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 Holy Blood, Holy Grail : Fool Moon
The mystery is carved on a marble monument tucked away in the gardens of Shugborough House in central England, the ancestral home of photographer Lord Lichfield.
The Anson family, who built the Shugborough estate in the 17th century, had a long-standing interest in the Knights Templar, a secretive medieval order who claimed to be guardians of the grail.
Shugborough spokesman Russel Gethings said the carving made significant changes to Poussin's painting that could contain clues to the code.
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The inscription is a confirmation that Pelasgic survived in the south of France into the High Middle Ages.
The Anson family, who built the Shugborough estate in the 17th century, had a long-standing interest in the Knights Templar, a secretive medieval order that claimed to be guardians of the grail.
The overwhelming importance of the Venetic runic inscriptions themselves must lead to the development of a separate and distinct scientific discipline, commanding the keenest focus of all Slavicists, for it does constitute the cultural patrimony of all Slavs.
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 Academy Greek Revival 2
Shugborough played a literally central role in the development of the canal network, which was a crucial par of the industrial revolution.
Haywood Junction, just outside the Shugborough estate, is the junction of two major canals which received Acts of Parliament the same day, 14th May 1766, and would become the core of the network..
Mr Kammell is mentioned in one of the poems in honour of Thomas as a musician performing at Shugborough.
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 Fright Nights | SHUGBOROUGH GHOST HUNT | Saturday 10th February 2007
The story of Shugborough begins 300 years ago in 1693 when William Anson demolished the manor house and built a three-storied house, which forms the centre of the house today.
During our exclusive ghost hunt of the Shugborough estate we will be utilising two key locations for our ghost vigils, the first is a building that inspired Tolkien and his writing of the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Most of the monuments on the grounds of Shugborough are related to Athens, the famous builder and astronomer, Andronicus Cyrrhestes, designed the original Tower of Winds for Athens.
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 Mysterious carved inscription is code for a tourist attraction - World - www.smh.com.au
A mysterious carved code at a British country house has turned out not to be an 18th-century signpost to the location of the Holy Grail.
Thanks to sleuthing by smart bods formerly of the M.O.D. it turns out the inscription D.O.U.O.S.V.A.V.V.M. on the Shepherd's Monument at the Shugborough Estate, Staffordshire, was probably written by members of the secret Christian sect that features heavily in Brown's novel.
Shugborough's Richard Kemp told the BBC: "This monument is the second piece of evidence there is a connection [with the Grail]."
www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/11/26/1101219748981.html   (576 words)

  
 Mexican UFOs! Dolphin Speed, Ozone Smog, Bedout: The Great Dying! Shugborough Enigma & More!
Shugborough’s new general manager, Richard Kemp commented “The Anson family who built the estate commissioned the monument but had unproven connections with the Knight’s Templar.
The inscription is rumored to indicate the location of the Holy Grail which must rank as one of the world’s great mysteries”.
Shugborough’s general manager, Richard Kemp, said the monument had to be considered in its entirety.
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 Shugborough Hall Monument Identifies A Masonic Altar
The Shugborough monument is found on the grounds at Shugborough Hall, the seat of the Earls of Lichfield.
In the Shugborough poem, the River Ilissus was compared to the Trent River, and the Vale of Tempe to the grounds of Shugborough.
For instance, the Arch of Hadrian was erected in Athens in honor of the Roman emperor Hadrian in the 2nd century A.D. Likewise a Doric temple of Athena was built in 566 B.C., on the Acropolis.
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He argues that the inscription points to the hiding place of a stone tablet handed down from the Old Testament prophet Jacob, which was a talisman for a secret society known as the Priory of Sion.
In 1987 Margaret, Countess of Lichfield, grandmother of the photographer, said that the inscription consisted of letters from a poem that she had been taught as a child.
Buried treasure: the inscription gives directions to a secret location at the Tombs of the Patriarchs in Hebron where a stone tablet, supposedly handed down from Jacob via the Knights Templar, may be buried.
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 BBC - Radio 4 - Today Programme Science Report
The 250 year-old inscription is carved into the Shepherd's Monument which sits in the garden at Shugborough, the ancestral home of the Earl of Lichfield.
