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(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Shakespeare_grave_-Stratford-upon-Avon_-3June2007.jpg/1024px-Shakespeare_grave_-Stratford-upon-Avon_-3June2007.jpg)
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No long ago I saw a story on TV news that the skull is missing from the grave. ... :o
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No long ago I saw a story on TV news that the skull is missing from the grave. ... :o
Yes. Horrible.
Freaky coincidence--know who else died April 23, 1616? (or buried, anyway)--Miguel de Cervantes.
They did a dig last year and found his missing bones--they reinterred the bones, and built a new monument--
(http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03339/cervantes-1_3339369b.jpg)
(http://img.deseretnews.com/images/article/midres2/1550338/1550338.jpg)
(http://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/660/media/images/74456000/jpg/_74456819_reuters.jpg)
Madrid's outgoing mayor, Ana Botella, read aloud an inscription on Cervantes' new gravestone — some of the last words the author penned in 1616, in his last novel The Trials of Persiles and Sigismunda, written just before his death:
Time is brief,
anxieties grow,
hopes diminish,
and yet my desire to live
keeps me alive.
(https://mir-s3-cdn-cf.behance.net/project_modules/disp/ab84eb35188083.56ecc66fbf6d8.png)
FYI--the new stone monument included a typo! Should have been Sigismunda not Segismunda. Oh well! ::)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/11670390/Cervantes-tombstone-typo-mars-historic-burial-ceremony.html
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(http://chichestercinema.org/assets/uploads/films/f753dce4404a0549216c63a9b67d22be.jpg)
(http://www.folger.edu/sites/default/files/WOW_neg-resized.jpg)
(http://www.poetryarchive.org/files/Shakespeare%20image3.png)
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No long ago I saw a story on TV news that the skull is missing from the grave. ... :o
Yes. Horrible.
Well, perhaps the curse was effective. ... 8) ;D
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FYI--the new stone monument included a typo! Should have been Sigismunda not Segismunda. Oh well! ::)
Sigh. Nobody proofreads his or her own work anymore. :(
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they rely too much on spellcheck