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July 11, 1970: John Wayne was raised a Master Mason in Marion McDaniel Lodge No. 56 in Tucson, Arizona.
Portrait by Travis Simpkins

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2021-07-11

Towards the end of the year another article will appear, one that explains the symbolism of Pine’s frontispiece to Anderson’s Constitutions of 1721 and its relation to Inigo Jones and Lord Burlington.

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2021-07-11

In 2009 I wrote an article for the English Heritage Historical Review in which I stated by belief that the hidden meaning of the Red Velvet Room at Chiswick House was as an early representation of the Hiramic degree in Freemasonry. For this I received almost universal praise.

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2021-07-11

July 10, 1861: Mark Twain, was raised a Master Mason in Polar Star Lodge No. 79 in St. Louis, Missouri.
Portrait by Travis Simpkins
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2021-07-10

July 3, 1846: Rob Morris was raised a Master Mason in Oxford Lodge No. 33 in Mississippi.
Portrait by Travis Simpkins
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2021-07-03

If he looked as good as you, he could run a different kind of business. Like an armory, a butchers, a farm, a fishery, a masonry, a toolshop, a library, or a cartography business, or a church! The stranger villagers won't spawn naturally, but can be created via nametag.

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2021-07-02

June 28, 1926: Paul Foster Case was raised a Master Mason in Fairport Lodge No. 476 in Fairport, New York.
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2021-06-28

June 27, 1910: Gerald Gardner was raised a Master Mason in Sphinx Lodge No. 107, Irish Constitution in Colombo, Ceylon (Sri Lanka).
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2021-06-27

Happy Birthday to M.W. Malcolm B. Wernik, Past Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of New Jersey, born on this day in 1931.
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2021-06-25

Happy Birthday to Ronald A. Seale, 33°. Past Sovereign Grand Commander of the Ancient & Accepted Scottish Rite, SJ.
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2021-06-24