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| | A Concise History of China, Chapter 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23) |
 | | The taskmasters would not allow time to give a proper burial to those who died, so their bodies were simply thrown into the ditches where the next segment of the wall was going to be built; for that reason, the Great Wall is sometimes called the longest cemetery in the world. |
 | | At first Gaozu wanted his son, crown prince Hui Di, to lead an expedition against the Xiongnu, but Hui Di was not up to the job; instead of showing interest in statecraft and war, he spent his spare time in pleasure gardens with a boy named Hong. |
 | | When Ling Di died in 189, He Jin barged into the room where the late emperor's corpse was on display, killed a eunuch who got in the way, and proclaimed his nephew Pian the new emperor. |
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