Asylum
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Asylum may refer:
In medicine:
In politics:
- Political asylum, the refuge which may be granted to people seeking to escape persecution (see refugee)
In history:
- 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.
- Orphan asylum
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 (1972 film), a 1972 horror film with Peter Cushing
- Asylum (2007 film), a 2007 horror film from director David R. Ellis
In gaming
- Asylum (video game), a Commodore 64 game
- A Dungeons & Dragons adventure, Last of the Shackled City Adventure Path, published in Dungeon Magazine
- Asylum MUD[1] is highly popular Multi-User Dungeon (MUD).
In radio
- The Asylum, a now-defunct freeform radio show that aired in the 1980's (and late 1970's?) on WMBR, broadcasts of which frequently diverged into transgressive art.
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