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Xanadu's livestock: the fowl of the air, the fish of the sea, the beast of the field and jungle. Two of each; the biggest private zoo since Noah. Like the Pharaohs, Xanadu's landlord leaves many stones to mark his grave. Since the Pyramids, Xanadu is the costliest monument a man has built to himself.
The city, originally named Kaiping (开平; 開平; Kāipíng; 'open and flat'), was designed by Chinese architect Liu Bingzhong from 1252 to 1256, [4] and Liu implemented a "profoundly Chinese scheme for the city's architecture". [5] In 1264 it was renamed Shangdu by Kublai Khan. At its zenith, over 100,000 people lived within its walls.
Xanadu may refer to: Shangdu , the summer capital of Yuan dynasty ruled by Kublai Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan. a metaphor for opulence or an idyllic place, based upon Samuel Taylor Coleridge 's description of Shangdu in his poem Kubla Khan
Main entrance of Fort Pilar with the historical marker in Zamboanga City. This list of historical markers installed by the National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP) in Zamboanga Peninsula (Region IX) is an annotated list of people, places, or events in the region that have been commemorated by cast-iron plaques issued by the said commission.
A fire 2,200 years ago that burned a settlement also preserved a moment of life and war in Iron Age Spain. Newly unearthed clues may lead back to the arsonists.
A legendary city beneath the waters of Lake Svetloyar. Kyöpelinvuori (Finnish for ghosts' mountain), in Finnish mythology, is the place which dead women haunt. La Canela: Also known as the Valley of Cinnamon, is a legendary location in South America. La Ciudad Blanca "The White city", a legendary city of Honduras. Lake Parime
The Xanadu Gun is 34.7 cm (13.7 in) in length and weighs 6.21 kg (13.7 lb), its muzzle is flared outwards, slightly bowl-shape, and called by Chinese as 碗口铳 (Wǎn kǒu chòng). [1] Its dating is based on archaeological context and a straightforward inscription containing an era name and year that correspond with the Gregorian Calendar at ...
In the turn-based strategy game Sid Meier's Colonization (1994), scouting lost city ruins (tiles in the map) may result in finding one or more of the Seven Cities of Cibola, granting the player a treasure with a huge amount of gold. The Western genre game Gun centers on a land baron's search for Quivira in the 1880s.