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Artist Takes Four Years To Paint Mona Lisas Smile
Well four years is a long time but I saw a TV programme that suggested Da Vinci himself took even longer to get that smile right... perhaps decades!" Madcap artist John Williams has finished his painting of the...
created by Paul Conneally | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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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...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,... Da Vinci Towers Dubai
dynamic architecture, amazing viewStrike hits Da Vinci Code prequel
"A follow-up to The Da Vinci Code has become the first big-screen casualty of the Hollywood writers' strike. Angels & Demons, a prequel to the movie adaptation of Dan Brown's novel, is being delayed by Columbia Pictures because its script needs more work. It had been due... 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...
created by Leattle Pablo | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago
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1004 views | 15 recommendations | 2 comments
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...
created by Barry ORegan | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago
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4286 views | 10 recommendations | 5 comments
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.
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created by nukegingrich | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago
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4974 views | 20 recommendations | 4 comments
"Da Vinci Code" under investigation in Italy
People are really taking this seriously aren't they?---------------------------------"TAORMINA, Italy (Hollywood Reporter) - More than a year after its premiere, "The Da Vinci Code" is being investigated by...
created by angryindian | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago
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392 views | 10 recommendations | 1 comment
Interesting Real Facts (Strange but True)
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Interesting Real Facts (Strange but True)
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Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world's largest zipper manufacturer.
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40 percent of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
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315 entries in... Leonardo Da Vinci Inventions
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519) was an Italian polymath: architect, anatomist, sculptor, engineer, inventor, mathematician, musician, and painter. He has been described as the archetype of the "Renaissance man", a man infinitely curious and...Inkless Pen Will Last Forever
"A stainless steel pen, 8cm long. However when you unscrew the top, the 'nib' is a solid piece of metal. There is no ink, yet this pen will write on virtually any type of paper. How does it work? In the Medieval period, artists and scribes often used a metal stylus in order...
created by nukegingrich | 6 years ago | updated 6 years ago
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812 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Experts Reconstruct Leonardo da Vinci's Fingerprint
"Anthropologists said they have pieced together Leonardo da Vinci's left index fingerprint -- a discovery that could help provide information on such matters as the food the artist ate and whether his mother was of Arabic origin. The reconstruction of the fingerprint was the...The Da Vinci Code
"The Da Vinci Code Posted on Tuesday, May 30, 2006 at 6:53 PM Right from page one of the book (and it is 600 pages in length in paperback form), I found that I could hardly put it down. Dan Brown's method of stringing together unrelated âfactsâ into a so-called...Top Members Today
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