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Hunchback King Richard III infected with worms
Associated Press ^
| Sep 3, 2013 9:17 PM EDT
| Maria Cheng
Posted on 09/04/2013 8:34:02 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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posted on
09/04/2013 8:34:03 AM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
but for a well-fed English king, the parasites were just a minor annoyance. Except when one sticks its head out your butt and asks
What's for supper???
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posted on
09/04/2013 8:36:49 AM PDT
by
gov_bean_ counter
(Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
To: Olog-hai
Its OK I hear he liked fishing.
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posted on
09/04/2013 8:37:55 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: Olog-hai
Those weren’t worms they were dragons!
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posted on
09/04/2013 8:40:05 AM PDT
by
IbJensen
(Liberals are like Slinkies, good for nothing, but you smile as you push them down the stairs.)
To: Olog-hai
"...all he has to do is put a bird down his throat"
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posted on
09/04/2013 8:40:57 AM PDT
by
Doogle
(USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: Olog-hai
That is truly bizarre they found this guy. Not for nothing, but what was an English King doing buried under a parking lot?
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posted on
09/04/2013 8:41:16 AM PDT
by
GrandJediMasterYoda
(What do we want? Time travel. When do we want it? It's irrelevant.)
To: IbJensen
Butt dragons or Butt Draggins?
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posted on
09/04/2013 8:42:01 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: Olog-hai
Contrast to today where our “Kings” ARE parasites.
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posted on
09/04/2013 8:42:11 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Olog-hai
Richard is a bit maligned though no doubt a bad man
And likely did have his dear nephews killed in the Tower
And not his only crimes
I believe he was not actually a hunchback but suffered from scoliosis
Surprised AP would not distinguish
/s
There is a defend Richard culture in the UK to refute some of Shakespeare’s descriptions and charges that were embellishment
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posted on
09/04/2013 8:45:18 AM PDT
by
wardaddy
(the next Dark Ages are coming as Western Civilization crumbles with nary a whimper)
To: Olog-hai
>> Researchers who dug up Richard IIIs skeleton... discovered numerous roundworm eggs in the soil around his pelvis, where his intestines would have been. &etc
I thought about going into academia in my college days. I’m glad I picked industry instead. :-)
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posted on
09/04/2013 8:48:19 AM PDT
by
Nervous Tick
(Without GOD, men get what they deserve.)
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To: SunkenCiv
To: Olog-hai
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posted on
09/04/2013 8:59:09 AM PDT
by
Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
(If Americans were as concerned for their country as Egyptians are, Obama would be ousted!)
To: Olog-hai
the hunchback king was probably infected with parasitic worms How times have changed. In England, only the King was infected with parasitic worms. Today, our entire nation is infected with them. If only we could be as lucky as England and have only our King with a similar affliction.
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posted on
09/04/2013 9:04:24 AM PDT
by
Michael.SF.
(0bama lied, Stevens died, now 0bama covers up the lies.)
To: Olog-hai
I think this is soooooo wron....digging up bodies. They and their descendants own where they lie.
To: IbJensen
Probably ate a cockenthrice that wasn’t quite cooked properly.
To: wardaddy
I strongly suspect Henry VII.
Of course, if Henry VII had killed them, it would have been very unwise indeed for Shakespeare to write a play about Henry VII's murder of the princes, even if he had known it to be true.
Elizabeth I would have had Shakespeare rendered to Richard Topcliffe to have his gonads removed.
IIRC Shakespeare based his play on the official Tudor version of history. This incorporated Bishop Morton's vicious polemic against the dead Richard III. We can't treat Shakespeare's play as impartial evidence.
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posted on
09/04/2013 9:32:23 AM PDT
by
agere_contra
(I once saw a movie where only the police and military had guns. It was called 'Schindler's List'.)
To: agere_contra
From a character point of view: the actions of the two kings while in office speak volumes.
Richard III introduced the concept of bail; allowing men freedom from jail until proven guilty.
Henry VII on the other hand invented the star chamber (a system of secret trial!).
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posted on
09/04/2013 9:40:28 AM PDT
by
agere_contra
(I once saw a movie where only the police and military had guns. It was called 'Schindler's List'.)
To: Olog-hai
Just out of curiosity, how were Richard’s remains reburied? Was he reburied with any ceremony? After all, he was a King.
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posted on
09/04/2013 9:40:34 AM PDT
by
ops33
(Senior Master Sergeant, USAF (Retired))
To: Olog-hai
Most of what we know about Richard was written by the Tudors who ended his Plantagenet line. His history was further re-written by Shakespeare in a very nasty Richard III. Parasites, rats and general lack of hygiene, were commonplace in 1485. I subscribe to the Richard III society in that a lot of what is written about him is hearsay and conjecture. EdwardIV's missing sons is what Richard is blamed for the most, but in all probability he was nowhere near the Tower when the brothers went missing..
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posted on
09/04/2013 9:44:59 AM PDT
by
cardinal4
(Barack Barry Hussein Soetoro Obama, America's own Perkin Warbeck..)
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