August 21, or stolen "Gioconda"

Zodiac Sign Leo

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Leo, August 21. Born on this day are fighting a hopeless struggle with too annoying attention to them from others.

Convinced introverts, they want to be left alone, but they rarely get the luxury. Many of them consider it completely natural to hide their true feelings, thoughts and ideas, but as if, ironically, the views of these people sooner or later become public.

If their profession is not associated with public acting, those born on August 21 feel extremely uncomfortable being put on public display, but any attempts to retire in their own little world are doomed to failure in advance.

After a week or two of rest, they begin to get bored without the noisy crowd of which they are a part.

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Leo men born on August 21:

• are distinguished by the following features: 
• warm, 
• loyal, 
• noble, 
• recognized.
• A man born under the sign of Leo is so possessive that he is sometimes ready to go ahead for the sake of his beloved woman.
• He will never quietly suffer and regret the lost opportunities - Leo always acts actively and sometimes aggressively.

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Leo women born on August 21:

• endowed with the following properties: 
• creative, 
• reliable, 
• exceptional, 
• bright.
• Leo women are a contradiction of nature, whose strength and pride resonates with sentimentality and the need for love and admiration.
• The Leo woman almost on a physical level needs not just attention, but love on the verge of a foul, renunciation, sacrifice and the partner's desire to dissolve in her interests.

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Main event

The famous "La Gioconda" stolen from the Louvre

August 21, 1911

Mona Lisa ("La Gioconda")

After the death of Leonardo da Vinci, his famous "Mona Lisa" was acquired by the French King Francis I and remained in the royal collection.

Since 1793 the painting was placed in the Central Museum of Art in the Louvre. ''Mona Lisa'' always remained in the Louvre as one of the treasures of the national collection.

On August 21, 1911, the painting was stolen by an employee of the Louvre, an Italian mirror master, Vincenzo Perugia. Disappearance was discovered only the next day, after which the museum was closed, and the search began. Through the press, the thief was promised a reward and a complete secret, since there was a fear that, if he could not sell this masterpiece, the criminal could destroy it.

An answer to this statement was not forthcoming.

Only after 2 years the thief offered to buy a picture to the owner of one of the art galleries in Italy, he contacted the police, and the criminal was arrested. At the interrogation Perugia admitted that he stole the picture, because he wanted to return to his homeland national treasure. The court sentenced him to one year in prison.

In the twentieth century, the famous painting by Leonardo da Vinci almost never left the Louvre, having visited in 1963 in the United States and in 1974 in Japan. On the way from Japan to France, the picture was exhibited in the museum. A.S. Pushkin in Moscow.

The trips only consolidated the success and glory of the picture.

Also on August 21...

1192 - in Japan, the power of the emperor was replaced by the power of the shogun - commander in chief.

1560 - 13-year-old Danish boy Tycho Brahe studied law at the University of Copenhagen. But on this day there was a predicted total solar eclipse, and this fact struck the teenager so much that after day classes he began studying the starry sky at night and became the most famous astronomer of his time.

1614 - died Elizabeth Batori (b. 1560), a Hungarian countess who, according to legend, forced to kill 600 girls in order to bathe in their blood for the purpose of rejuvenation.

1803 - Australian newspaper ''Sydney Gazette'' for the first time in the world gave a detailed description of a koala.

1841 - John Hampton patented lifting blinds.

1902 - ''Cadillac'', a branch of the concern ''General Motors'' for the production of luxury cars, was founded. The sonorous name was given in memory of Antoine da La Motte Cadillac, the founder of the city of Detroit.

1914 - Jan Nagurski, together with a mechanic E. Kuznetsov, made the first flight in the Arctic along the west coast of Novaya Zemlya on a seaplane.

1932 - first international film festival was held in Venice.

1947 - died Ettore Bugatti (b. 1881), Italian-French automaker.

1954 - in Yakutia, in the Daldyn River basin, the first primary diamond deposit, a kimberlite pipe, called the “Zarnitsa”, was discovered.

1965 - for the first time, in English football, substitutions are allowed during the match. The first player to replace, was Kate Peacock.

1976 - first European punk rock festival began in France.

1981 - scientists first reported in the press about the threat of global warming on Earth.

1993 - for some unknown reason, the ''Mars Observer'' spacecraft was lost.

1999 - in Sofia, from the fifth attempt, the mausoleum was blown up, where until 1990 the body of Georgy Dimitrov lay. As a result of two explosions, the mausoleum was not completely destroyed, it was then demolished in a few days.

2002 - in the desert in the north of Arizona, successful tests of the prototype of the Mars rover “Spirit” passed.

2005 - died Robert Moog (b. 1934), American inventor, creator of electronic musical instruments.

2006 - registration of domain names in a new public domain .mobi for mobile devices began.