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mischieviousNow Playing: Siouxsie & the Banshees-Nicotine Stain
Topic: Three on a Spike
Someone is giving me the evil eye.
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day, chaps. How does this Hump Day find you? It has found
me sleepless. Just completely wiped out. I don't know why
either. I was pretty medicated last night, you know, cold
and flu season. However, that rascally old sandman did
not visit me last night. I suppose worse things could
happen, like not having a place to sleep, or better
still, having to share a bed with the likes of Ralphie
May or William Hung. GAG! I would like to suggest that evreyone see Van Helsing. It was a really good movie. I learned a few interesting things from that movie, rather from behind the scenes. Such as, Dr. Van Helsing was created by author Bram Stoker. Abraham Van Helsing, which was also Bram's first name was created as a character that represented him, or so it is thought. Dr. Van Helsing made his first appearance in Stoker's novel Dracula. In the movie, Van Helsing he is monster hunter rather than just a vampire hunter/anthropology professor. And not just any hunter, he is refered to as "the left hand of God." But I shant continue to give it all away. Just see it. ? Bram Stoker's Dracula is the biggest selling novel in the world and is only outsold by the Bible. ? What is often believed about vampires
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Real Dracula Vlad III Dracula (Also known as Vlad Tepes
/t In 1431 King Sigismund made Vlad Dracul governor of Transylvania and it was here that his second son, also named Vlad was born. Vlad would be known as "Son of the Dragon" or "Dracula". In 1436, Vlad Dracul's ambitions lead him to gather supporters for an attempt to seize the throne of Wallachia. This he did, killing the incumbent king, a Danesti, named Alexandru I, and crowned himself Vlad II. Soon after gaining his throne, Vlad invited the Boyars to his castle in Targoviste. After a day of festivities, Vlad impaled everyone to avenge the death of his father. During his reign, Vlad was called Tepes (although he called himself Dracula or the son of the leader of the Dracul order) by his people and his enemies. Tepes, or impaler in Romanian languages, was used because of Vlad's habit of impaling people and then supposedly drinking their blood. |
se'pesh/ or Vlad the Impaler),
lived November/December, 1431 - December, 1476, reigned
as Prince of Wallachia 1448, 1456-1462 and 1476. He was
born in Sighisoara, Transylvania. Thanks to his rule,
Wallachia preserved its independence in relation with the
Ottoman threat. He is known in Turkish as Kaziglu Bey,
or "the Impaler Prince", and is a popular folk
hero in Romania and Moldova even today. However, he was a
savage ruler - his enemies were impaled, hence his
nickname.Relative Vocabulary
- aceldama, n. - site or scene of violence or bloodshed
- cruentation, v. - leaking or oozing of blood from dead body
- dormition, v. - falling asleep; death
- emptysis, v. - spitting up of blood
- funest, adj. - deadly; lamentable
? Elizabeth Bathory was said to be a vampire, however, she bathed in the blood of young virgin girls to keep from growing old. ?
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