ject. "People were abseiling down buildings to raise money for charity. I'm not
the sort of person who does that one bit," he said. He wasn't an artist, but he always liked the
idea of painting a mural. "I remember going past them with my parents, looking up and just
thinking they were the coolest things ever." He owned a house with a wall big enough to
paint one on, so he decided that would be his project. "That was the easy bit," he says.
Deciding what to paint was harder. One night, he discussed options with a friend. He had
decided it had to be something natural • murals of people "always look rubbish", he says •
and had been thinking about a tree, swaying in the wind. But the friend said, "What about
a wave?" And then both had the same thought... "HOW about that Japanese ONE ?" MY OWN personal BBC STORY, however, relates to my Journey of LiFE, during the time
of my involvement with Acorn and the BBC Computer Literacy Project.
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HING whatsoever that takes nourishment
continually dies and IS constantly renewed; because nourishment
can only enter in those places where the preceding nourishment
is exhausted, and IF IT IS exhausted it no longer has LIFE."
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mous "Mona Lisa" painting, also known as "La Gioconda"
-which refers to Lisa Gherardini, the second wife of a Florentine silk
merchant, Francesco del Giocondo.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Remains of relatives of the woman believed to be the "Mona Lisa" model have been found
Researchers plan to check their DNA against
the DNA of a skeleton found at her burial site
If there is a match, they will reconstruct the
skeleton's face and compare it to the portrait
Yet another step in the journey to to truly understand the LIFE and WORKS of Leonardo.
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