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__** Leonardo da Vinci **__   **Leonardo da Vinci was born in April 1452**. **Da Vinci is best remembered as the painter of the Mona Lisa made from 1503 to 1506 and The Last Supper in 1495. ** **Leonardo was involved in architecture, sculpture, engineering, geology, hydraulics and the military arts. In his spare time he practiced with parachutes and flying machines that resembled inventions of the 19th and 20th centuries**. **Leonardo also had the skills to write notebook entries in mirror, or backwards script, which kept him famous even decades after his death. Leonardo died in 1519 when he was sixty-seven.**

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