The Da Vinci Code

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel didn't just make beautiful clothes, she also advanced women's rights, says actress Audrey Tautou, who portrays the pioneering French fashion designer in a new film about her early life. "Coco Before Chanel," which opens in the United States on Friday, tells the story of Chanel's early life growing up in an orphanage, trying to be a singer with her sister, then becoming wealthy man's mistress to pull herself out of poverty. She then met the love of her life who helped her realize her design talent and funded the start of her fashion label. "Her personality, desire ... Read Full Story

Some writers suffer from writer's blck; we suspect that in Dan Brown's case, it was a movie block. Finally, the Da Vinci Code sequel, The Lost Symbol , is scheduled to arrive in bookstores on September 15th. The Da Vinci Code was the bestselling hardcover adult novel of all time, with 81 million copies in print worldwide. The Lost Symbol will have a first printing of 5 million copies, and it will again feature symbologist Robert Langdon, who was played by Tom Hanks in the film version of The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons.. The announcement was made today by Sonny Mehta, ... Read Full Story

One of the few uncracked codes at the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters in Langley, Virginia is found in Kryptos, a wonder of technology, a sculpture sitting in a sunny corner of the headquarters courtyard. "EMUFPHZLRFAXYUSDJKZLDKRNSHGNFIVJ" is the first line of the Kryptos sculpture, a 10-foot-tall, S-shaped copper scroll perforated with 3-inch-high letters spelling out words in code resembling a piece of paper emerging from a computer printer. Completed 15 years ago, Kryptos, which is Greek for "hidden," at first attracted interest from government code breakers who deciphered the easier parts without announcing their findings publicly. The main sculpture is made of red granite, red ... Read Full Story

★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★;) Subscribe igorfrankenstein March 10, 2009 ( less info ) So what about the Jesus and Magdalene story being the grail? (Here is where we go right to 'Star Wars' history). Dan Winter says the reason the Jesus/Magdalene story melts into confusion - whenever you get out your history microscope - is because the REAL Jesus is Joshua son of Moses ('righteous priest')- who is really Akhenaton - in EGYPT (300 years before Pontius Pilate). He agrees with authors Amed Osman ("Jesus in the House of the Pharaohs"+ many other books) and Lawrence Gardner's "Sacred Ark" - who insist that the great DaVinci coverup ... Read Full Story

Dan Brown has a knack for taking history, and using the mysteries of symbols to create fabulous thrillers. His magnificent book “ The Da Vinci Code” was based on factual books by Michael Baigent Ms. Alaine Pagels etc. While the “Da Vinci Code is a work of fiction Baegent’s “ The Jesus Papers ” is not fiction. Pagels and others have shed light on the Gnostic Bibles and the other possibilities for the death of Jesus and the possibility that he may have survived the Crucifixion. All this would have remained conjecture–but then a few decades ago The Naag Hamidi texts and the Red ... Read Full Story