Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round; And here were gardens bright with sinuous rills Where blossom'd many an incense-bearing tree;
The book is framed as a conversation between the Mongol emperor Kublai Khan, and Marco Polo.The majority of the book consists of brief prose poems describing 55 fictitious cities that are narrated by Polo, many of which can be read as commentary on culture, language, time, memory, death, or human experience generally.
Stately Pleasure Dome viewed from the East from the shores of Tenaya Lake.. Stately Pleasure Dome is the unofficial name for the prominent south-southwestern portion of Polly Dome, a granite dome on the northwest side of Tenaya Lake and Tioga Road in the Yosemite high country.
The Philippines also claims that as early as the Spanish colonisation of the Philippines, Filipino fishermen were already using the area as a traditional fishing ground and shelter during bad weather. [110] Several official Philippine maps published by Spain and United States in 18th and 20th centuries show Scarborough Shoal as Philippine ...
A stately palace built by Khan in "Kubla Khan", a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Pleasuredome (night club), a nightclub owned by Audrey Joseph; Pleasure Dome (railcar), a car on the Super Chief passenger train, named for the Coleridge poem; The Quiet Zone/The Pleasure Dome, 1977 album by Van der Graaf Generator
A location in Slavic folk mythology related to witchcraft. Baltia: An island of amber somewhere in northern Europe. Biringan city: A mythical city that is said to invisibly lie between Gandara, Tarangnan, and Pagsanghan in Samar province of the Philippines. Biringan means "the black city" or the city of the Unknown in Waray. Brittia
Book Two describes China and the court of Kublai Khan. Book Three describes some of the coastal regions of the East: Japan, India, Sri Lanka, South-East Asia, and the east coast of Africa. Book Four describes some of the then-recent wars among the Mongols and some of the regions of the far north, like Russia. Polo's writings included ...