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Richard III: Facial reconstruction shows king's features
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| 5 February 2013
| Staff
Posted on 02/25/2013 9:06:05 AM PST by Red Badger
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The unveiling of the reconstruction was attended by Michael Ibsen, Richard's 17th generation nephew, who also provided DNA for tests on the bones
Richard III died aged 32 in the Battle of Bosworth
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
02/25/2013 9:07:07 AM PST
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Red Badger
(Lincoln freed the slaves. Obama just got them ALL back......................)
To: Red Badger
His kingdom for a horse ...
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posted on
02/25/2013 9:09:44 AM PST
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IronJack
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To: Red Badger
Thanks largely to Shakespeare, this unfortunate monarch gets one of the biggest bum raps in history along with people such as Joe McCarthy, Pius XII, and Mary Surratt.
To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
Hew was king therefore he was an a-hole.
this unfortunate monarch gets one of the biggest bum raps in history
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posted on
02/25/2013 9:14:23 AM PST
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DManA
To: Red Badger
That just looks like a portrait of Richard Ibsen.
To: afraidfortherepublic
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posted on
02/25/2013 9:21:07 AM PST
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Red Badger
(Lincoln freed the slaves. Obama just got them ALL back......................)
To: Red Badger
His 17th great nephew, pictured next to him.
To: afraidfortherepublic
His name is Michael..........
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posted on
02/25/2013 9:30:27 AM PST
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Red Badger
(Lincoln freed the slaves. Obama just got them ALL back......................)
To: Red Badger
They look ike twins. The eyes, the brow, the chin, the shape of the face.
To: IronJack
Why does that remind me of the Duchess of Cornwall?...........
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02/25/2013 9:32:56 AM PST
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Red Badger
(Lincoln freed the slaves. Obama just got them ALL back......................)
To: Red Badger
Yes, Michael. Reading too fast.
To: Red Badger
Whether scoundrel or martyr, Richard III was the last of the Plantagenet kings. The Tudors sought to erase every vestige of Plantagenet influence and revoked titles and offices to every Plantagenet who wouldn't pledge absolute fidelity to the Tudors.
The first title was not restored until the Tudor rule ended with the death of Elizabeth II roughly a century and a half after Bosworth Field. Even then, it was a minor title to a minor Plantagenet, Lord Aston of Forfar.
He's in my mother's family tree as a cousin or uncle, not direct. The interesting thing is that the purge of the Plantagenets actually accomplished two positive things:
- Introduction of meritocracy to fill the scores of government and religious offices left vacant by the Plantagenet purge.
- Driving many of the deposed Plantagenet's into what would grow into competing schools of religious thought which planted the seeds of Puritanism. Oliver Cromwell basically acquired his seat in Parliament from modest family wealth left over by deposed Plantagenet forebears. And scores of our Puritan founding fathers can trace their ancestry back to Plantagenet royalty, including those of my mother.
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posted on
02/25/2013 9:35:20 AM PST
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Vigilanteman
(Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
To: Red Badger
He’s much better looking than the Dutchess of Cornwall. He looks like Peter Johnson Jr., the legal analyst from Fox News Channel.
To: Red Badger
Richard III was one S.O.B., there’s no doubt about it.
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02/25/2013 9:36:33 AM PST
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Mr Ramsbotham
(Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
To: zot
Worth reading and also the back stories on the Daily Mail about the archeological dig.
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02/25/2013 9:37:04 AM PST
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GreyFriar
(Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
To: afraidfortherepublic
Here is an even better comparison......
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posted on
02/25/2013 9:38:09 AM PST
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Red Badger
(Lincoln freed the slaves. Obama just got them ALL back......................)
Actually, it was 142 years between the battle death of Richard III at Bosworth field (1485) and the restoration of the first title for a Plantagenet (1627).
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posted on
02/25/2013 9:40:48 AM PST
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Vigilanteman
(Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
To: afraidfortherepublic
I was referring to the horse.........
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posted on
02/25/2013 9:41:03 AM PST
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Red Badger
(Lincoln freed the slaves. Obama just got them ALL back......................)
To: Mr Ramsbotham
The Princes in the Tower would most likely agree with you.........
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posted on
02/25/2013 9:43:48 AM PST
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Red Badger
(Lincoln freed the slaves. Obama just got them ALL back......................)
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