Richard III's remains confirmed found

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bob48

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February 14, 2015, 03:58:25 PM
^ROFL
'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers'

'Clip those corners'

Recombobulate the discombobulators!

Boggit

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February 15, 2015, 01:36:21 AM
Quote from: Steelgrave on February 04, 2013, 01:00:18 PM
Anyone with an interest in Richard III....not to mention anyone who just enjoys a helluva good read...should pick up Sharon Kay Penman's "The Sunne In Splendour". She is an excellent writer with a real ability to write historical fiction that involves you with her subjects intimately. And if you like "Sunne", by all means read the rest of her novels. Her accounting of Llewelyn, Prince of Wales, is riveting and remains my favorite of her books.
Thanks Steelie :), I'll look out for it.

You might also like the Cousin's War series by Philippa Gregory, which is quite entertaining. I first saw it on telly, then got the DVD last year. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Queen_(TV_series) I've since started reading the books. It isn't the battle scenes that make this series (they are pretty rubbish IMHO) but the political shenanigins going on. It is refreshing to see Richard III portrayed other than Tudor propagandists would like (Shakespeare is quite shameless in his portrayal), since there were so many other potential culprit's for the murder of the princes in the tower.

On a Tudor theme I'm also following Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall (Based on Wolf Hall, and Bring up the Bodies) about Sir Thomas Cromwell, which is pretty interesting, and casts Cromwell in more ambiguous, although probably kinder light than most historians. (For those unfamiliar with Sir Thomas Cromwell, he was Henry VIII's Chief minister and hatchet man, from the time of Anne Boleyn until the divorce of Anne of Cleves, when he got the chop.). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Cromwell Interestingly, Oliver Cromwell descended from Sir Thomas' elder sister - Katherine... :o
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. Aldous Huxley

Foul Temptress! (Mirth replying to Gus) ;)

On a good day, our legislature has the prestige of a drunk urinating on a wall at 4am and getting most of it on his shoe. On a good day  ::) Steelgrave

It's kind of silly to investigate whether or not a Clinton is lying. That's sort of like investigating why the sky is blue. Banzai_Cat

besilarius

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April 19, 2015, 08:41:34 AM
"Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out until too late that he's been playing with two queens all along".  Terry Pratchett.

During filming of Airplane, Leslie Nielsen used a whoopee cushion to keep the cast off-balance. Hays said that Nielsen "played that thing like a maestro"

Tallulah Bankhead: "I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late, start without me."

"When all other trusts fail, turn to Flashman." — Abraham Lincoln.

"I have enjoyed very warm relations with my two husbands."
"With your eyes closed?"
"That helped."  Lauren Bacall

Master Chiefs are sneaky, dastardly, and snarky miscreants who thrive on the tears of Ensigns and belly dancers.   Admiral Gerry Bogan.

besilarius

#48
July 08, 2015, 06:46:12 PM
What better way to celebrate the end of a dynasty than a musical show?
http://artdaily.com/news/79598/City-celebrates-Richard-III-with--car-park-king--musical#
"Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out until too late that he's been playing with two queens all along".  Terry Pratchett.

During filming of Airplane, Leslie Nielsen used a whoopee cushion to keep the cast off-balance. Hays said that Nielsen "played that thing like a maestro"

Tallulah Bankhead: "I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late, start without me."

"When all other trusts fail, turn to Flashman." — Abraham Lincoln.

"I have enjoyed very warm relations with my two husbands."
"With your eyes closed?"
"That helped."  Lauren Bacall

Master Chiefs are sneaky, dastardly, and snarky miscreants who thrive on the tears of Ensigns and belly dancers.   Admiral Gerry Bogan.
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