More Honorable than the Garter

More Honorable than the Garter

Jean II found an order of chivalry modeled on the Knights of the Round Table. The Order of the Star was intended revive French prestige, and weld the splintered loyalty of his nobles to the Valois monarchy.

Safe Bee Colony Relocation

Safe Bee Colony Relocation

135 years after the Freemasons erected their stately lodge in Petaluma, builders of another kind — European honeybees — have spent the summer constructing a home of their own amid the hall’s elaborate parapets.