Friday the 13th and the Knights Templar Many people know Friday the 13th as a day of bad luck, but few realize the date is connected to one of the most dramatic events in medieval history — the destruction of the Knights Templar. The Knights Templar were a powerful religious and military order founded in…

In the middle of the American Civil War in 1863, something extraordinary happened in St. Francisville, Louisiana.A Union naval officer, Captain John Elliot Hart, died aboard the USS Albatross. He was a Freemason, and his brethren wanted to give him a proper Masonic burial.But there was a problem, the town was Confederate territory.Under a flag…