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  2. Masonry - Wikipedia

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    Masonry is the craft of building a structure with brick, stone, or similar material, including mortar plastering which are often laid in, bound, ...

  3. Bricklayer - Wikipedia

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    Bricklaying is a part of masonry. [4] Bricklaying may also be enjoyed as a hobby. For example, the former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill did bricklaying as a hobby. [5] Bricklayers occasionally enter competitions where both speed and accuracy are judged. The largest is the "Spec-Mix Bricklayer 500" held annually in Las Vegas, Nevada ...

  4. Freemasonry - Wikipedia

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    Freemasonry (sometimes spelled Free-Masonry) [1] [2] [3] or simply Masonry includes various fraternal organisations that trace their origins to the local guilds of stonemasons that, from the end of the 14th century, regulated the qualifications of stonemasons and their interaction with authorities and clients. Freemasonry is the oldest ...

  5. Masonic Landmarks - Wikipedia

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    The first major attempt to define the landmarks of Freemasonry was in 1858, when Albert Mackey (1807–1881) defined 25 landmarks in total: [6] The fraternal modes of recognition; The division of Masonry into 3 symbolic degrees; The symbolic legend of Hiram Abiff; The government of the fraternity by a Grand Master

  6. Quoin - Wikipedia

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    Quoins (/ k ɔɪ n / or / k w ɔɪ n /) are masonry blocks at the corner of a wall. [1] Some are structural, providing strength for a wall made with inferior stone or rubble , [ 2 ] while others merely add aesthetic detail to a corner. [ 3 ]

  7. English Pronouncing Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    The English Pronouncing Dictionary (EPD) was created by the British phonetician Daniel Jones and was first published in 1917. [1] It originally comprised over 50,000 headwords listed in their spelling form, each of which was given one or more pronunciations transcribed using a set of phonemic symbols based on a standard accent.

  8. Lake Street Dive Still Has a Dive Bar Heart - AOL

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    Singer Rachael Price and drummer Mike Calabrese of Lake Street Dive are in Cleveland, Ohio, hours before their band’s show at the TempleLive Cleveland Masonic, a 2,200-seat theater known for its ...

  9. Shibboleth - Wikipedia

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    The pronunciation of the name of the letter H is a related shibboleth, with Catholics pronouncing it as "haitch" and Protestants often pronouncing the letter differently. [30] During the Black July riots of Sri Lanka in 1983, many Tamils were massacred by Sinhalese youths.