A number of Islamic writers and the 13th century Italian Marco Polo describe how this was obtained by sublimation from zinc ores and condensed onto clay or iron bars, archaeological examples of which have been identified at Kush in Iran.

Marco Polo brought some glazes back to Italy in the 13th century.

During the era after the war, later called the Pax Mongolica, adventurous Westerners such as Marco Polo travelled all the way to China and brought the first reports of its wonders to Europe.

Stories of kites were first brought to Europe by Marco Polo towards the end of the 13th century, and kites were brought back by sailors from Japan and Malaysia in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Marco Polo was not the first Westerner to travel to the Orient and return with amazing stories of this different culture, but his accounts published in the late 13th and early 14th centuries were the first to be widely read throughout Europe.

Over a period of thirty years, he visited most of the known Islamic world as well as many non-Muslim lands ; his journeys including trips to North Africa, the Horn of Africa, West Africa, Southern Europe and Eastern Europe in the West, and to the Middle East, South Asia, Central Asia, Southeast Asia and China in the East, a distance surpassing threefold his near-contemporary Marco Polo.

The most famous of these travelers was Marco Polo.

Illegal hunting of very rare species such as the snow leopard and the Marco Polo sheep.

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.

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

Marco Polo also described a large portable palace made of gilded and lacquered cane or bamboo, and supported against the wind by two hundred silk cords, which could be taken apart quickly and moved from place to place.

One month after he came into office, Japanese troops clashed with Chinese troops near Peking in the Marco Polo Bridge Incident.

The name Madageiscar was first recorded in the memoirs of 13th-century Venetian explorer Marco Polo as a corrupted form of the name Mogadishu, the Somali port with which Polo had confused the island.

Marco Polo's other legacies include Venice Marco Polo Airport, the Marco Polo sheep, and several books and films.

One possible place of birth is Venice's former contrada of San Giovanni Crisostomo, which is sometimes presented by historians as the birthplace, and it is generally accepted that Marco Polo was born in the Venetian Republic with most biographers pointing towards Venice itself as Marco Polo's home town.

According to The Travels of Marco Polo, they passed through much of Asia, and met with the Kublai Khan.

In 1271, during the dogado of Doge Lorenzo Tiepolo, Marco Polo ( at seventeen years of age ), his father, and his uncle set off for Asia on the series of adventures that were later documented in Marco's book.

Cesare Lombroso, born Ezechia Marco Lombroso (; 6 November 1835 – 19 October 1909 ) was an Italian criminologist and physician, founder of the Italian School of Positivist Criminology.

Marco Fu Ka-chun (; Yale: Fu6 Ka1 Chun3 ; born 8 January 1978 in Hong Kong ), commonly known as Marco Fu, is a professional snooker player from Hong Kong.

Marco Delvecchio (; sometimes erroneously spelled Del Vecchio ; born April 7, 1973 in Milan, Italy ) is an Italian retired footballer.

Marco Travaglio (; born 13 October 1964 ) is an Italian investigative journalist, writer and opinion leader.

Marco Antônio de Lima Ruas (; born January 23, 1961 ) is a retired mixed martial arts fighter and instructor.

By this time Naples seems to have become tired of his music ; the Romans, however, appreciated it better, and it was at the Teatro Capranica in Rome that he produced some of his finest operas ( Telemaco, 1718 ; Marco Attilio Regolò, 1719 ; La Griselda, 1721 ), as well as some noble specimens of church music, including a mass for chorus and orchestra, composed in honor of Saint Cecilia for Cardinal Acquaviva in 1721.

The three of them embarked on an epic journey to Asia, returning after 24 years to find Venice at war with Genoa ; Marco was imprisoned, and dictated his stories to a cellmate.

This led to securing the offices of protonotary apostolic, president of the apostolic chamber, commissary of the Marco di Roma, and governor of Macerata ; on 6 March 1645, Pope Innocent X ( 1644 – 55 ) made him Cardinal-Deacon with the deaconry of Santi Cosma e Damiano.

In 1705, he was married ; Antonino Biffi, the maestro di cappella of San Marco was a witness, and evidently was a friend of Albinoni's.

* Cam Ranh-large deep water port and used by Marco Polo during his voyages to China ; formerly a major military facility for the U. S. Army and US Navy during the 1960s ; later used by the Soviet Navy and the Vietnamese Navy

Among other accomplishments, Fundy ports produced the fastest ship in the world, the ship Marco Polo ; the largest wooden ship ever built in Canada, the ship William D. Lawrence ; and the first female sea captain in the western world, Molly Kool of Alma, New Brunswick.

The Douro railway line ( in Portuguese: Linha do Douro ) was completed in 1887 ; it connects Porto, Rio Tinto, Ermesinde, Valongo, Paredes, Penafiel, Livração, Marco de Canaveses, Régua, Tua and Pocinho.

In the 13th century, Marco Polo ( as quoted in Attenborough ( 1961: 32 ) stated " It was for all the world like an eagle, but one indeed of enormous size ; so big in fact that its quills were twelve paces long and thick in proportion.

Doubtless it was Marco Polo's description that inspired Antonio Pigafetta, one of Magellan's companions, who wrote or had ghost-written an embroidered account of the circumglobal voyage ; in Pigafetta's account the home grounds of the roc were the seas of China.

* Marco Camenisch ; Italian green anarchist accused of arson against electricity pylon.

