despite all the criticism that President Obama has received lately from Wall Street, the Administration has largely left the great money-making machine intact.
The pan-African Great Green African Wall (GGW), a lush strips of vegetation capable of supporting birds and other animals, would stretch from Djibouti in the Horn of Africa in the east to Dakar, Senegal in the west on the southern edge of the Sahara.
Under Mr Bush, working for Goldman Sachs, the greatest of Wall Street's then-great investment banks, seemed in itself to be a qualification for high office.
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The interest groups that led the Democrats astray, according to Cost, have come to prominence in the Party since the Great Society: public-sector unions, elements of Wall Street, feminists, environmentalists, and members of Congress who represent districts drawn to be majority-minority.
The 800m section of the 2, 000-year-old Roman wall at Great Chesters, near Haltwhistle, is in poor repair because of weather and animal grazing.
Historians say hundreds of thousands of conscripts died under his direction completing the Great Wall, while 700, 000 slaved to build his palace and pyramid-like tomb.
Although it is not, as is commonly believed, the only man-made object visible from space, China's Great Wall still amazes with its sheer size, and remains impressive as a testament to architectural will, and to the need to keep out the Mongol hordes.
"By the mid-'60s I had this great quartet and then hit a wall, " says Mr. Lloyd, explaining his period away from performing.
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From the Great Wall in China to the World War II battles of Iwo Jima, a cruise-led history lesson can span thousands of years.
Some pilots, however, may soon have to brush up on their customary airborne banter--they'll more likely be pointing out whole continents or even the Great Wall of China.
Instead of building a great wall across the Xingu to create a massive reservoir, Belo Monte is designed as a run-of-river dam, a technique that harnesses the natural flow of the river to drive the turbines.
Laurence Tisch, and Wall Street great John Whitehead, who begged him to turn off the spigot of easy money and rock-bottom interest rates.
But in the current political climate, the government will feel great pressure to punish a few of the people whom the public hold responsible for the unpopular bail-out of Wall Street.
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