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Marco Polo is a 1982 American-Italian television miniseries originally broadcast by NBC in the United States and by RAI in Italy. It stars Kenneth Marshall as Marco Polo , the 13th-century Venetian merchant and explorer.
Polo brothers receiving a gold laissez-passer from Kublai Khan, as illustrated in the 1410–1412 illuminated manuscript Livre des merveilles.. Niccolò Polo (Italian: [nikkoˌlɔ pˈpɔːlo], Venetian: [nikoˌɰɔ ˈpolo]; c. 1230 – c. 1294) [nb 1] and Maffeo [nb 2] Polo (Italian: [mafˈfɛːo ˈpɔːlo], Venetian: [maˈfɛo ˈpolo]; c. 1230 – c. 1309) [nb 3] were Italian [a] traveling ...
Marco Polo (/ ˈ m ɑːr k oʊ ˈ p oʊ l oʊ / ⓘ; Venetian: [ˈmaɾko ˈpolo]; Italian: [ˈmarko ˈpɔːlo] ⓘ; c. 1254 – 8 January 1324) [1] was a Venetian merchant, explorer and writer who travelled through Asia along the Silk Road between 1271 and 1295.
1964 Doctor Who serial 004 – Marco Polo Doctor Who serial Marco Polo, Susan, the Doctor, and Ian Cast Doctor William Hartnell – First Doctor Companions William Russell – Ian Chesterton Jacqueline Hill – Barbara Wright Carole Ann Ford – Susan Foreman Others Mark Eden – Marco Polo Derren Nesbitt – Tegana Zienia Merton – Ping-Cho Martin Miller – Kublai Khan Jimmy Gardner ...
Marco Polo; Niccolò Polo; Niccolò and Maffeo Polo; Q. Qiu Chuji; R. Riccoldo da Monte di Croce; S. Rabban Bar Sauma; Simon of Saint-Quentin; V. Vandino and Ugolino ...
A map may prove that Marco Polo discovered America more than two centuries before Christopher Columbus. A sheepskin map, believed to be a copy of the 13th century Italian explorer's, may indicate ...
Nicolo Polo shows treasures from China and sends his son Marco Polo (Gary Cooper) there with his assistant (and comic relief) Binguccio (Ernest Truex).They sail from Venice, are shipwrecked, and cross the desert of Persia and the mountains of Tibet to China, to seek out Peking and the palace of China's ruler, Kublai Khan (George Barbier).
In 1271, armed with a curious mind and a thirst for adventure, Venetian merchant Marco Polo headed east. He returned 24 years later with so many stories of the Silk Road that he was nicknamed Il ...