The Fourth of July is upon us, and what can be more wholesomely all-American than Dogs Playing Poker? The turn-of-the-(last)-century lithograph by Cassius Marcellus Coolidge (1844–1934) has had an ...
Since long before The Lost Symbol, Freemasons have been accused of everything from conspiring with extraterrestrials to practicing sexual deviancy to engaging in occult rituals to running the world—or ...
Elizabeth St Leger from Doneraile was the first Irish woman to become a Freemason Elizabeth Aldworth (née St Leger) - ‘The Lady Freemason'. The ‘Lady Freemason’s Room’ at Doneraile Court. Photo: Bill ...
Cloaked in intrigue, Freemasonry is best known perhaps for its secret handshakes and initiation rituals. The fraternal organisation traces its origins to medieval stonemason guilds, so it's no ...
On Saturday, April 28, at 1 p.m., at the National Heritage Museum in Lexington, historian Michael A. Halleran will present the talk, “Gentlemen of the White Apron: Freemasonry in the American Civil ...
Instead of commonplace designs like flowers or snowflakes, seamstress Celestia A. Milliken decorated her colorful quilt in 1908 with the square and compass and 70 other secret symbols of Freemasonry.
In 1854, US Commodore Matthew Perry landed at Hakodate, Hokkaidō, in the northern part of Japan. Two members of his crew who had died from disease were buried on the slopes of Mount Hakodate—the ...
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