Historically, Timbuktu's legend began to spread throughout the medieval world when the Emperor of Mali made his pilgrimage to Mecca through Cairo in 1324, and dazzled those he encountered with the gold his party carried.
While billboard in modern day NYC in Grand Theft Auto might fit right in with the environment, how do you plug a product on an alien planet in the year 2553 in Halo, or do the same in a fictional medieval world filled with dragons and orcs in Skyrim?
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Participants in the world of standards do sometimes approach their work with an intensity more often associated with medieval theological disputes than the world of modern banking.
This article, which is well worth reading in and of itself, also got me spending in inordinate amount of time looking into the world of Medieval robots.
Check most of the third world and a medieval history textbook for reference.
From the top of the Cathedral tower, people can see all of the old city where the medieval townscape, inscribed as World Heritage, remains intact.
It is regarded as the finest example of medieval castle architecture anywhere in the world.
Islam was unique, I think, among the great world religions in the medieval period in making an explicit place for non-Muslims in society.
So here we have evidence of a change of climate, which appears to have occurred at the same time as some parts of the world were entering the Medieval Warm Period (MWP).
Kassel, 120 miles northeast of Frankfurt, is more than a millennium old, but most of its medieval, historic center was destroyed during World War II.
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With the medieval citadel at its heart, the Unesco World Heritage Site used to draw thousands of tourists to Aleppo every year.
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Roman-built medieval fortress city of Carcassonne (both UNESCO World Heritage Sites).
"It's quite a crazy story because in this little town, Herzogenaurach, a cobblestoned medieval town, you have two of the world's biggest sports companies, " says Barbara Smit.
Ensconced in this timeless setting, the world around feels as remote as it must have done to medieval castle-dwellers.
Before the Communists came to power in 1949, travellers reported an eighth wonder of the world: a green if dusty city, largely unaltered from the medieval plan laid out under Kublai Khan and built upon by the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1912) dynasties.
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But Grasse, a medieval Provencal town with cobblestone streets, is still considered the perfume capital of the world.
For a few precious frost-nipped weeks, these museum-piece cities of Olde World Europe flicker back to the Middle Ages -- not the ossified medieval throwbacks of soot-blackened cathedrals and tourist-bedeviled museums, but the living, breathing yesteryear of a bustling outdoor marketplace.
In Thief, our antihero, Garrett, will have to use his wits to navigate the City, a dark steampunk world (what, you thought Dishonored was unique?) with a dash of medieval Europe.
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