Post by Charlotte on Jan 4, 2013 14:08:05 GMT -5
Chanced upon Jarl Henry Sinclair, Baron of Roslin, Earl of Orkney, ca 1345 - 1400.
Rather than posting these notes on "Our History", I thought I add them as a fragment to "National Treasure", augmenting my understanding of developments at the time, and for anyone interested in what's in the "pop corn flick".
The Treasure beyond all Imaginings, and how it came to America.
"National Treasure", page 2, post 18 - 19, I wrote about the Meerschaum Pipe, worth "a billion or even million Dollars" according to Riley, found in a barrel of gunpowder on a ship called "Charlotte", frozen in ice and time. At the end of the film, the stem of the Pipe opens the door to our "treasured past", the stem and body of the Pipe joined by a Templar Cross. To Ben the Pipe is a clue, as it was for me.
Wrapped in a cloth is a box depicting an Eagle and a Native American with a rifle, his arm raised and hand open in a gesture of Friendship, in which box is the Meerschaum Pipe.
Shown on the body of the Pipe, among other things, is an old English Castle, a Knight on a horse holding aloft a long Banner streaming around a "crowned" tower of the Castle. As I described it then, the Knight rides toward a Lighthouse in New England as in Light being brought to the New World. Sometime later, it was suggested that it might the Newport Tower in Rhode Island, which I read on briefly but didn't follow through.
Today I read on a site of Sinclair Descendants:
"When the Narragansett Indians were asked who built the Newport Tower, they replied, "They were fire-haired men with green eyes who sailed up the river in a ship like a gull with broken wings.
"In Rhode Island the Newport Tower is constructed in a similar style to the Norse/Scottish buildings of the Western and Northern Isles. More important, every single measurement within the Newport Tower is based on the Scottish ell, which equals three Norse feet."
sinclair.quarterman.org/sinclair/newport_tower.html
From Wiki
Medieval Templars
"The prolific British writer Andrew Sinclair has put forth the hypothesis that the Newport Tower was built by medieval Scottish Templars led by the Scottish earl Henry Sinclair, as aprt of an alleged voyage to New England about a hundred years before Columbus. Sinclair's alleged voyage to America has been vigorously disputed."
Disputed or not, I like it.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newport_Tower_(Rhode_Island)
In the link, under "Construction", one can click on "Somerset" and find this most marvelous City of Bath, of great historical significance braid with Myths, its "dominant style of architecture in Central Bath is Georgian, which evolved from the Palladian" design concepts by Andrea Palladio, one of the greatest Renaissance Architects, recently touched upon here.
The Canvas of our History is incrusted with precious Gems mined in the Mystical Mountains, and bound by a string of shimmering Pearls retrieved from Seashells of the Ocean of Knowledge, and rarely presented to the World in movies called "moderately stupid", "moderately silly", and "garbage" by expert movie critics.
Rather than posting these notes on "Our History", I thought I add them as a fragment to "National Treasure", augmenting my understanding of developments at the time, and for anyone interested in what's in the "pop corn flick".
The Treasure beyond all Imaginings, and how it came to America.
"National Treasure", page 2, post 18 - 19, I wrote about the Meerschaum Pipe, worth "a billion or even million Dollars" according to Riley, found in a barrel of gunpowder on a ship called "Charlotte", frozen in ice and time. At the end of the film, the stem of the Pipe opens the door to our "treasured past", the stem and body of the Pipe joined by a Templar Cross. To Ben the Pipe is a clue, as it was for me.
Wrapped in a cloth is a box depicting an Eagle and a Native American with a rifle, his arm raised and hand open in a gesture of Friendship, in which box is the Meerschaum Pipe.
Shown on the body of the Pipe, among other things, is an old English Castle, a Knight on a horse holding aloft a long Banner streaming around a "crowned" tower of the Castle. As I described it then, the Knight rides toward a Lighthouse in New England as in Light being brought to the New World. Sometime later, it was suggested that it might the Newport Tower in Rhode Island, which I read on briefly but didn't follow through.
Today I read on a site of Sinclair Descendants:
"When the Narragansett Indians were asked who built the Newport Tower, they replied, "They were fire-haired men with green eyes who sailed up the river in a ship like a gull with broken wings.
"In Rhode Island the Newport Tower is constructed in a similar style to the Norse/Scottish buildings of the Western and Northern Isles. More important, every single measurement within the Newport Tower is based on the Scottish ell, which equals three Norse feet."
sinclair.quarterman.org/sinclair/newport_tower.html
From Wiki
Medieval Templars
"The prolific British writer Andrew Sinclair has put forth the hypothesis that the Newport Tower was built by medieval Scottish Templars led by the Scottish earl Henry Sinclair, as aprt of an alleged voyage to New England about a hundred years before Columbus. Sinclair's alleged voyage to America has been vigorously disputed."
Disputed or not, I like it.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newport_Tower_(Rhode_Island)
In the link, under "Construction", one can click on "Somerset" and find this most marvelous City of Bath, of great historical significance braid with Myths, its "dominant style of architecture in Central Bath is Georgian, which evolved from the Palladian" design concepts by Andrea Palladio, one of the greatest Renaissance Architects, recently touched upon here.
The Canvas of our History is incrusted with precious Gems mined in the Mystical Mountains, and bound by a string of shimmering Pearls retrieved from Seashells of the Ocean of Knowledge, and rarely presented to the World in movies called "moderately stupid", "moderately silly", and "garbage" by expert movie critics.