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Leo & Kate Help Last Titanic Survivor Millvina Dean

" LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- The last survivor of the sinking of the Titanic in 1912 is getting a hand from Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. The "Titanic" stars, along with director James Cameron, have contributed...

Exceptional Aztec Altar Found in Mexico City

Archaeologists led by Alvaro Barrera have discovered and important altar and a momoltith. Ancient vestige of our ancient culture. "The altar depicts the Aztec rain god Tlaloc and was uncovered last weekend at the...

Four-Legged Duck-Billed Platypus Found in Montana...But Where is the Now Publ...

20-Foot long Leonardo, a four-legged duck-billed platypus was found in Montana in 2000, and a documetary about the Brachylophosaurus is to be shown on FOX on sunday.   In the meantime, the NOWPUBLIC...

Bianca Sforza by Leonardo?

This drawing was sold for about £10,000. Some 'experts' now think it is by Leonardo, and of course, the price tag is now the obligatory £100,000,000. Alessandro Vezzosi, who wrote Leonardo da Vinci: Renaissance...

Ginevra de'Benci by Leonardo da Vinci

In 1967, this painting set a world record when sold. The National Gallery of Art bought Ginevra from the Princely House of Liechtenstein for $5million. It was displayed in the Liechtenstein family home in Vienna...

DiCaprio to Star in Atari Movie

"Paramount Pictures has snapped up a pitch titled "Atari," with Leonardo DiCaprio attached to star.Written by Brian Hecker and Craig Sherman, project is a biopic about entrepreneur Nolan Bushnell, the creator...

World`s smallest helicopter to fly in da Vinci birthplace

"Tokyo (ANTARA News) - The world's smallest one-man helicopter will soon take flight in the birthplace of Leonardo da Vinci, who is credited with having first thought of a vertical-flight machine, its developer said.The 75-kilogram (165-pound) helicopter will make a...

Da Vinci's mom was a slave?

Proof that talent has little to do with patrician blood:"April 9, 2008 -- Leonardo Da Vinci, regarded by many as the greatest genius of the Renaissance, was the son of a humble slave girl and had at least 21...

German experts crack Mona Lisa smile

"German academics believe they have solved the centuries-old mystery behind the identity of the "Mona Lisa" in Leonardo da Vinci's famous portrait.Lisa Gherardini, the wife of a wealthy Florentine merchant, Francesco del Giocondo, has long been seen as the most likely model...

'Mona Lisa' mystery solved

"Lisa Gherardini, the wife of a wealthy Florentine merchant, Francesco del Giocondo, has long been seen as the most likely model for the sixteenth-century painting. But art historians have often wondered whether the smiling woman may actually have been da Vinci's lover,...

Mona Lisa had eyebrows afterall - Revealed!

New images uncover 25 secrets about the Mona Lisa, including proof that Leonardo da Vinci gave her eyebrows, solving a long-held mystery. The images are part of an exhibition, "Mona Lisa Secrets Revealed," which...

The Death of Global Warming?

 Is this evidence that the Global Warming thing is fizzling?"More evidence that Al Gore’s Live Earth flop was indeed the beginning of the end to the public’s fascination with global warming: Leonardo...

Last Supper theory crashes websites

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorMany of us had seen the Da Vinci Code, many believed based on conspiracy  theory and conjecture.  Now  a researcher discovered something by...

Secret image ‘found’ in Last Supper

File this story under "The Truth is out There""An Italian IT expert claims to have found a secret image of the Virgin Mary and a Knight Templar inside Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece The Last Supper. Pesci...

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