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  2. Xanadu - Wikipedia

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    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

  3. Shangdu - Wikipedia

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    I have lost Kaiping Xanadu entirely – to China. An impure bad name has come upon the Sage Khan. They besieged and took precious Daidu I have lost the whole of it – to China. A conflicting bad name has come upon the Sage Khan. Jewel Daidu was built with many an adornment In Kaiping Xanadu, I spent the summers in peaceful relaxation

  4. Kubla Khan - Wikipedia

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    The book contained a brief description of Xanadu, the summer capital of the Mongol ruler Kublai Khan. Coleridge's preface says that he was reading the following sentence, or words of the same substance, in Purchas's Pilgrimage: Here the Khan Kubla commanded a palace to be built, and a stately garden thereunto.

  5. Xanadu (Titan) - Wikipedia

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    Xanadu (often called "Xanadu Regio", though this is not its official name) is a highly reflective area on the leading hemisphere of Saturn's moon Titan. Its name comes from an alternate transcription of Shangdu , the summer capital of the Yuan dynasty established by Kublai Khan and made famous by Samuel Taylor Coleridge .

  6. In Xanadu - Wikipedia

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    In Xanadu traces the path taken by Marco Polo from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem to the site of Shangdu, famed as Xanadu in English literature, in Inner Mongolia, China. 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 ...

  7. History of hypertext - Wikipedia

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    Ted Nelson said in the 1960s that he began implementation of a hypertext system he theorized which was named Project Xanadu, but his first and incomplete public release was finished much later, in 1998. [5] He later worked with Andries van Dam to develop the Hypertext Editing System (HES) in 1967 at Brown University. HES was the first hypertext ...

  8. List of mythological places - Wikipedia

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    Name Description Alfheim: The Land of elves in Norse mythology.: Asgard: The high placed city of the gods, built by Odin, chief god of the Norse pantheon.: Biarmaland: A geographical area around the White Sea in the northern part of (European) Russia, referred to in Norse sagas.

  9. Online Etymology Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    The Online Etymology Dictionary or Etymonline, sometimes abbreviated as OED (not to be confused with the Oxford English Dictionary, which the site often cites), is a free online dictionary that describes the origins of English words, written and compiled by Douglas R. Harper. [1]