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9 unusual facts about da Vinci


Byron Chief-Moon

Chief-Moon has made appearances in several well-known American and Canadian TV shows (such as MacGyver, North of 60, Stargate SG-1, Da Vinci's Inquest, Highlander: The Series, and appeared on Walker, Texas Ranger, as well as several feature films.

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.

Da Vinci's Notebook

Richard Hsu was a founding member and Greg "Storm" Dicostanzo a very early member of the a cappella group "The Generics" from the University of Maryland before forming DaVinci's Notebook.

In 2013, DVN's "Another Irish Drinking Song" was featured in the film Despicable Me 2, with new lyrics in the language of the Minions.

Two of the members, Paul and Storm, then hit the road as a musical duo dubbed Paul and Storm.

Professional awards include two Wammies (Washington DC local music awards) for "Best A Cappella" group.

Galeazzo Maria Sforza

The Duke's assassination is the catalyst for the action in the Da Vinci's Demons television series, where he is depicted to be in his late 40s (while Sforza was actually 32 when he was killed), played by Hugh Bonneville.

Maggie Blue O'Hara

Maggie Blue has appeared in many television series and TV movies produced in Vancouver, including X-Files, Da Vinci's Inquest, Hope Island, Neon Rider and three years as a regular on the CBC TV series Northwood.

Sharon Alexander

Da Vinci's Inquest - Police Constable #4 (The Ducks are Too Depressing) - 2003


Eros Vlahos

He currently appears in a recurring role on the television series Da Vinci's Demons, as Nico Machiavelli.

Evan Adams

In Canada, Adams has acted primarily in television, including roles in The Beachcombers, Da Vinci's Inquest, Neon Rider, These Arms of Mine, Da Vinci's City Hall, The L Word, and Wolf Canyon, and stage roles in Lear and Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing.

Gioconda's Smile

Without realising it, I'd come to a stop outside Rizzoli's Bookshop and in the display window, exactly facing me, was a book about da Vinci with the Gioconda on the cover.

Greatness

For example, da Vinci, Michelangelo, Descartes, Benjamin Franklin, Goethe, and others with IQs in the mid 160s or above were superior in their versatility to those attaining lower scores, such as George Washington, Palestrina, or Philip Sheridan.

Gregg Chillin

Chillin is notable for his appearance as Owen in the first series of BBC Three's Being Human, Manuel in the British 2010 movie 4.3.2.1 directed by Noel Clarke and is currently filming the new David S. Goyer American series Da Vinci's Demons premiering in 2013.

Nancy Sorel

Her roles in television includes TV series Murder, She Wrote, The X-Files, The Outer Limits, Cold Squad, Da Vinci's Inquest, Stargate SG-1 and The 4400.

Vincent Gale

His other acting credits include the films Bye Bye Blues and Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II, and the television series Neon Rider, Queer as Folk, Da Vinci's Inquest, X-Men: Evolution, Dragon Boys, Eureka, Blackstone, Stargate Universe and Battlestar Galactica.


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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 Science Center

The Da Vinci Science Center announced in Jan. 2013, that its Executive Director and CEO, Troy A. Thrash, would transition to become the President and CEO of the Air Zoo museum in Portage, Mich., an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution.

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).

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

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.

Water cycle

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