 A
London-based dentist spotted a ''hidden in plain sight'''
third shape within Leonardo da Vinci's famous Vitruvian Man
drawing. The 1490 illustration was originally created to
demonstrate a principle theorized by the Roman architect
Vitruvius, that the human body could proportionally fit
within both a circle and a square. The dentist noticed that
a third shape in the drawing, a triangle between the
figure's legs, was reminiscent of a dental principle known
as Bonwill's triangle.
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In his book ''Writer,
Sailor, Soldier, Spy: Ernest Hemingways Secret
Adventures, 1935-1961,'' Nicholas Reynolds chronicles
Hemingways suspected espionage work for both Soviet
and U.S. intelligence agencies, before and during the Cold
War. A military historian and former U.S. Marine colonel,
Reynolds also spent more than a decade as a CIA officer.
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the treasury department the Northwestern Mutual Savings and
Loan bank in Fargo, North Dakota secured a limited number of
hand grenades, manufactured for the use of soldiers in
Europe, but which are now being made into hand grenade
savings banks to be used for the encouragement of thrift in
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Kristi Noem, secretary of the
Department of Homeland Security, which oversees the
Transportation Security Administration, announced that the
long-standing policy requiring most passengers to remove their
shoes at TSA checkpoints is no longer in effect. The shoe
removal policy was initially put into place in 2006 in response
to an attempt by an airline passenger to conceal a bomb in his
shoes.
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