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Richard III discovery: news and resources round up

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Richard III discovery: news and resources round up

News that the skeleton found under a Leicester car park is Richard III has shone a beaming spotlight on England's last Plantagenet king, killed at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485. So seize the day and harness that enthusiasm in the history classroom and

The world is grown so bad that wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch. Can Shakespeare's fallen tyrant help us set it to rights? BY JOHN WATKINS | FEBRUARY 6, 2013. I like the idea of the hunchbacked Richard III, newly exhumed

The ghost of Richard III — at least, the troubled memory of his short reign — has not slept easily these past 500 years and more in that rude grave in England's ancient city of Leicester. And for good measure. Archaeologists last year found what they

It's official: the human remains found under a parking lot in Leicester, England, belong to Richard III. That's the word from University of Leicester archaeologists, who on Feb. 4 said that DNA evidence, radiocarbon dating, and

There are differences of course: Leicester's dead guy, Richard III, belongs to a very different historical era from Osama bin Laden (who met his end in Abbottabad) – it was no less brutal but the distance of time has allowed it to become picturesque

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