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Skeletons Of Bloodiest Day (Towton - 1461AD)
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| 9-12-2006
| Nadia Jefferson-Brown
Posted on 09/12/2006 2:45:57 PM PDT by blam
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posted on
09/12/2006 2:45:58 PM PDT
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blam
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
09/12/2006 2:46:27 PM PDT
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blam
To: blam
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posted on
09/12/2006 2:50:07 PM PDT
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11th_VA
To: 11th_VA
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posted on
09/12/2006 2:51:02 PM PDT
by
madison10
To: blam
Can you imagine the stench of 28,000 unburied bodies - even in winter? Wonder how long it took to clear the battlefield?
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posted on
09/12/2006 2:52:44 PM PDT
by
Captain Rhino
( Dollars spent in India help a friend; dollars spent in China arm an enemy.)
To: blam
After ten hours of combat at the battle, near Tadcaster, 28,000 men lay dead *************
Wow. Do the sissies on the Left know about this?
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posted on
09/12/2006 2:53:37 PM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: blam
I have to think that would have been alot of deaths for the population at the time. Really amazing.
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posted on
09/12/2006 2:53:46 PM PDT
by
Bahbah
(Shalit, Goldwasser and Regev, we are praying for you)
To: blam; SunkenCiv
Taking place on Palm Sunday, March 29, 1461, the Lancastrian army was handed an enormous blow with its leader, King Henry VI, forced to flee.
Everybody's gotta have a good St. Crispin's Day speech ready to go.
To: blam
King Richard III's chantry chapel
Chantry:
1. an endowment for the chanting of masses commonly for the founder
2. a chapel endowed by a chantry
exerpted from Websters Seventh Collegiate Dictionary
Just wanted to make sure I knew what that was.
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posted on
09/12/2006 2:55:21 PM PDT
by
VOA
To: blam
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posted on
09/12/2006 2:59:48 PM PDT
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pierrem15
(Charles Martel: past and future of France)
To: pierrem15
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posted on
09/12/2006 3:02:32 PM PDT
by
facedown
(Armed in the Heartland)
To: blam
The Battle of Towton took place in a snowstorm, Taking place on Palm Sunday, March 29, 1461.Must have been one cold Spring Day. Was this during the Little Ice Age?
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posted on
09/12/2006 3:06:17 PM PDT
by
scouse
To: pierrem15
They were cutting off noses and ears - as trophies?
To: martin_fierro
Henry VI was the son of Henry V, and became King himself at the age of 9 months.
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posted on
09/12/2006 3:08:23 PM PDT
by
expatpat
To: pierrem15
Wow. Looks like that dude took an axe to the head.
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posted on
09/12/2006 3:08:49 PM PDT
by
Triggerhippie
(Always use a silencer in a crowd. Loud noises offend people.)
To: blam
How quickly do buried skeletons decay? It appears that some, like the skeleton of Kennewick Man, can last many thousands of years. But surely the skeletons of most people buried in that period of time have completely dissolved. It doesn't seem plausible that the skeletons of billions of dead people still lie under the ground. Yet under certain conditions, perhaps dryness or lack of oxygen, skeletons seem to last a pretty long time.
IIRC the bones of really ancient human ancestors are only preserved because of mineral infiltration.
To: blam
discovered beneath the floor of the dining room of Towton Hall I'm thinking the place just might have had a history of hauntings.
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posted on
09/12/2006 3:13:08 PM PDT
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BenLurkin
("The entire remedy is with the people." - W. H. Harrison)
To: scouse
Must have been one cold Spring Day. Was this during the Little Ice Age?Probably. Plus this was probably the Julian Calendar (the seasons were slowly shifting due to that 1/4 - day each year).
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posted on
09/12/2006 3:14:08 PM PDT
by
Tallguy
(The problem with this war is the name... You don't wage war against a tactic.)
To: blam
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posted on
09/12/2006 3:16:50 PM PDT
by
toddlintown
(Six bullets and Lennon goes down. Yet not one hit Yoko. Discuss.)
To: scouse
"Was this during the Little Ice Age" Yes.
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posted on
09/12/2006 3:17:43 PM PDT
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blam
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