Ciao! I have a riddle for you: how do you fit an inventor, a painter, a sculptor, an architect, and an engineer into a one-room apartment? --When they're all one person: Leonardo da Vinci!Use an industrial-strength shoehorn!Practice, practice, practice! As you can tell, I've just returned from 16th-century Florence, Italy, where I met Leonardo da Vinci. We hit it off immediately. He even let me call him --"The Italian Brain,""Smarty McSmart-Smart,""Leo D.V., Super-Genius," which I thought was very friendly of him. Even better, just for me he invented a --toaster that toasts only Italian bread.self-cleaning Robo-sponge.pair of stilts that somehow makes you shorter. How cool was that? Ooh, I'll let you in on a little secret: the woman in the Mona Lisa painting is smiling because --she's sitting on a chicken, which was forbidden at the time!Leo had just told her to "turn that frown upside-down!"she had just burped, but successfully blamed it on the cat! How's that for a hot fact? And one last note about Leo's mirror writing. His favorite backward sentence was --"!truh seye yM !sdrawkcab sgniht daer ot drah ti si yoB""!raeppa yeht naht resolc era rorrim ni stcejbO""!amanaP - lanac a nalp a nam A" Ciao again!