Unlike the Klan, the Freemasons were never organized around exclusion and hatred; their ideal was and is enlightenment. According to their founding myth, Hiram Abiff, the chief architect of the Temple of Solomon, was martyred when he refused to reveal the stonecutters guild’s occult ...
(I.O.G.T.), an organization with rituals and social activities similar to The Freemasons but devoted to Temperance. Catherine’s participation on The I.O.G.T. allowed her to take part in meetings, travel throughout the British Isles and to the United States and engage in animated ...
1727Franz Weichlein, composer, dies at 67 on July - 30. 1729City of Baltimore founded on July - 30. 1733On July - 30 society of Freemasons opens first American lodge in Boston 1733On July - 30 society of Freemasons opens 1st American lodge in Boston 1739On this day in history caspar W...
The revolutionary idea of a self-service grocery, where people could hunt and gather food from aisles rather than asking a clerk to fetch items from behind a counter, first came about in America. There is some debate about which was the very first, but over the years a consensus has built...