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• Da Vinci sketched his illustrations on loose sheets of paper and in notebooks that he tucked inside his belt. It was one of these notebooks that found its way to the 1980 auction. This particular notebook of 72 pages contained more than 300 notes and detailed drawings. It was discovered in 1690, 171 years after da Vinci’s death. In 1717, the first Earl of Leicester, Thomas Coke, purchased the manuscript and displayed it at his family’s English estate. In 1980, the current Earl was forced to sell it to pay inheritance taxes on his estate. • In 1994, the notebook was sold once again, this time for $30.8 million, the most expensive book ever sold. The record high price was paid by none other than Microsoft founder Bill Gates. Once a year, Gates loans the manuscript to various museums for public display. • Another auction yielded a record-setting amount when a da Vinci painting entitled “Salvator Mundi” (Latin for “Savior of the World”) sold for $450.3 million in 2017.

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• Although da Vinci may be best known for his paintings, there are less than two dozen of his paintings known to exist. He wasn’t a prolific painter because he had so many other interests. Serving as a military engineer in the early 1500s, da Vinci surveyed construction projects, sketched city plans, and drew maps. He was ahead of his time when he sketched a “flying machine” based on a bat’s anatomy. He drew military tanks and weapons, submarines and bicycles.

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Tidbits is narrowing down the color spectrum by concentrating on these folks named Brown and Black! • Thomas Jacob Black, better known to his fans as Jack Black, was the son of rocket scientists! Both of his parents were satellite engineers who worked on the Hubble Space Telescope. His first acting job was a TV commercial for a video game when he was 13. Several television series roles followed until his breakout film role in the 2000 film High Fidelity. It was his role in 2003’s School of Rock that was particularly well-received, earning him a Golden Globe nomination. Black is also the lead vocalist in the Grammy Award-winning rock duo, Tenacious D, formed in 1994. • Margaret Tobin Brown became known as “unsinkable” after surviving the sinking of the Titanic, and heroically helping others to safety during the tragedy. Molly Brown was touring Egypt in 1912 when word came to her that her grandson was ill. She booked passage on the illfated ship to return to Colorado. In addition to her heroism at the ship’s demise, Brown headed up the Titanic Survivors’ Committee, providing aid to immigrants who had lost everything, and published her account of the sinking in newspapers. From her humble beginnings in a threeroom cottage, Brown relocated to Leadville, where she met her husband, who struck it rich in the mines. With their fortune, she established soup kitchens in Colorado mining communities, founded the Denver Woman’s Club, raised money for Denver’s Catholic cathedral, and worked as a volunteer during World War I. ...continued

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• Shirley Black began life as Shirley Temple, the beloved child star who started her career at the tender age of three. Within two years, she was internationally famous, and the following year, 1935, she received a special Juvenile Academy Award. By 1938, she was the number one box-office favorite. During the 1930s, Shirley Temple dolls were introduced, and sales reached $45 million by 1941. Shirley’s royalties from merchandise exceeded the salary paid for her movies. In 1936, when she was 8 years old, royalty income exceeded $200,000. When she retired in 1950 at age 22, she had appeared in 44 movies and numerous short films. That year, Shirley married Charles Black, a San Francisco businessman and former Navy intelligence officer, who admitted to her that he had never seen a single one of her movies. Shirley Temple Black entered politics in 1967 with an unsuccessful campaign for Congress, and became a delegate to the United Nations General Assembly, followed by an appointment as Ambassador to Ghana, and later Ambassador to Czechoslovakia. • Many football fans believe Cleveland Browns running back Jim Brown is the greatest pro football player in history. During his nine seasons, he broke most of the rushing yards records, including leading the league in rushing yards for eight out of those nine. Football wasn’t his only skill. In high school, he nabbed 13 letters playing football, lacrosse, baseball, basketball, and track. Brown retired in 1965 at the height of his career and entered the world of acting. In 1966, he was already famous for his role in The Dirty Dozen, a World War II saga of 12 convicts sent to France to assassinate German officers. Brown’s movie career spanned 44 films.

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