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Monday, February 18, 2013

Hell is for Commuters and Kings

On Feb. 4, these bones, which were found under a parking lot in Leicester, England, were declared 'beyond reasonable doubt' to be the remains of England's King Richard III."I can smile, and smile, and park while I smile" -- those, or something like them, were the famous words of Shakespeare's villain Richard III.  As you may have heard,  archaeologists recently discovered his bones under a municipal parking lot in England, and I've just co-written a newspaper article with Jeff Porter and Adam Hooks, my colleagues at Iowa, on the discovery here!