Following Orders

[Monsignor de Beaumanoir]

New book alert:

Picked up a book at Barnes & Noble today titled:

The Templars, The History & The Myth by Michael Haag

It appears to be a book version of just about everything we've touched on this thread: history, myth, movie Templars, games, reenactors, websites.....

[SleepyArcher]

perfect i have a 40% coupon i gotta use up!

[Sir William Marcus]

Monday, September 14, 2009
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8-10pm -- The Templar Code -
For nearly two centuries, the Knights Templar were the medieval world's most powerful order, a fearsome and unstoppable Crusader militia. Then came accusations of unspeakable crimes. Who were the Templars, really? How did they become so powerful, so fast, and why did they fall just as quickly? Evidence hints that the Templars excavated under Jerusalem's Temple of Solomon. What did they find there? Was it, as The Da Vinci Code suggests, the true identity of the Holy Grail--the bloodline of Christ? Or an unimaginable treasure, documented in the Dead Sea Scrolls, buried 1,000 years before Christ's birth? We explore the Templar's origin, how they lived, trained, fought and became a medieval world power, and the suspicious circumstances behind their sudden downfall. Plus, we reveal why these warriors, dead for seven centuries, and their treasure still populate Hollywood blockbusters. Narrated by Ed Herrmann and featuring preeminent Templar authors.

[Sir William Marcus]

Sunday, September 20, 2009
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8-10pm -- Holy Grail in America -
In 1898, a Minnesota farmer clearing trees from his field uproots a large stone covered with mysterious runes. Now known as the Kensington Rune Stone, it details a journey of land acquisition and murder--in the year 1362. Thought by some to be a hoax, new evidence suggests it could be real, and a clue that the Knights Templar discovered America 100 years before Columbus, perhaps bringing with them history's greatest treasure...The Holy Grail. See how symbols on the Rune Stone match Templar ruins all over Europe. History tells us the Templar were massacred on Friday the 13th, but that a Templar fleet allegedly containing treasure was last seen off Scotland in the late 1300s. Stones with similar markings as the Rune stone have been found on islands across the Atlantic Ocean, as well as in Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. Is it possible the Templar were leaving clues to an incredible journey to the New World?

[Marcus of Ibelin]

Ahh, more fuel for the DVR!

[Sir William Marcus]

DVR's RULE!

[Marcus of Ibelin]

Now if I could only find the time to actually watch everything I DVR.... 

[Sir William Marcus]

Exactly. Then again that's the nice thing about having a DVR is when you do finally have the time its there waiting for ya, and you can fast forward through all of those annoying commercials too

[Monsignor de Beaumanoir]

Interesting...a shot of a UK reenactor from a living history group:

[Sir William Marcus]

What do you find most interesting about my brother?

[Monsignor de Beaumanoir]

Notice the distinct lack of a mail coif...something we saw earlier in the holdings of a Preceptory in Indiana....

[Sir William Marcus]

LOL, I knew it!

[Marcus of Ibelin]

Hehe, and here I thought it was the huge nasal on the helm!

[Sir William Marcus]

One can also make notice of the sleeved robe  

[Monsignor de Beaumanoir]

It's almost as if he was watching us......*insert Twighlight Zone music theme here*