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What's the rebus?
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Find a word in the *middle* of the rebus-line. Think of a synonym (similar meaning) for that word. Then take the two remaining words, think of the SAME word you could put with each that would be the names of two person-made structures that had great geopolitical (that means BIG politics) meaning.Answer
wall-to-wall carpeting.The Great Wall of China was built to attempt to keep the northern barbarians out. It didn't work.
The Berlin Wall was built to attempt to keep the (western ?; eastern ?)barbarians IN. Some people think it DID work.
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