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Campaign to bring the Bayeux Tapestry back to Britain
Daily Telegraph (U.K.) ^ | 6/24/08

Posted on 06/24/2008 5:22:08 AM PDT by Renfield

A campaign has been launched to bring the Bayeux Tapestry, one of the world’s great works of art, back to Britain for the first time centuries, and put it on display in Canterbury Cathedral.

The famous embroidery of the 1066 Norman Conquest is the subject of a major conference of world experts being held at the British Museum next month......

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: 1066; battleofhastings; bayeuxtapestry; britain; england; epigraphyandlanguage; france; godsgravesglyphs; haroldgodwinson; haroldii; kingharoldii; normanconquest; normandy; normans; saxons; unitedkingdom
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To: Dudoight

“It really is a mess...can you imagine if all artifacts were ordered by some new international law to be returned to the countries of origin?”

Maybe we will be able to send Barack Hussein Obama back to Indonesia under that law.


21 posted on 06/24/2008 12:47:21 PM PDT by Towed_Jumper (Stephen Hopkins: Founding Father who had Cerebral Palsy.."My hand trembles, my heart does not.")
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To: SunkenCiv; Renfield

Well, the Kings of England no longer call themselves King of France, so maybe the French could be a little understanding here.


22 posted on 06/24/2008 12:49:09 PM PDT by colorado tanker (Number nine, number nine, number nine . . .)
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To: Savage Beast

bump to that


23 posted on 06/24/2008 9:12:56 PM PDT by cyborg (95 Alive)
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To: Petronski

Agree. It’s FINE right where it is. We’ve seen it and it’s priceless treasure.


24 posted on 06/24/2008 9:13:51 PM PDT by cyborg (95 Alive)
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25 posted on 02/29/2016 8:10:08 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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