GATES SHOWS KIDS HIS LEONARDO MANUSCRIPT

From: The Columbian (Vancouver, WA) | Date: October 15, 1997| Author: | Copyright information

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10-15-1997
SEATTLE (AP) — A trip to the art museum to learn about Leonardo da Vinci took on new interest for a fifth-grade class when their tour guide was Bill Gates.
The pupils from Seattle’s Dearborn Park Elementary School seemed impressed Monday night when the co-founder of Microsoft Corp. gave them a tour and tutorial of Leonardo’s Codex Leicester, which will be the centerpiece of a Seattle Art Museum exhibit that starts Oct. 23.
Gates owns the 500-year-old scientific document written by the Renaissance master. He paid $30.8 million for it at an ...

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