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Leonardo da Vinci's bones to be dug up by Italian scientists
The Times ^ | 1/24/2008 | John Follain

Posted on 01/23/2010 8:36:00 PM PST by bruinbirdman

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1 posted on 01/23/2010 8:36:01 PM PST by bruinbirdman
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Rest in peace apparently doesn’t mean what it used to.


2 posted on 01/23/2010 8:39:39 PM PST by OldDeckHand
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He should'a put a curse on 'em, a la Shakespeare.


3 posted on 01/23/2010 8:43:12 PM PST by bannie (Somebody has to go to seed...it might as well be me!)
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To: bruinbirdman

That is sick. It won’t prove their contention, and we don’t need to know that bad anyway.


4 posted on 01/23/2010 8:43:32 PM PST by Montanabound
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To: bannie

“Cursed be he who moves my bones” -Lassie


5 posted on 01/23/2010 8:44:54 PM PST by gitmo (FR vs DU: n4mage vs DUmage)
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LOL! Lassie was a boy!


6 posted on 01/23/2010 8:46:21 PM PST by bannie (Somebody has to go to seed...it might as well be me!)
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To: bruinbirdman

Why should his grave be desecrated just to satisfy the desire to find an answer to such a trivial question?


7 posted on 01/23/2010 8:46:41 PM PST by A Strict Constructionist (How long before we are forced to refresh the Tree of Liberty? Sic semper tryannis)
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It’s cremation for me. When I’m gone, leave me alone.


8 posted on 01/23/2010 8:49:27 PM PST by eartrumpet
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To: bruinbirdman

Jeez! Let the old homo rest in peace.


9 posted on 01/23/2010 8:51:29 PM PST by Reagan Man ("In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.")
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“cremation”

Same here. I doubt any ghouls will have any interest in my dusty remains, but there’s always the possibility of getting my ashes hauled one last time.


10 posted on 01/23/2010 9:02:20 PM PST by tumblindice (Hail To the TOTUS, he's a damn fine teleprompter--so drink chugalug chugalug, so drink chugalug chug)
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To: bruinbirdman

If I remember correctly, thirty seven years ago there was a TV series on the life of Leonardo by an Italian company.

They said Leonardo died, was buried in a glass enclosed coffin and put up with other glass coffins, where all could view his bones. Then during the Heugenot riots, the coffin and chapel were destroyed, the bones being thrown into a burial pit with hundreds of other bones.

Then someone dug up the bones and sorted out what they GUESSED might be Leonardo’s bones and put them in a different tomb.


11 posted on 01/23/2010 9:07:49 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Are my guns loaded? Break in and find out.)
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The reason given is not good enough to justify an exhumation, but if they could locate some DNA, that might be worthwhile.


12 posted on 01/23/2010 9:09:21 PM PST by wideminded
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XczJqembVto&feature=related


13 posted on 01/23/2010 9:11:41 PM PST by Yardstick
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I wonder what stupid government gave them money for this.


14 posted on 01/23/2010 9:52:01 PM PST by goat granny
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To: Reagan Man
Jeez! Let the old homo rest in peace.

Jeez! Do you have to help promote that gay activist revisionist history? There is no historical evidence that da Vinci was queer.

15 posted on 01/23/2010 10:33:00 PM PST by TigersEye (It's the Marxism, stupid!)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

I think you’re right. That story sounds very familiar to me too.


16 posted on 01/23/2010 10:34:15 PM PST by TigersEye (It's the Marxism, stupid!)
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Get real! I was first told of Da Vinci’s homosexuality by Brother Ambrose in my Catholic religious instruction class nearly 50 years ago.


17 posted on 01/23/2010 10:43:38 PM PST by Reagan Man ("In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.")
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To: Reagan Man

No comment.


18 posted on 01/23/2010 10:45:15 PM PST by TigersEye (It's the Marxism, stupid!)
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To: bruinbirdman

This is truly appalling! They can’t even be certain that the bones they would be digging up and attributing to him are actually his!! As for their “theory”, I think they have been reading too many Dan Brown-esque fiction novels. Wayyyy too many!!


19 posted on 01/23/2010 10:46:30 PM PST by JLLH
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To: TigersEye

You dummy.


20 posted on 01/23/2010 10:50:17 PM PST by Reagan Man ("In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.")
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