
107: The Knights Templar, Part I
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The Knights Templar and the Crusades
Friday the 13th is the day that all the Templars were rounded up and put on trial. That's where we get the thread, the 13th superstition from. The reason why the Templars are now today seen as like this shadowy organization is because they were all rounded up and then pretty much stamped out. And so we just assumed that something as powerful as they were couldn't be stamped out so decisively, they must still be around seeking after revenge. It'll be a big topic. I'm about Platoed out.
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