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Vlad the Impaler of Transylvania

Minor historical correection: he was -- especially at the time he practiced mass impalements -- Vlad III of Wallachia, not Transsylvania; Bram Stoker fucked up historical details there. (He wasn't a Count, either.) But he was born in Transsylvania, at the time his father Vlad II Dracul was on exile there; and he fled to Transsylvania when he was overthrown in Wallachia (but there he was soon arrested, and soon taken away to be imprisoned in a castle 30 km from where I type this).

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Thu Dec 4th, 2008 at 03:55:11 AM EST
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Oops, my bad. Now that you mention it, I think you've even corrected me on that before.

Of course, I could get out by claiming that I was talking about Bram Stoker's count :-P

- Jake

If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Thu Dec 4th, 2008 at 08:15:07 AM EST
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