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.

Today, there are numerous attractions in Venice, such as St Mark's Basilica, the Grand Canal, and the Piazza San Marco.

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.

His first ranking victory came at the Grand Prix, in 1998 defeating Dave Harold 6 – 4 in a hard-fought semi-final that saw Lee come from 3 – 0 and 4 – 1 down, before beating newcomer Marco Fu convincingly in the final, 9 – 2 ) and 2001.

In the 2007 / 08 season, he reached two quarter-finals: in the Grand Prix ( losing 5 – 3 to Gerard Greene ) and the Welsh Open ( with victories over John Parrott 5 – 2, Peter Ebdon 5 – 1 and Stuart Bingham 5 – 2 before Shaun Murphy beat him 5 – 0 ), as well as the last 16 of the UK Championship, where he beat Neil Robertson 9 – 6 after being 5 – 3 down, before losing 9 – 2 to Marco Fu.

Marco Fu after winning the 2007 Grand Prix ( snooker ) | 2007 Grand Prix

In June 1990, as freshman Leader of The Free National Movement, he led his party to a Marco City, Grand Bahama, by-election victory over the governing party.

In 1487, Grand Duke Ivan III commissioned two Italian Renaissance architects, Marco Ruffo and Pietro Solario to build a stone palace after a series of fires that had ravaged by then predominantly wooden Kremlin.

It stands on a narrow finger of land between the Grand Canal and the Bacino di San Marco making the church visible when entering the Piazza San Marco from the water.

Signing for Willi Weber's team, he defeated Marco Werner in the fight for the Championship, in 1992, also winning the Marlboro Masters in Zandvoort and finishing second in the Macau Grand Prix.

Grand Master Marco de Cesaris ( Khan 15 and one of the four grand masters of Muay Thai / Muay Boran in the world ) is one of the majors drivers to that process.

Further down the grid there were two new faces, with Pedro Lamy making his Grand Prix debut for the cash-strapped Lotus outfit and after the retirement of Thierry Boutsen at the previous race, Jordan had decided to evaluate promising young Japanese Formula 3000 driver Marco Apicella, and handed him his debut at his home race.

While the F2-Osella was entered on one occasion in 1980 by the Italian privateer Marco Rocca, Osella Squadra Corse appeared in the world of Grand Prix racing with its first Formula 1 machine, the FA1.

The winner of the MotoGP World Championship Grand Prix Round 16 was the Italian Marco Melandri ( Team Movistar Honda MotoGP ) with 41 ' 44. 139.

Acts for EXIT 2011 included Arcade Fire, Pulp, Jamiroquai, Portishead, Grinderman, M. I. A., Editors, House of Pain, Santigold, Bad Religion, Kreator, Beirut ( band ), Big Audio Dynamite, Amadou & Mariam, Go Back to the Zoo, Underworld, Deadmau5, Groove Armada, Fedde Le Grand, Magnetic Man, Tiga, James Zabiela, Digitalism live, DJ Sneak, Paul Kalkbrenner, Joris Voorn, Steve Aoki, Carl Craig, Marco Carola, Hadouken !, Joachim Garraud, Better Lost Than Stupid ( Martin Buttrich, Davide Squillace, Matthias Tanzmann ), Gramophonedzie, Anti-Nowhere League, Kreator, De Staat, Nosaj Thing, Photek.

He won his second non-ranking tournament, the Huangshan Cup in China, with a 5 – 3 win over the reigning Grand Prix champion Marco Fu.

He reached the same stage of the Grand Prix, defeating veterans Steve Davis and John Parrott before losing to Ryan Day, again 5 – 6 The third occasion was the UK Championship where wins over Peter Ebdon and Mark Williams were followed by a close 9 – 7 defeat to the man he was victorious against in the Huangshan Cup final in China, Marco Fu.

• " The Treasure of St. Marco in Venice ", Grand Palais, Paris, and the major museums around the world, 1984 – 87

Marco Greco ( Born December 1, 1963 in São Paulo ) is a former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer and race car driver who competed in the Indy Racing League from 1996 to 1999.

* The Grand Design ( 2000 ) John Marco

The Procuratie Nuove were a row of official housing for the Procuratorate of San Marco, presented as a unified palace front that continues the end facade of the Sansovino Library, with its arcaded ground floor and arch-headed windows of the first floor, but adding an upper floor to provide the necessary accommodation, for which Scamozzi adapted a rejected project of Palladio's for a re-faced Doge's Palace, with colonnettes that flank the windows to support alternating triangular and arched pediments, upon which Scamozzi added reclining figures, to balance the richness of the Sansovinian decoration of the two lower floors.

