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"Xanadu" is a song by the Canadian progressive rock band Rush from their 1977 album A Farewell to Kings. [1] It is approximately eleven minutes long, beginning with a five-minute-long instrumental section before transitioning to a narrative written by Neil Peart, which in turn was inspired by the Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem Kubla Khan.
"Kubla Khan: or A Vision in a Dream" (/ ˈ k uː b l ə ˈ k ɑː n / [1]) is a poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, completed in 1797 and published in 1816. It is sometimes given the subtitles "A Vision in a Dream" and "A Fragment."
The "person on business from Porlock" was an unwelcome visitor to Samuel Taylor Coleridge during his composition of the poem "Kubla Khan" in 1797. Coleridge claimed to have perceived the entire course of the poem in a dream (possibly an opium -induced haze), but was interrupted by this visitor who came "on business from Porlock " while in the ...
Xanadu Hills, a range near Ward Valley in Antarctica.; Xanadu (Titan), an enigmatic bright feature on the surface of Saturn's moon, Titan Xanadu 2.0, the nickname of Bill Gates's house
[85] [102] Because the Wokou extended support to the crumbling Southern Song dynasty, Kublai Khan initiated invasions of Japan. Kublai Khan twice attempted to invade Japan. It is believed that both attempts were partly thwarted by bad weather or a flaw in the design of ships that were based on river boats without keels, and his fleets were ...
After defeating his rivals and opponents in Mongolia and Northern China, Kublai Khan also wanted to continue his grandfather Genghis Khan's conquest of China. In 1267, Kublai Khan ordered Aju and the Song defector Liu Zheng to attack Xiangyang and Fencheng. General Lu Zende had levied corruption charges against Liu Zheng, the Luzhou prefect ...
The book begins with William Dalrymple taking a vial of holy oil from the burning lamps of the Holy Sepulchre, which he is to transport to Shangdu, the summer seat of the King Kubla Khan. It has been mentioned that Kubla Khan wanted a hundred learned men armed with Christian knowledge to come to his Khanate and spread the knowledge of Christianity.
Kublai Khan was a grandson of Genghis Khan, Khagan of the Mongol Empire and founder of the Yuan Dynasty. Kublai, Kublai Khan or Kubla Khan may also refer to: Kublai Khan (band), an American hardcore/metalcore band "Kublai Khan" (song), a 2003 song by Jedi Mind Tricks; Kublai Millan (born 1974), Filipino artist; Kubla Khan, a poem by Samuel ...