2015-06-14
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It was a cold, dark, cloud-covered night in the year 1783.
A small handful of European revolutionaries gathered together in secret to discuss their future plans.
They called themselves when they met in secret, the Wednesday Society.
Now, I know what you're thinking.
Wednesday Society, really?
Not a very good name for an ominous, revolutionary secret society.
Really, you guys put your heads together?
That's what you landed on, Wednesday Society?
I can see why you'd think that,
but the reason that's not a bad name for this particular society is
because there was nothing ominous going on at these secret meetings at all.
Wednesday, Wednesday was just the day of the week they met on.
They also called themselves the Friends of the Enlightenment.
It was a friendly secret society.