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 ...

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.

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 ...

INDIANAPOLIS — A man reportedly walked into the Scottish Rite Cathedral on Monday morning and vandalized the nearly 100-year-old cathedral. He didn't stop there. With spray-paint in hand, the vandal ...

Elgin officials will attempt to preserve the Masonic symbols on a historic city building after they are removed by the church that now owns it. At issue are images of a square, compass and the letter ...

In 1854, US Commodore Matthew Perry landed at Hakodate, Hokkaidō, in the northern part of Japan. Two members of his crew who had died from disease were buried on the slopes of Mount Hakodate—the ...

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 ...

I have been kept abreast on the ongoing saga pertaining to the church steeple mentioned on your website. I would like to advise a few facts which may or may not clarify your thinking. My qualification ...

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 ...