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Feb 22, 2007

Ralph is Away!




He is attending some masonic-ish thing called the"Southern Intellectual History Circle" at Mississippi State.

Secret circle/societies frighten me. Their insidious - ahem - presence is everywhere.

For example, did you know that when Gandhi got to London in 1888, a mere lad on his first trip abroad, he enrolled at ... The Inner Temple! ... built by the Military Order of the Knights Templar? You can read the sordid, horrifying details here. His choice of ahimsa doesn't seem so innocent anymore, does it?

I welcome other secret connections of historical figures in the comments. Come on historians, you are better than Dan Brown.


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Manan Ahmed - 2/22/2007

Found it!


Rebecca Anne Goetz - 2/22/2007

There's an OUP website dedicated to the practice of six degrees of Sir Francis Bacon! I just can't find the link at the moment...


Manan Ahmed - 2/22/2007

I did not know that. Care for a demonstration? I will try Selim I in the meantime.


Rob MacDougall - 2/22/2007

You know, of course, that any figure in history can be connected in at most six jumps to Kevin Sir Francis Bacon.