Right some unusual news from me today 
I do love History 
inparticular criminals (for most of my younger days i read everything i could get my hands on about criminology, me trying desperately trying to understand why people hurt others) anyhoo have you heard of Ned Kelly???
From the Daily Mail
Ned Kelly skull 'find' could solve one of Australia's great mysteriesBy Richard Shears
Last updated at 11:23 AM on 13th November 2009For years while he was on the run, robbing banks and holding up stage coaches, police were determined to have bushranger Ned Kelly's head.
Now a farmer claims to have handed over his skull to forensic scientists in Australia, asking them to determine if it really is the head of the notorious highwayman who to this day remains an iconic figure in the country's history, literature and film.Kelly was hanged in Melbourne on November 11, 1880, but just what happened to his remains has been a mystery down through the decades.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Kelly
Edward "Ned" Kelly (June 1854/June 1855 – 11 November 1880)[1] was an Australian bushranger, and, to some, a folk hero for his defiance of the colonial authorities. Kelly was born in Victoria to an Irish convict father, and as a young man he clashed with the police. Following an incident at his home in 1878, police parties searched for him in the bush. After he murdered three policemen, the colony proclaimed Kelly and his gang wanted outlaws. A final violent confrontation with police took place at Glenrowan. Kelly, dressed in home-made plate metal armour and helmet, was captured and sent to jail. He was hanged for murder at Old Melbourne Gaol in 1880. His daring and notoriety made him an iconic figure in Australian history, folk lore, literature, art and film.
Sadly.... "Although the exact number is unknown, it is estimated that a petition to spare Kelly's life attracted over 30,000 signatures" 
he wasn't an angel 
he was definately unique
Months prior to arriving in Jerilderie, and with help from Joe Byrne, Ned Kelly dictated a lengthy letter for publication describing his view of his activities and the treatment of his family and, more generally, the treatment of Irish Catholics by the police and the English and Irish Protestant squatters.
The Jerilderie Letter, as it is called, is a document of 7,391 words and has become a famous piece of Australian literature. Kelly had written a previous letter (14 December 1878) to a member of Parliament stating his grievances, but the correspondence had been suppressed from the public. The letter highlights the various incidents that led to him becoming an outlaw
The letter was never published and was concealed until re-discovered in 1930. It was then published by the Melbourne Herald.
The handwritten document was donated anonymously to the State Library of Victoria in 2000. Historian Alex McDermott says of the Letter, "... even now it's hard to defy his voice. With this letter Kelly inserts himself into history, on his own terms, with his own voice...We hear the living speaker in a way that no other document in our history achieves..." Kelly's language is colourful, rough and full of metaphors; it is "one of the most extraordinary documents in Australian history".
The National Museum of Australia in Canberra holds publican John Hanlon's transcript of the Jerilderie Letter
and link to his letter
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Jerilderie_Letter
Like I said I love history 
trulyfab
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but you get a sense of his character 
EK! xxx
I'm only starting to appreciate history since the last few years, i took it at school as a subject but flunked big time. xx