Born Adolph, he changed his name to Arthur during World War I but was known professionally as Harpo. The second oldest of the four Marx brothers comedy team, Harpo rarely if ever spoke while in ...

William John Chetwode Crawley, for many years Head Master of the Queen’s Service Acadamy, Dublin, was, after a lengthy university career, elected a life member of the senate of Trinity College, Dublin ...

In 1882 Samuel Mathers was admitted to the Rosicrucian Society of England (SRIA) where he met Dr. Woodman and Dr. Westcott who commissioned his English translation of Knorr Von Rosenroth’s Latin ...

Johann Christopher Friedrich von Schiller’s major poetic and dramatic works — Die Räuber (1782), Don Carlos (1787), Wallenstein Stuart (1800) and Wilhelm Tell (1804) — all express a yearning for ...

Founder of the Red Cross, a founder of the Young Men’s Christian Association, and co-winner of the first Nobel Prize for Peace in 1901, he also worked to bring about the 1864 Geneva Convention. In Un ...

Born in Newry, Ireland, at the age of ten he moved to Quebec City with his parents. He was called to the bar in Canada East in 1858 and three years later in Upper Canada. Moving to the Cariboo in 1862 ...

Abraham Stoker was born near Dublin, Ireland, graduating from Trinity College with honours in mathematics. In 1872, Stoker published his first melodrama, The Crystal Cup, a dream fantasy. While ...

Check and enquire from your Worshipful Master if your lodge has at least one representative, but preferably two, to the Vancouver Masonic Bureau so the brethren can be informed through your Worshipful ...

With four friends, school teacher and federal government employee, Justus Henry Rathbone founded the Order of Pythias on 15 February 1864, based on "Damon and Pythias", a dramatic play by Irish poet ...