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Have UK archaeologists found Richard III's skeleton?
Reuters ^ | 09/12/2012 | Michael Holden

Posted on 09/12/2012 12:14:15 PM PDT by TnGOP

(Reuters) - Archaeologists searching for the body of England's King Richard III under a city centre parking lot said on Wednesday they had found remains which could be those of the monarch depicted by Shakespeare as an evil, deformed, child-murdering monster.

(Excerpt) Read more at in.reuters.com ...


TOPICS: History; Miscellaneous; Science
KEYWORDS: archaeology; coupdetat; ggg; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; henrytheusurper; henryvii; kingrichardiii; murderedbytraitors; plantanget; richardiii; shakespeare; unitedkingdom
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To: TnGOP
an evil, deformed, child-murdering monster.

Now if it were 'evil, deformed, child-molesting monster' they might've just stumbled upon the remains of Muhammed.

21 posted on 09/12/2012 2:28:25 PM PDT by Moltke ("I am Dr. Sonderborg," he said, "and I don't want any nonsense.")
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To: arbee4bush

That did not work out so well for St. Thomas More.


22 posted on 09/12/2012 2:29:19 PM PDT by BlackElk (Dean of Discipline/Tomas de Torquemada Gentleman's Society: Roast 'em!)
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To: BlackElk

Well, he got a parish named for him in Boynton Beach, FL. I’m sure there are others across the fruited plain.


23 posted on 09/12/2012 4:36:02 PM PDT by Ax
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To: Ax
No question that St. Thomas More was a man of heroic virtue, a saint and a martyr but not personally infallible. Supporting the Tudors early on just turned out to be an unwise move.

God bless you and yours!

24 posted on 09/12/2012 4:59:28 PM PDT by BlackElk (Dean of Discipline/Tomas de Torquemada Gentleman's Society: Roast 'em!)
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To: FrogMom; nickcarraway

 GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother & Ernest_at_the_Beach
Thanks FrogMom. Just adding to the catalog, not sending a general distribution.

To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list.


25 posted on 09/14/2012 8:30:51 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: mass55th

Thanks for the link. That’ll keep me busy for a while. I can read about this stuff for hours. I just get too engrossed and forget about the things I NEED to be doing.


26 posted on 09/15/2012 1:30:14 PM PDT by TnGOP (Petey the dog is my foriegn policy advisor. He's really quite good!)
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To: TnGOP

This is pretty interesting and quite well done:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFv_kcJyhNE


27 posted on 11/03/2012 7:52:05 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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