<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/a2929f7c-6f0f-4e23-b208-b3b860d457df/1D3B403A-CDD2-4B58-8964-DF3A79E1BA80/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://mitchtestone.blogspot.com/2009/02/treasure-of-knights-templar-part-i.html" href="http://mitchtestone.blogspot.com/2009/02/treasure-of-knights-templar-part-i.html" style="font-size: 11px;">mitchtestone.blogspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mitchtestone.blogspot.com/2009/02/treasure-of-knights-templar-part-i.html">THE TREASURE OF THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR PART I</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mitchtestone.blogspot.com/2009/02/treasure-of-knights-templar-part-i.html">Tuesday, February 3, 2009</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mitchtestone.blogspot.com/2009/02/treasure-of-knights-templar-part-i.html">Thanks to the pseudohistories of The Da Vinci Code and the books it draws upon, such as The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, the Knights Templar have found themselves at the nexus of a remarkable tangle of historical mysteries. In the public’s perception they have become a byword for hidden history and mysterious knowledge, the core of which is represented by the popular notion of their lost treasure.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mitchtestone.blogspot.com/2009/02/treasure-of-knights-templar-part-i.html">In very brief form, the narrative that has emerged from the many different ‘alternative’ histories of the Templars goes like this. The Order of the Knights Templar was founded in the Crusader state of Jerusalem in 1118 by French knight Hugues de Payens and eight companions, and were assigned by Baldwin II, King of Jerusalem, to quarters in part of the Temple Mount compound, hence the name of their order.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mitchtestone.blogspot.com/2009/02/treasure-of-knights-templar-part-i.html">Around the bare bones of this account, a great deal of intriguing and potentially explosive detail has accumulated. </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/1D3B403A-CDD2-4B58-8964-DF3A79E1BA80/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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