Apart from defense, other purposes of the Great Wall have included border controls, allowing the imposition of duties on goods transported along the Silk Road, regulation or encouragement of trade and the control of immigration and emigration.
Los Angeles-based interior designer Martyn Lawrence-Bullard created an adobe in Santa Fe for art gallery owner Allene LaPides and her husband, Jerry.Flanking the entrance are an Indian gourd and a 19th-century French oil jar.
The Water Plaza of Shells in Japan. One million scallop shells have been spread across a surface of aapproximately 10,000m2. The water flowing on the surface ripples due to the unevenness.