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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: nickcarraway
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posted on
03/24/2016 10:55:08 AM PDT
by
golux
(Requiescat in Pace Msgr. Kenny Bunk!)
To: golux
Uneasy is the head that lies in the ground...
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
03/24/2016 10:58:11 AM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
(If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
To: nickcarraway
I bet whoever stole Shakespeare’s skull used it as a prop in ‘Hamlet’.
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posted on
03/24/2016 10:59:01 AM PDT
by
agere_contra
(Hamas has dug miles of tunnels - but no bomb-shelters.)
To: agere_contra
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posted on
03/24/2016 11:01:09 AM PDT
by
Salamander
(I Ride By Night..And I Travel In Fear, That In This Darkness, I Will Disappear....)
To: SunkenCiv
To: nickcarraway
in the area under the church floor where the Bard’s skull was expected to be, they found signs of interference.
Probably needed a better antenna...
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posted on
03/24/2016 11:01:30 AM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: nickcarraway
Uneasy is the head that lies in the ground... or wherever...
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posted on
03/24/2016 11:02:45 AM PDT
by
grobdriver
(Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
To: nickcarraway
Alas, poor William. I knew him, Horatio.
To: agere_contra
I have borne his books in my sack a thousand times!
To: nickcarraway
Alas, Poor Shakespeare!
Ahead above of all in terms of his prose. But he loses out in the end!
To: agere_contra
Oxfordians say this proves there was no Shakespeare! How could someone without a head write all those brilliant works!
To: nickcarraway
Somewhere, Yorick is laughing......
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posted on
03/24/2016 11:07:47 AM PDT
by
TMA62
(Al Sharpton - The North Korea of race relations)
To: nickcarraway
A good horror movie:
“The Headless Bard” searches for his head.
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posted on
03/24/2016 11:07:56 AM PDT
by
Huskrrrr
To: Huskrrrr
Igor finally got it right.
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posted on
03/24/2016 11:10:03 AM PDT
by
Huskrrrr
To: nickcarraway
Check Francis Bacon’s grave ;)
To: nickcarraway
I say try Yale.
Skull & Bones
No one knows where the skull and bones came from.
To: nickcarraway; stylecouncilor; windcliff
Thanks for the ping, nick.
s, w ping....
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posted on
03/24/2016 11:20:06 AM PDT
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onedoug
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