Richard III's brutal end.

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More than 500 years after his death, England's King Richard III is still making headlines. In 2012, Richard's skeleton was discovered under a parking lot in Leicester, England. Now, after some CSI-type detective work on his bones, researchers think they know how the king met his death-and it isn't pretty. Their theory is that during the fateful Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485 against future King Henry VII, Richard's horse got stuck in the mud. Richard took multiple stab wounds to his head and body, but the deathblow...