Richard the third
- 24 August 2012 17:34188368waste of time and money in view, they could come down here and scrape as many as they like off the pavements.
whttp://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/archaeologists-begin-dig-to-uncover-grave-of-richard-iii-in-leicester-8078470.html - Brian Dixon
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24 August 2012 18:32188375so the song was right then.i wonder how his friend tony is.
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- 12 September 2012 18:42191115I saw it on the news, fantastic that they seem to have found the King's remains so quickly
- 12 September 2012 18:46191117Fascinating stuff.
I really do hope that the bones are Richard Plantagenet's
Back in the 70s I was a member of 'The fellowship of the white boar' which became the Richard III Society along with my mother who had a great interest in Richard, I was even given the name by her (Richard that is!).
Remember visiting the field of Bosworth and many other places he had been, will be good to finally place him in his proper place with a good and decent burial, had thought that his body had been thrown in the River Soar back then.
It's going to be a red letter day for the White rose of York if it really is him and with all of the technology we have at our fingertips for re-creating likenesses with computer aided technology, maybe we can see him as hetruly was at last and not the twisted image portrayed by Shakespear and the Tudor publicity?Oh Boy!, That'll be the day......... - 12 September 2012 19:10191124It appears the bones they found have the spinal deformities that show a raised right shoulder & curvatives i.e. hunchback traits.
Watty - 12 September 2012 19:21191130not quite as bad paul , the cleaved in skull suggests he had a bad day though.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-19561018 - 12 September 2012 19:25191132Not forgetting the arrow in the neck, I'm sure that was a pain.
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12 September 2012 19:28191135no worse than being constipated posh,there again it have been due to tha cramped cubical conditions,shared of course. 
- 12 September 2012 20:06191153'Infamy,infamy,they ve all got it in for me' is that the one
- 13 September 2012 01:09191195He would have had a couple of pikes stuck in him before falling, as King Richard III, when charging with the cavalry on Henry Tudor, who was standing apart with a group of soldiers, got a welcome from 1.000 Breton pike-men.
These, on seeing the cavalry descend on Henry, swiftly disengaged from their place in battle and moved to surround him, thus protecting the Tudor with a wall of pikes.
As these 1,000 Bretons had been trained by Swiss officers, they knew their work well.
Even though Richard and many of his knights dashed through the pikes, they lost most of their horses in the process, and Richard was offered by his standard bearer a last-moment chance to take an available horse and get back to the infantry.
He refused.
He is unlikely to have received an arrow wound in the battle, as no archer could have aimed in the melee which saw both Richard and Henry almost face to face, and indeed Henry's standard bearer was struck down, but it was the pike-men who saved Henry's tan on that dayChanters, Drums and Drones Potty Time http://youtu.be/99fMqpjnXYA
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TerryQuis custodiet ipsos custodes? - 13 September 2012 18:33191327Was it factor 35? Henry's tan that is, that's some protection