Model Boat Mayhem
Mess Deck: General Section => Chit-Chat => Topic started by: TailUK on February 04, 2013, 10:53:32 am
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University of Leicester have just announced that the remains unearthed September 2012 is definitely Richard III
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-21063882 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-21063882) - Link added
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See Channel 4 tonight at 9pm for "all the answers" following the press conference this morning on the findings of the scientists. DNA close match to descendents. Carbon dating very close dates.
The programme is said to include a facial reconstruction from the skull found.
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Thanks for that Bob. I'll now be tuning in. :-))
Ken
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I hope they have a state funeral for him.......now that will be something to see and visit
truly amazing news
I'd love to be one of the crowd that day!!
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Visit the rail museum at the same time. :-))
Regards Ian
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I hope they have a state funeral for him
Possibly not a good idea in view of his reputation for disposing of princes...
Anyway, the proposal seems to be to rebury him in Leicester Cathedral.
Colin
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Possibly not a good idea in view of his reputation for disposing of princes...
Innocent until proven guilty, Colin {-) {-) {-) {-)
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I cant help thinking of a sketch by the 2 Ronnies when anyone mentions Richard III
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RwyPDPlFA8
be interesting to see what they decide to do with him tho
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the proposal seems to be to rebury him in Leicester Cathedral.
Apart from the one to bring him home to York.
Regards Ian
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Apart from the one to bring him home to York.
Regards Ian
Finders keepers.................. ;D
DM
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:P
Why do you think our roses look so good?
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For a king of England - has to be Westminster Abbey.
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The guy has been dead for over five hundred years.
If HRH wants to pay for the huge funeral then fine but if its the state that is to pay then I'm against it. All these cuts in our essential services - so what else do we close to pay for it. No anti royalist feelings expressed or intended there either.
Dave
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Verdict on Richard III's remains - serious trauma to skull, bent back. Atos confirms he is fit for work
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I think it has already been decided to re interr him in Leicester so not much point in continuing to speculate.
A very interesting story and amazing that they found him so quickly. Time Team eat your heart out!
Colin
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How come he never got clamped?
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How come he never got clamped?
Just a skeleton staff on duty I imagine....
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I organised a copy on the recorder so don't spoil it for me by giving away the end. %)
Ken
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Read the article and apparently when he was killed someone
Stuck a sword up his :o :o :o
I wonder what the court in The Hague would say to that {-) {-)
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The weirdest thing was the parking space directly above him was marked with an 'R', which was directly above the skeleton. Oddly, no-one remembers why.
Andrew
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I organised a copy on the recorder so don't spoil it for me by giving away the end. %)
Ken
I won't tell you that he's dead then Kenny.... {-) {-) {-) {-) {-) {-) {-) {-) {-)
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Dumped in a car park. 528 winters of his discontent.
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Read the article and apparently when he was killed someone
Stuck a sword up his :o :o :o
I wonder what the court in The Hague would say to that {-) {-)
Ooh, I bet that smarts {-)
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Forensic facial reconstruction of Richard III computer generated from confirmed skull scans.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-21328380 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-21328380)
Closely resembles portraits of the time.
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As a kid I used to travel to School in Leicester via King Richards Road and over Richard III Bridge
and my brothers school was adjacent to the Bosworth Field Battle site so I have always wondered about
what happened to him (I do enjoy medieval history as well). The area where he was found I know very well
as I walked the beat there a good few years ago. Now all they have to find are the bodies of
the Princes in the Tower and try to prove whether he was the tyrant as Shakespeare suggests or a canny bloke
as the people of York wrote at the time.
Geoff
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Apart from the one to bring him home to York.
Regards Ian
He was born in Fotheringay in Northants. His parents and quite a few relatives are supposedly buried in the local church. So where is home?