LODGE FAIHA, No.1311 (BASRAH, IRAQ)

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All Freemasons, and the Scots are no exceptions, love to decorate all sorts of items with Masonic symbols.

It is almost as if the old army adage of: ‘If it moves salute it, if it is stationary, paint it’ applies to Freemasonry.

Eddie Rickenbacker – Freemason, successful race car driver, fighter pilot, airline executive, wartime advisor, and elder statesman

Eddie Rickenbacker   Freemason, successful race car driver, fighter pilot, airline executive, wartime advisor, and elder statesman

The American Ace of Aces, Eddie Rickenbacker, was an Freemason and a successful race car driver, fighter pilot, airline executive, wartime advisor, and elder statesman. Few aces achieved so much in so many different lifetime roles.

His twenty-six aerial victories came in only two months of combat flying, a spectacular achievement.

Freemasonry and the Cape of Good Hope

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The Southern point of Africa, the Cape of Good Hope, was opened up by the Dutch East India Company as a trading station to supply ships on the route to the East Indies with fresh produce. Freemasonry in the Netherlands, founded in 1756, was expanding rapidly and, with many masters of ships being Freemasons, it was natural for a Lodge to be founded at this halfway station under the banner of the Grand East of the Netherlands (G.E.N.).

Freemasons donation bolsters Cultural Center

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Four Rivers Cultural Center recently received a $750 donation for its capital campaign from the Ontario’s Acacia Masonic Lodge No. 118. In this photo, Matt Stringer, executive director of the Cultural Center, bottom center, stands among members of the Acacia Lodge during the check presentation.