PITY the poor sailors of
the Mary Rose. In 1545, the lives of more than 400 men (and one dog) were lost
when Henry VIII's flagship took on water and sank between the Isle of Wight and
the English mainland. There it, and the remains of at least 179 sailors, rested
for more than four centuries. What was left of the ship was raised in 1982, and
the remains became the spoils of the Mary Rose Museum in Portsmouth. As if that
were not ignominy enough, now people are shooting lasers at the sailors' bones.
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