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  2. Hellfire Club - Wikipedia

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    The first official Hellfire Club was founded in London in 1718, by Philip Wharton, 1st Duke of Wharton and a handful of other high-society friends. The most notorious club associated with the name was established in England by Francis Dashwood, [ 5 ] and met irregularly from around 1749 to around 1760, and possibly up until 1766.

  3. Category:Hellfire Club - Wikipedia

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    Articles related to the various incarnations of the Hellfire Club and their members. They were exclusive clubs for high-society rakes established in Britain and Ireland in the 18th century. Pages in category "Hellfire Club"

  4. Richard Parsons, 1st Earl of Rosse - Wikipedia

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    A founder member of the Hell-Fire Club, Parsons was a notable Libertine (and nihilist [citation needed]), rebelling against the norms of the day [citation needed].He wrote the book Dionysus Rising after a trip to Egypt where he claimed to have found Dionysian scrolls looted from the Great Library of Alexandria.

  5. Montpelier Hill - Wikipedia

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    Montpelier Hill (Irish: Cnoc Montpelier) [2] is a 383-metre (1,257 foot) hill in County Dublin, Ireland. [1] It is topped by the Hell Fire Club (Irish: Club Thine Ifreann), [3] the popular name given to the ruined building.

  6. Askeaton - Wikipedia

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    Askeaton GAA is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in the village. Munster football championship games, known as Páirc na nGael, were held on the club's pitch in 1970 and between 1987 and 1991. [citation needed] Askeaton Contemporary Arts is an artists' residency programme that has taken place in Askeaton each summer since 2006. [11]

  7. George and Vulture - Wikipedia

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    It was said to be a meeting place of the notorious Hellfire Club and has long been a revered City chop house. It is mentioned at least 20 times [2] in the 1837 novel The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens, who frequently drank there himself. The George and Vulture has been the headquarters of the City Pickwick Club since its foundation. [3]

  8. Hellfire Club (comics) - Wikipedia

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    The seventh incarnation of the Hellfire Club have since founded the Hellfire Academy, a rival to the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning. It is located on an unnamed island. [ 18 ] According to Kade Kilgore, the purpose of recruiting newly empowered mutants is to train them to be supervillains so he can then profit from the fear generated by ...

  9. Harry Leland - Wikipedia

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    Little is known of Leland's past before encountering the X-Men, although he did encounter former teammate, Emma Frost, before she was inducted into the Hellfire Club. At the time, Emma was homeless and using her powers during a Hellfire Club meeting to gain information about stocks.