Richard III Foundation – KRA 2012 – Day 7
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Before we begin with day 7, here the main sites: KRA Week 2012 and the scavenger hunt. (All questions now available – solution transmissions till 3rd of September 2012 enter the drawing.)
♕ Richard III Foundation, Inc. ♕
The Richard III Foundation, Inc. for quite some time supports our efforts with the petition for King Richard Armitage. (See our interview with Ms. Ricca from August 2011)
They kindly provided us with material, a special price for our Scavenger Hunt and are burning for their and our topic King Richard III.
So it is an especial joy for me to present them today as our guests here during the KingRichardArmitage Week 2012.
We have general information about the Richard III Foundation here on the website, which also includes the schedule for their next annual conference, which will take place in Market Bosworth on Saturday, October 13th, 2012.
Their price contribution for the Scavenger Hunt – Free Conference Ticket for the annual conferenc in Market Bosworth on 13th of October 2012 with lots of interesting readings and research presentations.
The Richard III Foundation has two very interesting articles for us today, because they shed some light onto an otherwise difficult to determine aspect of King Richard III, his character:
♕ Further News of the Day ♕
- Servetus (Me + Richard Armitage) – Tips for the Scavenger Hunt – Participants are already doing very well ! You are all champions !!!
- CDoart – Leporello for King Richard III?
- Phylly on her blog Phylly’s Faves presents the Richard III ballad, including the music sheet ! (Phylly is our KRA-blogger of day 2.)
- Leicester Mercury reports about the beginning of the digging over the weekend: Heavy machinery moves in as experts begin digging for Richard in Leicester car park (27.08.2012)
- ITV Central with further video and picture material about the digging in Leicester: Digging begins in search of King Richard III (dated 25.08.2012)
- Consoles me a bit that I am not the only one dying of curiosity about the digging in Leicester: Jonathan from the blog Liberal England
♛ Scavenger Hunt ♛
All questions of the scavenger hunt are online now!
Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5, Day 6 and the Solution Sentence.
Time to answer is till the 3rd of September, 2012 (till the last time zone).
TIP for the scavenger hunt:
To make back-solving of the answers easier for you, all the solution letters arranged in the right order will result in a Solution Sentence.
The form with the right order for the letters can be reached here – or can be printed/downloaded via this pdf-file.
KRA Week – Day 6
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Before we begin with day 6, here it the main site of the KRA Week 2012 and the scavenger hunt now with all daily questions and the form for the solution sentence opened.
♕ Fitzg ♕
Today’s blogger Fitzg is a well known blogger, though she does not have her own blog.
With her witty guest blogs at Judiang’s blog (www.jagrant.com) she and her well loved posts have an among fans popular online home.
Though today, we were able to steal her away from Judiang with her contribution for the KingRichardArmitage Week:
Leicestershire Revisited
Fitzg visits Leicestershire and brings in its influence on Mr. Armitage and his historic interest.
Her today’s post on Judiang’s blog goes on a journey to search for a saint for Richard Armitage. (As if he were not a saint himself. Good, I admit, perhaps half a saint ;o)
Fitzg’s Journeys: Seeking A Saint
♕ Further News of the Day ♕
- Servetus (Me + Richard Armitage) – has some more quiz tips! – But so far, contributors are really doing well. You all are my quiz champions already !
- CDoart – starts to discover a website about a secret code in a Holbein family portrait
- The BBC has a video about the Leicester digging with information about the location and a short interview with Philippa Langley online on their website about the archaeological project in Leicester: Richard III’s remains: Leicester car park dug up
- Daily Mail Online also has a report about the digging for the lost grave of King Richard III, with further information: Is this the lost grave of King Richard III?
♛ Scavenger Hunt ♛
All questions of the scavenger hunt are online now!
Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5, Day 6 and the Solution Sentence.
Time to answer is till the 3rd of September, 2012 (till the last time zone).
- The Richard III Foundation, Inc. sponsors a free conference ticket!
Free entry to their King Richard III Conference on 13th of October 2012. – More details and program of the conference here.
TIP for the scavenger hunt:
To make back-solving of the answers easier for you, all the solution letters arranged in the right order will result in a Solution Sentence.
The form with the right order for the letters can be reached here – or can be printed/downloaded via this pdf-file.
