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.

Update, October 8, 2009: Dan Brown's new novel The Lost Symbol takes readers on a spine-tingling tour of some of Washington, D.C.'s most famous buildings. With Masonic symbolism as its theme, the book ...

Several Masonic signs have been found 'hidden' in paintings of Scotland's bard Robert Burns. Tiny letters and symbols have been painted in minute detail in a paintings by Alexander Nasmyth, a ...

April 19, 2006 — -- Having tackled the secretive Catholic conservative group Opus Dei, Dan Brown says he's writing his next book about the Freemasons. The Freemasons say they are simply a ...

The plot of Dan Brown's "Lost Symbol" was kept secret until its release. Sept. 15, 2009— -- This time, it's not a fanciful yarn about the holy father's deep dark secrets. Instead, the ...

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 ...

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Littered in the numerous conspiracy theories that are floated online are stories of the secretive - but very real - Freemasons. These Masons are said by some to be the men who secretly pull the ...

The 12 Bistendu (Bombay Ebony) trees stand out on Vijay Chowk, making a clear square and compasses pattern, recreating the famed (and recognisable) logo of Freemasonry or the Freemasons, the fraternal ...