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The thing you build to keep things out and yourself in.
means A solid upright structure, usually of brick, stone, or timber, that encloses a space, divides an area, or supports a roof.
from From Old English 'weall,' a barrier or rampart — but the deeper root is borrowed Latin 'vallum,' the earthwork wall the Romans threw up around their camps, itself from 'vallus,' a stake or palisade. So every wall traces back to a row of pointed sticks hammered into the ground by soldiers.
- Berlin fall
- Came down in 1989 after 28 years dividing a city
- Great Wall
- Not visible from space with the naked eye
- China's length
- Stretches over 13,000 miles of stone and dust
- Load-bearing
- Remove the wrong one and the ceiling joins you
- Jericho
- Among the oldest walls, roughly 10,000 years old
great wall of china — fortification spanning 13,171 miles across northern china, built over 2,000 years
berlin wall — concrete barrier dividing east and west berlin from 1961 to 1989
western wall jerusalem — retaining wall in old city, holiest site in judaism, built 19 bce
wall street new york — financial district in lower manhattan, home to new york stock exchange since 1792