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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;
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.
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
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 Toluid Civil War was a war of succession fought between Kublai Khan and his younger brother, Ariq Böke, from 1260 to 1264. [1] Möngke Khan died in 1259 with no declared successor, precipitating infighting between members of the Tolui family line for the title of Great Khan that escalated to a civil war. [1]
The late Prince Karim Al-Hussaini Aga Khan IV, who died on Tuesday in Lisbon after nearly seven decades as the spiritual leader of the global Ismaili Muslim community, will be buried in Egypt on ...
Indeed, Emperor Kublai Khan never sanctioned an actual occupation of Pagan. [52] His real aim appeared to have been "to keep the entire region of Southeast Asia broken and fragmented." [54] At Pagan, one of Narathihapate's sons Kyawswa emerged as king of Pagan in May 1289. But the new "king" controlled just a small area around the capital, and ...
By Dawn Chmielewski. LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Foad Farid, a data scientist and engineer who lives in the Pacific Palisades, left home on Tuesday morning for an appointment in Malibu when he began ...