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  Bro Lowell Jackson Thomas (April 6, 1892 – August 29, 1981) Bro Lowell Jackson Thomas (April 6, 1892 – August 29, 1981) was an American writer, broadcaster, and documentary filmmaker, known as a world traveler. He authored more than fifty non-fiction books, mostly travel narratives and popular biographies of explorers and military men. Between 1930 and the mid-1970s.  Lowell Thomas in Arabia, 1918 He was a member of St. John's Lodge in Boston, Massachusetts, which is one of the oldest Masonic lodges in North America. Thomas is listed among other notable Masons such as Paul Revere, Henry Ford, and George Washington.  Thomas was especially known for the writings and documentary films that turned T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) into an international celebrity.  Thomas shot dramatic footage of Lawrence in Arab dress, then returned to America and began giving public lectures in 1919 on the war in Palestine, "supported by moving pictures of veiled women, Arabs in the...

  Bro Melvin Jerome Blanc, born Blank on the 30th May 1908 in San Francisco, California USA, was an American voice actor and radio personality whose career spanned over 60 years. During the Golden Age of Radio, he provided character voices and vocal sound effects for comedy radio programs. Bro Blanc was referred to as “The Man with a Thousand Voices” was the voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Tweety, Sylvester, Yosemite Sam, Foghorn Leghorn, the Tasmanian Devil, and numerous other characters from the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies theatrical cartoons.  Blanc also voiced the Looney Tunes characters Porky Pig and Elmer Fudd along with the voice of Hanna-Barbera's television cartoons, including Barney Rubble and Dino on The Flintstones, Mr. Spacely on The Jetsons, Secret Squirrel on The Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show, the title character of Speed Buggy, and Captain Caveman on Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels and The Flintstone Kids. Bro Blanc joined Mid-Day Lodge No.188 in Port...