Secret societies use secrecy as a way to attract members by creating a sense of importance.
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America's Secret Establishment (ISBN 0-937765-02-3) is a 1986 book by Hoover Institution scholar Antony C. Sutton in which, among other things, he details the business and political network of secret society Skull and Bones and its parent, the Russell Trust Association.
The murder at Sarajevo in Bosnia by Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb nationalist, Austrian subject and member of Young Bosnia (a secret society ), was the reason why this ultimatum was made.
Charles James Freeborn was a graduate of Yale University in 1899, where he was a member of the St. Elmo Society.
In 1941 McMurtry was initiated into the Minerval and I° of Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.), a secret society headed at the time by Aleister Crowley.
In 1843 he became a member of the secret society and musical club who called themselves The Juvenals, and for their meetings were written the trios and duets, music and words, which Wennerberg began to publish in 1846.
Wolf's Head, built in 1883, designed by McKim, Mead & White, Richardsonian Romanesque with stepped end gables, former home of Wolf's Head Society.
The Langrishe Theatre provided facilities for the Jack McCall murder trial, the man accused in the death of Wild Bill Hickok, the first marriage to be performed in Deadwood August 26, 1876, George Morgan to L. McKelvey by Judge Kuykendall, and as a meeting place for the secret society, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
He then was cast as the lead in AMC's political thriller Rubicon which revolves around a secret society that pulls the strings on the world political stage like the alleged Illuminati and the Council on Foreign Relations.
Europe reunited in 2003, and Levén co-wrote the single "Always the Pretenders" from the 2006 album Secret Society, with Tempest.
He graduated from Taft School, studied at Yale University, where he was a member of Wolf's Head Society and, for a year in between his undergraduate and law school education, taught high school as well.
The Talamasca Caste (or Order of the Talamasca or simply Talamasca) is described as a secret society set up to watch over and keep track of the paranormal, in particular, witches, spirits, werewolves and vampires.
The 16' Club is a dining club established for male members of St David's College (now St David's College, Trinity Saint David); also known as "The Sixteens", the "College Sixteen" or simply "16", it has been accused of being a secret society.
Twenty-two years after his initiation into a secret society known as the "Brotherhood of the Bell" or "the Bell", Dr. Andrew (Andy) Patterson (Glenn Ford) is requested to be the "senior" of a new initiate, Phillip Everest Dunning (Robert Pine).
The Afrikanerbond (Afrikaner League), established in 1994, is a new incarnation of the Afrikaner Broederbond, formerly a South African secret society.
In 2007, Antioch Secret Society was runner up in MTV2 On The Rise's 'Play the VMA Awards' competition, winning Video Airplay for the song Sleep on MTV2 On Demand.
Antioch Secret Society has done numerous supporting tours and shows with bands such as Dry Kill Logic, Skindred, Parabelle, 32 Leaves, Dharmata, Imperial Battlesnake.
When the Chinese secret society named Jindandao attacked the banner in 1891, he guided the government forces dispatched from Zhili province to suppress the rebels.
A repository for books *The Bookhouse Boys, a secret society on the American television serial drama Twin Peaks
During this run he also appeared in 'Super-Team Family Giant' #13 (September 1977), a story directly linked to the 'Secret Society of Super Villains' series, and as lead character for the first time since 1954 in an extended story, 'Danger: Dinosaurs at Large!' in (DC Special #27, April/May 1977) by Gerry Conway and artist Arvell Jones.
He next appeared in 1976, when writer Gerry Conway and co-writer David Anthony Kraft reintroduced him as a supporting character in 'Secret Society of Super Villains' starting with 'No Man Shall Call Me Master' ('Secret Society of Super Villains' #2, July/August 1976).
As a prominent member of Georges Bataille's secret society Acéphale, she had an intense affair with the author, whose Blue of Noon is based on events in their relationship.
Sociedad de los Caballeros Comuneros ("Society of Comunero Knights"), a secret society in Spain from 1821–1823 during the Trienio Liberal.
Author Charlie Carlson claims to have spoken with a supposed St. Augustine-based secret society claiming to be the protectors of the Fountain of Youth, which has granted them extraordinary longevity.
In The New 52, a reboot of the DC Comics universe, Giganta appears as a member of the Secret Society during the "Trinity War" storyline.
He was educated at Choate, graduated from Yale University, where he was a member of the Skull and Bones secret society, and also graduated from Oxford University, but spent his summers working for the Heinz Company in the pickling and salting stations, as bookkeeper and as handyman.
The founding of the Adelphean Society (later Alpha Delta Pi) at Wesleyan Female college in 1851 marks the establishment of the first secret society for women.
Infernal Machines is the debut studio album by Darcy James Argue's big band Secret Society.
When he was 15 years old, he formed a secret society named "Los Numantinos" alongside his friends Ventura de la Vega and Patricio de la Escosura, conspiring against Ferdinand VII and intending to avenge the death of Rafael del Riego.
Now one of the secret society's most valuable agents, he gains entrance into the court of Duke Olasko, the bloodthirsty and powerful despot whose armies put Tal's village to the sword, by posing as a nobleman from the distant Kingdom of the Isles.
Married to a princess Ypsilantis, Konstantin actively supported the Greek secret society Filiki Eteria and the military action of Alexander Ypsilantis in Moldavia and Wallachia.
The Elector Charles Theodore, who had at first favored him, became offended on discovering that he was associated with the Illuminati, a secret society in Bavaria that held to the most anti-clerical propositions of the Enlightenment.
Contrary to the title, Les Vampires was not actually about vampires, but about a criminal gang-cum-secret society inspired by the exploits of the real-life Bonnot Gang.
Between 1967 and 1968 Fagan recorded The Illuminati and the Council on Foreign Relations, three LP records allegedly documenting the activities of a secret society known as "The Illuminati".
His 1992 study The Bomb in Bengal highlighted the importance of the Maniktala secret society, which was a predecessor of the Jugantar Group.
The Secret Society of Super Villains also assigned him to collect soil samples in Auschwitz, Poland which will be used to create the Wonder Woman villain Genocide.
The event included, on 9 May, a live webcast seance held by the "Edinburgh Secret Society", led by co-founders Professor Richard Wiseman and Dr. Peter Lamont.
Talamasca Caste, a fictional secret society from Anne Rice's books
When he was a youth, he received death threats from the ‘Secret Society of External and Internal Enemy Eliminators’ for his practice of Dorje Shugden, which forced him to stop his traditional studies in India and go to Western Europe.
Walhalla-orden was hardly unique to its period in Sveaborg; quite the contrary, besides a masonic lodge and Walhalla-orden, there were a number of similar societies including a British-inspired secret society of kirvesmiehet called Saint Charles' Cabin and another unconnected society called Brothers of February the Seventeenth.
It began as an off-shoot of an obscure Swedish quasi-masonic secret society called La Constance, created to bolster loyalty to the Swedish Constitution of 1772.
The White Lotus Society primarily refers to the White Lotus, a Buddhist sect which later became a secret society.