[battlegearboat]

They found her laundry mark.

[squarebarb]

From the old paintings it looks like she was really a hottie.

(sorry. somebody had to say it.)

[Porterville]

DNA... cool... she can be resurrected then?

[Jo Nuvark]

Jo Nuvark kindred spirit ping!

[ClearCase_guy]

confirmed yesterday that a piece of cloth found among the remains may have been a fragment

I can confirm that I may have a winning ticket in next week's lottery. Confirmation ain't what it used to be.

[cake_crumb]

"Solved At Last: The Burning Mystery Of Joan Of Arc"

My first reaction on reading that title was "What mystery? They set her on fire."

Guess that wasn't the reaction the author was hoping for.

[facedown]

[Verginius Rufus]

If they can just locate a living person whose mother can trace her lineage entirely through females back to a sister of Joan of Arc (if she had any sisters) or to a sister of her mother or of her maternal grandmother, they can see if the mitochondrial DNA matches.

Of course, finding someone who can trace his or her genealogy so far back on female lines will be difficult...better set CBS to work finding the documentation.

[Andy from Beaverton]

France's new Joan of Arc, Sabine Herold.

[fish hawk]

Articles like this I call "wish" articles. They are wishing to solve this riddle but, of course they never will. Finding ashes that "May" be female from a time that hundreds if not thousands of women were burned at the stake for being witches, is not a big discovery that proves anything. I suppose those who believe and hope in this dribble are also evolutionists.

[expatpat]

French scientists..confirmed yesterday that a piece of cloth found among the remains may have been a fragment...

How can you confirm something may have...?

[airborne]

French scientists, who have been studying those ashes, confirmed yesterday that a piece of cloth found among the remains - may have been - a fragment of Joan of Arc's gown.

Well, there you go then. Science is infallable!

[UnklGene]

WWI French Poster

[Rodney King]

French scientists, who have been studying those ashes, confirmed yesterday that a piece of cloth found among the remains may have been a fragment of Joan of Arc's gown.

I could have told them that.

[kalee]

Interesting thanks for posti8ng.

[Continental Soldier]

A lot of interest in someone dead for so long. Surely, lots of other people died at the same time, ordinary people who did not hear voices, who did not take up arms, who did not wage political war, people who lived quietly and who worked hard for life and family. Clearly, if she actually heard those voices, she was every bit as insane as some have claimed. Maybe it's time to de-mystify the past and, where possible, see it the way it was.

[GoLightly]

Bone fragment likely not Joan of Arc

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1754961/posts

[rabidralph]

[Mila]

Ah, Joan. Here she is the French Quarter in New Orleans. This statue is an exact replica of the statue that was erected in 1880 in La Place de Pyramide in Paris. It was a gift from France to New Orleans in 1972.