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Originally posted by TVA I thought I'd mention it since so many people have expressed so much interest in these topics lately in this forum.

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Reply ID 3547

Even if you have not been following this forum closely enough to know the answer, you cannot seriously be asking me to count or list everybody who has expressed an interest. I can only conclude, therefore, that your impertinent question is intended to be rhetorical or sarcastic. Was it an attempt at a joke? [:o)]

Reply ID 3548

Lighten up, TVA.

Reply ID 3550

It's not as heavy as it sounds. Note the clown face at the end! My solemn writing style is just force of habit. And of coursem the word impertinent just means not relevent [in this case to the news I was sharing]. Back to the original point about Fortean Times magazine: Issue 193 On sale from 10 January 2005 DA VINCI DECODED Dan Brown’s best-selling thriller has made Jesus’s blood-line a household topic again. Gordon Rutter examines the background and the setting to this worldwide sensation. Mysteries of the Templars Lionel Fanthorpe describes some of the legends and enigmas associated with the elusive Knights Templar. Fortean Bureau of Investigation Raymond brown investigates tales of Templar tunnels and Illuminati meetings beneath the streets of Hertford. Making Saints The current pontiff, John Paul II, has turned the canonisation process into an assembly-line. Grenadine Grey looks at past and present approaches to deciding what it is that defines a saint. http://www.forteantimes.com/mag_info/this_issue.shtml Enjoy!

Reply ID 3553

Out of interest TVA, did you ever read Foucaults Pendulum (pls excuse the spelling) by Umberto Eco? It was the first time I'd heard of them. Unfortunately the book tends to trash the whole concept but it was a reasonable read.

Reply ID 3562

As you have said yourself, Carlos, U.E. has much to answer for.

Reply ID 3654

Looks like the learned users of this forum are not the only people in Hertford to show genuine interest in all this fascinating stuff about the Templars and local history and legend:- "Now a three-page spread in the Fortean Times has prompted Hertford’s W H Smith store to order extra copies after it sold out within days." "The Mercury has also had a flood of requests from all over the world from publications and historians, as well as the Freemasons and secret societies, for information." - Hertfordshire Mercury, 21 January 2005. http://www.herts-essex-news.co.uk/mercury/news/story.asp?id=190983

Reply ID 3662

i think i will start a tour bus business[:D]

Reply ID 3810

As regular readers know my only interest in Hertford's tunnels is to avoid large black holes in the road when returning from my local hostelry. TVA may like to know that a code to the location of the Holy Grail may have been solved. My son left the recent copy of Focus on my desk, strangely open on page 21 where this info is discussed. Sorry for slightly off-topic but only way of communicating with said TVA.