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American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
Several well-documented Founding Fathers were Freemasons — most prominently George Washington and Benjamin Franklin — and Masonic lodges in colonial America included figures such as Paul Revere, John ...
Several Founding Fathers explicitly referenced Islam or Muslims in their writings and public actions: Thomas Jefferson owned a Qur’an and studied Islam’s texts; Benjamin Franklin mentioned “the Mufti ...
Most of the principal Founding Fathers were culturally Protestant but held a spectrum of personal beliefs from orthodox Christianity to Deism, and those differences shaped the Constitution by promotin...
Contemporary Masonic accounts and some historians disagree on how many Declaration signers were Freemasons: some Masonic institutions list eight or nine confirmed signers (examples include Benjamin Fr...
The claim landscape shows two consistent assertions: , and , while counterclaims stress limited direct institutional influence on policy. The collected analyses emphasize individual Masonic membership...
President Biden’s team made modest functional and decorative changes to the White House during his tenure, including updates to the and interior redecorations such as curtains, rugs, family photos, an...
Freemasonry was one of several intellectual currents available to 18th‑century American elites and several prominent Founders—most notably George Washington and Benjamin Franklin—were Freemasons, acti...
At least nine signers of the U.S. Constitution are widely described in museum and Masonic scholarship as “conclusively documented” Freemasons, while other reputable accounts expand that list to 13 or ...
is reported to have said, "A republic, if you can keep it," when asked about the government created by the as he departed in 1787, a line preserved in the diary of delegate and reiterated by many hist...
Historians and fact-checkers have identified multiple specific historical or factual claims tied to Charlie Kirk that are false or misleading — notably his promotion of creationism (claiming Darwin ha...
Joe and Jill Biden's early White House changes after the 2020 transition were modest and largely restorative: they removed or replaced a few Trump-era display choices, returned to more traditional fur...
Thomas Jefferson’s dealings with the Barbary States—diplomatic missions in the 1780s and naval action as president in 1801–05—shaped him to view the North African corsairs as a political and commercia...
Freemasonry counted a notable minority of Revolutionary-era leaders: multiple sources report that about 8–15 signers of the Declaration and roughly 13 of the 39 Constitution signers were Freemasons, a...
A modest but unmistakable cohort of ’s revolutionaries were : and are the clearest examples, while several signers of the Declaration and a handful of other prominent patriots have verifiable Masonic ...
The phrase “Don’t Tread on Me” emerged from a longer, older colonial visual language: ’s mid‑18th century rattlesnake imagery helped seed a symbol of colonial unity, and crystallized that imagery into...
does not yield a single definitive roster: Masonic and historical sources converge on a core group but disagree about several names because of incomplete 18th‑century lodge records and differing stand...
is credited with inventing —designing and installing the first practical system in 1902 to control temperature and humidity, later winning patents and publishing the psychrometric theory that underpin...
At least nine signers of the U.S. Constitution can be documented as Freemasons, but historians disagree about additional names because of gaps in lodge records, varying definitions of “Mason,” and lat...
Freemasonry is a centuries-old fraternal movement that grew out of medieval stonemasons' guilds and became a formalized, speculative fraternity in Britain in the early 18th century . It presents itsel...
Documented links between prominent American politicians and Freemasonry are well established in historical accounts: multiple U.S. presidents and leading founding-era figures belonged to Masonic lodge...