Mention how the nation's capital is laid out, and someone is sure to mention the Freemasons—the secret, international order often rumored to be behind the city's planning. And not just that: Popular ...

The Masons, the storied fraternal order whose members have included Mozart, George Washington and John Wayne, has become entwined across the Deep South with the remnants of another tradition in these ...

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LANSING – Michigan Freemasons marked the 200th anniversary of the Grand Lodge of Michigan with ceremonies at the Capitol in Lansing and a bicentennial gala on June 24, drawing brothers from across the ...

Best-selling author Dan Brown's latest novel, The Lost Symbol, draws heavily on the lore and mystique of the Freemasons. A visit to one of the locations in the novel, a prominent Masonic building in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. JOHNSTOWN, Pa. – Throughout its history, Greater Johnstown Masonic Lodge No. 538 has gathered at several meeting locations, ...

It's the flat-pack furniture problem that almost all of us have faced. You open the box, trawl through its contents, lay everything out, then cross-reference the instructions. You look at them every ...

The society of Masons is a fraternity that evokes images of mysterious symbols, grand legends of King Solomon's Temple, hidden treasure and the founding fathers. It also fits right in with America's ...

Mitch Horowitz is the editor-in-chief of Tarcher/Penguin and the author of Occult America: The Secret History of How Mysticism Shaped Our Nation (Bantam). As millions of readers—not to mention anxious ...