If all of that sounds a bit worthy, click on the play section of the site to make the Mona Lisa smile, or combine different animal parts to create a chimera in the style of da Vinci's more fanciful monsters.

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The convoluted plots and the conventions of the opera seria style, with their long da capo (repeat) arias, were thought to make them unperformable.

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Mr Mujica is known for his informal and plain-speaking style, and has said that he models himself on former Brazilian president Lula Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a left-leaning former trade unionist known for a centrist approach.

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