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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...subjugation of the advanced civilizations of northern China and Persia. His sons and grandsons would extend the empire. Batu would command armies that struck deep into Russia and swept through Poland into Germany, Hungary and the Balkans. Kublai Khan, who would later build his stately pleasure dome in the city of Shangtu (Coleridge's Xanadu), conquered southern China and Burma. His brother Hulegu would not only destroy Baghdad but also devastate its irrigation network. Mesopotamia has never fully recovered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 13th Century: Genghis Khan (c.1167-1227) | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...newcomers to the business, provides perfect comic relief to the sterile walls of the institution. Especially endearing are Curly, whose desperate attempts to be adopted results in his telling everyone who visited that he was "the best, really," and Fuzzy, whose illness forces him to live in a breathing dome...

Author: By Andrew P. Nikonchuk, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Tobey: Irving Writes Own Rules | 12/17/1999 | See Source »

...Womb room" of the London's Millennium Dome will feature film of dancing sperm which will repeat every...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: The Minutes | 12/9/1999 | See Source »

...researchers' computers produced were generally as good as those of professional ad agencies, while they far surpassed the efforts of human amateurs. For instance, while a human suggested a picture of the walls of the Old City to promote a tennis tournament in Jerusalem, the computer proposed a domed mosque with the dome in the shape of a tennis ball...

Author: By Stephen E. Sachs, | Title: Creativity, Bit by Bit | 11/30/1999 | See Source »

LONDON The Millennium Dome The Queen will light a beacon, then boat down the Thames to officially open Britain's millennium landmark --Invitation only --10,000 guests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Popping Corks Everywhere | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

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