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...club, but by 1717 had evolved into an engine of the European Enlightenment. Its members were committed to egalitarianism, civic participation and other ideals expressed through tropes of the stoneworkers trade: the square for straightforward virtue; the compass to circumscribe one's passions; the plumb line to stay upright. There was little religion but much ritual, which enraged churchmen and engaged conspiracy theorists, who still flood the Web with Masonic villainies, but it posed no problem for the Deists, who frequented the Continental Congress. Benjamin Franklin joined in Philadelphia and later guided Voltaire through the order's mysteries. Colonial lodges...
...finally made it to an upright position. I ran as fast as I could around to the front of the motel. I saw a car with people in it and screamed at them to help me, but they sped away. I ran into the motel office and got the night guard. As we ran back to my mother, I screamed at the guard to run faster and yelled "Mom! I got help! We're coming...
...mystically precise likeness of Jesus' head. But Wilson cites a 13th century memoir by a French soldier, housed in the Royal Library in Copenhagen, that appears to describe it as a whole body ("there was the shroud in which Our Lord had been wrapped, which every Friday raised itself upright, so that one could see the figure of Our Lord on it"). Existing crease marks, says Wilson, explain the way in which today's shroud might be folded to display only the head but unfolded for the benefit of special viewers. He then creates a plausible chronology for the image...
...prices and added seats to Pro Air destinations, including Baltimore, Md.; Newark, N.J.; and Indianapolis, Ind. Under this assault, Pro Air recently abandoned one of its Indianapolis routes, as well as a $69 one-way trip to Milwaukee, Wis. Before you could say "Put your tray tables in their upright and locked position," Northwest jacked up some Milwaukee seats to more than $200, according...
...level of boredomor depression. Kicking the audience into actionwith a cool pairing of freestyle rap and funk,B-Side infused the Pforzheimer dining hall withmood melody like it had never experienced before.Key to B-Side's performance were the sleekstylings of the Rhodes keyboard player, the punchytones of the upright bass and the drivingexactness of the percussionist, all infused with afreestyle rap intuition that few groups can calltheir...