The daily rate for a Leicester NCP car park is £18.50. #RichardIII has been there 192,649 days. He owes £3,564,006.50 in parking fees.posted by humph at 3:49 AM on February 4 [43 favorites]
"Looking at Speede's map, he had misidentified Greyfriars, which was actually the separate Blackfriars. He was looking in the wrong place."No matter how many times I read it, I can only hear that second sentence in Sallah's voice.
Pulmonary symptoms such as shortness of breath, not leading to premature death, may be associated with idiopathic scoliosis. These curves are usually larger, greater than 80° Cobb or with increased rotation, and usually single thoracic curves. Large double curves may also be associated with shortness of breath [24]. ...So 32 year old Richard was capable of riding a horse and wielding a weapon even with the large curve displayed in his skeleton at the time of his death. He may have had more backaches than the average person, but he was probably otherwise pretty functional. But given that he had a severe curve, it could have progressed enough to seriously limit his day to day activities as he got older (if the bloody Tudors had given him that option, of course). Coming from a family with a lot of scoliosis, I know that a family member who delayed surgery for decades certainly had a lot of pain and breathing issues, even after surgery (which could only do so much), while those who got corrective surgery in their teens have had normal, active lives.
At an average of 40.5 years after skeletal maturity 68% of the 133 curves in 102 patients in the Iowa series progressed [23]. Curves initially 30°or less tended not to progress whereas curves more than 30° usually progressed. ...
Compared to controls untreated adolescent idiopathic scoliosis does not result in an increased mortality rate. However, it may on rare occasion progress to the point of causing death by cor pulmonale. The rate of dyspnea is slightly increased and is associated with thoracic curves of greater than 80°. Most patients with untreated adolescent idiopathic scoliosis function at or near normal levels, even though pain is more prevalent. Self image is often slightly diminished. Mental health is usually normal.
It's also worth pointing out that, if anyone was sufficiently motivated, Richard's mother and grandmother (and no doubt further back) were both buried in well marked and documented tombs. I don't know if entombment is much less preservative than burial in earth, but there are probably available sources of mitocondrial DNA out there that would give a pretty definitive comparison. Cecily Neville had quite a few male children, but they either didn't live to adulthood and so wouldn't match this skeleton, or are otherwise accounted by having their burial places known.This is a good point. Richard was descended in the mother line from Katherine Roet. Although we don't know who Katherine's mother was, both she and her sister Philippa are well-known, and their only other sister was a nun. If their mother was from France, then it means there is a limited and known number of people in England who would bear a good match for their mtDNA at the time of this burial. Given that a good number of them are accounted for, it stretches belief that this isn't Richard, even without the other evidence.
Just to clarify, images of the facial reconstruction will be shown on tonight's Channel Four documentary. The press conference tomorrow will be its first public appearance before the media.posted by ericb at 6:38 PM on February 4
As soon as possible after the press conference we will post photos of the reconstruction on this Facebook page.
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They're not going to remake Weekend At Bernie's with him?
Direct link to the David Mitchell bit, albeit with an embedded commercial.
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