While the painting was most likely created by Da Vinci in Italy for a Florentine silk merchant who commissioned the painting of his wife Lisa del Giocondo in 1503, as reported by Vasari ...

Born into a once-influential family who had lost some of their prestige, Lisa Gherardini was married off at age 15 to a 29-year-old silk merchant named Francesco ... Lisa Gherardini belonged to a once ...

Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the now-defunct darknet drug market previously known as Silk Road, thanked President Donald Trump for setting him free and hinted at what he has planned for his ...

Ulbricht, known by the pseudonym “Dread Pirate Roberts,” founded Silk Road in 2011. Its services were available globally and could be accessed via a Tor browser, which protects users’ anonymity.