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Aloysius J. Gleek:

Jeff Wrangler:
No long ago I saw a story on TV news that the skull is missing from the grave. ...  :o

Aloysius J. Gleek:

--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on April 23, 2016, 12:14:39 pm ---No long ago I saw a story on TV news that the skull is missing from the grave. ...  :o
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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--









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.







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

Aloysius J. Gleek:

Jeff Wrangler:

--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on April 23, 2016, 12:14:39 pm ---No long ago I saw a story on TV news that the skull is missing from the grave. ...  :o

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--- Quote from: Aloysius J. Gleek on April 23, 2016, 02:05:38 pm ---
Yes. Horrible.

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Well, perhaps the curse was effective. ...  8)  ;D

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