Leicestershire Revisited
Richard Armitage Birthday Week 2012
photo: goleicestershire
The BBC series “Kibworth”, with historian Michael Wood, (broadcast on PBS) renewed a desire to return (in cyberspace) to that midlands county. Which was already stimulated by the history of Richard III and the Battle of Bosworth. Oh, and that other Richard, of our acquaintance, celebrating a birthday this month….
richardarmitagenet Candids Gallery
Kibworth, a village a few miles outside Leicester, was revealed by Michael Wood as a complete microcosm of “the story of England”, from pre-Roman settlement to the present day. During a months’-long sojourn in the village (almost of town proportion now), Mr. Wood explored the origins and progress of this supposedly unremarkable part of the county. He did so with the enthusiastic participation of the inhabitants. Kibworth represents a microcosm of the races/nationalities who have become embedded in the DNA of England. Continuing research by DNA scientists is not conclusive yet on the subject of who is a Celt and who isn’t. No doubt that debate will continue.
Leicestershire – worth a visit? Leicester itself, now with a growing Asian population. Yet another layer of the long-existing multi-culturalism of England, with waves of settlers and invaders dating from the Bronze Age. Britain has always been a melting-pot.
Leicester Guildhall. Wikipedia: attribution: NotFromUtrecht
Digging up History… (in spades)
Sufficient research has been done to suggest that the bones of Richard III probably did not end in the River Soar, but at some point, were removed to Greyfriars in Leicester and properly interred there. Thanks to some Tudors, Greyfriars has long since been pounded into the ground. An archaeological project, sponsored by the University of Leicester, and the City Council, among other supporters, has begun a dig. If they are correct about the evidence that there was a coffin containing the remains of the last Plantagenet king, discovery, and DNA testing will add to the historical record of England.
More than five hundred years since Richard III was brutally murdered by the party of the Lancastrian invader Henry (Tudor) VII, the question of Richard’s culpability in the apparent deaths of his pre-adolescent nephews, remains disputed. The last Plantagenet died at Bosworth, Leicestershire, August 22, 1485. August 22nd. Time for celebration of life.
Henry VII
Richard III
Based on the portraits, who would you prefer?
Leicestershire and Richard Armitage
Although Mr. Armitage has grown (yes, grown. And grown (And grown…) to be a citizen of the world, as well as of London, the heart of England, no doubt, had been a good grounding site for an English actor. And Leicestershire is in the heart of England. Perhaps the heart of England. Perhaps Mr. Armitage will play the role of his namesake one day, in a realistic production of that tudorised king. For the numerous among our support group who are not overly fond of beards, they will be relieved to know that clean-shaven was the norm with the 15th C man….
And during this week, we wish Mr. Armitage :
MANY HAPPY RETURNS!
(He’s all grown-up, now. 😀 )
KRA 2012 – Day 5
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Before we begin with the Day 5 news…
Today we sent out the confirmation mails to the un-confirmed signers of the petition. Thank you for your help and support!
And here are the main sites, the KRA Week 2012 and the scavenger hunt.
♕ Fabo Laktuko ♕
Fabo Laktuko is an experienced King Richard III blogger and her expertise in filming and film related topics and personel is an unending source of information. She brings wonderful new perspectives into the historic topic.
Today, she has a knowledgeable review about possible producers for us, who we as fans might trust and who could support Mr. Armitage in creating his dream project:
Four Directors Richard Armitage Should Consider for His Richard III Production
Fabo Laktuko also has interesting information about other film and King Richard III related topics and especially scavenger hunters will find her previous articles very helpful:
King Richard III posts
♕ Further News of the Day ♕
- Servetus (Me + Richard Armitage) – What a thumb can tell in battle and especially regarding success – Or: Richard III thumbshot
- CDoart – Germans everywhere? And that even before a functioning tourism industry.
- The BBC History Magazine published a very interesting online article by Dr. David Hipshon about the reasons for Bosworth: “Treachery: What really brought down Richard III“
- Our special guest, the
Richard III Foundation, Inc.,
who will join in with an article during the week and are sponsoring a price for the scavenger hunt, have released a press release regarding the late Channel 4 appeal for a King Richard III documentary and their upcoming King Richard III Conference on 13th of October 2012. They welcome members and guests !!! – For more information also take a look at the program of the conference here.
♛ Scavenger Hunt ♛
Questions of Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4 and Day 5 are online now.
Servetus, as our quizmaster of the KRA Week 2012, has some tips and tricks for you to solve the quiz questions: Day 5 tips
Also take a look at her further articles this week. They contain hints as well and are a joy to read anyway.
TIP for the scavenger hunt:
To make back-solving of the answers easier for you, all the solution letters arranged in the right order will result in a Solution Sentence.
The form with the right order for the letters can be reached here – or can be printed/downloaded via this pdf-file.
