Ronald J. Leach

Where Have All The Templars Gone? (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

About 20 years ago I was a cruise lecturer assisting a local guide on a shore excursion from the port of Monaco to nearby Nice and Eze. In Eze, I saw a street sign referencing a Templar castle that was destroyed in 1706. We were on a steep hill some 2,000 feet above the port of Monaco. I wondered why the castle was so high, far too high to protect tiny Monaco below. I wondered how Monaco could have avoided major destruction or annexation by the surrounding country of France. After many years, I discovered that the solution to this mystery requires expanding the investigation.

Many mysteries and legends of what happened to the Templars and their wealth continue to fascinate modern readers. Where Have All The Templars Gone? focuses on what happened to their huge wealth after the massive coordinated raids ordered by the king of France. We use techniques of money tracing, modern communications systems, geopolitical analysis, interactive maps, and some of the techniques of "big history" to discover connections to many hitherto unsuspected places where some of that missing wealth had been taken. Underlying themes include the difficulties that small countries have when surrounded by powerful enemies, and the tendency of conquerors to remove all signs, especially religious ones, of the countries they conquered. Unlike many books and articles about the Templars, we show the details of the methods and analyses used to support our conclusions, so that the careful reader can verify them.

The surprising conclusions about the hiding places for Templar wealth include some of the smallest or richest places in Europe. We also present new information on how some of this wealth was moved to the famous French town of Rennes-le-Chateaux.

Where Have All The Templars Gone? contains 57 maps and images.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Ronald J. Leach
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798223277118
• Artikelnr.: 69064645

Autorenporträt

About the Author

I recently retired from being a professor of computer science at Howard University for over 25 years, with 9 of those years as a department chair. (I was a math professor for 16 years before that.) While I was department chair, we sent more students to work at Microsoft in the 2004-5 academic year than any other college or university in the United States. We also established a graduate certificate program in computer security, which became the largest certificate program at the university. I had major responsibility for working with technical personnel to keep our department's hundreds of computers functional and virus-free, while providing email service to several hundred users. We had to withstand constant hacker attacks and we learned how to reduce the vulnerability of our computer systems.

As a scholar/researcher, I studied complex computer systems and their behavior when attacked or faced with heavy, unexpected loads. I wrote five books on computing, from particular programming languages, to the internal structure of sophisticated operating systems, to the development and efficient creation of highly complex applications. My long-term experience with computers (I had my first computer programming course in 1964) has helped me understand the nature of many of the computer attacks by potential identity thieves and, I hope, be able to explain them and how to defend against them, to a general audience of non-specialists. More than 5,000 people have attended my lectures on identity theft; many others have seen them on closed-circuit television.

I have written more than twenty books, and more than 120 technical articles, most of which are in technical areas.

My interests in data storage and access meshed well with my genealogical interests when I wrote the Genealogy Technology column of the Maryland Genealogical Society Journal for several years. I was the editor or co-editor of that society's journal for many years.