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AVENGERS, or VENDICATORI

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 53 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AVENGERS, or VENDICATORI , a See also:secret society formed about 1186 in See also:Sicily to avenge popular wrongs. The society was finally suppressed by See also:King See also:William II., the See also:Norman, who hanged the See also:grand See also:master and branded the members with hot irons.

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