KRA Week – Day 4
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Before Day 4 information begins:
The KingRichardArmitage Petition has 900 signatures !!!
Thank you for all your support and help with spreading the word!
(We will send out reminder mails to the un-confirmed signers tomorrow, as they once again are more than 90 by now. Automated mails sometimes can go into the spam/trash-folder, so please check there, if you did not get a confirmation mail for your signature so far. Thank you!)
The main sites, the KRA Week 2012 and the scavenger hunt.
♕ Servetus – Me+Richard Armitage ♕
To all fans of Mr. Armitage, I need not introduce Servetus and her blog Me+Richard Armitage.
Her witty, thoughtful and thought-provoking articles, comments and examinations of fandom in all varieties and forms, is such an entertaining and addictive read that (Psst…, I must reveal it, I just can’t keep it a secret) she had 1.000.000 hits on her blog lately. If that is not a reason to celebRAte, especially during the KRA Week?
CongRAtulations, Servetus !
She posts about King Richard III and Richard Armitage each day of the event week, varying from historic to funny.
We have linked to her posts in the daily news (and I must give you a further recommendation – watch out for her tips to solve the scavenger hunt questions!):
Day 5 Quiz Tips
As creator of these wonderful quiz questions, she is allowed to do that. So Servetus is not only our blogger of the day, but also our quizmaster of the KRA Week 2012.
Her questions are tough, but a real champion can’t be determined by too easy questions, can he/she?
As I check the incoming results, I can further reveal, we have some who are on a really good way to become our KRA Champion 2012 !
And should I also reveal a bit about our price for the Champion? – As the final form depends a bit on the choice of the winner, we had not posted images of the price so far. We wanted to make it a badge of honour, the name of the winner will be added to one of the images on the side and the image put on a magnet, button or T-shirt, so the winner can choose what he/she prefers as a price and where best to show his/her championship.
Further articles by Servetus:
She recomments how best to Spend our Money! ?
Servetus’ analysis of a KRA-fangirl’s mind is one further example of her exceptional examinations! – Richard III won’t make me squee. Right?
And I must also reveal, Servetus gives tips and hints in her latest post to help with solving the quiz questions, so a look at all her latest posts is quite helpful, if you need tips for the scavenger hunt.
♕ Further News of the Day ♕
- ITV – report with video coverage of the location and beginning of the digging in Leicester. Please follow the link to find more details and a video report about the start of the digging here at the website of ITV:
- As the question about the sisters of King Richard III and their descendants occured in the comments, here a link to a detailed family tree of the Plantagenets.
- CDoart – as pacifist recommends the book by Mike Ingram about the Battle of Bosworth (2012)
♛ Scavenger Hunt ♛
Questions of Day 1, Day 2, Day 3 and Day 4 are online now.
- The Richard III Foundation, Inc. sponsors a free conference ticket!
Free entry to their King Richard III Conference on 13th of October 2012. – More details and program of the conference here.
TIP for the scavenger hunt:
To make back-solving of the answers easier for you, all the solution letters arranged in the right order will result in a Solution Sentence.
The form with the right order for the letters can be reached here – or can be printed/downloaded via this pdf-file.
KRA Week – Day 3
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Before Day 3 informations start, here are the main sites, the KRA Week 2012 and the scavenger hunt.
♕ Maria Grazia (Fly High!) ♕
RIII and Queen Anne Neville – Stained glass window at Cardiff Castle
(Source: Geoff Wheeler, Richard III Society)
Maria Grazia with her well established blog Fly High! publishes wonderful book reviews and is a great supporter of King Richard III.
We have mentioned her articles repeatedly, so when you do a search for her here on the KRA website, you will find a full list of results.
We also had an interview with Maria Grazia here on KRA, which shows her well informed approach towards the history and literary perception of King Richard III and her full list of articles, she already has published about King Richard III. Those articles can be reached via this page on her blog Fly High!
Today, Maria Grazia presents the news of the day about the archaeological search for the mortal remains of King Richard III in Leicester, and reviews the historical novel
“Some Touch of Pity” by Rhoda Edwards
Enjoy the review and I am sure, after reading it, you will try to get a hold of this book as well.
♕ Further News of the Day ♕
- The archaeological search for the burrial place of King Richard III in Leicester will be launched TODAY! So watch out for the news coverage on BBC and BBC Breakfast !
News also is posted here on the KRA page “Search for King Richard“
- Servetus (Me + Richard Armitage) – Richard III won’t make me squee. Right? Servetus in her exceptional and unique way examines the mind and reasoning of a real KRA-fangirl
- CDoart – and the Last Days of Richard III
♕ TV-Documentation – King Richard III ♕
The TV-Documentation about King Richard III needs our help
Please support a filming of a documentation about King Richard III TODAY.
