Vitrified Man

Earliest known photograph of Vitrified Man.

Vitrified Man is a drawing by the Italian Renaissance artist and scientist Leonardo da Vinci, dated to c. 1490, which is embedded in radioactive glass inside a protective metal case.

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  The Silence of the Rose is a 1986 action-thriller film about a Franciscan friar-assassin (Sean Connery) who is called upon to solve a deadly mystery in a medieval abbey.

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  Polenta and You (full title: Polenta and You: The Untold Story of the Niger Polenta Forgeries) is a young adult adventure story about the confusion between harmless polenta and radioactive yellowcake.

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles
• Polenta and You
• The Silence of the Rose (film)

External links

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