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.

" Wired magazine called Project Xanadu the " longest-running vaporware story in the history of the computer industry ".

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 ).

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

This film starred Gene Kelly and Olivia Newton-John and was widely considered a big-budget flop, but its soundtrack spawned several hit singles for Ms. Newton-John, such as the # 1 hit " Magic ", a duet with Cliff Richard called " Suddenly ", and, with Electric Light Orchestra accompaniment, the title song " Xanadu ".

Additionally, when Largo rents his beachside villa, it is from " an Englishman named Bryce ", whose name was taken from the American Ivar Bryce, Fleming's friend, who had a beachside property in Jamaica called Xanadu.

The Izod Center with the under-construction Meadowlands Xanadu, now called American Dream Meadowlands on March 14, 2009

They finally arrived on the Planet Xanadu, where a mysterious and dangerous robot called the Grunwalder ruled over his own independent Kingdom.

Xanadu ( often called " Xanadu Regio ", though this is not its official name ) is a highly reflective area on the leading hemisphere of Saturn's moon Titan.

After the overthrow of the Song Dynasty, former Emperor Gong relocated to the Mongol capital at Khanbaliq or Dadu ( modern day Beijing ) then later to Shangdu or Xanadu, Tibet, ( at that time called Tubo ( 蕃習 ) and afterwards to the Ganzhou District of Gansu Province.

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 purportedly visits Xanadu, Kublai Khan's summer capital of the Yuan Dynasty.

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.

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

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:

Coleridge's description of Xanadu has echoes of the works of both Marco Polo and Samuel Purchas.

In his description of Xanadu, Marco Polo wrote:

The objects in " Cataio " are based on Marco Polo's description and include the capital Khanbaliq | Cambalu, Xanadu | Xandu, and a Marco Polo Bridge | marble bridge

The cast of Xanadu: The Marco Polo Musical.

In the 1950s, Gilbert joined the United States Army's Seventh Army Special Services in Germany, and was cast as the lead in Xanadu: The Marco Polo Musical, an original musical comedy inspired in part by the Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem Kubla Khan, which chronicled Marco Polo's trip to China.

* Xanadu: The Marco Polo Musical, 1953 Seventh Army Musical, based on Coleridge

The Venetian traveler Marco Polo is believed to have visited Xanadu in about 1275, and described the garden this way:

The first European to describe a Chinese garden was the Venetian merchant and traveler Marco Polo, who visited the summer palace of the Mongol ruler of China and founder of the Yuan Dynasty, Kublai Khan, at Xanadu.

Xanadu was turned into a surprising hit Broadway Musical that opened on 10 July 2007 at the Helen Hayes Theatre to uniformly good reviews and received 4 Tony Award nominations.

Ted Nelson gives a presentation on Project Xanadu

Meanwhile Nelson, who had been working on and advocating his Xanadu system for over two decades, along with the commercial success of HyperCard, stirred Autodesk to invest in his revolutionary ideas.

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 ".

Much of his adult life has been devoted to working on Xanadu and advocating it.

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.

* Literary Machines: The report on, and of, Project Xanadu concerning word processing, electronic publishing, hypertext, thinkertoys, tomorrow's intellectual revolution, and certain other topics including knowledge, education and freedom ( 1981 ), Mindful Press, Sausalito, California ; publication dates as listed in the 93. 1 ( 1993 ) edition: 1980 – 84, 1987, 1990 – 93

In 1972, Cal Daniels completed the first demonstration version of the Xanadu software on a computer Nelson had rented for the purpose, though Nelson soon ran out of money.

In 1983, however, Nelson met John Walker, founder of Autodesk, at The Hackers Conference a conference originally for the people mentioned in Steven Levy's Hackers, and the group started working on Xanadu with Autodesk's financial backing.

* The Curse of Xanadu, Wired feature on Nelson and Xanadu

The birds heard on " A Farewell to Kings " and " Xanadu " were recorded outside near Rockfield Studios.

Huygens separated from the Cassini orbiter on December 25, 2004, and landed on Titan on January 14, 2005 near the Xanadu region.

A stage musical based on the film — also named Xanadu — opened in 2007 on Broadway.

* " Whenever You're Away From Me " excerptDanny playing on the clarinet, at the beach ; segué into ... soft instrumental underscoring of " Xanadu " with Sonny drawing and painting ; segué into ... extended intro to " I'm Alive " ( only a portion of which is in the soundtrack album ).

Similar to the succeeding Code Lyoko, Garage Kids was intended to be a 26-episode series detailing the lives of four French boarding school students who have discovered the secret of Xanadu, a virtual world created by a research group headed by the Professor.

When this map was made, Xanadu had been in ruins for almost three centuries.

In June 2012, Xanadu was made a World Heritage Site.

The series, made by Xanadu Productions in association with NBC Productions, was created by David Dortort, who had previously created the hit Bonanza for the network.

In 1952, Merrill made her recording debut when she was asked to sing " A Cigarette For Company " with the Earl Hines Band ; the song was released on their Xanadu album.