This quotation was based upon the writings of the Venetian explorer Marco Polo who is widely believed to have visited Xanadu in about 1275.

There is a heavy use of assonance, the reuse of vowel sounds, and a reliance on alliteration, repetition of the first sound of a word, within the poem including the first line: " In Xanadu did Kubla Khan ".

The land is constructed as a paradisical garden, but like Eden after Man's fall, Xanadu is isolated by walls.

Though the exterior of Xanadu is presented in images of darkness, and in context of the dead sea, we are reminded of the " miracle " and " pleasure " of Kubla Khan's creation.

And over it is cast the glamour, enhanced beyond all reckoning in the dream, of the remote in time and space – that visionary presence of a vague and gorgeous and mysterious Past which brooded, as Coleridge read, above the inscrutable Nile, and domed pavilions in Cashmere, and the vanished stateliness of Xanadu.

Ted Nelson is currently working on a new information structure, ZigZag, which is described on the Xanadu project website, which also hosts two versions of the Xanadu code.

It is missing only one fact: The ranking order of the original Knights Templar, plus one discovered in an ancient Xanadu manuscript.

# Every Xanadu server is uniquely and securely identified.

# The Xanadu client-server communication protocol is an openly published standard.

Anchoring the album is Neil Peart's solid and intricate percussion, an ever expanding range of drums, woodblocks, bells and chimes, also a prominent element of " Xanadu "' s atmosphere of sound.

In an interlude set in " Xanadu ", a character claims that the universe is dangerous because the poem went unfinished, but whether this was his misapprehension or not is not established.

Vivienne is the Lady of the Lake in DC Comics, while Nimue is Madame Xanadu, her youngest sister, and their middle sister is Morgaine le Fey ( given name, Morgana ), and their surname is Inwudu.

Xanadu was located in what is now called Inner Mongolia, north of Beijing, about northwest of the modern town of Duolun.

The Venetian explorer Marco Polo is widely believed to have visited Xanadu in about 1275.

The lament of Toghon Temur Khan ( the " Ukhaant Khan " or " Sage Khan "), concerning the loss of Daidu ( Beijing ) and Heibun Shanduu ( Kaiping Xanadu ) in 1368, is recorded in many Mongolian historical chronicles.

The title name of the 1980 film Xanadu is a reference to Coleridge's poem.

Another known reference to Coleridge's poem is the song " Xanadu " by Canadian rock band Rush in their 1977 album A Farewell to Kings.

Fox can be seen skitching in the 1985 film Back to the Future, as can Michael Beck in the 1980 film Xanadu and Christian Slater in the 1989 film Gleaming the Cube.

*: In Xanadu: A Quest ( 1989 )

* The Ray Bradbury Theater ( 1989 ) .... Xanadu Young Man in " A Miracle of Rare Device " ( 14 July 1989 )

The promise pipelining technique ( using futures to overcome latency ) was invented by Barbara Liskov and Liuba Shrira in 1988, and independently by Mark S. Miller, Dean Tribble and Rob Jellinghaus in the context of Project Xanadu circa 1989.

* The Bird of Red and Gold ( Xanadu 1989 )

The book is a travel guide to fantasy lands, islands, cities, and other locations from world literature, including Ruritania, Shangri-La, Xanadu, Atlantis, L. Frank Baum's Oz, Lewis Carroll's Wonderland, Thomas More's Utopia, Edwin Abbott's Flatland, C. S. Lewis ' Narnia, and the realms of Jonathan Swift and J. R. R.

The book contained a brief description of Xanadu, the summer capital of the Mongol ruler Kublai Khan.

In Road to Xanadu ( 1927 ), a book length study of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, John Livingston Lowes claimed that the poems were " two of the most remarkable poems in English ".

This book contained a brief description of Xanadu, based on the early description of Marco Polo:

The eleventh volume of this book included a more detailed description of Xanadu, attributed to Marco Polo and dated 1320:

In 1980 Jeff Lynne was asked to write for the soundtrack of the musical film Xanadu, with the other half written by John Farrar and performed by the film's star Olivia Newton-John.

Xanadu ( here called Ciandu, as Marco Polo spelled it ) on the French map of Asia made by Sanson d ' Abbeville, geographer of King Louis XIV, dated 1650.

* The Magical Place of Literary Memory: Xanadu in Screening the Past, July 2005 by Belinda Barnet

The term " hyperlink " was coined in 1965 ( or possibly 1964 ) by Ted Nelson at the start of Project Xanadu.

Though Nelson's Xanadu Corporation was eventually funded by Autodesk in the 1980s, it never created this proprietary public-access network.

One early showcase for Dunn was Orson Welles ' Citizen Kane, where such locations as Xanadu ( and some of Gregg Toland's famous ' deep focus ' shots ) were essentially created by Dunn's optical printer.

* “ Attention Shoppers ” in Xanadu ( 1993, edited by Jane Yolen )

Project Xanadu was the first hypertext project, founded in 1960 by Ted Nelson.

In 1967, while working for Harcourt, Brace, he named his project Xanadu, in honour of the poem " Kubla Khan " by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

In a house rented by Greene, they hashed out their ideas for Xanadu ; but at the end of the summer the group went their separate ways.

Charles S. Smith, the founder of a company called Memex ( named after a hypertext system proposed by Vannevar Bush ), hired many of the Xanadu programmers and licensed the Xanadu technology, though Memex soon faced financial difficulties, and the then-unpaid programmers left, taking the computers with them ( the programmers were eventually paid ).

* The Magical Place of Literary Memory: Xanadu in Screening the Past, July 2005 by Belinda Barnet

** Errors in " The Curse of Xanadu " by Theodor Holm Nelson, Project Xanadu

* " Xanadu Products Due Next Year ," by Jeff Merron.

* 1985: Sex Scandals by Christine Keeler and Robert Meadley ; Xanadu Publications ISBN 0-947761-03-9

by Christine Keeler ; London: Xanadu Publications ISBN 0-947761-75-6 ( basis of the movie of the same name )

Xanadu ( here spelled Ciandu, as Marco Polo spelled it ) on the French map of Asia made by Sanson d ' Abbeville, geographer of King Louis XIV, dated 1650.

Xanadu was visited by the Venetian traveler Marco Polo in about 1275, and in 1797 inspired a famous poem, Kubla Khan, by one of the leading English poets of the Romanticism movement, Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Unfortunately Coleridge's writing was interrupted by an unnamed " man from Porlock ," causing him to forget much of the dream, but his images of Xanadu became one of the best-known poems in the English language.

Thanks to a poem by Coleridge, Xanadu became a metaphor for splendor and opulence.