Madonna of the Rocks in The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown.

Image: The Annunciation. jpg | Annunciation by Leonardo Da Vinci

For example, Leonardo Da Vinci noticed discrepancies with the use of the biblical flood narrative as an explanation for fossil origins:

* The Last Supper, Leonardo Da Vinci, Milan ( technically a tempera on plaster and stone, not a true fresco )

Francesco's successor Ludovico Sforza, commissioned Leonardo Da Vinci to design an equestrian statue as part of a monument to Francesco I Sforza.

It was further popularized during the 1990s by Andrew Harvey and others, and entered mainstream pop culture in 2003 with Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code.

The best known is Dan Brown's bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code, which, like Holy Blood, Holy Grail, is based on the idea that the real Grail is not a cup but the womb and later the earthly remains of Mary Magdalene ( again cast as Jesus ' wife ), plus a set of ancient documents claimed to tell the true story of Jesus, his teachings and descendants.

In addition to playing music, she collected art, and sponsored philosophers, poets, and painters, such as Titian, Raphael, Giovanni Bellini, and Leonardo Da Vinci.

Freemasonic writers added their own speculations in the 19th century, and further fictional embellishments have been added in popular novels such as Ivanhoe, Foucault's Pendulum, The Lost symbol, and The Da Vinci Code ; modern movies such as National Treasure and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade ; and video games such as Assassin's Creed and Broken Sword.

As the Louvre became a point of interest in the book The Da Vinci Code and the 2006 film based on the book, the museum earned $ 2. 5 million by allowing filming in its galleries.

He was called a " modern day Leonardo Da Vinci " by the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry.

" And Alberti was to Leonardo Da Vinci as the finisher to the beginner, as the master to the dilettante.

* Da Vinci Decoded Article from The Guardian

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Multiple incisions are required for technology such as the " Da Vinci " system, which uses a console located away from the patient, with the surgeon controlling a camera, vacuum pump, saline cleansing solution, cutting tools, etc.

Brian McLaren of the Emergent Church compares the Left Behind series to The Da Vinci Code, and states, " What the Left Behind novels do, the way they twist scripture toward a certain theological and political end, I think

Prompted by controversy surrounding Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code.

Zimmermann's name appears in the novel The Da Vinci Code:

* The top 15 highest-grossing film series of the decade are ( in order from highest to lowest grossing ): Harry Potter-film series, Lord of the Rings film trilogy, Pirates of the Caribbean-film series, Spider-Man-film series, Shrek-film series, Ice Age-film series, Transformers-film series, X-Men-film series, Batman-film series ' Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, Star Wars Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith, The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons, The Matrix-film series ' The Matrix Reloaded and Matrix Revolutions, The Chronicles of Narnia-film series, Mission: Impossible-film series ' and The Mummy-film series.

* Popular book series such as Harry Potter, Twilight and Dan Brown's " Robert Langdon " ( consisting of The Da Vinci Code, Angels and Demons, and The Lost Symbol ) saw increased interest in various genres such as fantasy, romance, vampire fiction, and detective fiction, as well as young-adult fiction in general.

The connection between the Friday the 13th superstition and the Knights Templar was popularized in Dan Brown's 2003 novel The Da Vinci Code and in John J. Robinson's 1989 work Born in Blood: The Lost Secrets of Freemasonry.

It remains a seminal work of conspiracy fiction, predating by years such novels as Foucault's Pendulum and The Da Vinci Code.

Trilogy can be credited with popularizing the genre of conspiracy fiction, a field later mined by authors like Umberto Eco ( Foucault's Pendulum ) and Dan Brown ( Angels and Demons, The Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol ), comic book writers like Alan Moore ( V for Vendetta, Watchmen ), Dave Sim ( Cerebus ) and Grant Morrison ( The Invisibles ), and screenwriters like Chris Carter ( The X-Files ) and Damon Lindelof ( Lost ).

Working in French, English, Japanese, Spanish and Italian, he has appeared in numerous successful films such as Crimson Rivers, Godzilla, The Da Vinci Code, Mission: Impossible, Ronin, and Léon: The Professional.

