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10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 6 March: Davy Crockett This date in 1475 was the birth date of Michelangelo (real name di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni), the Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet and engineer who painted the ceiling of the Vatican's Sistine Chapel. It took him four years, mostly lying on his back. He also sculpted Pieta and the statue of David in marble. "I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free," he said. On the 521st…

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