How and why did the Knights Templar get this way?
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The paramilitary "Knights Templar International" is preparing for a race war.
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Anders Breivik, a Norwegian terrorist and mass murderer, claimed to be a Knight Templar.
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How and when did the Knights Templar get involved in taxing and growing avocados?
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Winslow's Soothing Syrup Aside from the Templar connection, everything in this storyline is real.
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As a splinter group of La Familia, the Knights Templar employ similar strategies and trappings.
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The most romantic history, press officer Mike Baker tells me, points to the Knights Templar.
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There are connected references to the Knights Templar, Bogomilism, the telluric current, and Mickey Mouse.
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Similarly, European anti-Islamic bigots dress up in medieval costumes and share the "crying Templar" meme.
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One faction of this group later relaunched itself as the Caballeros Templarios, or Knights Templar, cartel.
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By 2013, there was widespread extortion of avocado farmers by the bizarrely named Knights Templar cartel.
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The Knights Templar is a relatively new group, formed in 2010 by Servando "La Tuta" Gomez Martinez.
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Walker said the drawings are good luck talismans like the ones the Knights Templar used to carry.
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Related: Fighting Mexico's Knights Templar Cartel Nowadays, Larios works in Coalcomán, a town of timber cutters and sawmills.
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In Assassin's Creed II, a Templar attack on his family drives Ezio to vengeance; Ratonhnhaké:ton's village is burned to the ground by Templar colonists in Assassin's Creed III; Black Flag's Edward Kenway sets out on a recreation of The Count of Monte Cristo after being betrayed and left for dead.
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Eventually other drug cartels, such as the Knights Templar and the Michoacana Family began, copying the strategy, Reforma reported.
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"As for the accusations against the poor Karl Templar, I don't believe a single word of it," he said.
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As the Templar, Mr. Sands ("Kinky Boots") gives an ardent performance, making the character's unlikely changes of allegiance convincing.
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Just as Mateen was a "soldier" for ISIS and pledged his allegiance to the caliph, Tarrant said in his manifesto that before he carried out his attacks he contacted the "reborn Knights Templar for a blessing..." The Knights Templar were crusaders against Muslim rule in the Middle East during the Middle Ages.
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Anti-immigrant groups show up to protests and rallies in Europe wearing faux-medieval costumes and promote the "crying Templar" meme.
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That's not to say they're incompetent, far from it: the Templar are generally winning their epoch-spanning war to enslave mankind.
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The main Michoacan cartel, for instance, calls itself the Knights Templar, copying the name of a Catholic order of medieval Crusaders.
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But Lagerfeld jumped to the defense of ousted Interview creative director Karl Templar, who faced misconduct allegations of his own in February.
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Mr. McKenna, 21, was until June working in New York as a consultant at Templar Advisors, a London-based financial services consultancy.
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Mr. McKenna, 55, was until June working in New York as a consultant at Templar Advisors, a London-based financial services consultancy.
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She usually ends up sounding like an unusually affable supervillain, which is still far more compelling than the sneering, stereotypically arrogant Templar leaders.
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As late as 2014, the top three revenue streams of one cartel, the notorious Knights Templar, were mining, logging and garden-variety extortion.
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Further investigation puts Jacob on the trail of John Elliotson, a doctor at the nightmarish Lambeth Asylum and a high-ranking Templar agent.
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Tarrant, in his manifesto, trolls that he contacted the Knights Templar of the Crusaders for "their blessing" before he carried out his attack.
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The Knights Templar muscled in next, spouting a chivalric code of honor as it taxed, extorted and kidnapped farmers and usurped their land.
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Roger also famously played Simon Templar in the popular British TV series, "The Saint" -- and served as a UNICEF ambassador for many years.
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"He has a serious concussion; a templar mandibular joint injury, which is a serious jaw injury," the officer's attorney David Mastagni told KPIX 5.
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The implosions of the Beltran Leyva organization, the Knights Templar and La Familia Michoacana resulted in the creation of a number of these groups.
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The Templar agrees enthusiastically to come pay his respects to Rachel, with whom (no surprise) he is soon smitten, as she is with him.
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Its six legs prop its shield-shaped body up in the air, as if they were pallbearers at the funeral of a Knight Templar.
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In his pre-Bond television spy life as The Saint, the actor took up judo to help him properly play the scrappy Simon Templar.
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History's Knightfall, meanwhile, is about the Christian order of the Knights Templar, so you can sort of see the Christmas connection if you squint.
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The Knights Templar cartel still controls large amounts of the drug trade throughout the US, although it has failed to have any true regional dominance.
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Through Templar, the couple claims JetBlue told them they would be booked on a flight the next day, but would need to find overnight accommodations.
