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.

BARTOW - Inside the Bartow Masonic Temple, a lodge of Freemasons, are displayed photos of past leaders of this local group of civic-minded men. The photo gallery of "Worshipful Masters," meaning ...

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON -- At every corner, beneath you and above you and to all sides, the inscrutably familiar symbolism of the Freemason organization is hidden in plain sight. This historic home is like a ...

Freemasons have the jitters. They fear that the District of Columbia, rich in Masonic history and symbolism, will be in the cross hairs of the coming sequel to Dan Brown’s bestseller, The Da Vinci ...

A series of Masonic signs have been found “hidden” in paintings of Scotland’s bard Robert Burns. Tiny letters and symbols – such as a comet and hooded figures – have been painted in minute detail ...

Specialist Jerry Brannigan noticed the tiny marks on a picture of The Bard after it was cleaned up MASONIC symbols “hidden” in a portait of Robert Burns have been uncovered for the first time. The ...

Stunning portrait of the poet thought to be hiding a secret that's gone unnoticed for 230 years A series of Masonic signs have been found “hidden” in paintings of Scotland’s bard Robert Burns. Tiny ...