da Vinci
Americannoun
noun
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Around 1485, Leonardo da Vinci had sketched a firing mechanism that dispensed with the need for a burning match.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
On Thursday, Italian politician Dario Carotenuto and journalist Alessandro Mantovani, who were part of the flotilla, were pictured arriving at Rome Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International Airport, after first being flown to Athens.
From BBC ● May 21, 2026
For more than 500 years, Leonardo da Vinci has been admired as a brilliant artist, inventor, and thinker whose talents seemed far ahead of his time.
From Science Daily ● May 4, 2026
Unlike da Vinci, who was born in Tuscany, our dinner plan—a cicchetti crawl—was unquestionably Venetian, and a chance to sample the city’s bite-sized answers to Spanish tapas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026
“The sphinxes said da Vinci set the maze with traps. Even if it could—I don’t know if it would—it wouldn’t be enough. It has to be me.”
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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