Skull and Bones

:This article is about a secret society. For the pirate flag see Jolly Roger; for the international poison symbol see skull and crossbones.

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Secret society - Jolly Roger - Skull and crossbones

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Skull and Bones is the most well known of the so-called secret societies based at Yale University. It was founded in 1832 by Benjamin Lucas Wright and Alphonso Taft, two students who were not admitted into Phi Beta Kappa at Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut. http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/01_03/groups.html The first Skull and Bones class, or "cohort", was in 1833. Skull and Bones is known by many names, including The Order of Death, The Order, The Eulogian Club, and Lodge 322. Initiates are most commonly known as Bonesmen, Knights of Eulogia, and Boodle Boys. The females who have recently been permitted to become members would be known as Boneswomen, Ladies of Eulogia, and Boodle Girls.

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Secret societies - 1832 - Benjamin Lucas Wright - Alphonso Taft - Phi Beta Kappa - Yale University - New Haven, Connecticut - 1833

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In public, its corporate name is the Russell Trust Association. In 1999 it had assets of $4,133,246. Skull and Bones is the only secret society known to have a summer home and its own private island. This private island, one of the Thousand Islands lying in gray territorial area between the United States and Canada, was given to the Order by one of its early mysterious benefactor families who was associated with the secret society.

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Russell Trust Association - 1999 - Thousand Islands - United States - Canada

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