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Renmiri
02-07-2013, 01:22 AM
Bones Under Parking Lot Belonged to Richard III (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/05/world/europe/richard-the-third-bones.html)


LEICESTER, England — Until it was discovered beneath a city parking lot last fall, the skeleton had lain unmarked, and unmourned, for more than 500 years. Friars fearful of the men who slew him in battle buried the man in haste, naked and anonymous, without a winding sheet, rings or personal adornments of any kind, in a space so cramped his cloven skull was jammed upright and askew against the head of his shallow grave.

On Monday, confirming what many historians and archaeologists had suspected, a team of experts at the University of Leicester concluded on the basis of DNA and other evidence that the skeletal remains were those of King Richard III, for centuries the most reviled of English monarchs. But the conclusion, said to have been reached “beyond any reasonable doubt,” promised to achieve much more than an end to the oblivion that has been Richard’s fate since his death on Aug. 22, 1485, at the Battle of Bosworth Field, 20 miles from this ancient city in the sheep country of England’s East Midlands.


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Psychotic
02-07-2013, 02:03 PM
It was cool seeing it on TV as that was my old Uni and the battlefield itself is just 20 minutes from my house. I always liked that crazy child-murdering hunchback more than the Welsh ponce who won the battle anyway.

Old Manus
02-07-2013, 02:11 PM
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p75/JoeyC59/Gifs/ahem.gif

Formalhaut
02-07-2013, 11:51 PM
Interesting.

*Moves on*

Madame Adequate
02-08-2013, 02:01 AM
I live closer than any other EoFFer to the site his body was found.

Unless Jack does :(

Laddy
02-08-2013, 02:15 AM
I wonder if famous corpses reside under my parking lot. Other than the ones I put there.

Iceglow
02-08-2013, 02:33 AM
Unless Jack does :(

Jack has not lived in Leicester in a long time, he used to live in Swansea when at uni, he then moved to Poland, he now I believe lives in Cardiff.

Madame Adequate
02-08-2013, 02:54 AM
Yeah I wasn't sure where he lived tbh.

Cardiff though? Poor sod. D:

qwertysaur
02-08-2013, 03:10 AM
I wonder if famous corpses reside under my parking lot. Other than the ones I put there.
No. You only get in infamous ones. ;)

NorthernChaosGod
02-08-2013, 06:06 AM
Yeah I wasn't sure where he lived tbh.

Cardiff though? Poor sod. D:

I don't get what's wrong with Cardiff.

Shauna
02-08-2013, 10:48 AM
What is right with Cardiff.

Night Fury
02-08-2013, 01:05 PM
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Iceglow
02-09-2013, 09:25 AM
Yeah I wasn't sure where he lived tbh.

Cardiff though? Poor sod. D:

I don't get what's wrong with Cardiff.

Dude living in Wales is like living in Calcutta essentially when it comes to England. It's worse than living in Scotland.

Psychotic
02-09-2013, 09:31 AM
I agree with the first part Steve, but surely Wales > Scotland.

Hell, we need a thread on this. Is Wales or Scotland better? Or rather: Which one is the least shit?

Old Manus
02-09-2013, 02:15 PM
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p75/JoeyC59/Gifs/ahem.gif

Clo
02-09-2013, 03:56 PM
Well, I'm officially creeped out.

NorthernChaosGod
02-09-2013, 10:07 PM
The only things I hear about Cardiff come from Doctor Who and they just say it sucks.

Old Manus
02-10-2013, 12:57 AM
Mate, Cardiff is a futuristic utopian metropolis compared to Neath, Swansea, Pontypridd, Bridgend, and *shudder* Merthyr Tydfil. They're worse than Detroit. I'd happily spend the rest of my life there after my first 20-odd in this trout heap.

Mirage
02-10-2013, 10:13 AM
The only things I hear about Cardiff come from Doctor Who and they just say it sucks.

I didn't even know the place existed until I watched Doctor Who.

Rantz
02-10-2013, 11:10 AM
I have Jimmy Hoffa under my compost.

Heath
02-10-2013, 06:11 PM
Mate, Cardiff is a futuristic utopian metropolis compared to Neath, Swansea, Pontypridd, Bridgend, and *shudder* Merthyr Tydfil. They're worse than Detroit. I'd happily spend the rest of my life there after my first 20-odd in this trout heap.

They're probably better than North Wales. We have mountains and castles and... That's about it.