Blocking porn accounts like Henry Tudor blocked Yorkist pretenders to his throne
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so. um. the good news is we found your boyfriend. the bad news is that, well, we sort of…dug him up…in the middle of a car park. in leicester (buckley et al. 2013). leicester, yeah. sorry. they demolished the friary he was hastily interred in when henry viii dissolved all the monasteries. you know how it is. and as it turns out, well, shakespeare was…sort of right about him. scoliosis, yeah, sorry (appleby et al. 2014). if it makes you feel any better we analysed his bones and it turns out he had a pretty high-protein diet before he died (lamb et al. 2014). and he drank so much wine that it changed their chemical composition, which we didn't know could actually happen before we analysed him (lamb et al. 2014), so he was having a good time, at least.
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Appleby, J., Mitchell, P.D., Robinson, C., Brough, A., Rutty, G., and Morgan, B. (2014). The scoliosis of Richard III, last Plantagenet King of England: diagnosis and clinical significance. Lancet 383, 1944.
Buckley, R., Morris, M., Appleby, J., King, T., O’Sullivan, D., and Foxhall, L. (2013). ‘The king in the car park’: new light on the death and burial of Richard III in the Grey Friars church, Leicester, in 1485. Antiquity 87, pp. 519-538.
Lamb, A.L., Evans, J.E., Buckley, R., and Appleby, J. (2014). Multi-isotope analysis demonstrates significant lifestyle changes in King Richard III. Journal of Archaeological Science 50, pp. 559-565.
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Tudor-Stuart Englishmen wondering what religion they have to be today
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Elizabeth: I can't come to Mass *cough* I'm sick :(
Mary:boo you whore
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What fool?
Catalina: Where's Mary?
Elizabeth: She���s busy-
Edward: being a fool
Catalina: What kind of fool?
Elizabeth: The 'everything is now on fire' kind
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I just made the best Tudor typo while writing a Wolf Hall fic: “axecuse.”
I’ll take “Things King Henry VIII came up with when he needed to get rid of a wife or political opponent” for $500, Alex.
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I love learning about British history, it’s so fucked
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