musicology1985;855866 said:
You are such a lame. You make the brothers involved in Freemasonry look bad.
LOL, you want me to confirm that the "spread" of obelisks is because of freemasonry? Sorry, cant do that, because there is nothing to suggest it. Who is this partner you speak of? Name, names... Also, you really should start doing some basic fact finding before making blanket statements.
17th century
Fontaine des Quatre Dauphins in Aix-en-Provence.
Aix-en-Provence – Fontaine des Quatre Dauphins, 1667
18th century
St Luke Old Street (church), London, spire by Nicholas Hawksmoor circa 1727-33.
Mamhead obelisk, one hundred feet, built 1742-1745 as an aid to shipping.[23]
Stowe School, Buckinghamshire – General Wolfe's Obelisk, 1754
Montreal Park Obelisk, Riverhead, Sevenoaks, Kent - Lord Jeffery Amherst's Obelisk, 1761.[24]
Kagul Obelisk in Tsarskoe Selo, 1772
Chesma Obelisk in Gatchina, 1775
Villa Medici, Rome – a 19th century copy of the Egyptian obelisk moved to the Boboli Gardens in Florence in 1790.
Rumyantsev Obelisk in St Petersburg, 1799
Obelisk at Slottsbacken, Stockholm, erected 1800
19th century
Nelson memorial, Springfield Park, Liverpool, circa 1805.
"Brightling Needle", Brightling, East Sussex (65 ft), circa 1815.[25]
Patriots' Grave, Old Burying Ground, Arlington, Massachusetts (1818).
Captain Cook's Monument, Easby Moor, Great Ayton, North Yorkshire, 1827 (15.5m, 51ft).[26]
Groton Monument at (Fort Griswold), Groton, Connecticut, 1830, (41.15m, 135ft)
Bunker Hill Monument, Charlestown, Massachusetts – built between 1827 and 1843.
Villa Torlonia, Rome – two obelisks erected 1842.
Reggio Emilia obelisk, commemorates marriage of Francis V, Duke of Modena to princess Adelgunde of Bavaria, built 1842.
Rutherford's Monument near Anwoth, Scotland erected in 1842 as a memorial to Samuel Rutherford.
The Political Martyrs monument, Edinburgh, erected 1844 as a memorial to the "Scottish Martyrs to Liberty".
Lansdowne Monument, near the Cherhill White Horse, Wiltshire, 1845, 38 metres, erected by the 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne to commemorate Sir William Petty.[27]
Newcastle, New South Wales – "The Obelisk", built 1850.
Wellington Monument, Wellington, Somerset, completed 1854, (53.34m, 175ft).
Stoodley Pike, Todmorden, West Yorkshire, built 1856.
Obelisk of Fontenoy, 1860.
Wellington Monument, 1861, (62m, 205ft), Phoenix Park, Dublin, Ireland.
Lincoln's Tomb in Springfield, Illinois, 1865, (35.66m, 117ft).
Nicholson's obelisk, Margalla Hills, Pakistan 1868.
Captain Cook Obelisk, Kurnell, New South Wales, 1870.
The Dauphin County Veteran's Memorial Obelisk in Harrisburg, PA, completed 1876, (33.52m, 110ft).
All those came before the Washington monument. I know you believe or want to believe masonry is responsible for everything, and as cool as that would be for me, its simply not true.
As far as Washington goes, you tell me if there is something else I'm leaving out about him? Ya know, since I'm into "hiding" things? You just dont like the fact that I'll speak about things in their full context rather than some limited view that only caters to what I want it to be.