Dan Snow's History Hit · 2026-10-15 · 46 min · 8,292 words

The History of the Illuminati

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It's time. For the Illuminati. If you were the founder of a secret order. hell bent on infiltrating every level of European society. What would you name it? It's tough brief.

It needs to sound discreet, yet Ominous. You need a name that sounds when spoken in a hushed whisper. You can't call yourself The guys who control the world. That just gives the game away. In the late eighteenth century a Bavarian professor

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