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.

Kabir played pivotal roles in Columbia Pictures ' The Beast of War, a film on the Russian war in Afghanistan, directed by Kevin Reynolds, as well as the acclaimed Italian film Andata Ritorno, by Marco Ponti, winner of the prestigious David di Donatello Award.

In 1763, at the age of 17, Jones wrote the poem Caissa in Latin hexameters, based on a 658-line poem called " Scacchia, Ludus " published in 1527 by Marco Girolamo Vida, giving a mythical origin of chess that has become well known in the chess world.

* 1969: Director Marco Ferreri's film Dillinger Is Dead includes documentary footage of real John Dillinger as well as newspaper clips.

The unicorn, tamable only by a virgin woman, was well established in medieval lore by the time Marco Polo described them as " scarcely smaller than elephants.

One theory, possibly the most well known but also the most criticized, comes from the observations from Marco Polo during his travels to the Orient.

Marcel " Marco " van Basten (, 31 October 1964 ) is a Dutch football manager and former football player, who played for Ajax and Milan, as well as the Dutch national team, in the 1980s and early 1990s.

It is best known for having been an early label of Adam and the Ants, releasing their debut album Dirk Wears White Sox in November 1979 ( which in January 1980 was the first ever Number One on the UK Independent Albums Chart and in February 1981 became a UK Top 20 album ) as well as singles Zerox in June 1979 and Cartrouble in March 1980, the latter being not only a Number One on the UK Independent Singles Chart but also the debut collaboration between Adam Ant and Marco Pirroni following the departure of the original Ants to form Bow Wow Wow.

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.

Prominent and renowned hotels include The Peninsula, The Kowloon Hotel at Middle Road, Kowloon Shangri-La, the InterContinental Hong Kong, the Sheraton Hotel, three Marco Polo Hotels, The Langham Hong Kong, the Renaissance Kowloon Hotel ( since demolished ), The Mira Hong Kong, Baden-Powell International House, Hotel ICON as well as the Hotel Panorama.

In a last effort to stop Morden, the Regular Army send Marco Rossi and Tarma Roving of the Peregrine Falcon Squad to locate and eliminate Morden's powerbase, as well as reclaim or destroy any Metal Slugs they can find so as to keep the technology out of Morden's hands.

During their broadcast of Game 3 of the 2006 American League Championship Series, Piniella was commenting on player Marco Scutaro who had struggled during the regular season but was playing well during the series.

The network included Mario Scaramella, arrested in December 2006, the head of SISMI Nicolò Pollari, n ° 2 of SISMI Marco Mancini ( both indicted in the Imam Rapito affair ), as well as Robert Seldon Lady, CIA station chief in Milan, also indicted in the Imam Rapito affair.

As well as from being left out of the 2006 FIFA World Cup squad by coach Marco van Basten, Kluivert was not called up to play in any of the qualifying games leading up to the World Cup either.

As well as these ASI has access to its own spaceport, the Broglio Space Centre ( formerly the San Marco Equatorial Range ) on the coastal sublittoral of Kenya, currently used only as a communications ground station.

The recording was mainly well received by critics, and achieved the greatest sales of any recording released under the Marco Polo label.

João Roque, Leonel Miranda, Joaquim Agostinho and Marco Chagas, among others, all shone in cycling in Portuguese as well as foreign events, with Agostinho achieving an impressive third place in the Tour de France, second place in the Tour of Spain and three victories in the Tour of Portugal – dying on the 10th of May 1984 in a crash caused by a dog while he was racing in his yellow jacket in the Algarve on behalf of Sporting.

Ottman's score was supplemented with Marco Beltrami's scores from Scream, Scream 2, and Mimic by a team of music editors as well as new cues written by Beltrami during the final days of sound mixing on the film.

Marco arrived in Llanview as a low-life pimp and pornographer who was only supposed to last for 8 days, but Anthony's offbeat look as well as his impassioned performances and electric chemistry with co-star Judith Light ( Karen Wolek ) made him such a fan favorite that only a few months after producers killed off Marco in 1978 they revealed the real victim was Marco's heretofore unknown brother, Mario Corelli.

After emerging as a starter in 2002, Nelsen was named team captain in 2003, replacing Marco Etcheverry in that role, as well as winning the team's Defender of the Year Award and being named to the league's Best XI.

The checkpoints were set up in Ccentral Iraq, between Ar Rifa ` i and Qal ` at Sukkar, and operated by elements of the Italian Task Force Dimonious, which included the Italian Army regiments Savoia Cavalleria and Lagunari “ Serenissima ”, as well as marines from the Italian Navy San Marco Battalion.