The stone is obviously a memorial for a sorely-missed sheepdog who died at the age of 10.
Shugborough was left to George Adams of Orgreave who assumed the name Anson.
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 Mysterious code finally cracked - World - www.smh.com.au
A slide shows the 250 year old coded inscription on a garden Monument at Shugborough, Staffordshire, which was believed to points to the Holy Grail's location.
A mysterious carved code at a British manor house, which has defied understanding for hundreds of years, is thought to be a cryptic message from an 18th century Christian sect, experts said today.
In May, managers at Shugborough decided to invite experts from the famous World War II Bletchley Park code-breaking centre, along with their modern counterparts, to tackle the code.
www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/11/26/1101219737558.html   (523 words)

  
 SR.com: Experts examine aged inscription
Language experts Oliver and Sheila Lawn examine an 18th-century etched inscription on a garden monument in Staffordshire, England, on Tuesday.Language experts Oliver and Sheila Lawn examine an 18th-century etched inscription on a garden monument in Staffordshire, England, on Tuesday.
Below the image is a line of letters – O.U.O.S.V.A.V.V – and beneath that on either end, the letters D and M. Lawn, who was recruited to Bletchley Park in 1940 while studying mathematics at Cambridge University, proclaimed himself puzzled.
Teams of mathematicians, linguists, crossword-puzzle aficionados and chess champions worked at Bletchley Park, northwest of London – code-named Station X – to crack Nazi secret codes during the war.
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 Rennes Le Chateau - Oak Island - Money Pit - Crystalinks
The Visigoths of the area might have themselves been descended from the House of Benjamin, which had fled to the Arcadia region of Greece, and thence north into France, a thousand years earlier.
According to his claim, the map and letters were made around the year 1400 and purport to describe a voyage by the Zeno brothers made in the 1390s under the direction of a prince named Zichmni.
They continued the excavation down to approximately 90 feet (27.43 m), and found layers of logs or "marks" about every ten feet (3 m) and layers of charcoal, putty and coconut fibre at 40, 50 and 60 feet (12, 15 and 18 m).
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Funding Cuts: The House subcommittee that sets spending levels for the National Endowment for the Humanities is taking aim at the $30 million We the People project, which is designed to train history teachers.
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 Cracking the Poussin Code: the key to the Shepherd's Monument at Shugborough: ever since the publication in 1982 of The ...
Cracking the Poussin Code: the key to the Shepherd's Monument at Shugborough: ever since the publication in 1982 of The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, the mysterious Shepherd's Monument at Shugborough in Staffordshire has attracted numerous bizarre interpretations.
In 2003 it begat The Da Vinci Code, the success of which gave the commercially astute manager of Shugborough the idea of attracting visitors to the house by inviting the famous World War II code-breakers of Bletchley Park to decipher the inscription on the monument.
In September 1971, three years before Henry Lincoln visited Shugborough for a BBC Chronicle film, 'The Priest, the Painter and the Devil', I published an article in Country Life attributing the rustic arch surrounding the Shepherds' Monument to the eccentric astronomer-architect Thomas Wright, dubbed the 'Wizard of Durham'.
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Shugborough is a country estate in Milford, near Stafford, Staffordshire, England, on the north-eastern edge of Cannock Chase.
It comprises a country house, kitchen garden and model farm.
Plans are in place to open this to the public every weekend from 2007 onwards.
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 Priory of Sion A-Z   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The inscription on the tombstone (which Saunière destroyed) is meant to have been an anagram for the message in these parchments.
He also redecorated the church, putting an inscription (Terribilis Est Locus Iste - This Place Is Terrible) in the porch lintel above the entrance, and placing a statue of the demon Asmodeus near the door.
Shugborough Hall: Site of the Shepherd Monument, an 18th century copy of Poussin’s Les Bergers d’Arcadie reversed mirror fashion.
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 cooltech.iafrica.com | coolscience New Holy Grail clue
A centuries-old code carved at a British manor house, according to popular legend the key to finding the Holy Grail, is thought to be a cryptic message from an 18th century Christian sect, experts have said.
