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5 unusual facts about Vinci


Ashgabat cinema

In the future, the facility was taken over by the French construction company Vinci.

Lamporecchio

Lamporecchio borders the following municipalities: Cerreto Guidi, Larciano, Quarrata, Serravalle Pistoiese, Vinci.

Monsummano Terme

The mountains are formed from the Montalbano chain, in which Vinci is located, and Monsummano Alto, which is 340 meters high, known for the unmistakable shape for its quarries, now disused, which have given unnaturally steep slopes on the mountain.

Morten Søndergaard

They lived together in Italy for 8 years before moving back to Copenhagen, first in the town Vinci, Tuscany, then in Pietrasanta.

Puccio di Simone

Vinci, Italy: Church of Saint Giovanni Battista and Saint Ansano (Saint Ansano and two angels)


2012 Qatar Airways Tournament of Champions

Vinci on the other hand has a 1-0 record against Hsieh, with the win coming in the 2012 Dallas Tennis Classic 6-2, 6-2.

20th Century Man

As the song progresses he criticizes modern art claiming he prefers time-honored masters such as William Shakespeare, Rembrandt van Rijn, Titian, Leonardo da Vinci and Thomas Gainsborough ("You keep all your smart modern painters, I'll take Rembrandt, Titian, Da Vinci and Gainsborough").

Cesare Mussini

Among his paintings are Leonardo da Vinci dies in the arms of Francis I (1828); Tasso reads poetry to Eleonora d'Este; Raphael and the Fornarina; Death of Atala; Stanislaw Poniatowski frees his Polish Slave; and Imelda de' Lambertazzi with Bonifacio de'Geremei.

Cilvia Demo

The EP features guest appearances from Jean Deaux and Michael Da Vinci, as well as his Top Dawg label-mates SZA, Schoolboy Q and Jay Rock.

Codex Leicester

One page was exhibited at the Seattle Museum of Flight's 2006 exhibit "Leonardo da Vinci: Man, Inventor, Genius."

Da Vinci Project

The da Vinci Project initially announced that it would fly first on October 2, 2004, launching from Kindersley, Saskatchewan.

Da Vinci Schools

Some of Da Vinci Schools’ partners include: Northrop Grumman, Belkin International, The Boeing Company, Chevron Corporation, Raytheon, SpaceX, Art Center College of Design, Mattel, Gensler, Deutsch advertising, Karten Design, Project Lead the Way, Antioch University Los Angeles, Marymount California University, and many more.

Da Vinci's City Hall

Da Vinci is based on the real-life experiences of Larry Campbell, the former chief coroner of Vancouver who was elected that city's mayor in 2002.

Darrell Bock

The book challenges the historicity of various extra-biblical ideas expressed in The Da Vinci Code, most notably the supposed marriage of Jesus to Mary Magdalene.

David Young Community Academy

The school is divided into six houses: Brunel (after Isambard Kingdom Brunel); Da Vinci (after Leonardo da Vinci); Hadid (after Zaha Hadid); Hopper (after Grace Hopper); Telford (after Thomas Telford); and Whittle (after Frank Whittle).

Erwin Lutzer

More recently, Lutzer’s book critiquing Dan Brown’s best-selling novel The Da Vinci Code, entitled The Da Vinci Deception, was featured on national broadcasts in both secular and Christian markets.

George V. Grigore

In movies he plays the most important characters of the history of being like: Nostradamus, Leonardo da Vinci, Jesus Christ, Rasputin, Pugachov, Hagendorf, John the Apostle and the fiction character like vampire Bruno, Malik The Profet, and many priest and monk characters.

Gianni De Luca

De Luca was born at Gagliano and moved to Rome to study architecture; however, he soon moved to comics and started his career as comics artists in 1946 for the magazine Il Vittorioso with Anac the Destroyer series, followed in 1947 by the Da Vinci Wizard, and then The Empire of the Sun and the Last Days of the Earth.

Giovanni Battista de Toni

As a naturalist/historian, he published a work on Leonardo da Vinci, titled Le piante e gli animali in Leonardo da Vinci (The plants and animals in (the works of) Leonardo da Vinci).

Italian submarine Leonardo da Vinci

In April 1943 Leonardo da Vinci sank three vessels in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Durban.

