Monk
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There may be more to the "Smokey Bear" icon than meets the eye!
Could be in California:-
https://smokeybear.com/en/smokeys-history?decade=1940&item=f0b02e30
There may be more to the "Smokey Bear" icon than meets the eye!
Could be in California:-
https://smokeybear.com/en/smokeys-history?decade=1940&item=f0b02e30
Hi David, when i'm in pain, i don't swear, i say Yogi Bear, the name stuck and has become my "nickname" by my carers.
It is amusing as there is a "Naughty Yogi Bear song" on youtube, it is a bit rude so you will have to look it up yourself, LOL!
I hope in the future to open the Ancient Secret Order of Yogi Bear!
Well, there is Yogi Bear's companion, Boo-Boo Bear; and, in the U.S. at least, a boo-boo is a type of painful injury, although usually considered minor.
"Boo-Boo" could also be about a ghost who stutters!
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While the Sprague family in Rhode Island was certainly notable for their political power, it was through Harold Sprague’s mother that the family is connected to its most influential relatives. As Harold learned through his research, his mother’s side of the family could trace their lineage all the way back to Joseph Adams (1654-1736). Joseph was the uncle of founding father and statesman, Samuel Adams. Even more directly, Joseph’s grandson was John Adams, 2nd President of the United States. John Adams served as vice-president under George Washington from 1789-1797 before being elected president in 1797, serving one term. He was greatly influential as a political thinker and was one of the original signers of the Declaration of Independence. His political legacy was carried on by his son John Quincy Adams, who served as the 6th President of the United States from 1825-1829. He then had a long career as a representative in Congress (1831-1848), winning reelection eight times!
https://nationalheritagemuseum.typepad.com/library_and_archives/john-quincy-adams/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_the_United_States
To Save dispute we can say John Quincy Adams was a honorary member of the Knight's Hospitallers or the Knights Templar by being an American Ambassador and being a member of "The Middle Temple" In Lincolns Inn in London.
Benjamin Franklin HAS to be involved somehow!
Hi David,
If you are looking for "Skeleton's in Benjamin Franklin's Cupboard" perhaps link below will make you laugh:-
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smar...nklins-basement-filled-with-skeletons-524521/
Hi MonkHi David
I did write about Benjamin Franklin, my comments are below, the other question please hold fire on, i need to get through the the list of Presidents first:-
It looks like that Ben Franklin obviously was a Freemason, but i didn't know he was a Rosicrucian?
Quote below:-
Crossing the Atlantic
In the late seventeenth century, following a plan originally proposed by Francis Bacon in The New Atlantis, a colony of Rosicrucian leaders was organized to establish the Rosicrucian arts and sciences in America. In 1694 Rosicrucian settlers made the perilous journey across the Atlantic Ocean in a specially chartered vessel, the Sarah Maria, under the leadership of Johannes Kelpius, master of a Rosicrucian Lodge in Europe. Landing in Philadelphia, the colonists established their first settlement and later moved further west in Pennsylvania to Ephrata. These Rosicrucian communities made valuable contributions to the newly emerging American culture in the fields of printing, philosophy, the sciences, and arts. Later such eminent Americans as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Thomas Paine were intimately connected with the Rosicrucian community. In fact, many Rosicrucians played an important role in the great alchemical and social process leading to the founding of a new nation.
Link below:-
https://www.amorc.org/history
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Neuf_Sœurs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poor_Richard's_Almanack
Hi MonkQuote Below and Link:-
While the Sprague family in Rhode Island was certainly notable for their political power, it was through Harold Sprague’s mother that the family is connected to its most influential relatives. As Harold learned through his research, his mother’s side of the family could trace their lineage all the way back to Joseph Adams (1654-1736). Joseph was the uncle of founding father and statesman, Samuel Adams. Even more directly, Joseph’s grandson was John Adams, 2nd President of the United States. John Adams served as vice-president under George Washington from 1789-1797 before being elected president in 1797, serving one term. He was greatly influential as a political thinker and was one of the original signers of the Declaration of Independence. His political legacy was carried on by his son John Quincy Adams, who served as the 6th President of the United States from 1825-1829. He then had a long career as a representative in Congress (1831-1848), winning reelection eight times!
https://nationalheritagemuseum.typepad.com/library_and_archives/john-quincy-adams/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_the_United_States
To Save dispute we can say John Quincy Adams was a honorary member of the Knight's Hospitallers or the Knights Templar by being an American Ambassador and being a member of "The Middle Temple" In Lincolns Inn in London.
HIi MonkAndrew Jackson was the 7th President, picture of him below:-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_...s#/media/File:Grand_Master_Andrew_Jackson.jpg
I thought another interesting story is how Junius Brutus Booth
(the father of John Wilkes Booth)
threatened to assassinate Andrew Jackson.
He wrote to him on 4th July 1835,
an auspicious date for deaths of Presidents!
https://hankeringforhistory.com/junius-brutus-booth-letter-threatening-president-jackson/