1 April 20th is Hitlerâs birthday. ( 2 Yes, it is his birthday. 3  But, as 420 started out as a time, not a date, his birthday had nothing to do with it.). 4  The date of the Columbine school shootings. ( 5 This happened after the term was already in use.). 6  4:20 is tea time for pot-smokers in Holland.
View full size image. Marco Polo was one of the first and most famous Europeans to travel to Asia during the Middle Ages. He traveled farther than any of his predecessors during his 24-year journey along the Silk Road, reaching China and Mongolia, where he became a confidant of Kublai Khan.The story of his journey is told in Il Milione (The Million), commonly called The Travels of Marco Polo..inally, the Polos reached Beijing and met Kublai Khan at the summer palace, Xanadu, a glorious marble and gold structure that enchanted young Marco. The Khan happily received the Polos. He invited them to stay and for Niccolo and Maffeo to become part of his court.
In 1269, they returned to Venice with a letter Kublai Khan had written to Pope Clement IV. In fact, Clement IV had died the year before, and a new pope had not yet been appointed. Young Marco Polo was very interested in listening to the stories of their travels and made up his mind to go to China.