La Gioconda

Mona Lisa or La Gioconda, a painting by Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci programme

:: This article is about the EU programme, for information about the artist see Leonardo da Vinci, for more meanings of “Leonardo” and “da Vinci” see Leonardo and Da Vinci (disambiguation)

Lira da braccio

The great Italian musicologist Disertori showed that it was possible to reconstruct highly convincing examples of the Lira da Braccio in its early forms, from the meticulous paintings and drawings of Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Giovanni Bellini, Vittore Carpaccio and many other artists from the late 15th/early 16th century, thus opening many exciting possibilities relating to the re-creation of late 15th century performance practice.

M. C. Frank Chang

He also received Pan Wen-Yuan Foundation Award in 2008, Rockwell’s Leonardo da Vinci Award (Engineer of the Year) in 1992, National Chiao Tung University’s Distinguished Alumnus Award in 1997, and the National Tsing Hua University Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2002.

Markus J. Buehler

In 2011 he received the inaugural Leonardo da Vinci Award from EMI.

Nauru Phosphate Corporation

Financial mismanagement and extravagant government spending (i.e.: investing A$4 million in a London play, Leonardo the Musical: A Portrait of Love, about Leonardo da Vinci's love life which flopped after weeks of bad reviews) led to increased spending—and increased loans—which were levied upon the real estate holdings of the Nauru Phosphate Royalties Trust.

Noot Seear

She has appeared in advertising campaigns for brands such as Chanel, Giorgio Armani, Kenzo, Pantene Pro-V, Ralph Lauren Polo Jeans, Kenneth Cole, Neiman Marcus, Alberta Ferretti, Rolex and Yves Saint Laurent, where she was memorably styled as the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci for the Rive Gauche ad campaign in 1998.

North Hertfordshire College

In 2013, the College went through further restructuring, becoming a sponsor for The Thomas Alleyne Academy in Stevenage, The Da Vinci Studio School for Science and Engineering, and The Da Vinci Studio School for Creative Enterprise.

Only One You

Here, a man illustrates this uniqueness by referencing world landmarks such as the Leaning Tower of Pisa and the Eiffel Tower, masterpieces such as da Vinci's Mona Lisa, and New York City, before telling the woman "there's only one you."

PC-BSD

In November 2007, iXsystems entered into a distribution agreement with Fry's Electronics whereby Fry's Electronics stores nationwide carry boxed copies of PC-BSD version 1.4 (Da Vinci Edition).

Proletarian Democracy

The move to make DP into a real political party was pushed through by the minority wing of PdUP, led by journalist Vittorio Foa and Silvano Miniati; the majority of AO, led by Massimo Gorla and Luigi Vinci; and the League of the Communists, led by Romano Luporini.

Sal da Vinci

Sal da Vinci is an Italian actor and singer who won the Festival Italiano in 1994 and took third place in the 2009 Sanremo Music Festival.

Salai

Salaì (1480–1524), nickname of Gian Giacomo Caprotti da Oreno, an Italian artist and pupil of Leonardo da Vinci

Somerset County Youth Orchestra

It has given concerts in prestigious locations, among them Old Town Square in Prague, La Madeleine in Paris, and the Leonardo museum in Vinci.

Starfleet Corps of Engineers

In the Star Trek: Voyager novel Unworthy, the chief engineer of the da Vinci, Nancy Conlon, has transferred to the same position aboard the USS Voyager.

The da Vinci Medallion

The Leonardo da Vinci Society for the Study of Thinking and the Da Vinci Medallion were created to award scholarship in the realm of human thinking.

The Holy Infants Embracing

A 2007 special titled "Da Vinci's Lost Code" on the Discovery Channel, featuring an interview with Dutch art dealer who bought it, stated the figure was $1500.

The Man Called Flintstone

Animators: Ed Aardal, Ed Barge, Hugh Fraser, George Germanetti, George Goepper, Jerry Hathcock, William Keil, George Kreisl, Hicks Lokey, Dick Lundy, Don Lusk, Kenneth Muse, George Nicholas, Ed Parks, John Sparey, Irven Spence, Carlo Vinci, Allen Wilzbach

Via Vinci University

The name “Via Vinci” refers to "the way" of Leonardo da Vinci, the icon of universal, innovative and creative strength.

Villa Feri

It was then property of Bartolini Salimbeni, who modified the structure of the main building, of the Vinci family and, later, of the Boni family.

Water cycle

Bartholomew of England held this view (1240 CE), as did Leonardo da Vinci (1500 CE) and Athanasius Kircher (1644 CE).


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