Freemasons
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Scientists from the Robinson Research Institute, the School of Biomedicine, and the Freemasons Centre for Male Health and Wellbeing studied how space-like conditions affect sperm navigation, fertilization, and early embryo development.
From Science Daily • Mar. 29, 2026
More than 300 Metropolitan Police officers and staff have declared their involvement in the Freemasons or other "hierarchical associations" after the force required them to do so last month, a High Court judge has said.
From BBC • Jan. 13, 2026
Freemasons wear symbolic aprons and progress through degrees of membership, with the phrase "giving someone the third degree" originating from its final stage of initiation.
From BBC • Sep. 29, 2025
The 2021 report said police officers' membership of the Freemasons had been "a source of recurring suspicion and mistrust in the investigations".
From BBC • Sep. 29, 2025
In the winter of 1807, thirteen like-minded souls in London got together at the Freemasons Tavern at Long Acre, in Covent Garden, to form a dining club to be called the Geological Society.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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