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Secret Societies
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 The assassins
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The Assassins were a heretical Islamic sect and a source of myth and legends; Marco Polo, who claimed he had visited the site of their castle at Alamut in Iran, just reports the legend of how the future assassins were supposedly prepared for their missions by being drugged with hashish, brought into a secret pleasure garden, and told they had visited Paradise, to which they would return if they were killed in action...
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Fall of the Assassins (* Favonius Cornelius, Jun 20, 2004 - 17:13 ) Curse of the Assasins (* Reylari Socrates, May 22, 2004 - 06:11 ) The Valley of the Assasins (* Reylari Socrates, May 20, 2004 - 10:14 )|
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