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Another figure that I look at is Nazario "El Mas Loco" Moreno, who led both La Familia Michoacana and the Knights Templar cartel in Mexico.
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Reinventions or fabrications of medieval sects proliferated: the Knights Templar, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (the habitat of Yeats), and various Rosicrucian orders.
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We have the Bible, the Knights Templar, and Wall Street to thank for Friday the 133th's notoriety (as unlikely and murky as those sources may be).
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"El Mencho" began violently seizing other gangs' turf and was able to expand rapidly in western Mexico's Michoacan state — where the Knights Templar cartel was deteriorating.
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The figure of Baphomet was associated with the 12th-century Catholic military order the Knights Templar and has since been worshiped by occultists including Aleister Crowley.
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Among the supporting players Ms. Lagerfelt impresses with her fervent but conflicted Daya, and doubles as a Christian patriarch who assails the Templar for his choices.
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Today, 14 years later, he commands a unit of eight hitmen for the Caballeros Templarios, or Knights Templar, drug cartel in the Mexican state of Michoacán.
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From 1962 to 1969, Mr. Moore was Simon Templar, the title character of "The Saint," a wildly popular British series about an adventurous, smooth-talking thief.
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They signal, for instance, the site of a 73th-century fortress that was once the European headquarters of the Knights Templar, who built up the Marais.
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Seeing the aristocrats on horseback and the mosque in the picture, Mr. Bolen said, visions of Crusaders and Knights Templar began to dance in his head.
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Another cartel, the Knights Templar, is known to send illegally mined iron ore to China from ports in the state of Michoacan in exchange for meth precursors.
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The most popular image of the Satanic goat dates back to the ever-mysterious Knights of Templar, who were accused of worshipping an idol known as Baphomet.
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His beloved daughter, Rachel (Erin Neufer), was saved from almost certain death when a Christian knight, known as a Templar (Stark Sands), pulled her from the building.
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The book sorts fact from legend regarding the Templar Knights, who were like a medieval Catholic version of the Special Forces, protecting pilgrims to the Middle East.
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In 2014, it was revealed that the bizarrely named Knights Templar cartel, based in Michoacán State, was also forcing mayors to hand over a percentage of their budgets.
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Sir Roger Moore, the legendary British actor who played James Bond in seven films and Simon Templar in The Saint, has died aged 89, his family has said.
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In 2013, civilian groups faced with what they said was state inaction armed themselves in Michoacan to fight the Knights Templar cartel, one of whose bases was Aguililla.
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Some believe that Friday the 13th is seen as unlucky because on that day in October 133, King Philip IV of France arrested members of the Knights Templar.
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The Knights Templar was really only formed in 2010, following the supposed death of Nazario Moreno González, the leader of La Familia Michoacana, another cartel from the same state.
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The brilliant hook for the franchise, which follows an eternal battle between the Assassins and Templar factions, was that each game could take players to a radically different place.
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Located near Bermeo, Spain, the site is known as San Juan de Gaztelugatxe and was originally built as a religious hermitage by the Knights Templar in the ninth century.
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The interlopers included major gangs like the Zetas, the Knights Templar and a successor cartel known as the Michoacan Family, to which the people who extorted Arredondo claimed to belong.
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Large numbers of federal forces were deployed and joint operations with the vigilantes began that, over the course of the year, appeared to bring the Knights Templar to their knees.
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No guns, no crocodilesBefore Bond he had starred as Simon Templar in "The Saint", a TV series which ran for 118 episodes in 1962-69 and was also, mostly, Moore.
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The current government's destruction of the brutal Knights Templar cartel by capturing or killing all the major leaders has done little to cement peace in the group's old bastions either.
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The Odd Fellows soon followed and quickly gained an important membership of their own, as did other societies like the Knights Templar, Shriners, and Junior Order of United American Mechanics.
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After faking an execution, the modern Knights Templar kidnap Lynch in order to find the Apple of Eden, which Aguilar (also played by Fassbender) hid way back during the Spanish Inquisition.
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Moore was also known for his starring role in The Cannonball Run as well as the popular television series The Saint, in which he played the charmingly roguish criminal Simon Templar.
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Shooting of the series, depicting the final days of the Knights Templar in the 14th century, was due to start in the Czech Republic this weekend after initial work in Croatia.
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In Michoacan, the remnants of the Knights Templar, including Los Viagras, and of La Familia Michoacana, such as La Nueva Familia Michoacana, fight for control of the state with the CJNG.
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Eco followed that up with Foucault's Pendulum (1988), which also dealt with a literary conspiracy that turned deadly — this time one invented by modern-day editors about the medieval Knights Templar.