* San Marco in San Girolamo ( 18th century ), baroque church built by the Discalced Carmelites ;

Josh Radnor, the star of the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother ; Marco Arment, lead developer of the blogging website Tumblr ; and Laurie Lea Schaefer, Miss America of 1972, have also called Bexley home.

* Marco Polo ( 1982 ; television miniseries )

João Fernandes, Introduction and The Stories by Paula Rego, between Painting and Drawing: Ruth Rosengarten: Possessed: Love and Authority in the work of Paula Rego ; Marco Livingstone: All that is left behind.

* 2009: Peter Blake: One Man Show by Marco Livingstone ( Lund Humphries ) Hardback-978-0-85331-980-1 ; Limited Edition Hardback-978-1-84822-039-3

It has been suggested that Vasari was confusing this murder case with another one involving a " Domenico di Matteo " who was killed by an " Andreino " in 1448, but the archival record shows that this is a misreading: " A cursory examination reveals two things: first, that the name of the dead painter is not Domenico di Matteo, but Domenico di Marco ; and second, and much more crucially, that there is no mention of him having been killed by a painter named Andrea or Andreino.

* Becht, Marco, Patrick Bolton, Ailsa Röell, " Corporate Governance and Control " ( October 2002 ; updated August 2004 ).

Western Africa is incorrect, though technology at the time made such calculations difficult ; the Cape Verde archipelago lies hundreds of miles out of its proper place ; and the Atlantic is filled with mythological islands that were psychologically important to isolated Medieval Christendom Japan is located only 1500 miles off the coast, and was just where Marco Polo mentioned it, placing it temptingly within sailing distance of the Canaries.

Pope Gregory IX made him a cardinal on 18 September 1227 with the cure of San Marco, and in 1228 – 29 sent him as legate in Lombardy and Tuscany, where the cities and communes had generally remained true to the Hohenstaufen emperor, Frederick II.

* September 27 – Marco Girolamo Vida, Italian poet ( b. 1490 )

* 1254 – September 15 – Marco Polo, Venetian merchant and explorer ( d. 1324 )

* September 15 – Marco Polo, Italian explorer ( d. 1324 )

Lying on the Gulf of Mexico, Coatzacoalcos has been struck by several hurricanes and tropical storms such as: Hurricane Diana in August 1990, Hurricane Mitch in November 1998, Tropical Storm Larry in October 2003, Hurricane Stan in October 2005, Hurricane Dean in August 2007, Tropical Storm Marco in October 2008, Tropical Storm Hermine in early September 2010, Hurricane Karl in mid September 2010, Tropical Storm Matthew in late September 2010, and Hurricane Richard in October 2010.

Marco Masini ( Florence, September 18, 1964 ) is a singer musician born in Italy and worldwide known as Maso.

Marco Masini was born in the city of Florence, in the province of Tuscany, on September 18, 1964.

Marco Masini was born on September 18, 1964, the Italian city of Florence.

In 1860 he was sent to Berlin and Saint Petersburg to arrange for the recognition of the kingdom of Italy and subsequently he held the offices of governor of Milan and royal lieutenant at Naples, until, in September 1864, he succeeded Marco Minghetti as premier.

The Games were successfully organised for the next nine terms, but in September 1937, Japan invaded China after the Marco Polo Bridge Incident and started the Second Sino-Japanese War ( which later became part of the World War II ), thus the originally planned Games of 1938 in Osaka was cancelled and the Far Eastern Games were discontinued thereafter.

Marco Johann Sturm ( born September 8, 1978 ) is a German professional ice hockey winger who is currently a free agent in the National Hockey League ( NHL ).

Gaspar Henaine Pérez ( January 6, 1926 – September 30, 2011 ) was a Mexican comic actor and singer, who became famous when he partnered with Marco Antonio Campos as the comedy team Viruta y Capulina.

Marco Antonio Etcheverry Vargas ( born September 26, 1970 in Santa Cruz de la Sierra ) is a retired Bolivian footballer, considered one of the greatest Bolivian players of all time.

* Marco Antonio Solís-May 16, 2010, with Alejandro Fernández and Joan Sebastian and September 24, 2011

In Marco Polo ’ s memoirs of his stay on the east coast of Sumatra ( then called Java Minor ) from April to September 1292, he mentions an encounter with hill folk whom he refers to as “ man-eaters ”.

On 2 September 2006, in a Euro 2008 qualifier against Hungary, Pedersen, whose favourite player as a kid was Marco van Basten, scored a goal which was very similar to van Basten's famous goal in the final of the 1988 European Football Championship.

On September 1999, he joined fellow countrymen Armando Manzanero, Marco Antonio Muñiz and Argentine pianist Raúl di Blasio for a series of concerts dubbed " Noche Bohemia " ( Bohemian Night ) at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Los Angeles.

Marco Rota ( born September 18, 1942 ) is an Italian Disney comic artist who served as editor-in-chief of Disney Italia from 1974 to 1988.

Egypt manager Marco Tardelli dropped Mido in September 2004, after Mido claimed to be unavailable for the national team due to an injury, but played in a friendly match for Roma 24 hours later.

Dowling was a contestant in the ITV reality series Hell's Kitchen during September 2007, in which he competed against other celebrities to impress celebrity chef Marco Pierre White.

Magali Di Marco Messmer ( born 9 September 1971 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland ), is one of the most seasoned professional elite triathletes and part of the Swiss National Team since 1995.

* Marco Antonio Solís-September 1 – 2, 2007, with Juan Gabriel, August 8, 2009, with Pepe Aguilar and September 10 and 23, 2011, with Ana Gabriel