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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 (; ; 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.

Marco and later
The Brewers also used fewer starting pitchers than any team in baseball, using only six starting pitchers, with Marco Estrada filling in for 7 games when Greinke and later Narveson were out with injuries.
* November 16 – Roman Catholic Archbishop of the See of Spalato and Primate of Dalmatia, Marco Antonio de Dominis, having run afoul of Pope Paul V over secular matters relating to Venice, submits to King James I of England and later becomes Dean of Windsor.
* 1266 – Niccolo and Maffeo Polo, brother and uncle of Marco Polo reach Kublai Khan's capital Khanbaliq ( now Beijing ) in China, setting the stage for Marco's famous expedition starting five years later.
* Niccolo and Maffeo Polo, father and uncle of Marco Polo, reach Kublai Khan's capital Khanbaliq ( now Beijing ) in China, setting the stage for Marco's famous expedition 5 years later.
He broached these apocalyptic themes in San Gimignano where he went as Lenten preacher in 1485 and again in 1486, but a year later, when he left San Marco for a new assignment, he had said nothing of his " San Giorgio revelations " in Florence.
* 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
It seems likely that Zuccarelli already knew Anesi from Rome, or met him in Florence through their common friend Gabburi, whose collection of paintings were devoted almost exclusively to landscape and included five by Anesi, and notably, in light of later developments, four from Marco Ricci.
The legend of the roc, popularized in the West in the travels of Marco Polo and later in the 1001 Nights tales, of Abd al-Rahman and Sinbad the Sailor, was widespread in the East.
Dissatisfied with this position, Guiscard moved to the castle of San Marco Argentano ( after which he later named the first Norman castle in Sicily, at the site of ancient Aluntium ).
Another version of Thin Lizzy was formed later that year by John Sykes ( now also performing lead vocals ) with Downey, Gorham and Wharton, and with bass parts played by Marco Mendoza, who had played with Sykes in Blue Murder from 1991 – 93.
The crew of Engine 51 was Chester " Chet " Kelly ( Timothy " Tim " Donnelly ), Marco Lopez ( Marco Lopez, an actor using his real name, is often thought to be an actual LACoFD firefighter ), Mike Stoker ( LACoFD firefighter Mike Stoker as himself ), Captain Dick Hammer ( LACoFD Captain Richard Hammer as himself, later John Smith, first season ), Captain Henry " Hank " Stanley ( Michael Norell, remaining seasons ).
As well as showing at Marlborough Fine Art in London in 2010, the art critic Marco Livingstone organised a retrospective of her work at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Monterrey, Mexico, which was later shown at the Pinacoteca de São Paulo, Brazil.
The influence of the African Ptolemy, who bequeathed the world latitude and longitude, is apparent, but every attempt is made to incorporate the discoveries of the later Middle Ages ( including information from the voyages of Marco Polo, among others ).
In the same year, the Kingdom of Lombardy – Venetia revolted against the Austrian Empire in the Five Days of Milan, forming the Provisional Government of Lombardy on 22 March 1848 and Provisional Government of Venice, or " Republic of San Marco ", a day later.
Among his associates from abroad at a later period were Friedrich Spanheim and Marco Antonio De Dominis.
" Marco is later quoted in reference to his father's disappearance: " The body was never found, but we surmise that probably, knowing the people he was involved with, he ended up mouthing off, getting into a fight, and getting killed.
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.
Many features of our own history are repeated in this history, though under changed circumstances: The equivalent of the 16th and 17th Centuries have bold navigators and adventurers, romanticised by later generations but unpleasantly brutal and ruthless when looked at closely ; in the late 18th to mid-19th Centuries, a decadent old order is overthrown by revolution followed by a reign of terror and the reemergence of Republicanism ; though Italy remains a central part of the Roman Empire, the Latin dialect spoken there develops into a kind of Italian, and the name " Marcus " changes into " Marco "; though Vienna is a provincial capital which never had an Emperor of its own, its population dances the Waltz ; by the 20th Century, people travel by cars rather than carriages and by the second half of the century, space flight is achieved.
Police later also identified a seventh victim dead in a condominium complex in Goleta, California where San Marco once lived.
Among them: Trace, Steve Hackett, Third Eye Blind, The Clash, Elvis Costello, Jon Brion, Blur, Marco Benevento, Fiona Apple, Kraftwerk ( Orchestron ), Money Mark, Ani DiFranco, Michael Penn, Steve Fisk, Tom Waits, Nan Vernon, Hala Strana, TISM, The Real Tuesday Weld, and Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo — who mixed in parts of the " Banjo Sing-Along " disc on a later remix of Devo's 1981 single, " Beautiful World.
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 and reported
This was reported as " Cambuluc " by Marco Polo.
One of her favoured dogs was a comparatively small red sable Pomeranian which she named " Windor's Marco " and was reported to weigh only.
Marco Polo reported that ten pounds ( 4. 5 kg ) of milk paste was carried by each man, who would subsequently mix the product with water.
Some Italians, under the orders of Colonel Di Marco, started a guerrilla war in the Ogaden area that is reported to have lasted until the summer of 1942.
Salary cap pressures, and reported conflicts between Diaz Arce and Marco Etcheverry, resulted in D. C. trading one of the league's most prolific scorers to the New England Revolution in the offseason of 1997.
Marco also hosts a large landslide which has been reported by Dante Alighieri in his Divina Commedia: " Qual è quella ruina che nel fianco di qua da Trento l ' Adice percosse, o per tremoto o per sostegno manco " ( Inferno, canto XII ).
For example in 2001, after the late night show Satyricon aired an interview that discussed indictments on links between the right-wing leader and the mafia, Marco Travaglio reported that Veltroni dispatched a messenger menacing the closure of the show .< ref >
Couvade has been reported by travelers throughout history, including the Greek geographer Strabo ( 3. 3. 7 and 4. 17 ) and the Venetian traveler Marco Polo.
The battle was later reported back to Europe by Marco Polo, who described the battle vividly in his reports.

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