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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Marco Polo"”.
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Silent Cities: Sensationalism and Removed Populations within Fourteenth Century Western Christian and Muslim Travel Accounts of Baghdad and Jerusalem
… Jerusalem, I analyze two Christian travelers, Marco Polo and John Mandeville, and one Muslim traveler, Ibn Battuta. As a basis of comparison, I discuss the twelfth century Muslim traveler, Ibn Jubayr. I specifically analyze Baghdad and Jerusalem due to the fact that they represent cities of …
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The citizen’s almanac: Surviving calamity
… work of Roman historian Polybius, famed explorer Marco Polo, and American mountain man Jim Beckwourth.</p>
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Reclaiming state power to bridge governance gaps in global trade
… the Silk Road, about the merchant traveller Marco Polo, about the misplaced aspirations of Christopher Columbus and the resulting Columbian Exchange between Europe and the Americas. This is an oft-mythologized and sometimes flatly fabricated period of history,1 but there are basic truths at …
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La via delle saghe dalla Mongolia del medioevo all´Italia. Studio comparativo tra letterature islandesi, mongola e italiana del XIII secolo
… leynda saga Mongólana” og hins vegar ferðasaga Marco Polo Il Milione þar sem Mongolíu höfðinginn Qubilai Qan og ambassadors ferðir Polos fyrir hann eru beinagrind verksins. Polo dagaði uppi hjá Qubilai aðeins 30 árum eftir að saga Mongolana var skrásett sem er eiginlega ævisaga Cinggis- Kagan …
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By hotter winds : the road to Samarkand
… Robert Byron, Colin Thubron, Fitzroy MacLean and Marco Polo; the Samarkand of Omar Khayyam, Timur the Lame, Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan; the fantasy of Christopher Marlowe, Edgar Allan Poe, Wole Soyinka and James Elroy Flecker. We wanted to see the land and its people through their eyes, …
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Routes and Networks of Mexican Abstraction Across the Americas (1958-1970)
This dissertation investigates the emergence and consolidation of abstract practices in Mexico City, exercised by a collective of artists driven by collaboration, intermediality, and experimentation, as an alternative to Muralism. In reevaluating the 1960s generation of artists, historically …
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"a good rain and a baby calf are always welcome"
… cooling properties make it more than a toy for "Marco Polo." Even people who cannot or do not want to swim will exert great effort just to dip their hands or wade their bare feet in a cool swimming pool. The act of cooling is relegated to concerns of comfort, survival, and mechanical …
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Estimation and stability of nonlinear control systems under intermittent information with applications to multi-agent robotics
… The above case study is motivated by the Marco Polo game played by children in swimming pools. Second, we develop adaptive sampling of targets positions in order to minimize energy consumption, while satisfying performance guarantees such as increased probability of detection over time, …
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Die Darstellung des "Fremden" und des "Eigenen" in der Reiseliteratur des Mittelalters
… F (XV. Jh.); 2) zwei deutsche Übersetzungen von Marco Polos Reisebeschreibung des XIV. Jh. s. und des XV. Jh.s. und Mandevilles Reisen in der deutschen Übersetzung von Michel Velser (1393) und in der deutschen Übersetzung von Otto von Diemeringen (vor 1398). Diese texte knüpfen an …
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Mathematical models of cognitive processes
… School of Medicine (NC, USA), within the Marco Polo Project. The model includes four distinct unisensory areas that are devoted to a topological representation of external stimuli. Two of them represent subregions of the AES (i.e., FAES, an auditory area, and AEV, a visual area) and send …