Asked how a man may find suitable candidates for Freemasonry if it should not be advertised, Harold Voorhis of the Mystic Brotherhood Lodge in New Jersey wrote:
"By conducting ourselves in such a manner as to make other men, especially young men, want to join us in our work. We must take the teachings of the Craft into our daily lives and set an example for the uninitiated "
#Freemasonry #Freimaurerei #Masonry #2B1ASK1 #History #Literature #Society #Ethics
1922 – General election in the Irish Free State: The pro-Treaty Sinn Féin party wins a large majority.
1914 – Eleanor Sokoloff, American pianist and teacher (died 2020), born
1752 – Joseph Butler, English bishop and philosopher (born 1692), died
Data from zenquotes.io #history
New #DigitalHistory data project:
London Theatre in one hundred and forty seasons, 1660 – 1800
Playhouses, patent theatres and pleasure gardens: fifty-two thousand nights of performance, made visual.
📅 JUNE 16 📖
#OnThisDay in #history:
1487 – Battle of Stoke Field: King Henry VII of England defeats the leaders of a Yorkist rebellion in the final engagement of the Wars of the Roses.
1779 – American Revolutionary War: Spain declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the Great Siege of Gibraltar begins.
1824 – A meeting at Old Slaughter's coffee house in London leads to the formation of what is now the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA).
1903 – The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
1911 – IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.
1981 – US President Ronald Reagan awards the Congressional Gold Medal to Ken Taylor, Canada's former ambassador to Iran, for helping six Americans escape from Iran during the hostage crisis of 1979–81; he is the first foreign citizen bestowed the honor.
*Events selected are not necessarily positive/happy/to-be-celebrated, but items I thought were historically interesting and/or significant to their time and I'm trying to select items from a broad range of history and not clumped too close together.
Mausoleum of Empress Iwa no Hime. Kofun, megalithic tombs with distinctive keyhole shapes, were built in Japan from the early 3rd to the early 7th century CE. Today they are believed to be the tombs of Emperors.
#OTD (June 16) in 1989, violence erupts in the #NewEngland #Mafia. Frank #Salemme is wounded by gunmen near #Boston MA. William #Grasso is found dead near #Hartford CT.
https://www.writersofwrongs.com/2018/06/top-new-england-mobsters-targeted.html
North Sea Armed Forces Lodge
On This Day
Army Talk 64: Fascism
Conan the Sysadmin
British History Online
Tales of Many Things
Jeff Bonner
Bob the Traveler
Writers of Wrongs
Niel Bornstein