Nature 312

Case mici cu gradina, fara etaj, perfecte pentru orice varsta - proiecte si imagini Ce-i determina pe pensionari sa renunte la vechea locuinta in favoarea unei case mai mici, fara etaj si cu gradina.

Professor Helen Nicholson, medieval historian and author of several books on the Templars, agrees. "People in England have been fascinated by the Templars ever since they were abolished in the 14th Century," she said. The trials against the Templars included accusations that they conducted shady ceremonies in secret underground hiding places. "In effect, they are Gothic horror stories; they were probably dreamed up because people who had worked with the Templars were under severe pressure from papal inquisitors to say something to support the accusations," Nicholson added. "In any case, these stories are probably the reason why the carvings in the cave at Royston [were] ascribed to the Templars. In real life, the Templars were not a subterranean order."

A monumental statue of Lenin gazed down at me from an archway, while an artistic depiction of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (the two philosophers who developed Marxism) stared vacantly towards Stalin's monstrously oversized boots. Music from Hungary's communist era played from an old jukebox by the ticket booth; a polished Trabant (a popular but compact East German vehicle known as the "people's car") was surrounded by selfie-taking tourists; while coffee mugs and posters plastered with Lenin's likeness were on sale in the gift shop.