In May, managers at Shugborough invited veterans from Britain's famous World War II Bletchley Park code-breaking centre, along with their modern counterparts, to tackle the puzzle.
The new explanation for the code was plausible given previously known links between the Anson family, who built the neo-Classical house at Shugborough, as well as the Shepherd's Monument, and various secret societies, one veteran code-breaker said.
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In this garden style, the part of the garden closest to the palace or house was handled architecturally, like another room-extension of the house proper.
The Pantheon houses statues of Hercules by Rysbrack, and the Latin inscription establishes parallels between Aeneas (who sought a new home in Rome) and Hoare (who sought a new home in Wiltshire).
In the 1740s Chinese House at Shugborough and the House of Confucius at Kew were built.
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 The Book Of THoTH - Mysticism & The Occult - Bletchley Park tries to crack a 250-year mystery: Do 10 letters at ...
Carved on the base of the Shepherd's Monument, a white marble arbor at Shugborough Hall, the letters are D.O.U.O. and they have been flummoxing some of the nation's finest minds since they were put there circa 1748.
Ms Large is keeping an open mind about whether the "Shugborough Enigma", as she describes it, may point to the Holy Grail.
(Christ was from the house of David so was royal in his own right.) Whether it's true or not I couldn't say, but it's nevertheless very interesting imo.
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 Experts tackle 1700s-era code   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
World War II British code-breakers Oliver and Sheila Lawn stand next to an inscription etched on one of eight garden monuments at Shugborough Hall, Staffordshire, England.
Former code-breakers from Britain's World War II intelligence center at Bletchley Park set out this week to decipher a cryptic inscription on an 18th-century monument at an English country estate.
Below the image is a line of letters -- O.U.O.S.V.A.V.V -- and beneath that on either end, the letters D and M. Lawn, who was recruited to Bletchley Park in 1940 while studying mathematics at Cambridge University, proclaimed himself puzzled.
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 The never-ending search (The Holy Grail) - CareCure Forums   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
That is one theory entertained by Richard Kemp, the general manager of Lord Lichfield's Shugborough estate in Staffs.
So the child called "Sarah" might very well have been the "little lost princess" of western fairytale, who is eventually found and united with the handsome prince.
In the book of Lamentations (4:8) we encounter an interesting passage that describes the plight of the royal princes of the house of Judah, the lineage of the Davidic kings: "their faces, once white as milk, are now fl as soot.
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 Real-Life DaVinci Code? - Weekly News for May 14th - May 21th, 2004
Some of the best code breakers in the world are turning their attention to ten letters that have baffled historians for centuries: D.O.U.O.S.V.A.V.V.M. This code is etched on a marble monument nested in the gardens of an English country estate called Shugborough House, and thought to originate in the 1700s.
Some experts even say the inscription may have something to do with the Holy Grail, which is the cup Jesus supposedly drank from at The Last Supper, according to the Bible.
For one, the family who built the estate back in the 17th century were very interested in the Knights Templar, a secret group from the middle ages that claims to protect the Holy Grail.
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 Guardian | Bletchley veterans tackle 'toughest puzzle yet'
In the hope of succeeding where so many others have failed and finally cracking the conundrum, a group of veteran codebreakers from Bletchley Park arrived at Shugborough House near Milford yesterday, armed with proven grey matter and years of experience in deciphering the German enigma codes.
Viewing it for the first time Oliver Lawn, 85, one of the former employees of Bletchley Park, had no doubt that there was a secret to unravel, contained both in the picture and the inscription beneath, and probably based upon missing letters from classical texts.
Their work was so secretive that it was not until recently that Mr Lawn's wife, Sheila, another Bletchley veteran, discovered what his role had been.
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 Et In Arcadia Ego   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Poussin's first biographer, Giovanni Pietro Bellori, interpreted Et In Arcadia Ego as: "...the grave is to be found even in Arcady and that death occurs in the very midst of delight".
Group of poets form The Arcadian Academy in Rome, electing the late Queen Christina of Sweden (died in 1689) as its symbolical head ("Basilissa"), lasting for two hundred years.
First known reference to the Shepherds’ Monument at Shugborough Hall, contained in a poorly composed poem, partially written by Anna Seward.
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