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Ornithopters take flight Saturday
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PROVO -- "The Da Vinci Code" finally opens in theaters today, but
another da Vinci-related drama will be on display Saturday only in
Saratoga Springs.
More than 500 years ago, Leonardo da Vinci conducted the first
serious study of bird flight and proposed an ornithopter, an aircraft
powered by flapping wings.
Da Vinci's drawings called for a huge machine designed to support
a man who would work the wings using a system of pulleys. Unless Dan
Brown, author of "The Da Vinci Code," ...
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'Da Vinci Coda;' New Haven Symphony Orchestra's clever homage to the hit novel reveals some mysteries of its own
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; What started as a clever marketing idea to tie its season finale with the May release of the movie version of "The Da Vinci Code" novel turned into a similar journey of mystery, intrigue and discovery for the New Haven Symphony Orchestra's Thursday concert - "Da Vinci Coda" - where two pieces will
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The Drawings Of a Master; A fascinating show at the Victoria and Albert Museum leads a re-examination of the beautiful mind of the true Renaissance man, Leonardo da Vinci.
Newsweek International
; Byline: Tara Pepper For half a millennium, scores of writers have struggled to make sense of the mystery that was Leonardo da Vinci. Was the man who made the Mona Lisa smile an artist? Was he a wacky inventor or a scientist? A visionary--or simply the product of a traumatic childhood? Intellectual
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Leonardo lives on.(Leonardo da Vinci)
World and I
; Martin Gani is a British freelance writer based in Italy. He writes for a number of cultural, travel, language, and general-interest periodicals, including The World & I, and for many inflight magazines. Some five hundred years after his departure, Leonardo da Vinci (1452-- 1519) is still
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With a best-selling thriller and play at Berkeley Rep, da Vinci is in renaissance
Oakland Tribune
; EONARDO da Vinci, the original Renaissance man, was many things -- artist, scientist, inventor, philosopher -- but until the publication of Dan Brown's novel "The Da Vinci Code," Leonardo had yet to be an action-adventure hero. Sharing this summer's must-read list with the likes of Harry Potter,
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Audience 'hungry for a taste' of Da Vinci
Winnipeg Free Press
; Brad Oswald - Watching TV When the smoke clears and the numbers are tallied, it won't take an investigator with Dominic Da Vinci's forensic skills to determine the fate that befell one of Canadian TV's most storied drama series. It's pretty much as simple as this: if The Quality of Life (which airs
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Inspired by brilliance Da Vinci comes to life at school for gifted kids.(Neighbor)
Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
; Byline: Anna Johnson Daily Herald Staff Writer Instead of sitting behind a desk reading a book or listening to a lecture, students at Da Vinci Academy in Elgin received a real- life history lesson last week. Dressed in a purple cloak with a full white beard, Scott Shepard, a Chicagoland-based
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MSI exhibit focuses on Leonardo da Vinci the inventor.(Time Out!)
Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
; Byline: Samantha Nelson Medill News Service Leonardo da Vinci: Man, Inventor, Genius Where: Museum of Science and Industry, 57th Street and Lake Shore Drive, Chicago ...
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Digital technology brings life to da Vinci's notes
The Columbian
; PARIS -- They look as alive as the day Leonardo da Vinci painted them: tasty cherries, ripe, red, ready to eat; crackle-fresh peas popping from their pods; a raspberry, so simple, so enticing. Turn a page in the 500-year-old manuscript and marvel as da Vinci rushes on. Here, he draws plans for a
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More to da Vinci than meets the eye
Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
; OREM -- It appears Leonardo da Vinci never slept. Or, at the very least, he kept very, very busy during his waking hours. In his 67 years, he created art masterpieces that still have scholars in the art world studying his work and designed war machines, buildings and transportation devices that
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