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Post by WingsofCrystal on Jul 4, 2018 13:08:20 GMT
William Rhodes photos Phoenix 1947
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Jul 5, 2018 12:29:08 GMT
Good morning lovely people
Smithsonian
Meet the Americans Following in the Footsteps of the Knights Templar
Disbanded 700 years ago, the most famous of the medieval Christian orders is undergoing a 21st century revival
by Dan Jones, Photographs by Kristina Krug
Smithsonian Magazine
July 2018
Joseph A. Auteri draws his sword and hands it to his Grand Prior, Patrick Carney, who brings it down through a layer of yellow icing, cutting a large birthday cake in half. A couple of hundred people cheer.
The crowd is mostly dressed in business attire, but Auteri is wearing medieval-style armor: a shirt of steel-link mail, a mail coif on his head, plate armor on his shoulders and white linen robes emblazoned with a red cross. The outfit weighs 65 pounds and can cause problems for airline baggage handlers. His sword, modeled on one from the Ridley Scott movie Kingdom of Heaven, is not battle sharp, but it cuts sponge cake easily enough.
By day Joe Auteri, 49, is a partner in a financial planning company based in Pennsylvania. This evening, though, he is Hugh de Payns, a French knight who died in 1136 after establishing a military order known as the Knights Templar.
It is Memorial Day weekend and we are in a hotel in Nashville, Tennessee, where about 350 members of the autonomous Sovereign Military Order of the Temple of Jerusalem have gathered to mark the 900th birthday of the Knights Templar. Members of the charitable organization, known by the unwieldy abbreviation SMOTJ, regard themselves as spiritual descendants of the original Templars. It’s a historical legacy many groups vie for, and in that regard the SMOTJ’s celebration is off to an inauspicious start: Most scholars date the foundation of those first Templars to 1119 or 1120, making the order today just 898 or 899 years old.
No matter. The assembled are eager to get the party started, and the cake-cutting kicks off a weekend that will culminate in the dubbing of seven new “knights” and “dames” in a ritual the official literature says will “prepare you for the great works you have yet to complete.”
more after the jump:
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/meet-americans-following-footsteps-knights-templar-180969344/#b2Y8fFUlJF7YV6lB.01
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Post by swamprat on Jul 5, 2018 23:30:27 GMT
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Jul 6, 2018 13:01:05 GMT
Good morning lovely people
Mysterious Universe
UFO Sightings are Up in Chile, Down in the U.S.
Paul Seaburn
July 6, 2018
If you want to see a UFO, where’s the best place in the world to go? If you want to not just see a UFO but be seen by one … perhaps even abducted by one … where should you stand and wave? According to the director of the Ovniological Research Group of Chile, the answer to the first question is Chile and to the second is Patagonia, the southern tip of South America shared by Chile and Argentina. If you answered “the U.S.” to either query, we have some nice parting gifts for you (a laurel and hearty handshake) because UFO trackers in the U.S. say sightings are down and they’re not sure why.
In an interview with the Spanish international news agency Agencia EFE, Rodrigo Fuenzalida, the director of the Agrupación de Investigaciones Ovniológicas de Chile (Ovniological Research Group of Chile or AION), declared that Chile has long been a good place to see UFOs, especially northern Chile, because of the country’s “clean” skies. UFOs have been reported in many places, including over Chilean copper mines, volcanoes and cows. However, if you want to step inside a UFO, Fuenzalida suggests heading south to Patagonia, where they have been occurring since 1997.
“The Patagonia, without a doubt, is the one that at the moment concentrates the greater amount of interesting cases that make that we as an organization are concentrating all our efforts in that region. Even in the UFO series, produced by National Television, we managed to record that 70% of the abductions that we had placed in the program had been registered in that place. “
Why Patagonia? Possibly because aliens are already there. In an interview in 2017 with TiempoSur, Patricio Frias. Regional Ufologo and director of the UFO organization Noise Patagonia, says the abundance of minerals and fresh water in Patagonia may have already attracted tall, intelligent extraterrestrials:
“Patagonia is visited by intelligence that we can not understand. They told me in that place that there is the phenomenon that occurs there, with a lot of energy. I have been reported presence of humanoid species in that place. A person from birth came scared in his truck. He told us that he had seen on the road, that people were walking with bright helmets and a light on their foreheads. They approached these people and realized that it was something out of the ordinary. The height of the beings was more than two and a half meters.”
more after the jump:
mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/07/ufo-sightings-are-up-in-chile-down-in-the-u-s/
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Jul 6, 2018 13:05:41 GMT
posted 5 July 2018
UFO sighting in denver 4th of July
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2018 19:45:00 GMT
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Post by HAL on Jul 6, 2018 20:21:49 GMT
Maybe you should read 'The Old Patagonian Express' by Paul Theroux.
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Post by moksha on Jul 6, 2018 21:36:34 GMT
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Post by moksha on Jul 6, 2018 21:49:37 GMT
Maybe you should read 'The Old Patagonian Express' by Paul Theroux. HAL. Walk a step in the shoe of a other, to learn, everything you don't, it was sad for me to learn, everybody wants to rule, but have yet to measure, \
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Post by mur on Jul 6, 2018 22:09:50 GMT
So I wanted to say hello...
I'm Andy aka murnut...
I saw a UFO long ago but I'm skeptical...
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Post by swamprat on Jul 6, 2018 22:27:19 GMT
Hello, Mur! Great to see you!
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Jul 6, 2018 22:53:44 GMT
So I wanted to say hello... I'm Andy aka murnut... I saw a UFO long ago but I'm skeptical...
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Jul 6, 2018 23:03:03 GMT
Archaeology
Medieval Game Board Discovered in Scotland
Thursday, July 05, 2018
ABERDEENSHIRE, SCOTLAND—A game board thought to have been used to play Hnefatafl, a Norse strategy game, has been found in eastern Scotland, according to a report in The Scotsman (https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/medieval-games-board-found-in-search-for-pictish-monastery-1-4764734).
Archaeologist Ali Cameron of the Book of Deer Project said the game board dates to the medieval period. The team of researchers discovered it during the search for a Pictish-era monastery near the small village of Old Deer, where the Book of Deer, a volume of the Christian gospels containing the oldest-known written examples of Scottish Gaelic, was once held. “It is a very rare object and only a few have been found in Scotland, mainly on monastic or at least religious sites,” Cameron said of the game board. A Christian symbol known as a Solomon’s Knot had also been carved on the stone. In addition, Cameron and her team uncovered a layer of stone and several post holes from a wooden building that may be the remains of the Pictish monastery.
www.archaeology.org/news/6768-180705-scotland-medieval-game
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Jul 7, 2018 11:21:34 GMT
Good morning lovely UFOCasebookers 
Crystal
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Post by thelmadonna on Jul 7, 2018 12:20:41 GMT
So I wanted to say hello... I'm Andy aka murnut... I saw a UFO long ago but I'm skeptical... Hey there mur! How come you saw one but are now sceptical? Do you think what you once saw was man made? |
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