Dracula

   As we all know, the "blood-sucking",

undead Dracula is a legend, but there is an

element of truth to the fiction, however both

from the dark but real history of

Transylvanian castles and from a figure 

taken from the 15th century. 

  There had been a noble man of 

Transylvania who was  ignoble. This ignoble

man's name was Vlad

Tepes, and prince Vlad

earned for himself the

nickname "Vlad the

Impaler". 

  Following a battle in 1458, a large area 

encompassing perhaps one mile by three

miles was punctuated, so to speak, with

10,000 impaled Turks, as it shows on the

graphic on the right.

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  As for anybody's attention, you have to

admit that, the names Vlad and blood do

sound a lot alike. Not that one has

anything to do with the other, cause blood

in Romanian sounds completely different.

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