What Leicester ought to do now is launch a Richard III theme park

What Leicester ought to do now is launch a Richard III theme park

It's official: the human remains found under a parking lot in Leicester, England, belong to Richard III. That's the word from University of Leicester archaeologists, who on Feb. 4 said that DNA evidence, radiocarbon dating, and

Thus it was that last week had me racking my brains. Richard III. Who he? Which one? Is he the R in the phrase "Richard of York gave battle in vain", the mnemonic that has stayed with me since schooldays to help me recall the order of colours in the

Is it just my imagination or do I detect a faint grin of belated (about half a millennium belated) satisfaction playing about the long-jawed skull of Richard III? Because when it came to reinterments, he was a stickler for doing the right thing. In

Now that Richard III's remains have been identified "beyond a reasonable doubt," scientists are trying to figure out what the English king looked like. DNA tests and other techniques confirmed that a battle-scarred skeleton

The world is grown so bad that wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch. Can Shakespeare's fallen tyrant help us set it to rights? BY JOHN WATKINS | FEBRUARY 6, 2013. I like the idea of the hunchbacked Richard III, newly exhumed