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Radar Scan of Shakespeare's Grave Confirms Skull Apparently Missing
Reuters ^ | Thu Mar 24, 2016

Posted on 03/24/2016 10:53:29 AM PDT by nickcarraway

Shakespeare's skull is likely missing from his grave, an archaeologist has concluded, confirming rumors which have swirled for years about grave-robbers and adding to the mystery surrounding the Bard's remains.

Four hundred years after his death and burial at the Church of the Holy Trinity in Stratford-upon-Avon, central England, researchers were allowed to scan the grave of England's greatest playwright with ground-penetrating radar.

But in the area under the church floor where the Bard's skull was expected to be, they found signs of interference.

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TOPICS: Books/Literature; Computers/Internet; Local News
KEYWORDS: ancientautopsies; godsgravesglyphs; renaissance; shakespeare; williamshakespeare
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To: tet68
they found signs of interference


21 posted on 03/24/2016 11:26:41 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: Fightin Whitey

Keeping company with Mozart’s skull?


22 posted on 03/24/2016 11:28:42 AM PDT by freepertoo
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To: nickcarraway

Check 64 High Street, New Haven CT.


23 posted on 03/24/2016 11:33:32 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Diseases desperate grown, are by desperate appliance relieved, or not at all)
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To: freepertoo

Put those two heads together and you could get a hell of a song-and-dance number!


24 posted on 03/24/2016 11:35:45 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: Fightin Whitey

ROFL!!!!!!


25 posted on 03/24/2016 11:37:48 AM PDT by freepertoo
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To: nickcarraway

Almost the same thing happened to Ted Williams - although they knew where the head went.


26 posted on 03/24/2016 11:38:33 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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To: nickcarraway

alas poor yorick....


27 posted on 03/24/2016 11:39:12 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: nickcarraway

Probably setting on some bone collector’s shelf next to the head of Pancho Villa.


28 posted on 03/24/2016 11:43:04 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: nickcarraway

Somewhere in buckingham palace some royal is playing the “Dear Ulrich” scene with Shakespear’s own skull because the original is always better than a copy. B


29 posted on 03/24/2016 11:44:28 AM PDT by WMarshal (Trump 2016 (and 2020)!)
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To: nickcarraway

Oooh. Very nice. Goes to show, Even in death, Women hathaway of making men lose their heads.


30 posted on 03/24/2016 11:46:16 AM PDT by golux (Requiescat in Pace Msgr. Kenny Bunk!)
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To: Huskrrrr

“Abby someone.”


31 posted on 03/24/2016 11:47:08 AM PDT by Holen1
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To: golux

Women. Yeah. Sure. Right.


32 posted on 03/24/2016 11:55:36 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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To: Fightin Whitey

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kmtVeqMt6dc


33 posted on 03/24/2016 12:02:28 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
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To: golux

Anne how.


34 posted on 03/24/2016 12:02:42 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Richard III’s ultimate revenge?


35 posted on 03/24/2016 12:20:03 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: nickcarraway

Bush’s fault. Skull and Bones.


36 posted on 03/24/2016 12:40:39 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: nickcarraway

Now it's time to play "Alas, Poor Who?"

37 posted on 03/24/2016 12:48:50 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: ameribbean expat

Excellent!

Fuzzy Thurston comingh around wide...those were the days.


38 posted on 03/24/2016 1:07:03 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: nickcarraway

It’s sitting in a vault beneath Sheldon chapel at St Leonard’s Church in Beoley, Redditch.


39 posted on 03/24/2016 1:13:55 PM PDT by servo1969
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To: P.O.E.

I’m huge!


40 posted on 03/24/2016 1:14:27 PM PDT by servo1969
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