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. Littered in the numerous conspiracy theories that are floated online are stories of the secretive - but very real - Freemasons.

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 ...

April 19, 2006 — -- Having tackled the secretive Catholic conservative group Opus Dei, Dan Brown says he's writing his next book about the Freemasons. The Freemasons say they are simply a ...

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 ...

Myths and conspiracy theories surround the secretive order of Freemasons. But after three centuries of existence, the society is gradually opening itself to the public. On June 24, 1717, the day that ...

A SERIES of Masonic signs have been found ‘hidden’ in paintings made of Scotland’s bard Robert Burns by one of the nation’s leading painters. Tiny letters and symbols - such as a comet and hooded ...