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    Book of the Marvels of the World (Italian: Il Milione, lit. 'The Million', possibly derived from Polo's nickname "Emilione"), in English commonly called...
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    Travels of Marco Polo (also known as Book of the Marvels of the World and Il Milione, c. 1300), a book that described to Europeans the then-mysterious culture...
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  • Bad Man's River (Italian: E continuavano a fregarsi il milione di dollari and Spanish: El hombre de Río Malo) is a 1971 Italian/Spanish/French international...
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  • together with Peppino and Gino Ghiringhelli, he co-founded the Galleria Il Milione. Initially focused on Italian art, with particular attention to artists...
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    played the starring role. Polo, Marco (1982). "De la Grande Turchia" . Il Milione. L'Unità – Editori Riuniti. Bernardini, Michele; Guida, Donatella (2012)...
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    Polo, Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1963, Vol.II, pp. 768–9, note 2. Milione: il Milione nelle redazioni toscana e franco–italiana, Le Divisament dou Monde...
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    spent the next 17 years in China. According to The Travels of Marco Polo (Il Milione), Kublai Khan took a liking to Marco, who was an engaging storyteller...
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  • "La storia di Marco Polo detta Il Milione" (free translation "The Million – A Story of Marco Polo") and "Paperino in: Il mondo perduto" (free translation...
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    Mabinogion, various Welsh authors Metrical Dindshenchas, Irish onomastic poems Il milione (The Travels of Marco Polo), Marco Polo Le Morte d'Arthur, Sir Thomas...
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    Marco Polo reported the first invasions (1277–87) in his travelogue, Il Milione. The Burmese referred to the invaders as the Taruk (after the central...
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  • (CLOSED) Good By Harlan Goldstein (CLOSED) Hin Ho Curry Restaurant (CLOSED) Il Milione (CLOSED) Island Tang (CLOSED) Kazuo Okada (CLOSED) Kin's Kitchen (CLOSED)...
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    Travels of Marco Polo (also known as Book of the Marvels of the World and Il Milione, c. 1300), a book that described to Europeans the then mysterious culture...
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  • which he exhibited at the progressive Milanese abstractionist gallery Il Milione, in 1935. In the accompanying catalogue to the exhibition, Melotti outlined...
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    Marco Polo arriving in a desert land with camels. 14th-century miniature from Il milione....
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    life there astounded the people of Europe. The account of his travels, Il milione (or, The Million, known in English as the Travels of Marco Polo), appeared...
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    Northeast Plain. Retrieved 12-5-2019. Istituto Geografico De Agostini. Il Milione, vol. VIII (Chinese region - Indochinese region), pp. 25-62. Novara, 1962...
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    became more aware of the Far East when Polo documented his travels in Il Milione. He was followed by numerous Christian missionaries to the East, such...
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  • rappresentazione": "Sugli specchi", "Il segno teatrale", "Il linguaggio del volto", "L'illusione realistica", "Il Milione: descrivere l'ignoto", "Le tentazioni...
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    Hulegu Khan (category Il-Khan emperors)
    forced to watch as his citizens were murdered and his treasury plundered. Il Milione, a book on the travels of Venetian merchant Marco Polo, states that Hulegu...
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  • as a Guardian, a separate family allied with the Cahills. Dan connects Il Milione and the map to Samarkand, Uzbekistan - their next destination. Vesper...
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    Italian-derived porcelain. The first mention of porcelain in Europe is in Il Milione by Marco Polo in the 13th century. Apart from copying Chinese porcelain...
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    Polo's Asia: an Introduction to His "Description of the World" Called "Il Milione.". (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1960), p. 174. Hans Ulrich...
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    Rustichello da Pisa, who co-wrote Marco Polo's account of his travels, Il Milione. 43°32′53″N 10°13′09″E / 43.54806°N 10.21917°E / 43.54806; 10.21917...
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    Polo's Asia: An Introduction to His "Description of the World" Called "Il Milione". Berkeley: University of California Press and Cambridge University Press...
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    Kannur records its foundation year as 1124 CE. In his book on travels (Il Milione), Marco Polo recounts his visit to the area in the mid 1290s. Other visitors...
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    Lettura" (1934), "Bertoldo" (1936), "Il Milione" (1938), "L'Illustrazione del Medico" (1939), "Ecco", "Settebello" and "Il Dramma" (1939) and designed many...
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    following paragraph from the accounts of the famous traveler Marco Polo "il Milione" is believed to be a reference to Baku oil: "Near the Georgian border...
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  • Marco Polo is the most commonly known documenter due to his popular book Il Milione but he was neither the first nor the only traveller on the Silk Road to...
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    Marco Polo later reported their role in the Yuan dynasty in his book Il Milione. It is said that those Alans contributed to a modern Mongol clan, Asud...
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    traveller and author of Description of the World, popularly known as Il Milione, is reputed to have visited Southern India in 1288 and 1292. The first...
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