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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DaVincis" data-source="post: 18241454" data-attributes="member: 532131">Leonardo da Vinci <img src="http://www.customasapblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/da-vinci-alam_159842t.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />    • The name Leonardo da Vinci translates to Leonard from the town of Vinci.    • Leonardo was raised by his single father.   • Leonardo was one of the first Italians to use oil paint .   • He was left-handed    • Leonardo da Vinci left many paintings unfinished and destroyed most of his work.   • Two of his works, the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, are the most famous, most reproduced and most parodied portrait and religious painting of all time.   • Leonardo was a vegetarian who loved animals and  despised war, yet he worked as a military engineer to invent advanced  and deadly weapons.   • Leonardo drew the plans for the first armored car in 1485!   • He invented the bicycle 300 years before it appeared on the road.    • Leonardo di Vinci created an inflatable tube so people could float in the water.   • Leonardo da Vinci had dyslexia, when he made notes  on his inventions it was all written in reverse, which made it hard for  others to dig through his notes and steal his ideas.   • Leonardo da Vinci dug into graveyards at night to steal corpses and study human anatomy (and find out where the soul was).   • He produced aeriel maps for Cesare Borgia which are still accurate today.    • Leonardo is considered by many as the father of modern science.   • He was one of the most acclaimed artists of the Renaissance.   • He was the illegitimate child of Messer Piero Fruosino di Antonio da Vinci, a Florentine notary, and Caterina, a peasant.   • Leonardo sketched the first parachute, first  helicopter, first aeroplane, first tank, first repeating rifle, swinging  bridge, paddleboat and the first motorcar.   • Leonardo was very much interested in the  possibility of human flight. He produced many studies of the flight of  birds and plans for several flying machines.   • He was also a sculptor, designer of costumes, mathematician and botanist.   • He made maps of Europe.   • He invented hydraulic pumps.   • He designed a movable bridge for the Duke of Milan.   • He drew the plans of the first armored car in 1485.   • The Mona Lisa is perhaps his most famous work.  The subject of this portrait is still debated to this day, the most  popular current view being that it is of Lisa Gherardini del Giocondo.  One of the most unusual hypotheses is that it is a self-portrait of  Leonardo as a woman.   • It took da Vinci about ten years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.   • Leonardo was famous for the way he used light in his portraits.   • He painted The Last Supper at Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan; a dramatic depiction of the moment Jesus announced that he would be betrayed.    • He established modern techniques of scientific illustration with highly accurate renderings such as ‘Embryo in the Womb’.   • Leonardo would wear pink to make his complexion look fresh.   • Leonardo da Vinci never married or had children.</blockquote>

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