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The roots of Skull and Bones trace back to its founder, William Russell, a member of a wealthy family who studied in Germany and was initiated into student fraternities, thus establishing a link to a broader European tradition of secret societies. The fraternity's distinctive emblem often features the numbers "3 2 2," referring to the death of the legendary Athenian orator Demosthenes in 322 B.C.—an eerie connection that underscores the society's fixation with mortality.