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Freemasons

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  1. A men's fraternal organization with some religious aspects. Freemasons claim descent from the builders of the Temple in Jerusalem (see also Jerusalem).


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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

In a 17-page ruling on Tuesday, Mr Justice Chamberlain said the grounds of the proposed legal challenge were not "reasonably arguable" and that the policy was not discriminatory or "unduly stigmatising" against Freemasons.

From BBC Feb. 17, 2026

Barristers for the Met said the claim should be thrown out, telling the court that the suggestion officers would be blacklisted was "plainly wrong" and that employees were "free to become or remain Freemasons".

From BBC Feb. 17, 2026

Pike was a longtime leader of the Freemasons, a centuries-old secretive society, who paid for the statue.

From BBC Oct. 28, 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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