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Originally posted by nwscc
Who says Masonry is dead at different levels of Government? Take a look at the new Texas Quarter. Instead of the star being centered in the outline of Texas, it was placed towards the top. Over Waco, where the Texas Grand Lodge is.
From the U.S. Mint webpage:
On August 14, 2000, Governor George W. Bush appointed the 15-member Texas Quarter Dollar Coin Design Advisory Committee. The Committee authorized the Texas Numismatic Association to conduct a statewide design contest on its behalf. Nearly 2,600 candidate design concepts were submitted in response to a statewide contest. From those design concepts, 17 finalists were selected by the Texas Numismatic Association and presented to the Texas Quarter Dollar Coin Design Advisory Committee for review. The Committee further narrowed the submissions to the five designs that were most representative and emblematic of the State. Governor Rick Perry submitted the preferred design of the outline of Texas beneath the Lone Star and encircled by a lariat, which was approved by the Secretary of the Treasury on August 26, 2003.
Originally posted by nwscc
Who says Masonry is dead at different levels of Government? Take a look at the new Texas Quarter. Instead of the star being centered in the outline of Texas, it was placed towards the top. Over Waco, where the Texas Grand Lodge is.
Originally posted by theron dunn
He was a Skull and Bonesman in COLLEGE. Not the same thing at all...
Originally posted by dr_strangecraft
Texas is, of course the "lone star" state.
they had to put the star somewhere, right.
I mean, people expect to see a blazing star when they see texas represented on a coin.
Are you saying that Texas was originally designed to be a masonic republic? Everyone knows that is just silly. The only reason those fellows acted up at the Alamo is so that the land could be annexed by the USA a dozen years after their deaths. Everyone knows that.
Originally posted by nwscc
Positive. I used to live in Austin. Placing the Star over Austin would have been putting it almost exactly in the center of the state outline.
I don't belive in coincidences.
The Grand Lodge of Texas is an awe inspiring edifice. Pictures don't do it justice.
Texas was not annexed. We are the only State in the Union that can withdraw from the Union. We joined the United States. After the Civil War our constitution was the only one that was not ratified