In 2006, he had a prominent role in the remake of The Pink Panther and its sequel, playing Gilbert Ponton, the partner of Inspector Clouseau opposite Steve Martin, and also portrayed Captain Bezu Fache in the Ron Howard film The Da Vinci Code.

The History of Ming states that as early as 1364 Zhu Yuanzhang had begun drafting a new Confucian law code, the Da Ming Lü, which was completed by 1397 and repeated certain clauses found in the old Tang Code of 653.

Hanks is known for his roles in Apollo 13, Big, That Thing You Do !, The Green Mile, You've Got Mail, Sleepless in Seattle, Charlie Wilson's War, Catch Me If You Can, Forrest Gump, A League of Their Own, The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons and as the voice of Woody in the Toy Story movie franchise.

Hanks next starred in the highly anticipated film The Da Vinci Code, based on the bestselling novel by Dan Brown.

* Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code ( 2003 ), follows the Holy Blood, Holy Grails conspiracy theories line.

A Eurostar train broke the record for the longest non-stop high-speed international journey in the world on 17 May 2006 carrying the cast and filmmakers of The Da Vinci Code from London to Cannes for the Cannes Film Festival.

He also edited and presented The Real Da Vinci Code, a documentary for Channel 4's Weird World series which countered the claims made by Dan Brown in his novel The Da Vinci Code.

He has since directed a number of high-visibility films, including Splash, Cocoon, Willow, Parenthood, Backdraft, Apollo 13, A Beautiful Mind ( for which he won the Academy Award for Best Director ), Cinderella Man, The Da Vinci Code, and Angels & Demons.

Lady Da smiled at him often, but there was no love in this place.

The Lady Da, naked in the dusty plain, waved a hospitable hand and showed that there was a place for him to sit beside her.

Time stood still for these people, and their load of pleasure was so commingled with the shocks and pains of the dromozoa that the words of the Lady Da took on very remote meaning.

His real name was Muhammad bin Da ' ud Chaghri, and for his military prowess, personal valour, and fighting skills he obtained the surname Alp Arslan, which means " Heroic Lion " in Turkish.

Da Ponte would write his first opera libretto for Salieri, Il ricco d ' un giorno ( A Rich Man for a Day ) in 1784, it was not a success.

The success of his opera Tarare was such that it was soon translated into Italian at Joseph II behest by Lorenzo Da Ponte as Axur, Re d ' Ormus ( Axur, King of Hormuz ) and staged at the royal wedding of Franz II in 1788.

In addition, when Lorenzo Da Ponte was in Prague preparing the production of Mozart's setting of his Don Giovanni, the poet was ordered back to Vienna for a royal wedding for which Salieri's Axur, re d ' Ormus would be performed.

In Asia, there was " Breast Mountain ", which had a cave where the Buddhist monk Bodhidharma ( Da Mo ) spent much time in meditation.

The film was referenced in Da Lench Mob's 1992 single " Guerillas in tha Mist ".

In the ' 90s, Marl's status as a high-profile producer was restored thanks to his work with artists like Rakim, Lords Of The Underground, Queensbridge's own Capone-N-Noreaga, Da Youngtas and Fat Joe.

* Cornelio Da Montalcino, ( a Franciscan friar who had embraced Judaism, and was burned alive on the Campo dei Fiori )

Ghazi and Da ' ud were born to the same mother in 1173 and 1178, respectively, and the mother of Ishaq who was born in 1174 also gave birth to another son in July 1182.

Although some animals ( dolphins and bats ) have used sound for communication and object detection for millions of years, use by humans in the water is initially recorded by Leonardo Da Vinci in 1490: a tube inserted into the water was said to be used to detect vessels by placing an ear to the tube.

The opera was the first of three collaborations between Mozart and Da Ponte ; their later collaborations were Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte.

It was Mozart who originally selected Beaumarchais's play and brought it to Da Ponte, who turned it into a libretto in six weeks, rewriting it in poetic Italian and removing all of the original's political references.

Da Ponte was paid 200 florins.

After a short period under an Imperial vicar, Ravenna was returned to the Papal States in 1248 and again to the Traversari until, in 1275, the Da Polenta established their long-lasting seigniory.

The last of the Da Polenta, Ostasio III, was ousted by the Republic of Venice in 1440, and the city was annexed to the Venetian territories.