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Macbook Pro
iMac
Some slapped together PC for a media server
Back in the day when I built my own..this was my pride and joy. Liquid cooled and pimped out...hah
Barbadian-born Prince Hall spent the first thirty five years of his life enslaved. Twenty one of those years he was owned by William Hall who brought him to Boston in 1765. Prince Hall was finally manumitted in 1770. He quickly became a leader of the small African American community in the...
Born on July 14, 1919, in Scottsville, Virginia, Eugene Allen was an African-American butler who served under eight U.S. presidents, including Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy and Jimmy Carter. He witnessed firsthand some of history's major events, as well as the changing perspectives on race in...
ilverton lodge is the oldest on Western Slope.
After 135 years in Silverton, the oldest Masonic Lodge on the Western Slope of Colorado is closing its doors and auctioning off its building — and perhaps the building’s contents — on Aug. 3. Lodge officials blame the closure on declining...
A fellow is misrepresenting the facts, of course, when he wears a Square and Compasses when he has not yet finished the first three degrees. Usually a little reasoning convinces these fellows that they are not helping themselves nor the Fraternity by being forehanded and over enthusiastic. I...
Sam Houston was born in Timber Ridge Church, Rockbridge County, Virginia on March 3, 1793. His family moved to Tennessee in the Spring of 1807. His father had suffered some financial hardship and had sold their farm in Virginia. He passed away before the family moved to Tennessee. The family...
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"The couple lived happily in The General's Bridgeport home for 20 years. Tom Thumb grew portly; he also grew extravagant. He owned a sailing sloop, pedigreed horses, and a carriage and driver. He was a 32nd Degree Mason and a Knight...
The first Masonic Lodge in Texas was formed in March of 1835, approximately a year before Texas declared independence from Mexico. Although there were Masons in Mexico - Santa Anna was a Mason - the Catholic church frowned on Freemasonry. Therefore, the first lodge was formed in secret.
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A few years ago my Father and I took a trip to Israel to visit the numerous Holy Sites. At one stop, a man who was a member of our entourage, asked to see my ring and within seconds began to test me. It turns out that he was a Past Master of a Lodge in South Africa. I'll never forget it.