Re: VMs: OT: You can't keep Bletchley vets down!

[Bruce Grant <bgrant@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Milo Velimirovic  quoted:

> > Tucked away within the 900-acre grounds, they found their puzzle: a 
> > stone
> > monument built around 1748, containing a carved relief of Nicholas 
> > Poussin's
> > Les Bergers d'Arcadie II in reverse. The picture shows a female figure
> > watching as three shepherds gather around a tomb and point at letters 
> > within
> > an inscription carved upon it, which read: Et in Arcadia Ego! (And I 
> > am in
> > Arcadia too.) Beneath it the letters O.U.O.S.V.A.V.V. are carved, and
> > underneath them a D and an M.
>
> >  Chief among these is the
> > belief that the connections of the estate's creators, the Anson 
> > family, with
> > the grand masters of the closed society of Knights Templar, and the
> > supernatural myths surrounding the estate - where lay lines meet, rivers
> > cross and UFO spotters regularly gather - are evidence that the carving
> > holds the secret to the Holy Grail. 
When I heard this story on NPR, my first thought was that 10 characters 
seemed kind of short to hold the secret of the Holy Grail - unless it 
says something like "Dig here!"

Bruce


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