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The historical “Illuminati” was a short‑lived Bavarian society founded by Adam Weishaupt in 1776 that promoted Enlightenment ideas and was suppressed by Bavarian authorities in the 1780s (membership e...
Dan Brown’s portrayal of the Illuminati is a fictionalized, central plot device in Angels & Demons (published as Illuminati in some editions): an “ancient secret group of scientists” said to have been...
The First Council of Nicaea did not set the Christian biblical canon; contemporary records of the council make no decision on which books belong in Scripture . The widespread myth that Nicaea or Const...
The term "tampliers" likely refers to a misspelling of the , a medieval military order founded in 1119 to protect Christian pilgrims during the Crusades, distinct from the , an Enlightenment-era secre...