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May 15, 2007 · Nostalgia is the fifth track off producer Marco Polo’s 2007 debut album Port Authority. The song features the legend, Masta Ace.
- Marco Polo's Descriptions of China
- Marco Polo on Coal
- Marco Polo in Yunnan
- Marco Polo on Beijing
- Marco Polo’s Description of Beijing
- Marco Polo’s Description of Beijing’s Traffic and People
- Marco Polo on Hangzhou
- Marco Polo on Hangzhou Markets
- Marco Polo on Yangtze River Traffic
- Marco Polo’s Description of The Mongol Postal System
According to the Silk Road Foundation: “Marco Polo traveled in great deal in China. He was amazed with China's enormous power, great wealth, and complex social structure. China under the Yuan (The Mongol Empire) dynasty was a huge empire whose internal economy dwarfed that of Europe. He reported that Iron manufacture was around 125,000 tons a year ...
Marco Polo described coal — which at that time was unknown to most Europeans — as “black stones...which burn like logs": At first charcoal was used in the production process, leading to deforestation of large parts of north China. By the end of the 11th century, however, coal had largely taken the place of charcoal. Marco Polo wrote: “It is a fact ...
Of his travels in Yunnan, Marco Polo wrote about local religious customs, shamanistic healing practices and the use of cowrie shells and salt as money, all of which have been verified by scholars. He also wrote about a giant snake with legs and a mouth "so large that it could well swallow a man." Some believe he was referring to crocodiles that liv...
Marco Polo first saw Kublai Khan's new winter capital of Daidu (Beijing), established in 1264, while it was under construction. He wrote: "The new city is a form perfectly square...each of its sides being six miles. It is enclosed with walls of earth...the wall of the city has twelve gates. The multitude of inhabitants, and the number of houses in ...
Camel Square in Beijing Chapter XI: Concerning the City of Cambaluc is a detailed description of the layout of the city of Cambaluc (Daidu/Beijing). According to Marco Polo's description: “Now there was on that spot in old times a great and noble city called Cambaluc, which is as much as to say in our tongue ʺThe city of the Emperor.ʺ But the Great...
camel outside the gates of old Beijing “Chapter XXII: Concerning the City of Cambaluc, and Its Great Traffic and Population,” is a detailed description of the population and life in the city of Cambaluc (Daidu/Beijing). According to Marco Polo's account: “ You must know that the city of Cambaluc hath such a multitude of houses, and such a vast popu...
Marco Polo described Hangzhou, capital of the Southern Song, as "the greatest city which may be found in this world." Situated at the southern end of the Grand Canal about 175 kilometers from present-day Shanghai, Hangzhou was a natural center for trade. Marco Polo reported that it had a population of 1.5 million people, 15 times more than his nati...
According to Marco Polo: In this part are the ten principal markets, though besides these there are a vast number of others in the different parts of the town. The former are all squares of half a mile to the side, and along their front passes the main street, which is 40 paces in width, and runs straight from end to end of the city, crossing many ...
Marco Polo was amazed at the boat traffic on the Yangtze River. He claimed to have seen no fewer than 15,000 vessels at one city on the river, and said other towns had even more: You must know that when you leave the city of Yanju, after going 15 miles south-east, you come to a city called SINJU, of no great size, but possessing a very great amount...
According to the Silk Road Foundation: Marco was very much impressed “with the efficient communication system in the Mongol world. There were three main grades of dispatch, which may be rendered in modern terms as 'second class', 'first class', and 'On His Imperial Majesty's Service: Top Priority'. 'Second class' messages were carried by foot-runne...
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.
Polo! You know the game, but do you know the man? The 13th century merchant left his home city of Venice as a teenager to follow his father and uncle ...
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Hope Spot: Marco befriends a captive Chinese prisoner who hopes that he can, like Marco, get a job within the Imperial City. He's sliced to pieces with the rest of the prisoners; Marco can do nothing, and Hundred Eyes stops him suicidally trying.
Mar 31, 2016 · Marco polo on the anatomy of a producer, how hip hop and beatmaking helped save his life, how he’s redefining beatmaking’s greatest tradition and making stock sounds sound like record samples, why technology’s a ho, why he finally gave in and began selling sound kits, and much more. Editor’s note: This is an epic long read!
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Nov 12, 2013 · Can't Get Enough Lyrics: I feel on top of the world, I’m never coming back / Only to kill all the rats / I want all the hot girls, Twin want to rip / Always gotta gas up a chick / All of my...
