Sounds unbelievable, but it's not April 1, not from Pravda and with all the mess the Italians usually have... :-)

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle...storyID=660714

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I have read about this last wek in the newspaper. It's amazing, but don't gete too excited. The frescoes are apparently not from Da Vinci but from a 'minor' Italian painter from the period (I've forgotten his name). Still a great discovery, and who knows what will come out of it further, but the short quote could give a wrong impression.
Now if they would only excavate the library at Herculanaeum...

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Mak, that has to be the worst joke of the day. So far.

They can not find a whole workshop in 500 years, but they 'immediately' (or ver ysoon at least) know where to find the 'secret' room in it? Bizarre...

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No someone knew about it:
They just never thought, hey those frescos look like da Vinchi's. Gee i wonder if this is his lost workshop :roll:

Maybe the 'institute of military geography' doesn't have an artistic imagination.

'institute of military geography?

Why have I got an image of a mountain in a flak jacket now...

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They take the classified bits out of maps and replace them with pictures of kittens. Or maybe I'm mistranslating.........

I had a look at the link.
Where does it mention that they replace bits of maps?

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"It's all about context!" - Vince Noir (The Mighty Boosh)

"I've never heard of such a brutal and shocking injustice that I cared so little about!" - Zapp Brannigan (Futurama)

"...because the logic of the lines traced from reality is as poor of aesthetic value as it is strict in consistency. " - Paolo Bozzi (Naive Physics - free translation)

That would be a mistranslation then.

I expect them to take possible military targets off the maps they sell to the public. They are a military institute after all.
I just could not find any mention of it on the web-site you linked to.
If you found pictures of kitten, feel free to link to them.

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"Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?" - Hobbes (Calvin and Hobbes)

"It's all about context!" - Vince Noir (The Mighty Boosh)

"I've never heard of such a brutal and shocking injustice that I cared so little about!" - Zapp Brannigan (Futurama)

"...because the logic of the lines traced from reality is as poor of aesthetic value as it is strict in consistency. " - Paolo Bozzi (Naive Physics - free translation)