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.

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 (; ; September 15, 1254 – January 9, 1324 ) was a Venetian merchant traveler whose travels are recorded in Il Milione, a book which did much to introduce Europeans to Central Asia and China.

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.

According to legend, macaroni was brought to Italy by Marco Polo, returning to Venice from China in 1292.

Stories of kites were 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.

During a stay in prison he met the " Grand Admiral " and Doctor of Law Marco Vitale, the illegitimate son of a famous lawyer, who brought him into contact with some members of the middle class tired of the continuing abuses of the tax collector and privileges of the nobility.

The case was brought by Warren Hitzig, along with seven medical marijuana users ( Alison Myrden, Stephen J Vandekemp, Marco Renda, Marylynne Chamney, Catherine Devries, Jari Dvorak and Debbie Stultz-Giffen ).

Neri was carefully brought up, and received his early teaching from the friars at San Marco, the famous Dominican monastery in Florence.

However, Blind's signing was much to the chagrin of Ajax superstar Marco van Basten, who was upset that his manager had brought in a relatively unknown, defensive player from a fairly small cub like Sparta, instead of splashing out on a big-money, big-name transfer.

This meant the end of the Orient Line brand, as no ship was brought in to replace the Marco Polo.

In 2005, the Islanders still under Hugo Hernán Maradona brought in a new group of players that would become staples in the club for the next couple of seasons ( Petter Villegas, Marco Vélez, Dan Kennedy, Caleb Norkus, Alejandro González Pareja and Noah Delgado ), and retained several key players like Mauricio Salles.

His attachment to her is brought into perspective by the arrival from Italy of Beatrice's two cousins, Marco and Rodolpho.

The following season started with the appointment of Zdeněk Zeman as new head coach ; the Czech manager immediately brought Pescara back into national coverage thanks to his well-known all-attacking playing style that turned out to match perfectly with promising youngsters such as Marco Verratti, Ciro Immobile, and Lorenzo Insigne, who guided the squad to promotion to the Serie A. Pescara secured promotion to the top-level after a 19-year absence after defeating Sampdoria with a 3 – 1 score in an away match on 20 May 2012.

More remarkable still, they engaged in this trade regularly and over an extended period of time, centuries before Marco Polo and ibn Battuta brought their tales of travel in the Orient to the Christians and the Muslims, respectively.

During Gaykhatu's reign, Ghazan's principal wife during his lifetime became Kökechin, who had been brought from the Yuan Dynasty from the east by Marco Polo.

For these events Wanamaker's opened a Concert Bureau under Alexander Russell and brought to America master organists Marcel Dupré and Louis Vierne, Nadia Boulanger, Marco Enrico Bossi, Alfred Hollins, and several others.

The advent of the compact disc has, however, brought a revival of interest: Marco Polo issued two orchestral discs and one chamber music disc, Hyperion included The Song of Gywn ap Nudd in it's ongoing " Romantic Piano Concerto " series and Lyrita reissued their recording of The Birds of Rhiannon.

Johan Cruijff returned to the club in 1981, with the club producing some talented youngsters in the mid-1980s such as Marco van Basten and Frank Rijkaard.

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.

Adrian restored some of the ancient aqueducts of Rome and rebuilt the churches of Santa Maria in Cosmedin, decorated by Greek monks fleeing from the iconoclastal persecutions, and of San Marco in Rome.

In Venice, from about 1534 until around 1600, an impressive polychoral style developed, which gave Europe some of the grandest, most sonorous music composed up until that time, with multiple choirs of singers, brass and strings in different spatial locations in the Basilica San Marco di Venezia ( see Venetian School ).

In the meanwhile he has had time enough for some more animation, so we have Aihnoo degli Icebergs ( 1972 ), The Fourth King ( 1977 ) and a new TV series, The Adventures of Marco and Gina ( Sopra i tetti di Venezia ) ( 2001 ).

Around the same time, the Venetian explorer Marco Polo became one of the first Europeans to travel the Silk Road to China, and his tales, documented in The Travels of Marco Polo, opened Western eyes to some of the customs of the Far East.

The work of his late maturity can broadly be characterized as " neo-Riccian ", for in this period his style echoed in some respects his youthful emulation of Marco Ricci.

In late 2009, Reil was forced to sit out some tour dates due to personal issues, with Marco Minnemann temporarily taking his place.

King has promoted some of the most prominent names in boxing, including Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, Larry Holmes, Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield, Julio César Chávez, Andrew Golota, Félix Trinidad, Roy Jones, Jr. Marco Antonio Barrera, Nikolai Valuev and Joey Hernandez.

He was buried in the Pitoni family vault in the Basilica of San Marco, where he had served for some 66 years.

* The factual, lifestyle and arts channel Now was replaced in the most part with Sky News, although as some arts programming was still to be shown, a short term opt-out service called Sky Arts was launched for broadcast on the Marco Polo transponders at weekends.

The editor, Marco Antonio de Dominis, did some work on polishing the text.

Marco Polo wrote in the 13th century " The Chinese take some lime and chopped hemp, and these they knead together with a certain wood oil ; and when the three are thoroughly amalgamated they hold like any glue, and with this mixture they pay their ships ".

While it has long been claimed that he studied in Venice with Adrian Willaert, and that he was a singer at San Marco, no specific documentation of either of these events has been found ; some dedicatory material in his Venetian publications mentions him as a " disciple " or " follower ", but not specifically as a student.

After Caccini, composers such as Marco da Gagliano, Sigismondo d ' India, and Claudio Saracini published collections of their own ; while Caccini's music was almost entirely diatonic, some of these later composers, particular d ' India, wrote their solo madrigals in a more experimental chromatic idiom.

In the West, some researchers would date the origins of sinology as far back as Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta in the 13th and 14th century, but the systematic study of China began in the late 16th century, when Jesuit missionaries based at St. Paul's College, Macao, notably Matteo Ricci, introduced Christianity to China.

Taking the advice of his uncle, in March began to take music lessons and some years later, came to study large stars of European traditional music, Chopin and Mozart were beginning a solicitation to Marco Masini.

Marco began to prepare his first tour with friends with whom he had played and produced some records: Mario Manzano ( guitar ), Massimo Rastrelli ( guitar-he played with it also corrects errata ), Bruno Illiano ( computers, keyboards ), Marcello for Toffoli, Alfredo Golino ( drums ), Andrea Corsellini ( phonetics ).

Meanwhile, in Spain, where a collection of some songs taken from the first two albums entitled Marco Masini has had great success, and earned a Gold Record with this album published in Spanish ( and fall in love ).

However, modern scholars debate how much of the account is accurate and some have questioned whether or not Marco Polo ever actually traveled to the court or was just repeating stories that he had heard from other travellers.

Marco Polo, a Christian himself, is often considered to have been flawed by his contemporary bias against some of the religions he encounters along the way.