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Discovery of velvet bag may solve gory mystery of Walter Raleigh’s missing head
Guardian (UK) ^
| October 28, revised October 31, 2018
| David Batty
Posted on 11/03/2018 7:33:19 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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The bag found in West Horsley Place. Photograph: The Mary Roxburghe Trust
![The bag found in West Horsley Place. Photograph: The Mary Roxburghe Trust](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/feeb391f54f7dab8d3963ed487b17d06251f12e7/0_0_1328_1962/master/1328.jpg?width=1920&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=e7d8b287bb87caf542502a3b8c8ea20a)
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posted on
11/03/2018 7:33:19 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
To: PistolPaknMama; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...
Put not your trust in princes, btw.
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posted on
11/03/2018 7:34:33 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
To: SunkenCiv
I suppose having Sir Walter Raleigh in a bag isn’t all that different from having Prince Albert in a can.
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posted on
11/03/2018 7:36:14 PM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
To: Joe 6-pack
Could have made a good script idea for Star Trek the Original Series.
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posted on
11/03/2018 7:42:52 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
To: SunkenCiv
Papa’s got a brand new bag.
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posted on
11/03/2018 7:44:27 PM PDT
by
Pearls Before Swine
("It's always a party when you're eating the seed corn.")
To: SunkenCiv
And they just happened to turn up the bag on the 400th anniversary of his death?
Anyone that buys that might want to invest in a bridge in Brooklyn.
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posted on
11/03/2018 7:45:18 PM PDT
by
PAR35
To: Joe 6-pack
The Lady knew how to keep a head.
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posted on
11/03/2018 7:48:20 PM PDT
by
Rurudyne
(Standup Philosopher)
To: SunkenCiv
The origin of the term Bag Lady?
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posted on
11/03/2018 7:48:27 PM PDT
by
Deaf Smith
(When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
To: Pearls Before Swine
[flourish from the horn section]
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posted on
11/03/2018 7:51:25 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
To: SunkenCiv
Perhaps she was heading to the head-bagger’s ball.
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posted on
11/03/2018 7:52:53 PM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
To: Deaf Smith
:^) The head was stuck on a spike, I think at Westminster, for some period of time, then taken down and given to Lady Raleigh, who kept it until her death (reportedly, and there's no particular reason to doubt the story). I'm sure it wasn't in the best of shape, although having drained out all the fluids would have been some help. Excarnation (pecked at by buzzards) would have been one problem, but hey, the guy was dead.
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posted on
11/03/2018 7:53:46 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
To: SunkenCiv
Didn’t the daughter of Thomas More also carry his head around with her after his execution by Henry VIII?
To: Rurudyne; Joe 6-pack
“never be the head of a major corporation...”
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posted on
11/03/2018 8:00:57 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
Elizabeth Throckmorton Raleigh was granddaughter of Nicholas Carew; Carew more or less grew up with Henry VIII and they were best buds -- that is, until Henry turned on him and had him executed, and the Carew estates confiscated. When Hank the Crank died, his house was filled with monogrammed pillows and such from the Carew household, and from households of other executed folks.
Francis Carew spent much of his adult life in court trying to recover the family title and estates. By the time he succeeded, he was still unmarried, and adopted Nicholas Throckmorton, one of the sons of his sister Anne Carew Throckmorton; Nicholas took on the adopted name, becoming Nicholas Carew.
One of the sisters of this second Nicholas Carew married Sir Wally.
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posted on
11/03/2018 8:01:33 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
11/03/2018 8:01:39 PM PDT
by
MrEdd
(Caveat Emptor)
To: MrEdd
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posted on
11/03/2018 8:02:33 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
That wouldn't surprise me either. :^) I watch that movie every couple of years or so, what a masterpiece (though not a documentary).
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posted on
11/03/2018 8:04:17 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
To: SunkenCiv
“never assume your success is in the bag”
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posted on
11/03/2018 8:05:20 PM PDT
by
Rurudyne
(Standup Philosopher)
To: SunkenCiv
I found that the best way to clean out a hog skull is to tie two strands of new barbed wire, one lower jaw and one for upper, anchor to a misquite tree and let the yotes have at it.
One month max or the yotes will twist off the wire.
Bailing wire is not strong enough and old barbed wire too brittle.
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posted on
11/03/2018 8:06:59 PM PDT
by
Deaf Smith
(When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
To: SunkenCiv
"....carrying Sir Walter Raleigh's severed head in a velvet bag....."
"Comedienne" Kathy Griffin is today's Lady Raleigh.....we all remember photos of her carrying a gory severed head replica of Donald Trump on the public stage for all the world to see.
Leni
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posted on
11/03/2018 8:11:54 PM PDT
by
MinuteGal
( MAGA ! ! !....MAGA ! ! !....MAGA ! ! !)
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