Asylum

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Asylum may refer to:

In medicine:

Psychiatric hospital

In politics:

Political asylum, the refuge which may be granted to people seeking to escape persecution (see refugee)

In history:

Right of asylum or Sanctuary, a medieval English law that protected felons under the care of the Church
Destitute Asylum, an institution built in the 1850's in Adelaide, Australia for isolating cases of extreme poverty.[link]

In music:

Asylum Records
Asylum (album) (1985) by the band KISS
Asylum, an album by the Legendary Pink Dots
Soul Asylum, a band formed in 1983

In fiction:

Asylum (film) of the Patrick McGrath novel, made in 2005
Asylum (1997 film), starring Robert Patrick
Asylum (television), 1996 UK comedy series
Asylum (comic), a comic series
Asylum (video game), a Commodore 64 game
A Dungeons and Dragons adventure, Last of the Shackled City Adventure Path, published in Dungeon Magazine
A highly popular Multi-user Dungeon (MUD).

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