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Audio Tour Characters. "Leonardo da Vinci: Leonardo da Vinci was born near the city of Florence in mid-fifteenth century Italy. A classic example of 'Renaissance Man', talented in many different areas, da Vinci was a brilliant painter, scientist, inventor, engineer, sculptor, botanist, mathematician, musician, and writer. He is best-known for his painting of the Mona Lisa and his anatomical drawings. Far ahead of his time, da Vinci drew up plans for a tank, concentrated solar power a hang glider and even a helicopter.""Edward Teach Blackbeard: Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard, is perhaps the most famous pirate of all. He reportedly lit hemp matches and stuck them in his beard to appear more terrifying. Blackbeard preyed on ships in the Caribbean and western Atlantic during the early 1700's and even blockaded the city of Charleston before finally being brought to bay and defeated by a British captain in 1718.""Billy The Kid: A young man when he died in 1881, Billy The Kid is one of the most famous outlaws from the American Old West, despite not being very well-known in his own lifetime. He started his outlaw career as a gunman in the Lincoln County Cattle War in New Mexico. In the years since his death, he became known as a Western folk hero his character inspiring books, movies, and music.""Samuel Morse: Samuel Morse was an early American painter who also invented the single-wire telegraph system (meaning it only required one wire to transmit the signal) and the code of dots and dashes (short sounds and long sounds) that would bear his name. The greatly increased speed of telegraphy revolutionized communications worldwide, and the Morse code swiftly became the international language of the telegraph.""Alexander Graham Bell: Alexander Graham Bell was a prolific inventor and scientist. He invented the telephone while trying to create a hearing device for the deaf. Bell himself refused to have a telephone in his study, despite his invention's immense popularity. When he died all telephones in the United States were kept silent for a minute in his honor.""Easter Island Head: This head represents a moai, one of the large stone statues found on Easter Island in the Pacific Ocean. Almost all moai are carved from volcanic stone quarried from an extinct volcano on the island. Each moai is supposed to represent a dead chieftain or important person."