What Were The Knights Templar Really Like?
by Patrick Wyman on The Concourse, shared by Tom Ley from Deadspin > Sports News Without Fear, Favor or Compromise on (#34Z81)
Over the last seven centuries, the Knights Templar have left the realm of history and entered the realm of pop culture. They're a major plot point in Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code and the villains of the Assassin's Creed series of games, and feature in an astonishing array of pseudo-history and conspiracy theories.