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Kublah Khan is not necessarily describing Xanadu...it is actually an allegory which some even believe to be about sexual intercourse. --Ari89 02:43, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
don't some sources (m-w.com for example_ say xanadu is a made up word? and it is true that Xanadu the poem is not meant as a literal description
Xanadu the poem? Are you talking about Kublah Khan by COleridge?--Ari89 16:52, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
- The poem Kublah Khan is at least inspired by by Xanadu the city, and worth note because it is the main venue for most people's knowledge of the word. Also, even if the word "Xanadu" is made up by westerners, it is the name that the majority of the world knows it by.--The reverend 01:06, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Pronunciation
Perhaps we could add a note on pronunciation. I believe "khanadoo" is the correct, but I've only heard "zannadoo" as the pronunciation for the place. Andelarion 11:00, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Titan
Xanadu is also a region/continent on Saturn moon Titan. 89.57.145.86 23:35, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Hurstcastle
In Citizen Cane, Hurstcastle is called Xanadu. 67.188.172.165 04:36, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
- Perhaps you acually mean Hearst Castle? —QuicksilverT @ 07:56, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Location and size
I have simplified the location to degrees, minutes and seconds. 0.01 of a second is about 30cm (one foot) and it is not sensible to give the location of a huge structure to that level of precision. I have also added figures for the dimensions of the inner and outer cities and the palace. All this information is derived from satellite imagery available on Google Earth as at 11 Nov 2006. FitzHugh 00:04, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Popular culture
It seems a bit odd that the Xanadu in popular culture section is longer than the main part of the text. -- Beardo (talk) 23:05, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
- Yes, it is disproportionate. This appears because people are using items that can be found on the disambiguation page and also items that have no reference to this usage of the word, such as the stagehand named Xanadu from a garage band, (whose own wiki page reads like a religious argument and describes him as a "...friend Xanadu, who is a glorified stage hand"). Neither that persons name, nor his description, makes any mention of it having to do with this version of Xanadu.
- This page is about this particular usage of the word, a specific location - if the pop-culture references have nothing to do with Xanadu the location described herein, then they should be removed. Lightertack (talk) 17:39, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] needed?
This section doesn't really belong here, does it? "The Mongol Emperors of the Yuan Dynasty made very few changes to China, imbibing much of the Confucianist and Taoist philosophies, and remodeling their government on the native dynasties they had defeated. However, they opened up the empire to westerners, allowing travelers like Venetian explorer Marco Polo in 1275 to report the wonders of the Eastern capital to their fellow Europeans." what does it have to do with Xanadu. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.161.90.238 (talk) 00:48, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
