[gov_bean_ counter]

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???

[cripplecreek]

Its OK I hear he liked fishing.

[IbJensen]

Those weren’t worms they were dragons!

[Doogle]

"...all he has to do is put a bird down his throat"

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

That is truly bizarre they found this guy. Not for nothing, but what was an English King doing buried under a parking lot?

[dfwgator]

Contrast to today where our “Kings” ARE parasites.

[wardaddy]

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

[Nervous Tick]

>> Researchers who dug up Richard III’s 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. :-)

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Ping

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

[Michael.SF.]

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.

[Sacajaweau]

I think this is soooooo wron....digging up bodies. They and their descendants own where they lie.

[ops33]

Just out of curiosity, how were Richard’s remains reburied? Was he reburied with any ceremony? After all, he was a King.

[cardinal4]

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..

[bgill]

A daily dose of diatomaceous earth would have cured that.

[frossca]

Now are the innards of our discontent...

[Shimmer1]

ewwww thank you for telling me!!! (not!!)

lol

[Impy]

Gross.

I bet Charles has never had worse than the clap.