On the back cover of the brochure, sitting on a canvas of gray clouds and blue sky, is a quote from Leonardo da Vinci. Available at more than 3,000 flight schools nationwide, the initiative is an inexpensive way (prices range from $59 to $99) to get ordinary people out from behind their desks and into the cockpit for their first flight lesson. Linda Scully, the patient woman who handed me that white folder, has been training students here since 1993. Even though she has logged more than 5,500 hours in the air, Scully carries a spiral-bound manual with her as we prepare for my maiden flight. read more
Events | Virtual Job Fair | Street Team | Join The Street Team | On Sale! For days after the storm, inmates in Beaumont lived without A/C, electricity or hot meals. Thanks to a string of Florida “anti-aging clinics,” baseball’s steroid scandal isn’t limited to superstars. You’d think that painting the freaking Mona Lisa might be enough to fulfill a guy, but not Leonardo da Vinci. The interactive exhibition, which showcases more than 50 custom wooden machines built according to Leonardo’s blueprints, will not only impress you, it might make you wonder why mankind just didn’t throw up its hands and give up when the great inventor died in 1519. read more
Experts say the Renaissance genius, whose interests included painting, mathematics, music, engineering, anatomy and botany, may have illustrated the puzzles in a long-lost chess treatise recently recovered in the library of an aristocratic family in northern Italy. The manuscript was penned around 1500 by Luca Pacioli, a mathematician and friend of Leonardo, and some experts believe the artist may have drawn the elegant pieces that illustrate the chess puzzles discussed in the treatise. The treatise, “De Ludo Schaccorum” — Latin for “Of the Game of Chess” — includes more than 100 chess problems that challenge the player to reach checkmate in a certain number of moves. Rocco said the futuristic style of the chess pieces is in sharp contrast with the way other pieces were represented at the time. This indicates that Leonardo, who was left-handed, may have only drawn a few pieces to provide examples, or that he simply suggested the designs to Pacioli, Rocco said. Alessandro Vezzosi, the director of a museum dedicated to the artist in his hometown of Vinci, told the AP that the idea that Leonardo drew the pieces is plausible, but documented proof would be needed. read more
Experts say the Renaissance genius, whose interests included painting, mathematics, music, engineering, anatomy and botany, may have illustrated the puzzles in a long-lost chess treatise recently recovered in the library of an aristocratic family in northern Italy. The manuscript was penned around 1500 by Luca Pacioli, a mathematician and friend of Leonardo, and some experts believe the artist may have drawn the elegant pieces that illustrate the chess puzzles discussed in the treatise. The treatise, “De Ludo Schaccorum” — Latin for “Of the Game of Chess” — includes more than 100 chess problems that challenge the player to reach checkmate in a certain number of moves. Rocco said the futuristic style of the chess pieces is in sharp contrast with the way other pieces were represented at the time. Drawings of chess puzzles in a chess treatise linked to Leonardo da Vinci. The manuscript was penned by Luca Pacioli, a friend of Leonardo, and experts believe Da Vinci may have come up with the pieces that illustrate the puzzles the treatise discusses. read more
