Who had his capital at Xanadu?
Xanadu (Titan) Xanadu (Titan) Xanadu (often called "Xanadu Region", though this is not its official name) is a highly reflective area on the leading hemisphere of Saturn's moon Titan. Its name comes from an alternate transcription of Shangdu, the summer capital of the Yuan dynasty established by Kublai Khan and made famous by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The feature was first identified in 1994 by astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope at infrared wavelengths, and has recently been imaged in more detail by the Cassini space probe. Xanadu is about the size of Australia. Preliminary observations indicate that Xanadu is a plateau-like region
Xanadu (Rush song) the song does not explicitly state where "Xanadu" is, references to "Kubla Khan" imply that it is a mythical place based on Shangdu, the historical summer capital of the Mongol Empire. "Xanadu" is the first Rush song in which synthesizers are an integral part. Unlike the previous albums "2112" and "Caress of Steel", "Xanadu" used both guitar and synthesizer effects. The song also marks Rush's clear foray into program music, although previous albums had displayed some elements of this. Subsequent albums during the late 1970s and early 1980s would see the group explore program music more systematically. "Xanadu" requires each