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marco polo
1. “We’re more like Marco Polo,” Alfred said, still engrossed in the images Elmore had sent
2. Marco Polo, who visited it more than five hundred years ago, describes its cultivation, industry, and populousness, almost in the same terms in which they are described by travellers in the present times
3. He was not very willing, however, to believe that they were not the same with some of the countries described by Marco Polo, the first European who had visited, or at least had left behind him any description of China or the East Indies ; and a very slight resemblance, such as that which he found between the name of Cibao, a mountaim in St
4. Domingo, and that of Cipange, mentioned by Marco Polo, was frequently sufficient to make him return to this favourite prepossession, though contrary to the clearest evidence
5. He entertained no doubt but that they were the extremity of those which had been described by Marco Polo, and that they were not very distant from the Ganges, or from the countries which had been conquered by Alexander
6. “Have you heard of Marco Polo?”
7. “Yes, that’s the one Marco Polo visited
8. “But Marco Polo said the Great Khan wanted instruction in our religion
9. He never heard of Marco Polo
10. On the way, I asked Giovanni why no one in Venetia even mentioned the Marco Polo about whom Colon went on endlessly
11. Polo, Marco (1254-1324), the greatest of the early travellers anddiscoverers; a Venetian; wrote the "Book of Marco Polo
12. ‘’Send the surviving ships of the Covering Force to our logistical support flotilla in orbit around Alpha IV and have them rearmed and resupplied as fast as they can before joining the six battleships assigned to escort the MARCO POLO towards Earth
13. Command bridge of the exploration cruiser MARCO POLO
14. Punching a call number on his personal communication screen, Ferguson contacted Captain James Grant, who had established a mobile command post at the foot of one of the main access ramps of the MARCO POLO
15. ‘’Well, apart from the 15, 173,520 persons now asleep in your cryogenic vault and in containers stored in your cargo holds, we were able to pack another 1,005,312 persons in the auxiliary quarters and in other available living spaces of the MARCO POLO, including 603,188 infants and young toddlers
16. In terms of cargo, we have loaded on the MARCO POLO 689 million tons of equipment, supplies and foodstuff
17. Heavily loaded, the MARCO POLO took over two minutes to climb to the altitude judged to be safe before engaging its main propulsion system
18. The energy discharge expanded as it headed towards the MARCO POLO and its escort fleet, while the experimental Morg cruiser disintegrated into pieces under the stress of the weapon discharge
19. Only after having given his orders did he look back out at the space around the MARCO POLO
20. Auxiliary quarters section of the MARCO POLO
21. Command conference room of the MARCO POLO
22. Activating a giant flat holographic screen situated on the wall behind his chair, Ferguson started projecting the images of the various ships of the fleet, shown to scale besides a picture of the MARCO POLO
23. ‘’Ladies and gentlemen, the sensors of the MARCO POLO have detected a number of anomalies that are making me think that the Solar System is about to be attacked by the Morgs
24. Thankfully, the teaching pack for Occitan had been part of the mnemotronic databanks kept by the history department of the MARCO POLO, the language having survived on Earth until the 21st Century, when it had been electronically formatted for the use of historians
25. Looking at her handheld data viewer, which showed a photomap of Toulouse produced on the MARCO POLO during the previous 48 hours they had taken to prepare for this mission, Ann pointed down the main street connecting with the alley
26. Major Hans Arntern, the security officer of the MARCO POLO, had also opposed the idea of sending people down to Toulouse without any protective gear, in view of the precarious security situation reigning around at this time
27. Our ship, the MARCO POLO, was however able to leave with a strong escort before that and started heading for Earth, to find a refuge there for the millions of civilian refugees packed aboard our ships
28. ‘’The ship of space I came from, the MARCO POLO
29. The MARCO POLO is in fact even bigger, much bigger
30. ‘’All those things could be done quite quickly indeed with the help of our teams of construction robots and with the industrial plants contained inside the MARCO POLO, Commodore
31. ‘’Very well! Mister and Madam Tarang, you were already told that we lost the Alpha Centauri system to the Morgs and that you are now aboard the cruiser MARCO POLO, which is presently on the ground in New Zealand
32. Basically, the Morgs used some kind of new weapon on the MARCO POLO and its escort and support fleet as our ships were withdrawing towards the Solar System
33. Calling the corvette by radio on the channel indicated to him earlier, Pham asked for a shuttle to come down with a variety of some of the food and liquid containers brought from the MARCO POLO, so that he could transfer the wine and olive oil from the barrels he had to pierce to extract samples
34. Vyyn actually preempted most of those questions by taking a few minutes to tell a stunned Beaudouin about her origin and how the MARCO POLO and its escort fleet had found themselves back in the distant past
35. Time had however been too short since he had been awakened on the MARCO POLO and then was reunited with his wife and two children and he had not yet had the chance to consult the list of refugees embarked on the exploration cruiser
36. Omar, like ibn Khordadbeh and the residents of Guangzhou, was stunned when the time came to carry away all that foodstuff, with a 300 meter-long cargo shuttle from the MARCO POLO showing up to pick up the precious cargo
37. Her mother approached the two children a few seconds later, having picked up Lynn’s toys, and watched, thoughtful, as her daughter played with the dog with obvious content: this was the first time that she had heard her laugh since their awakening on the MARCO POLO
38. The whole area had been pulled down, cleaned up and redeveloped, in keeping with the upmarket Hong Kong Hotel directly across the road and the newer Marco Polo and Prince hotels further up
39. This was however unusual, as often, the sales head would credit Marco Polo and his accounts to
40. He would say it with a dead face, „I admire Marco Polo
41. “Editor Saheb, Marco Polo once visited our town after his long journey to China
42. Marco Polo thought he was
43. Marco Polo could not resist his curiosity and asked the
44. Marco Polo asked how he could know that his friend had done such grave injustice to him
45. Marco Polo asked how he was
46. Marco Polo knew the man had lost his wife to his neighbor who, after ensuring that he would be
47. moral of the story, the objective and mandatory one is that since the age of Marco Polo, the truth
48. Marco Polo would not care if it were otherwise
49. and take off to an unending journey similar to Marco Polo”, the sales head said in his typical
50. you better call Marco Polo