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...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...
...humorous Ivy Oration, Frederick M. Kimball '55 of St. Louis mused that "the dignity of man and the grandeur of his bathroom are intimately connected." This dignity was estimated as being equal "to the cube root of his toilet habits." He said that "the Renaissance began when Leonarde DaVinci reinvented the bathroom. For the first time in a thousand years, people began taking their clothes off, end art began again...
...humorous Ivy Oration, Frederick M. Kimball '55 of St. Louis mused that "the dignity of man and the grandeur of his bathroom are intimately connected." The dignity was estimated as being equal "to the cube root of his toilet habits." He said that "the Renaissance began when Leonarde DaVinci reinvented the bathroom. For the first time in a thousand years, people began taking their clothes off, and art began again...
Unlike the ancient Greeks, Renaissance artists did not succeed in opening up a new dimension of the human consciousness, Sir Herbert Read told his New Lecture Hall audience last night. He also charged Leonardo daVinci with inadvertantly corrupting the artistic consciousness of Europe for centuries...
...Obviously either Matsys (1466-1530) or DaVinci (1452-1519) peeked over the other's shoulder...