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  2. Kublai Khan (band) - Wikipedia

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    In February 2014, Kublai Khan signed to Artery Recordings. [9] On April 29, 2014, the band released their debut full-length album titled Balancing Survival and Happiness. [10] The album was listed in Alternative Press' "The Best Albums of 2014 so far" list. [11] [12] On November 27, 2015, Kublai Khan released their second album titled New Strength.

  3. Dave Peters - Wikipedia

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    David Peters is an American musician. He was the original guitarist for the metal band Eighteen Visions, guitarist for Throwdown, [1] and, since 2002, the vocalist for Throwdown.

  4. Invisible Cities - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Gunpowder weapons in the Song dynasty - Wikipedia

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    The use of proto-cannon, and other gunpowder weapons, enabled the Song dynasty to ward off its generally militarily superior enemies—the Khitan led Liao, Tangut led Western Xia, and Jurchen led Jin—until its final collapse under the onslaught of the Mongol forces of Kublai Khan and his Yuan dynasty in the late 13th century.

  6. The Legend of Kublai Khan - Wikipedia

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    The series, spanning over 70 years, romanticises the life of Kublai Khan and the events leading to the establishment of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty in China. Kublai was born in 1215 as a son of Tolui, the fourth son of Genghis Khan. At the time, Töregene, the wife of Ögedei (Genghis Khan's third son), sees Tolui as a potential threat to her ...

  7. Kubla Khan - Wikipedia

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    It is sometimes given the subtitles "A Vision in a Dream" and "A Fragment." According to Coleridge's preface to Kubla Khan, the poem was composed one night after he experienced an opium-influenced dream after reading a work describing Xanadu, the summer capital of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty of China founded by Kublai Khan (Emperor Shizu of Yuan).

  8. ʼPhags-pa script - Wikipedia

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    The Phagspa, ʼPhags-pa or ḥPʻags-pa script [1] is an alphabet designed by the Tibetan monk and State Preceptor (later Imperial Preceptor) Drogön Chögyal Phagpa (1235–1280) for Kublai Khan (r. 1264–1294), the founder of the Yuan dynasty (1271–1368) in China, as a unified script for the written languages within the Yuan.

  9. Liu Guandao - Wikipedia

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    Kublai Khan Hunting (1280), hanging scroll, ink and colours on silk, 182.9 x 104.1 cm, National Palace Museum Liu Guandao was born around 1258 in Zhongshan (now Dingxian ), Hebei . [ 1 ] Excelling in realism , [ 2 ] he was said to be a self-taught painter [ 1 ] and worked as one of the "very few" court artists at the Yuan court.