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Rome, Maryland, was the original name of a community within Prince George's County, Maryland, which would eventually become Washington, District of Columbia. Specifically, Rome was the original community name of Capitol Hill, upon which the United States Capitol Building sits.
Redrawn from an early 18th century watercolor. (Artist Unknown.) The original drawings from which this plate was taken is designated the hand of the philosopher which is extended to those who enter into the mysteries.
Remember that scene in "Raiders of the Lost Ark," in which the object of all that sweat and action, the legendary Ark of the Covenant, was in the end filed away and presumably forgotten among rows and rows of holdings in some endless underground warehouse?
It seems that in The Lost Symbol Washington has been working with Arnold and passing secrets to the British. But why on earth would Washington want to subvert the cause of American freedom?
The lodge room of the Naval Masonic Hall is a colourful and somewhat inscrutable sight for the nonmember, with its blue walls, Egyptian symbols, checkered floor in the centre and high ceiling painted with gold stars.