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...One of my favourite maps of medieval Asia traces the routes taken by three travellers — Giovanni da Pian del Carpini, William of Rubruck and Marco Polo — in the 13th century....
...By the time of Marco Polo, a decade later, Mongol rule had splintered into several Khanates, of which that of Kublai Khan, feted builder of the Xanadu of Coleridge’s poem, was only the primus inter pares...
...Mariage Frères Marco Polo tea, from €12 My favourite building is my Victorian house in Sausalito – it has a special charm....
...It’s the same with the primary-coloured plastic case of Brionvega’s portable television, designed by Richard Sapper and Marco Zanuso, called the Doney....
...Growing demand for new wind projects meant that “this problem is now becoming more acute”, said Sean Lee, chief executive of Marco Polo Marine Group....
...“We’ve had primarily white people going to foreign countries and making fragrances that inspire them from their travels in a far-away land – that Marco Polo narrative – and we don’t need it anymore,” says...
...Round on the Links The link was the first names of TV chefs Heston Nigella Gary Delia Derbyshire Gordon (his first was George) Boulevard Saint-Michel Jamie Lee Curtis Marco Polo Alsace-Lorraine...
...“Our big worry isn’t exports to [Europe],” said Marco Polo de Mello Lopes, executive president of the Instituto Aço Brasil, but rather that more material is diverted to the region, leaving domestic industry...
...It will be adorned with ties by Marcello di Milano, Hermes-Paris, Canali and Krizia Uomo purchased in Europe; and from the US, old, now forgotten brands Kenneth Cole, RR Polo, and Calvin Klein etc....
...The piece marks for de Waal the moment Marco Polo arrived in the city of Jingdezhen and saw porcelain for the first time....
...Yong introduces us to crickets with ears on their knees, bats that find their prey by following Marco Polo echoes and the star-nosed mole whose snout “works like a hand and scans like an eye”....
...Colonel Moutarde wool socks, €10 Marco Zanini plastic laminate, metal and fabric Dublin couch, 1981, €10,850....
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...I loved the imagined dialogue between Kublai Khan and Marco Polo: it inspired me in my battles against the deterioration of my city, Venice....
...Penthouse, Piazza San Marco, €2.9m Where In the central San Marco district, near St Mark’s Square and the Grand Canal. Venice Marco Polo Airport is about 25 minutes away by private water taxi....
...I loved the imagined dialogue between Kublai Khan and Marco Polo: it inspired me in my battles against the deterioration of my city....
...Column dresses with polo necks worn with stacks of silver bangles oozed a suggestive simplicity, and very convincing imitation furs evoked an ‘80s glamazon....
...The Japanese company had planned a new smartphone launch in China for 7 July — the anniversary date of the 1937 Marco Polo Bridge incident, which triggered the start of the Second Sino-Japanese war....
...(The Marco Polo project? The Magellan network?) The name stuck. What about the other two tests? In terms of size, Brussels promises €300bn over seven years....
...For horse-riding nomads it’s the ultimate snack, as Marco Polo knew well, writing about it in the 13th century: “When they go on an expedition, every man takes some 10 pounds of this dried milk with him....
...Next is Ibn Battuta, a 14th-century Moroccan whose travels make Marco Polo’s look like a trip to Tesco. His accounts include everything from the price of a slave in Persia to an Indian samosa recipe....
...Why not the Marco Polo or Magellan project? The speech was generally punchy on China — a ban on imports made with forced labour was promised — and on European values....
...Among its gems are an original poster of Divorce, Italian Style (€200), the cult 1961 comedy starring Marcello Mastroianni....
...Marco Giannoni’s studio is still using this method 250 years later: it’s unbelievable....
...Vigil explains that the cartels dispatch so-called Marco Polos to China to buy precursor chemicals and also the finished fentanyl product. India has emerged as another supplier....
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