Marco Polo

[mahr-koh poh-loh]

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Polo, Marco.

Marco Polo

/ ˈmɑːkəʊ ˈpəʊləʊ /

noun

See Polo

Polo, Marco

An Italian explorer of the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries; one of the first Europeans to travel across Asia. He visited the court of Kublai Khan (see “Kubla Khan” under “Literature in English”), the Mongol ruler of China, and became a government official in China. His account of his travels was distributed after his return to Italy.

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We have this Marco Polo group thread and I was like, “Dude, what is the process like of deciding what you take? �� are the things that you absolutely want to hold on to?”

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I played Marco Polo in the pool with the Persian kids.

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In January 2013, a Montana livestock worker returned to the United States from Kyrgyzstan hiding tissue from a Marco Polo argali sheep, one of the largest in the world, federal prosecutors said.

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The embryos were later implanted in a ewe, resulting in a pure Marco Polo argali sheep that Schubert named “Montana Mountain King,” the documents show.

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Other events planned for the year include a major exhibit at the Palazzo Ducale tracing Marco Polo’s 13th century travels to Asia.

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