Seriously, I just laughed like an idiot!
Shakespeare people will get it.
And still no kingdom…
richard iii
#richardreburied – why the mutilated king in the car park caught the world’s imagination
#richardreburied – why the mutilated king in the car park caught the world’s imagination
King Richard III is getting his second burial this week. (It’s certainly an improvement on the first.)
I wrote a thing on Newshub! And I’m gonna keep writing things on Newshub, even though their linking system does not appear to work well on Tumblr.
HOWEVER Newshub only pays authors whose work gets into the top 10% of the category, so, if you read this and like it, please upvote it? Bottom and top right-hand corner, little green box. It’d be really appreciated, anyway.
The local news is still (obviously) covering the Richard III celebrations/reinterment, and I’m still finding it so exciting. I’m probably going to go see the coffin when the crowds die down, and there’s gonna be a fireworks display at the end of the week so I might go to that too. It’s…aaah, it’s such a cool thing to happen! I mean-
-I literally walked past that car park loads of times? I probably walked past it during my very first week in Leicester, because the first nightclub I ever went to was near that street. Who’d have thought something as utterly cool as this would ever come from it?
A Quick Poem.
It was World Poetry Day yesterday, and Richard the third is being reburied today, soooo…….what I’m trying to say is that I wrote a short, stupid poem about his long-dead ass:
Richard the Third, appointed by God
Split by an axe, he died, the poor sodAs his ghost quick departed, that bloody Dick Three,
Thought ‘How could something so shitty have happened to me?’He was a bit of a prick, there can be no denying
But who gives a damn when bad kings begin dying?500 years later, opinion’s slightly more varied
And like his rude namesake, is hastily buried.
The genetic code of King Richard III, the medieval monarch whose body was found buried under a parking lot in Leicester, England, is set to be sequenced. Researchers at the University of Leicester announced the project today (Feb. 11). “It is an extremely rare occurrence that archaeologists are involved in the excavation of a known individual, let alone a king of England,” Turi King, a geneticist at the University of Leicester who will lead the project, said in a statement. Sequencing the genome of Richard III is a hugely important project that will help to teach us not only about him, but ferment discussion about how our DNA informs our sense of identity, our past and our future.” [Photos: In Search of the Grave of Richard III]Woot woot! In the news and trending again, baby!
The URL just makes this post BRILLIANT.