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In 1851, a three-masted clipper built in Saint John, New Brunswick also took his name; the Marco Polo was the first ship to sail around the world in under six months. [154] The airport in Venice is named Venice Marco Polo Airport. [155] The frequent flyer programme of Hong Kong flag carrier Cathay Pacific is known as the "Marco Polo Club". [156]
Polo is an Italian and Spanish surname, the most well known bearing the name being Italian trader and explorer Marco Polo (1254–1324). Other notable people with the surname include: Niccolò and Maffeo Polo (1230–1294 and 1230–1309 respectively), Marco Polo's father and uncle respectively; Aldo Polo (born 1983), Mexican footballer
Belonging to an ancient Venetian patrician family named Badoer, she was daughter of merchant Vitale Badoèr. In 1300 she married Marco Polo, the Venetian explorer, son of Niccolò Polo. From the union three daughters are born: Fantina, Belella and Moreta Polo.
Niccolò and Maffeo Polo remitting a letter from Kublai Khan to Pope Gregory X in 1271. Niccolò, Maffeo and Marco Polo at the court of Kublai Khan, painting by Tranquillo Cremona, 1863. As soon as he was elected in 1271, Pope Gregory X (the former Teobaldo Visconti) received the letter from Kublai Khan, remitted by Niccolò and Maffeo. Kublai ...
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 ...
A Venetian patrician, she was the second daughter of Marco Polo and Donata Badoer. After the death of her father, Fantina was forced to hand over the management of all her assets to her husband Marco Bragadin (whom she married in 1318), [1] even those entrusted to her directly and excluded from her dowry. Although Bragadin himself promised to ...
Medieval manuscript illustration of the Dry Tree (centre) with the Phoenix, flanked by the Trees of the Sun and the Moon. Rouen 1444–1445 [1] The Dry Tree (or Tree Solitary) is a legendary tree. It was recorded first by Marco Polo, somewhere in northern Persia. According to Polo, it was the only tree within hundreds of kilometres of desert.
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