Barbara said:
C'mon sjm! Didn't you read "Angels and Demons" by Dan Brown?
Great read!!
Barbara
Actually, it's
The DaVinci Code, but he forgot to include the zero. But that's the least of the mistakes he made. Great work of
fiction, and I'm not being sarcastic about the biblical aspect of the plot.
The most notable errors:
the cameras in The Louvre are real;
the pyramid there is made of 698, not 666, panes of glass;
there's no such thing as a nanodrive;
it's not "Da Vinci", "it's da Vinci", his real name is Leonardo di ser Piero and he was from Vinci, and art scholars refer to him as Leonardo;
the Dead Sea Scrolls were found in 1947, not the 1950s...
and they weren't among the first Christian records - they're Jewish;
symbology isn't a word - it's symbolism - maybe he was thinking of iconography...
and there's no such thing as a symbologist;
it takes hours to die from a gunshot wound to the stomach, not fifteen minutes;
Madonna of the Rocks isn't five feet tall - it's at least six feet, without the frame;
the pentacle represents both male and female, not just the female;
Phi does not have any bearing on hives;
you can create way more than ninety-two words with the letters in the word "planets";
when Silas reads the bible in the French Cathedral
in Paris, it's doubtful it would be in English;
the SmartCar's mileage is closer to 20km per liter than 100km per liter;
Architectural Digest has never done a feature on Opus Dei's headquarters;
papyrus doesn't dissolve in vinegar;
LoJack in France is called Traqueur;
France never banned the movie "The Last Temptation of Christ";
a runway attendant is called a marshaller in England;
Alexander Pope never presided over Sir Isaac Newton's funeral;
Mona Lisa is not an anagram for Amon Isis - Leonardo didn't even name his works of art;
and my favourite: The Priory of Sion is not a secret society founded to protect Jesus and Mary Magdalene's bloodline. The "hidden documents" that were discovered by Pierre Plantard, and
coincidentally listed his family's name as part of that bloodline, were later proven to be forgeries and Plantard was sentenced to prison.
Now it's time for me to go to bed!
besides, I've shared enough. 
