Leonardo da Vinci completed ”The Last Supper” in 1498. In 1652, sombody cut a doorway through the painting. That’s right. “Well, boys, let’s just put that door right about here, rather than maybe over there, where we wouldn’t need to put a doorknob in a masterpiece.”
Fast-forward to today, with news that a company has been fined for trying to build a highway through the Great Wall of China. That’s the truth. The company had ignored proposals for building a tunnel or an overpass, and instead demolished large sections of the wall, along with three ancient villages.
Who ARE these people? And should we be worried about them putting aluminum siding on the Taj Mahal next? Here is our story from Beijing:
A wild section of the Great Wall of China is seen at the Badaling national forest park, north of Beijing, October 28, 2006. REUTERS/Jason Lee
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