Take 2 minutes and voice your opinion today and tomorrow, on Friday 24th and Saturday 25th of August, 2012 (U.K. time), to convince Channel 4 that it is a necessary endeavour and lots of people are already waiting for a documentation about King Richard III and his life, which will take into account all the new research results and finally bring some of the mis-constructions about this English king to an end.
You can put your comment here, to show your support:
http://www.channel4.com/4viewers/contact-us
Thank you !!!
♛ Scavenger Hunt ♛
Questions of Day 1, Day 2 and Day 3 are online now.
- The Richard III Foundation, Inc. sponsors a free conference ticket!
Free entry to their King Richard III Conference on 13th of October 2012. – More details and program of the conference here.
TIP for the scavenger hunt:
To make back-solving of the answers easier for you, all the solution letters arranged in the right order will result in a Solution Sentence.
The form with the right order for the letters can be reached here – or can be printed/downloaded via this pdf-file.
KRA Week – Day 2
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Before we begin with day 2, here it the main site of the KRA Week 2012 and the scavenger hunt.
♕ Phylly’s Faves ♕
King Richard (Source: Wikimedia.org)
Phylly is a well known blogger in the fan community, always bringing in very special angles to a topic or research.
Her last year’s article during the King Richard Week can be found here (Richard, King of Hearts) and is a real reading tip (!).
It is a wonderful review of the theatre history of King Richard III and Phylly discovers quite a change in the way King Richard III is played and interpreted in different Shakespeare versions on stage with lots of entertaining video-examples.
This year, she created a birthday list for August 22nd, 2012, where King Richard III has an (accidental ?) appearance.
A nice way to show, why we ‘celebrate’ and not only commemorate King Richard III in our KRA Week.
♕ Further News of the Day ♕
- Servetus (Me + Richard Armitage) – Spend our Money! – Explains the details behind our scavenger hunt and charity procedure to get our money to the charity the winner choses.
- Fabolaktuko (WhiteRoseWriting) – Come play with us! – Fabolaktuko shows that if you don’t want to spend our money, you still can ‘play with us’ and have fun!
- CDoart – Reviews a filmed documentation about the “Wars of the Roses” (1994)
- TV-tip: Try to keep your eyes out for the BBC news and BBC Breakfast tomorrow, Friday 24th!
♕ TV-Documentation – King Richard III ♕
The TV-Documentation about King Richard III needs our help
Please support a filming of a documentation about King Richard III.
Take 2 minutes and voice your opinion on Friday 24th and Saturday 25th of August, 2012 (U.K. time) to convince Channel 4 that it is a necessary endeavour and lots of people are already waiting for a documentation about King Richard III and his life, which will take into account all the new research results and finally bring some of the mis-constructions about this English king to an end.
You can put your comment here, to show your support:
http://www.channel4.com/4viewers/contact-us
Thank you !!!
♛ Scavenger Hunt ♛
Questions of Day 1 and Day 2 are online now!
- The Richard III Foundation, Inc. sponsors a free conference ticket!
Free entry to their King Richard III Conference on 13th of October 2012. – More details and program of the conference here.
TIP for the scavenger hunt:
To make back-solving of the answers easier for you, all the solution letters arranged in the right order will result in a Solution Sentence.
The form with the right order for the letters can be reached here – or can be printed/downloaded via this pdf-file.
Happy Birthday to King Richard Armitage
Happy Birthday,
♛ King ♛ Richard Armitage !
No hurricane can distract you,
no mountain is too high,
no dragon poses an invincible threat
to you, our ♛ king ♛ of hearts, fans and films!
As once again the delivery of a birthday cake (see our last years attempt here) poses a few difficulties, as fans from around the world want to take part in baking it, we have the King Richard Armitage Week 2012 as our online present. Here we all can take part, share and participate in creating and celebrating.
I hope you all will join us in our event week!
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More details about our first day of KRA Week 2012 and what to expect during the week here:
♕ Gratiana Lovelace ♕
(Captain America-Premiere, New York) – Source: www.richardarmitagenet.com
Gratiana as our first KRA Week blogger of the day, has an interesting guest on her blog, who brings a very new perspective to King Richard III and our event week.
We announced diverse perspectives, but this one really is special and unique!
Gratiana acts as the spokesperson for Melissa the Mouse, a talented poet, who created a wonderful introduction to the event week in rhymes and verses.
