The Lost Symbol

Prologue:

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Chapter 1:

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Falcon 2000EX

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The Washington Monument

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Dulles International Airport to the US Capitol Building

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Chapter 2:

Moko scars of the modern Maori

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U.S. Capitol Building

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possible tattoos

 

Chapter 3:

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Chapter 4:

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Chapter 5:

SMSC: 4210 Silver Hill Road

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Chapter 6:

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Chapter 7: no visuals, setting back at 4210 Silver Hill Road as in Chapter 5.

Chapter 8-9:

National Statuary Hall

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Chapter 10:

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Capitol Rotunda: https://goo.gl/maps/28uTFHrq6PwBJSnR8

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Manikin Hand

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Chapter 11:

ALH84001 – Mars Meteorite, Sitting Bull’s handwritten pictographic diary sample, Specimens in wax sealed Ball jars?

 

Chapter 13:

Capitol Rotunda Dome

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hand of the mysteries

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Chapter 14:

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Chapter 15:

Ancient string theory, 10 dimensions

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Chapter 16:

33rd Scottish Rite ring

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Chapter 17:

Vitiligo

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Chapter 20:

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Remnants of circular railing

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4 pointed star in the crypt below the Great Rotunda

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Chapter 21:

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Minerva, Roman goddess of wisdom and art, with Ben Franklin, Samuel Morse, and Robert Fulton.6237208477_b74328c8e9_b

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Neptune, Roman god of the sea, and Venus, who was born of the sea, help lay the transatlantic cable with a steamship in the background.6237219689_0cd62c88a1_b

Ceres, Roman god of agriculture, sits atop a McCormick reaper while an allegorical figure of America leads the horses and the goddess Flora picks flowers.Screen Shot 2020-01-15 at 4.15.49 PM.png

Mercury, Roman god of commerce, hands gold to the financier of the Revolution, Robert Morris.6237208285_dbce856103_b

Columbia as a goddess of war, accompanied by a bald eagle carrying arrows and a thunderbolt. Together, they are running over the allegorical figures of Tyranny and Kingly Power.6237731856_797da62eec_h

The Last Supper, The admiration of the Magi, and St. John the Baptist, works by Leonardo Da Vinci:AdobeStock_261752112-2Screen-Shot-2019-12-22-at-6.29.13-PM

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Chapter 22:

Three graces by Michael Parkes

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Chapter 23:

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Chapter 25:

Lord’s House of Glory across the the street from SMSC

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Chapter 28:

US Capitol Crypt

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Ground Floor (S, H Level), the pink highlighted rooms are the three Langdon call out as he passes, S152, S153, S154

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Chapter 30

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Chapter 32:

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Chapter 35:

The Great Seal of the United States (front/back)

Sub-Basement

Note, on the blueprint I found, these rooms are not labeled SBB, but rather HSB 1-5 and SSB 1-5. I assume that acronym stand for House Sub-Basement and Senate Sub-Basement and that Brown took some fictional liberties here. I removed the room identifiers and replaced with labels from the story.

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Chapter 37:

Smithsonian’s giant squid at the Natural History Museum, this one is only 25 feet long.

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Chapter 38:

Example of a Chamber of reflection:

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Chapter 39:

unfinished pyramid, part of the great seal of the US, on the back of the $1 bill

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The now finished tunnel to the Library of Congress:

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Chapter 46:

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Library of Congress Great Hall

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The Gutenberg Bible and the Giant Bible of Mainz display cases with the six panels of John White Alexanders “Evolution of the Book”

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New Gutenberg Bible display case (2018)

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Main Reading Room

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Chapter 48:

Moses statue in the LOC Main Reading Room

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Chapter 62:

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Chapter 63:

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Shadow House Gazebo

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Chapter 64:

The
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within The Order

Chapter 68:

Works by Albrecht Dürer: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1498), Young Hare (1502), Adam and Eve (the Fall of Man) (1504), The Feast of the Rosary (1506), Praying Hands (1508), The Rhinoceros (1515)

Melencolia I (1514), Albrecht Dürer

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Chapter 69:

US Botanical Gardens

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Chapter 70:

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JEOVA SANCTUS UNUS

Chapter 71:

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Chapter 73:

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Chapter 75:

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Chapter 76:

Freedom Plaza:

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Chapter 78:

The George Washington Masonic National Memorial

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Website: https://gwmemorial.org/

Chapter 79:

Metro Center Station, Blue/Yellow, Orange, and Red Lines

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Washington National Cathedral

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Chapter 80:

Order of the Eastern Star

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Chapter 82:

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The pink line is straight, the blue line shows how the central aisle curves slightly to the left.

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rood screen and reredos

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Chapter 84:

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Chapter 85:

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JEOVA SANCTUS UNUS
ISAACUS  NEUTONUUS

Chapter 89:

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Chapter 92:

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Chapter 93

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Chapter 94:

Kalorama Heights Neighborhood

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Chapter 97:

St. Peter’s Square Obelisk

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Chapter 97:

https://www.almasshriners.org/

Chapter 98:

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Chapter 99:

Almas Shrine Temple

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Shriners in parades…

Chapter 102:

Examples of alchemical, astrological, heraldic, angelic, magical, numeric, sigilic, Greek, and Latin symbols:

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Chapter 111:

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Diffusion and Increase

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https://www.si.edu/museums

Chapter 113-114

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Heredom, eta, epsilon, rho, epsilon, delta, omicron, mu

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Chapter 115:

House of the Temple

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The Temple Room:

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Chapter 116:

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Chapter 117:

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Freemason initiate

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Full Masonic Regalia

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Potomac Lodge No. 5, https://www.potomac5.org/

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Chapter 120:

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Chapter 121:

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Chapter 122:

The circumpunct:

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Chapter 125:

House of the Temple Library, reading desk

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Chapter 127:

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Chapter 128-129:

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Reproduction of the apex in the visitor’s center, describing the Laus Deo is on the east side, facing the rising sun.

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Laus Deo, praise god

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West view from Washington Monument

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Parthenon, Lincoln Memorial

South view from the Washington Monument

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Pantheon, Jefferson Memorial

Durer’s Melencolia I, once again

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Chapter 131:

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Chapter 133:

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Epilogue:

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The End.