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May 3, 1775: Isaiah Thomas resumed printing his Massachusetts Spy newspaper at his new home in Worcester, Massachusetts.
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#IsaiahThomas #AmericanHistory #AmericanRevolution #MasachusettsSpy #AmericanAntiquarianSociety #Freemasons
May 3, 1886: Rudyard Kipling was passed to the degree of Fellowcraft in Hope and Perseverance Lodge No. 782, E.C. in Lahore, India (now in Pakistan).
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#RudyardKipling #JungleBook #Freemasons #Freemasonry #literature #NobelPrize
May 2, 1726: Voltaire was released from the Bastille and sent into exile in England.
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#Voltaire #Bastille #Exile #Philosophy #satire #Enlightenment #knowledge #wisdom #Philosopher #Freemasons #Freemasonry #TravisSimpkins #otd
April 30, 1733: Henry Price was appointed Provincial Grand Master "of New England" by the Viscount Montagu, Grand Master of the Moderns' Grand Lodge in London.
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#HenryPrice #grandlodgeofmassachusetts #Freemasons #masonic #UGLE
April 30, 1789: George Washington was inaugurated as the first President of the United States.
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#GeorgeWashington #FirstPresident #inauguration #POTUS #presidentoftheunitedstates #AmericanHistory #otd #Freemasons #OathOfOffice
Happy Birthday to James Monroe, 5th President of the United States, born on this day in 1758.
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#JamesMonroe #AmericanHistory #foundingfathers #presidentoftheunitedstates #WhiteHouse #WashingtonDC #GrandLodgeOfVirginia #Freemasons
Happy Birthday to M.W. Stanley F. Maxwell, Past Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, born on this day in 1910.
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#StanleyMaxwell #GrandMaster #GrandLodgeOfMassachusetts #Freemasons #Freemasonry #ScottishRiteNMJ
April 22, 1785: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was raised a Master Mason in the Lodge Zur Wohltätigkeit (Beneficence) in Vienna, Austria.
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#Mozart #WolfgangAmadeusMozart #Freemasons #Freemasonry #TheMagicFlute #Masonic #music #classical
April 17, 1790: Benjamin Franklin died at the age of 84 in Philadelphia.
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#BenjaminFranklin #Philadelphia #FoundingFathers #AmericanHistory #Inventor #Statesman #GrandLodgeOfPennsylvania #PennsylvaniaFreemasonry #Freemasons #otd
Happy Birthday to M.W. Henry Clay, American Statesman and Past Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Kentucky, born on this day in 1777.
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#HenryClay #Ashland #GrandLodgeOfKentucky #LexingtonKY #lexingtonkentucky #Freemasons #masonic
April 12, 1787: Richard Allen organized the Free African Society in Philadelphia, a beneficial and moral reform society among free blacks.
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#RichardAllen #PrinceHall #PrinceHallMason #PHA #Freemasons #Freemasonry #masonic
April 5, 1886: Rudyard Kipling was initiated an Entered Apprentice (by dispensation) in Hope and Perseverance Lodge No. 782, E.C. in Lahore, Pakistan.
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#RudyardKipling #NobelPrize #Author #JungleBook #Freemasons #Freemasonry
Happy Birthday to Booker T. Washington, born on this day in 1856.
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#BookerTWashington #CivilRights #Equality #PrinceHall #princehallmason #AmericanHistory #history #Freemasons #freemasonry #masonic #TravisSimpkins #art #portrait
April 4, 1778: Voltaire was initiated into Freemasonry at the Loge des Neuf Soeurs in Paris. He was conducted through the degree by Benjamin Franklin.
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#Voltaire #Philosopher #Philosophy #Enlightenment #Freemasons #Freemasonry
April 2, 1870: Buffalo Bill Cody was passed to the degree of Fellowcraft in Platte Valley Lodge No. 32, in North Platte, Nebraska.
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#BuffaloBill #WilliamFCody #BuffaloBillCody #Freemasons #Freemasonry #GrandLodgeOfNebraska
March 28, 1972: Walter E. Webber was raised a Master Mason in Casco Lodge No. 36 in Yarmouth, Maine.
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#WalterWebber #MasterMason #GrandLodgeOfMaine #MaineFreemasons #MaineFreemasonry #Freemasons #Freemasonry #ScottishRiteNMJ #art
March 28, 1936: General Douglas MacArthur joined the Scottish Rite, receiving the 32nd Degree at Gaumata Consistory in the Philippines.
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#DouglasMacArthur #ScottishRite #Philippines #Freemasons #Freemasonry #WorldWarII #WWII
Happy Birthday to M.W. William L. Greene, Past Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Connecticut.
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#WilliamGreene #GrandMaster #GrandLodgeOfConnecticut #ConnecticutFreemasons #Freemasons #freemasonry #masonic #OES #EasternStar
March 23, 1887: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was raised a Master Mason in Phoenix Lodge No. 257 in Southsea, Hampshire, England.
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#ArthurConanDoyle #SherlockHolmes #Sherlock #Freemasons #Freemasonry #UGLE #UnitedGrandLodgeOfEngland
March 22, 1926: Paul Foster Case was initiated an Entered Apprentice in Fairport Lodge No. 476 in Fairport, New York.
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#PaulFosterCase #BOTA #BuildersoftheAdytum #Tarot #Qabalah #Magick #CeremonialMagick #NewAge #Freemasons