Word: davinci
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There remains a widespread tendency among the uptight to protect tender minds by censoring sources of information concerning the magnitude of sexual variation in the world at large, and historic figures in particular. A recent Italian television series on the life of Leonardo DaVinci provides an example of how history is managed. One episode concerned the young DaVinci and his friends being hauled in before the local inquisition. The English narration as seen in America described the case as "heresy," thereby protecting our American sensibilities from the dreadful historic facts of his well known homosexuality...
...Leonardo DaVinci designed plans for a man-powered aircraft that never got off the ground. Now, nearly 500 years later and with the help of computer technology, a Tufts engineering student has completed a design for a self-propelled plane that he believes will successfully...