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 ...

What’s all the hype about Blue Ivy Carter’s name? Apparently, it is so significant that Jay Z and Beyoncé have tried to trademark it. Why the name ‘Blue’? People have long questioned Jay Z’s ...

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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (L-R) A copy of the King James Bible, referred to by Masons as a Volume of Sacred Law for the purposes of their meetings; The ...

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 ...