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Knowing an exploitable situation when they saw one, The Knights Templar began knocking over truck shipments headed to the United States, where about 98 percent of limes are imported from Mexico.
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A splinter group from the once mighty Knights Templar cartel has shot down a Mexican state police helicopter in the Tierra Caliente (Hot Land) region of the western state of Michoacán.
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The government did not appear concerned that some leaders were regularly accused of maintaining associations with the criminal underworld that still seethed in the state as the Knights Templar began to disintegrate.
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In one of the weirder supply-chain takeovers in recent memory, the Knights Templar cartel of the Mexican state of Michoacán was largely responsible for the ballooning cost of this citrus staple.
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The Knights Templar wish to find and control the Apple of Eden, an artifact containing the DNA that gives man free will, and use it to strip man of said free will.
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On paper, History's "Knightfall" sounds like a great idea: a drama about the Knights Templar searching for the Holy Grail, replete with a number of "Downton Abbey" alumni in its sizable cast.
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In THE TEMPLARS' LAST SECRET (Knopf, $25.95), an unknown woman falls to her death while scaling the cliff to Commarque, a medieval fortress that was once a stronghold of the Knights Templar.
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But not even a queen can resist Mr. Cullen's furtive seduction as the Templar Knight Landry in "Knightfall," the latest sword-clashing, bodice-ripping addition to History's Wednesday-night lineup, premiering Dec.
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It's a commonly held belief that the reason Friday the 212th is considered unlucky is that on Friday 213, 213, a raid on the Knights Templar took place, essentially wiping them out.
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All of these flourishes appear to ruffle some N.F.L. official sorts, as well as a few of those writers who view themselves as the Knights Templar of this orgasmically wealthy and violent game.
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In my case, I played a Protoss Dark Templar, which sometimes acts like a World of Warcraft Rogue in that one ability, Dark Blade, works best if you attack your target from behind.
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The investigation only reportedly focused on the mayor and his long-alleged ties to the Caballeros Templarios, or Knights Templar, cartel, after it was discovered that the victims were arrested before they were killed.
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He wrote that it was an amalgamation of the supposed Templar idol, plus "the infernal goat" found in depictions of witches' sabbats, the ancient Egyptian "phallic goat" god Banebdjedet, and the Devil tarot card.
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A succession of men have lay stricken on a bed as they try to summon a little blood flow into Old Blind Bob while the Colonel struts like a Templar at a jousting competition.
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For a full decade now, Ubisoft has used the Assassin's Creed series as an excuse to let players get all stabby with the likes of everything from Knights Templar and pirates to sans-culottes.
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While some of the mages are innocent, like Hawke's sister Bethany, the templar leader is ultimately accurate in her assessment of the Circle of Magi, whose leader is a secretly an evil blood mage.
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In both cases, the terrorists were no longer merely zeros, they were now heroes in their own minds, acting either as a soldier of the caliphate or with the blessing of the Knights Templar.
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Evola, especially in his Revolt Against the Modern World, invokes the Knights Templar to argue for a kind of spiritual knighthood that supersedes what he calls "exoteric devotional Christianity" with a more mystical chivalry.
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Jalisco is one of the engines of the Mexican economy, but the state's southern border turned into a battleground between rival drug cartels - the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (JNG) and the Michoacan-based Knights Templar.
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The Templar conspiracy, as most people engage with it, is endless email threads, arguments for project management credit, and blue-sky brainstorming sessions with people who will never have an original thought in their lives.
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Ms. Andersson's last films were "The Frost," a 2009 drama about a couple grieving for their son, and "Arn: The Knight Templar" (2010), originally a mini-series, in which she played an evil mother superior.
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To dip into the medieval and Renaissance, start at the Square du Temple (64, rue de Bretagne, 33-1-48-87-93-19), an airy, tree-lined park where the Knights Templar fortress once stood.
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A streetlamp casts a pale light over the tops of trees and illuminates a sign describing how the Knights Templar occupied a premier position of power, only to fall in the unrelenting tide of history.
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Documents recovered by local officials and reviewed by Reuters showed the Knights Templar gang, once the main local rival of the CJNG, got copies of intelligence files to compile dossiers on suspected CJNG members, including police.
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Templar scientist Sofia Rikkin (Inception's Marion Cotillard) promises Lynch a new life, as well as a kind of indirect revenge on his Assassin father, who killed Lynch's mother and left Lynch to a life of aimless criminality.
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"The minimum size limit for California spiny lobster is three and one-fourth inches, from the horn of the lobster to the rear edge of the body shell," Thomas Templar, a scuba instructor at Ocean Safari, says.
