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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: servo1969
To: nickcarraway
Much Ado About No Thing
You do look, sir, in a moved sort, as if you were amazed that no one has yet quoted his famous epitaph.
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03/24/2016 2:05:44 PM PDT
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Chad N. Freud
(FR is the modern equivalent of the Committees of Correspondence. Let other analogies arise.)
To: nickcarraway; Tennessee Nana; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; ..
Thanks nickcarraway and Tennessee Nana.
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posted on
03/24/2016 3:23:19 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
03/24/2016 3:26:44 PM PDT
by
RoosterRedux
(When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction. - Mark Twain)
To: RoosterRedux
To: SunkenCiv
Probably being used at Yale in one of the Skull & Bones rituals along with Geronimo’s skull.
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03/24/2016 3:49:04 PM PDT
by
wildbill
(If you check behind the shower curtain for a slasher, and find one.... what's your plan?)
To: SunkenCiv
Dang, his last audience was tough to please and they took his head.
To: Political Junkie Too
Alas poor will....... I knew him well
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posted on
03/24/2016 5:37:34 PM PDT
by
Thibodeaux
(leading from behind is following)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
03/24/2016 5:53:20 PM PDT
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SuzyQue
To: nickcarraway
“Alas, poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio.”
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posted on
03/24/2016 6:18:06 PM PDT
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TBP
(0bama lies, Granny dies.)
To: nickcarraway
They checked his head...and they found nothing.
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posted on
03/24/2016 6:48:46 PM PDT
by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
To: nickcarraway
To: tet68
Could be, I was thinking a twenty yard penalty.
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