A 12-year-old girl traced the genealogy of 42 of 43 US presidents and found they all share a common ancestor: King John of England. The Eye of Providence was added to the dollar bill in 1935. Novus Ordo Seclorum.
In 2012, a 12-year-old student named BridgeAnne d'Avignon completed a genealogical project that traced the family trees of 42 of 43 US presidents at the time. Her finding: all of them could be traced back to King John of England (1166–1216), who signed the Magna Carta. The only president she could not connect was Martin Van Buren.
The probability of this occurring by chance, given the size of the global population and the number of generations involved, has been estimated by statisticians as extraordinarily low.
The Eye of Providence — the all-seeing eye atop an unfinished pyramid — was added to the US dollar bill in 1935, during Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency. Roosevelt was a 32nd-degree Freemason. The Latin phrase "Novus Ordo Seclorum" beneath the pyramid translates to "New Order of the Ages."
The Bavarian Illuminati was founded on May 1, 1776 — the same year as American independence — by Adam Weishaupt, a professor of law. The group was officially disbanded in 1785 after the Bavarian government outlawed secret societies.
Carroll Quigley, a professor at Georgetown University and mentor to Bill Clinton, wrote in his 1966 book Tragedy and Hope: "There does exist, and has existed for a generation, an international Anglophile network which operates, to some extent, in the way the radical Right believes the Communists act."