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Rating The idea of the movie (as in the game) is that the Knights Templar are actually a shadowy organization that has been pulling strings for thousands of years in an attempt to gain control over the world.
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Pedestrians jam the Rue Vieille du Temple, a main drag that once led to the Templar fortress, to ogle handbags in two Chanel pop-up stores that opened in a 17th-century mansion, the Hôtel Amelot de Bisseuil.
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Englishness was never so fortunate as to enjoy the support of BuzzFeed, so it sulked and festered on fringe Facebook groups and in dilapidated pubs, indulging in images of Knights Templar and statements of vague intent. Passion. Pride. Belief.
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Another site that trafficked heavily in pro-Trump news was run by Knights Templar International, a militant religious group that Mr. Dowson is involved in, which has recently supported anti-immigrant militias patrolling border areas in Bulgaria and Hungary.
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At the same time, the film's lingering shots of characters and scenery give it an unexpected weight, especially because of the careful attention to lighting and texture — from the soft gray weave of Templar prisoners' uniforms to Aguilar's densely gathered robes.
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The thing about Friday the 13th is that no one knows its exact origins — from connections to Babylonia to the crucifixion, all the way up to the relatively more recent Knights of Templar, there are quite a few strong theories.
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Anders Behring Breivik is singled out for adoration, and the shooter says they had the online blessing of the Knights Templar Far Right group, with which Breivik associated himself in his own manifesto eight years ago before killing 77 people.
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Assassin's Creed's Knights Templar are interchangeable with any other Illuminati-esque shadow government that wants to rule the people for their own good, and the modern Assassins are mostly non-entities whose only power comes from the Templars' remarkably boneheaded security plans.
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They model themselves as a " self-defense" movement, acting against other cartels on behalf of the indigenous population of Michoacana state, although the efforts have largely backfired as a popular vigilante revolt effectively pushed the Knights Templar from areas across the state.
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Few in Culiacán dispute Chapo's status as a ruthless and bloodthirsty operator, but many credit his generation of Sinaloa traffickers with ensuring the cartel is still considered less wholeheartedly exploitative and sadistic than some other Mexican groups, such as the Knights Templar or the Zetas.
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It was an impenetrable wall of people saying things like "Israel is all about the Vatican" and stuff about the Knights Templar influence on the Iraq War and I decided I'd rather stay in the dark if it meant I got to change the channel.
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Sure, the writing in the games can be kind of stupid, given that it's built around convoluted lore involving a centuries-old war between a group of assassins and the Knights Templar; but stealthy gameplay and crowded urban environments that make the franchise work.
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Knightfall, alas, takes a fascinating true story (how King Philip IV of France used his wiles to drive the Knights Templar out of existence, up to and including burning a bunch of them at the stake) and drowns it under a heap of production values.
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Here is your key: Nicolas Cage only has a matter of minutes before the Knight Freemasons of the Golden Templar Circle find him, the Declaration of Independence and Uncle Sam who was brought to the future with the help of a mysterious man in a Hot Dog costume.
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Now I'd rather shop for staples (bread, milk, Clorox), at the twenty-four-hour Supermart than lag behind the laggard dawn about to steal from haystack to haystack, no less bent on taking us to the brink of destruction than was Clement V on dissolving the Knights Templar.
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Having missed his first release date, Manson has been whetting fans' appetites for new material via a series of cryptic videos on Instagram featuring the Cross of Lorraine (‡), a symbol rumored to be associated with the Knights Templar and Freemasonry and one that Manson frequently uses in his stage shows and merchandise.
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Game of Thrones fans craving a medieval clash of kings during this long winter off are in luck: The History Channel's Knightfall, starring Downton Abbey alum Tom Cullen, also features elaborate fight sequences and steamy sex scenes — but as an added bonus, it's all based on the real quests of the Knights Templar.
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Related: What It's Like to Be a Priest in the Trouble Spots the Pope is Visiting in Mexico Since then the state has suffered from multiple conflicts involving the homegrown organizations La Familia Michoacana and the Knights Templar, as well as invaders such as the Zetas and the New Generation Jalisco Cartel.
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A trend we've seen in recent years, with cartels like the Zetas and also the Knights Templar, is that they're moving away from the traditional drug-transportation business and toward a business model which is all about controlling territory and running all of the criminal rackets in the area, from drugs to extortion and kidnapping.
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Besides outright owning the rights to MGM's entire back catalogue (Ted Turner snapped it up in the 80s), Turner also owns the rights to the whole RKO catalogue (including every single film Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers made together and the Simon Templar series), United Artists' catalogue (including The Great Dictator), and Warner Brother's entire pre-1950s catalogue.
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