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Leonardo da Vinci is known world-wide as the painter
of the Mona Lisa , for designs for flying machines and
for his studies of the human body. He brought his

• Decide the topic of the text and what you know about this topic?
scientific and artistic abilities together so successfully
that he is as famous now, five hundred years after his

enjoyable and achievable through practical tasks and

death, as in his lifetime.

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Leonardo da Vinci
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