Inventions, dishes, games and ideas we use every day, and where they came from. 23 stories from 3 countries so far.
Play Who Gave Us That?A photo of something we all know: guess which country it came from.
ItalyBorn in 1452 near Vinci in Tuscany, he painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper and filled his notebooks with flying machines, anatomy and studies of water. He is the model of the Renaissance genius.
From Italy.
ItalyBorn in Pisa in 1564, he turned an improved telescope to the sky in 1609 and 1610 and found the four largest moons of Jupiter, the phases of Venus and the mountains and craters of the Moon. He is often called the father of modern science.
From Italy.
JapanThe ukiyo-e painter and printmaker (about 1760 to 1849) behind The Great Wave off Kanagawa, from his series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji. His prints inspired Van Gogh, Monet and Debussy.
From Japan.
MexicoA painter (1907 to 1954) famous for her vivid self-portraits full of Mexican folk art, plants and animals. She was born and spent most of her life in the Blue House in Coyoacán, Mexico City, now a museum.
From Mexico.