This Founding Father said of the revolution: “We must hang together, gentlemen... else we shall most assuredly hang separately.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
This refers to the drinking of a toast and slamming the glass on the table.
What is firing?
He was the second man to step on the moon in 1969.
Who is Buzz Aldrin?
This Mason was the greatest American ace pilot in World War I.
Who is Eddie Rickenbacker?
This common symbol consists of two equilateral triangles interconnected.
What is the Star of David?
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He was the first signer of the Declaration of Independence and signed with a bold signature so that “King George III may read it without putting on his glasses”.
Who is John Hancock?
These men made fun of Masons with their own processional march including asses and kettledrums on St. Johns the Baptist day in 1741.
Who were the Mock Masons or Scald Miserable Masons?
This Lodge meeting took place in one of the most remote spots on earth. Where is it?
What is Antarctic 1947?
This Mason commanded the Armed Forces in the Philippines.
Who is Douglas McArthur?
This tool is used to “coax” a stone into the proper position.
What is the setting Maul?
He had a strange combination of professional interests that included botany and law.
Who is Roscoe Pound?
He said this of the government he helped found: “Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
Who is George Washington?
This famous Masonic author conducted his own Masonic funeral.
Who is Harold V. B. Voorhis?
These kinds of Lodges meet only before or after a full moon.
What is a Moon Lodge?
This Masonic organization was formed during World War I to aid Masons overseas.
What is the Masonic Service Association?
Brother love, relief and truth are 3 of the things found on this symbol.
What is Jacob’s ladder?
His Masonic membership is questionable but this quote is not: “Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me death!
Who is Patrick Henry?
Where can the “Lodge of the Holy Saints John” be found?
Nowhere, it is a construct of ritual.
This member of the Lodge traditionally carries a “flaming” sword.
Who is the Tyler?
A member of Lincoln Lodge # 19, he was the commander of the American Expeditionary Force.
Who is General John J. Pershing?
These two items were once necessary to “draw the Lodge”.
What is chalk and charcoal?
These were the last words of this Founding Father: “It is well, I die hard, but I am not afraid to go.”
Who is George Washington?
From the time of the American Revolution until 1859, attempts were made to create this kind of Lodge in America.
What is the General Grand Lodge for the United States?
He may have just moved to Canada or perhaps even the Bahamas.
Who is William Morgan?
These Masons wore a “blue forget me not” pin in order to recognize each other.
Who were the German Masons during World War II?
Not strictly a Masonic only symbol, this symbol appears also on the back of a dollar bill.
What is the All Seeing Eye?