http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/48995408/ns/technology_and_science-science /
Fascinating!
DNA swab from descendant:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2202036/Richard-III-rem ains-Leicester-car-park-believe-archaeologists.html
I hope they can use DNA to prove it's Richard's skeleton. I'd like to see him given a truly royal burial. As the last of the great Plantagenet kings of England he deserves something a bit better than a final resting place under the concrete of a town-centre car park like some common gangster. I've always had a great deal of sympathy for the old bottled spider. The oft-quoted saying that history is written by the victors has never held truer than in Richard's case.
"Fear is not what you owe me. No Lounds, you and the others - you owe me awe."
"As the last of the great Plantagenet kings of England he deserves something a bit better than a final resting place under the concrete of a town-centre car park like some common gangster."
No, he was certainly no 'common' gangster...
Sorry, but I'm just not a Ricardian.
Well, I'm not what you'd call a card-carrying member of the Richard III Society. I don't think there's any serious doubt he was deeply complicit in the murder of his nephews, among other unsavoury dealings. A usurper he may have been (a quality he shared with Henry Tudor, among very many of England's kings), and he certainly had blood on his hands; but I can't accept he's guilty of all the absurd crimes Shakespeare (taking his cue from Tudor propagandists such as Sir Thomas More) lays at his door. I also think it's rather sinful that the enduring image Shakespeare has left us of Richard is of a broken man offering his kingdom for a horse, when even his detractors conceded that, upon seeing all was lost, he died fighting bravely after charging directly into the midst of his enemies. The bottom line is, he was an anointed king of England, and he deserves to buried as such.
"Fear is not what you owe me. No Lounds, you and the others - you owe me awe."
To paraphrase ANOTHER Shakespearean masterline: "The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interfere with their bones ... "
shareBlast the smartphones! oft they inter intent ..
My spelling's good; the software sure is bent.
Tests proved positive; the experts are giving a very high probablity that it is indeed the remains of Richard the Third.
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It's come to my attention that even though old Richard has been found in a car park in Leicester doesn't mean he'll be staying there. It looks like York wants his bones for its own. No wonder. It looks like there's plenty of bounty in nmore ways than one in them old bones of Richard.
shareIt's come to my attention that even though old Richard has been found in a car park in Leicester doesn't mean he'll be staying there. It looks like York wants his bones for its own.
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Actually, the "bone autopsy" reveals Gloucester's skull had a "gaping wound" which the skeleton unearthers presume caused his demise. I always preferred Laurence Oliver's version where Richard is stabbed multiple times by foot soldiers and thus Olivier is able to demonstrate his acting chops--how one twitches spasmodically in the death throes of death by stiletto(s), dirks, knives, etc. etc.
shareThat recreation of Richard is fabulous. There's going to be plenty to mine based on those bones. What intrigues me greatly is how historians will now use the find to say "re-interpret" Richard, the wars and his life. I'm sure there's going to be a "tug of war" over who he actually was. Should be fascinating to watch the proceedings!
shareThere's going to be plenty to mine based on those bones.
Hard to believe that country used to rule anything...share