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Researchers Prove Shakespeare's Skull Probably Isn't In His Grave (washingtonpost.com)
An anonymous reader writes: 400 years after Shakespeare's interment in Stratford-upon-Avon, archaeological researchers scanned his grave with a ground-penetrating radar to confirm a legend that his skull was stolen by grave robbers. Under cover of night, three men crept toward the Holy Trinity Church with dimmed lanterns and an assortment of tools, according to an "anonymous author, who heard it from a guy, who heard it from his uncle Frank, who claimed to be the grave robber himself." The Washington Post reports this story, published in 1879 but believed to have occurred in 1794, now draws more credibility from the radar scan.
Ironically, the grave robbers was said to have been inspired by a British parliament member and phrenologist who'd promised 300 guineas for a chance to examine Shakespeare's skull, but who then reneged after learning it had been stolen from Shakespeare's grave.
it's on ebay
Nullius in verba
Most likely it ended up in some theater's prop house and has been used in stagings of Hamlet
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
They have to respect for death. No respect for death.
They want all of us to die in unmarked graves.
My father always said since I was the oldest I'd have to look after everyone the pukianz are preventing that.
They found me after I thought I was dead. The pukian that saved me was penalized for helping me.
Who do you serve and who do you trust?
Their kind always has trouble with the rest if us.
Methinks at least one of those words doesn't meanest what thou thinkest it does.
Gold with red eyes is how their kind appears.
Prove and probably aren't two words I like to see used together. I guess to a statistician or others who divine the future from tea leaves or entrails it is acceptable.
Republicans have abandoned technology.
They prefer peanut butter to technology.
This is exactly the reason I;m voting for Trump
I visited a Reoublican town once. They didn't accept USD. They only accepted gold.
And die alone. That is why they teach females to never talk to males they're not related to.
This. Republicans love peanut butter.
Because fear is ingrained in our DNA. Republicans can't get past that.
And thier kind would never do anything that doesn't harm us.
"Proved" vs. "probably". What is this, climate science?
The smart people are riding out the conflict in a safe place.
If they come with guns, they will leave in boxes. Just kidding, but the is what should happen.
The republicans have over a million negroids as hostages. We must respect that.
I sometimes wonder what life would be like without their kind.
Which is why we need to take hostages.
When words don't mean anything any more, 1+1 = 3 and Communism = Capitalism (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BadFTesAPzY)
Whatever feels good, you can't be wrong.
What is going on with modern education???
Don't steal. The government hates competition.
We can damage them so their threats aren't real.
Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay,
might stop a hole to keep the wind away.
To have a head or not have a head
Table-ized A.I.
The account describes a ring with the initials "H.S." found in the tomb with Shakespeare. I wonder if it had something to do with his son, Hamnet Shakespeare.
It's a corpse. If you want to check, just get the necessary permits and dig it up. Who cares?
While you're at it, grind up his femur and sequence his genome. It's just a skeleton at this point. Who cares? Why would grave-sampling (not "robbing") for scientific purposes be a crime?
How did he expect to get the chance to examine it exactly?
If Slashdot were chemistry it would look like this:Cadaverine
There is a Nazi gold train buried... color me skeptical...
Edward de Vere was Shakes a spear
I do not think it means what you think it means. "prove that probably"?
Who was Shakespeare? Well, he didn't want the world to know. And that's why you don't know. You think you do, but you probably don't. And he wanted it that way.
So... Shakespeare it is.
But this random guy who was hardly even literate enough to sign his name on forms to sue people he loan-sharked money to while illegally hoarding grain in a time of famine... No freakin way THAT guy was the author who wrote "...but while the grass grows..." I mean, come on. It's laughable.
Who would "claim" to be a grave robber? It's hardly a profession you'd lie about to look good.
Proof Futurama shall be,
for not can you see?!
Well I gots the ultimate answer to everything right here, maybe.
"Alas this is not poor Yorik"
...I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest.
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
"Ironically, the grave robbers was said to have been inspired by a British parliament member and phrenologist who'd promised 300 guineas for a chance to examine Shakespeare's skull, but who then reneged after learning it had been stolen from Shakespeare's grave".
Incidentally proving that the intelligence of politicians has not changed much in 200 years. Where did he expect Shakespeare's skull to be found - in the Taj Mahal?
I am sure that there are many other solipsists out there.
We Republicans do not simply accept gold. That gold must come from dental fillings forcibly extracted from the teeth of the living.
i gather there is some scene in some village drama the hero also called Village, goes on long soliloqui with a skull as a prop. One day the assistant art director forgot to bring it. So Mr Shakespere lent his own skull.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
"Proof" is so often regarded as synonomous to "evidence". S'not.
I know.. Maybe if we set a million monkeys down in front of a million typewriters, eventually they'll come up with the location of Shakespeares' skull!
Are YOU using the TOOL, or is the TOOL using YOU? Think about it!
A shame that it wasn't respected.
"Researchers Prove Shakespeare's Skull Probably Isn't In His Grave"
WTF? How do you "prove" something "probably isn't"?
English, motherfucker, DO YOU SPEAK IT?
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
The pseudonymous works signed as William Shakespeare were written by Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford. The commoner poacher William Shaxper has ever been to Italy, which makes him an impossible author.
..."prove" and "probably".