Mona Lisa painting 'contains hidden code'

The Telegraph ^ | 12/12/2010 | Nick Pisa, Rome

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***It’s code in Italian: “Has anyone found the original yet?***

Don’t laugh! There are several reproductions of the Mona Lisa dating from the time of Leonardo. Whether they were done by him or his students is not known. One is in a bank bault in Virginia.

There was an article I read about 40 years ago in either LIFE, POST, or LOOK magazine about these other Mona Lisas.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Mr Vinceti is part of the group asking French authorities for permission to exhume Da Vinci’s remains from his tomb at Amboise Castle in the Loire Valley.***

Thirty eight years ago there was a TV mini-series on the life of Leonardo. It showed that Leonardo’s bones were on display, with other high ranking dead, in a glass coffin, till rioters broke in and destroyed the coffins, tossing all the bones into a common burial pit.

[wizr]

When I was bery young man, an adventurer came to our school.

He showed slides (some of us will remember them) of his South American jungle trek.

During a stay with one tribe, he ate what they ate. He said he thought it was loaded with Vitamin “L”.

Any way, it tasted like “L”!

[mikrofon]

[traumer]

42 !....

[SunkenCiv]

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[Radix]

The title of the thread alone cracked me up, and so I had to look.

I was given as a present for Christmas “The Da Vinci Code” several years ago. I read the book in a couple of days then watched it stay on the Best Seller list for what seemed like infinity.

The author stole so many ideas from other books that I was aghast.

I could not believe that it did so well in sales.

The movie by the way was even more horrific.

This thread is likely to be a winner because it made me laugh simply at the title. Others will come.

I actually saw the Mona Lisa in person once. It was like looking through Kryptonite. The magazine pictures are better.

[GSP.FAN]

You are now entering

[colorado tanker]

If you hold up to a mirror and read it backwards it says Paul is Dead.

[SunkenCiv]

LOL!

[mtg]

Is Wikileaks taking credit for this? Stupid is as stupid does.