Have a look for yourself, how wonderfully talented a little and cute mouse can be:
On Gratiana Lovelace’s blog Something About Love
♕ Further News of the Day ♕
- Servetus (Me + Richard Armitage) – Birthday greetings by the numbers, or why Mr. Armitage is extraordinary 41 times.
♕ Contributors of KRA Week 2012 ♕
- Phylly3 (Phylly’s Faves)
- Fabo Laktuko (White Rose: Sincere and Simple Thoughts)
- Fitzg (on the KingRichardArmitage website)
- Gratiana Lovelace (Something About Love)
- Maria Grazia (Fly High!)
- Servetus (Me + Richard Armitage)
- CDoart – (CDoart: Richard Armitage – History – Spooks)
- Zan (Zaniam)
- We also have a wonderful special guest, the
Richard III Foundation, Inc.,
who will join in with an article during the week and sponsors a price for the scavenger hunt. – So, don’t miss the quiz questions, published each day of the event week!
They will have a King Richard III Conference on 13th of October 2012 and welcome members and guests !!! – For more information take a look at the program of the conference here.
♛ Scavenger Hunt ♛
The quiz-parts can be reached here at this main quiz-page.
New daily installments will be opened each day at midnight (U.K. time).
The answers can be transmitted at any time till the 3rd of September 2012. (They do not need to be answered in any specific order, but please make sure you answer all parts you know, as you lose points otherwise.)
Winners & Prices:
- KRA Champion – selection via the most points achieved in the scavenger hunt. (If more than one participant have top points, the decision will be made by lot.)
- Participation price – the winner, a random participant – independent of his achieved points – selected by lot, will be able to direct the accumulated GBP 91.- to the one (or more) charity he choses from the Mr. Armitage’s Just Giving page.
- Free entry to the Conference of the Richard III Foundation, Inc. – taking place on 13th of October 2012 at the Dixie Grammar School in Market Bosworth with lots of interesting speakers and topics. More details here: Richard III Foundation-page
(To ascertain, the ticket really goes to someone who can attend the Conference in Market Bosworth, we check this with a question in the quiz-forms. The ticket will only be given to someone who indicates he can attend and the candidate will be chosen by lot.)
TIP for the scavenger hunt:
To make back-solving of the answers easier for you, all the solution letters arranged in the right order will result in a Solution Sentence.
The form with the right order for the letters can be reached here – or can be printed/downloaded via this pdf-file.
As we want to make the quiz fun for all participants, we have some security measures in place, so that you can enjoy the participation. This also necessitates a few security questions, but we tried to keep them at a minimum.
Your mail and personal data will be deleted after the quiz and all relating procedures to execute it, are over. So you need not fear a re-use of your data in any way.
It remains for us now to wish you wonderful celebrations and a great event week!
King Richard and Thorin Oakenshield
CDoart already did an analysis and a comparison between King Richard III and Thorin Oakenshield, King of the dwarves in “The Hobbit”, in connection to our poll 1 here on the KingRichardArmitage website.
A comparison between fantasy and history is not so farfetched, when we hear the latest comment by Mr. Armitage about his preparations for “The Hobbit” with King Richard III in his interview with HitFix at the ComicCon in San Diego:
HitFix – Question by Katie Hasty (?)
Oakenshield was kind of this classical lord-figure of the books [“The Hobbit” by J.R.R. Tolkien]. How do you update this character for modern audiences?
You see, I’d never really thought of updating. I actually did the opposite. I thought of it as more kind of Greek tragedy. I looked at Shakespeare, you know, a lot of my preparation, I was looking at “Henry V” and bits of “Richard III” just to find roots in British literature that were kind of deeper. But I think […] making it feel contemporary that are the big themes of the story: Loyalty and honour and trust and camaraderie. I think those themes are contemporary.
The interview by Katie Hasty from HotFix at Comic-Con in San Diego, July 24th, 2012, is available on YouTube. The quote starts at about [1:07]:
King Richard III & The Why behind Shakespeare
Last week we announced a new article in the BBC History Magazine about King “Richard III. Why Shakespeare made him a Devil”.
Maria Grazia already had a chance to get to the article and posted a detailed review on her blog Fly High. She also links to an interesting background interview with the author of the article, Dr. Paulina Kewes, teaching at the Jesus College in Oxford, which is published as podcast by BBC History Magazine as further background to the magazine article.
CDoart on her blog continues doing fan-artwork by creating a new ‘King Richard Armitage’.
Image excerpts and continuations of the article here:
King Richard Armitage - by CDoart
Film Petition King Richard Armitage - by CDoart
