It wasn't clear to me until I read this is on all our paper money under the pyramid.
"Novus ordo seclorum is the Latin motto suggested in 1782 by Charles Thomson, the Founding Father chosen by Continental Congress to come up with the final design for the Great Seal of the United States.
On June 20, 1782, Congress approved Thomson's design for both sides of the Great Seal, whose official description for the reverse side specifies:
"On the base of the pyramid the numerical letters MDCCLXXVI &
underneath the following motto. 'novus ordo seclorum'"
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Yep. And the translation of Novus Ordo Seclorum is "A new order of the ages." "Thomson said it was to signify "the beginning of the new American Era" as of the date of the Declaration of Independence."
It wasn't clear to me until I read this is on all our paper money under the pyramid.
"Novus ordo seclorum is the Latin motto suggested in 1782 by Charles Thomson, the Founding Father chosen by Continental Congress to come up with the final design for the Great Seal of the United States.
On June 20, 1782, Congress approved Thomson's design for both sides of the Great Seal, whose official description for the reverse side specifies:
"On the base of the pyramid the numerical letters MDCCLXXVI & underneath the following motto. 'novus ordo seclorum'" "
Washington and many others were Freemasons.
Yep. And the translation of Novus Ordo Seclorum is "A new order of the ages." "Thomson said it was to signify "the beginning of the new American Era" as of the date of the Declaration of Independence."