Stretching 22 miles long, the "Great Wall" is the second largest wall in the world and home to about 300 ancient temples.
Goldman is among the first large Wall Street banks to inform employees of their 2011 pay.
Goldman Sachs would not be the first large Wall Street firm to take to Twitter.
On Tuesday, the Polo Ralph Lauren on Madison Avenue staged a fashion show, with lawyers as models, for Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, which is thought to be the first large Wall Street law firm to go all casual all the time.
The Fed acknowledged the extraordinary circumstances, including the collapse of the fifth-largest Wall Street investment house, that have hit the market in the last few days.
The first large walls are older than history – which is to say, older than writing.
It was the fourth largest of the Wall Street investment banks and the oldest.
Heavily exposed to subprime mortgages and other assets that have nosedived amid the credit crisis, Lehman, the fourth-largest Wall Street investment bank, has had a torrid few months.
Months later, Bank of America took over Merrill Lynch amid fears that the bank, once the third largest on Wall Street, would itself fall victim to the tightening of the credit markets and the worsening property sector.
At a valuation of somewhere in the $75 billion to $100 billion range, the world's social network is aiming to raise $10 billion, ranking it the fourth largest IPO (this, according to The Wall Street Journal's coverage).
(Germany, the third largest, has 4,388).
