More than 250 Scottish Rite Masons and guests gathered in their House of the Temple to pay tribute to their most prominent leader, Albert Pike, who headed the Scottish Rite from 1859 to 1891.

Albert Pike has often been named as influential in the early Ku Klux Klan, being named in 1905 as " the chief judicial officer " of the Klan by a sympathetic historian of the early Klan, Walter Fleming.

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After his death these appeared again in Gen. Albert Pike ’ s Poems ( 1900 ) and Lyrics and Love Songs ( 1916 ).

* Smith, Dean E. " Pike, Albert " in Historical Times Illustrated History of the Civil War, edited by Patricia L. Faust.

* Albert Pike: Hero or Scoundrel?

* Albert Pike commemorative Masonic Lodge-Located in Denver CO

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In what is known as the Taxil hoax, he claimed that supposedly leading Freemason Albert Pike had addressed " The 23 Supreme Confederated Councils of the world " ( an invention of Taxil ), instructing them that Lucifer was God, and was in opposition to the evil god Adonai.

Apologists of Freemasonry contend that, when Albert Pike and other Masonic scholars spoke about the " Luciferian path ," or the " energies of Lucifer ," they were referring to the Morning Star, the light bearer, the search for light ; the very antithesis of dark, satanic evil.

* James Albert Pike 1952-1958

Henry, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, then took command of the troops of the league, and after Albert had been placed under the imperial ban in December 1553 he was defeated by Duke Henry, and compelled to flee to France.

# Count Albert of Ballenstedt ( died after 6 December 1172 )

On December 30, 1918, Capone married Mae Josephine Coughlin, who was Irish Catholic and who, earlier that month, had given birth to their first son, Albert Francis (" Sonny ") Capone.

Although very small amounts of berkelium were possibly produced in previous nuclear experiments, it was first intentionally synthesized, isolated and identified in December 1949 by Glenn T. Seaborg, Albert Ghiorso and Stanley G. Thompson.

* Albert W. Small, The Special Fish Report ( December, 1944 ) describe the operation of Colossus to break Tunny messages

Einsteinium was first identified in December 1952 by Albert Ghiorso and co-workers at the University of California, Berkeley in collaboration with the Argonne and Los Alamos National Laboratories, in the fallout from the Ivy Mike nuclear test.

Francis Albert " Frank " Sinatra,, ( December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998 ) was an American singer and film actor.

* 1942 September – A small group of Gibraltarians, who remained in the town serving in the British Army, joined a mechanic official, Albert Risso, to create ' The Gibraltarians Association ', the starting point of what became the Association for the Advancement of Civil Rights ( officially established in December that year ), the first political party in Gibraltar.

Menachen Begin was called a terrorist and a fascist by Albert Einstein and 27 other prominent Jewish intellectuals in a letter to the New York Times which was published on December 4, 1948.

The Downing Street Declaration was issued on 15 December 1993 by Major and Albert Reynolds, the Irish Taoiseach, with whom he had a friendly relationship: an IRA ceasefire followed in 1994.

* Albert Frederick ( 29 April 1582 – 3 December 1600 )

The foundation stone was laid by Prince George of Wales and Prince Albert Victor on 4 July and the stand opened in December that year.

* Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, British prince consort, Queen Victoria's husband, died of typhoid fever on 14 December 1861.

* December 30 – Congolese troops capture Albert Kalonji of South Kasai ( who soon escapes ).

* December 14 – Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria ( b. 1819 )

* December – Holy Roman Emperor Rudolph I of Germany invests his sons Albert I of Germany and Rudolph II of Austria as co-rulers of the duchies of Austria and Styria, thus founding the Habsburg dynasty in those territories.

* December 19 – Mileva Maric, Albert Einstein's first wife ( d. 1948 )

* December 10 – Albert Schweitzer is given the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize.

Prince Albert becomes King George VI in December 1936 after the abdication of his older brother, Edward VIII.

* December 19 – Albert Abraham Michelson, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1931 )

* December 29 – John Albert Vasa, Polish bishop ( b. 1612 )

The Metropolitan Opera staged the work for the first time on 26 December 1900 with Nellie Melba as Mimì, Annita Occhiolini-Rizzini as Musetta, Albert Saléza as Rodolfo, Giuseppe Campanari as Marcello, and Luigi Mancinelli conducting.

# Albert II ( 12 December 1298, Vienna – 20 July 1358, Vienna ).

Kate McGarrigle's song about the legend was one of the last things she wrote prior to her death, and received its only performance at her last concert at Royal Albert Hall in December 2009.