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Do any of the Xanadu Houses - a series of early computerised houses built in the US - still survive?
Xanadu was a reference to the summer capital of the Yuan dynasty of China, mentioned in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem Kubla Khan: 'In Xanadu did Kubla Khan, a stately pleasure-dome decree.' ...
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Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled ...