[Plain text next time --thanks]
>=20
> Wasn 't Count Dracula somewhat based on the real Vlad the Impaler?
> Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia, was a member of the House of Dr=C4=83cule=C8=
=99ti, a branch of the House of Basarab, also known, using his patronymic, a=
s Dr=C4=83culea or Dracula.
>=20
> He was as evil and brutal as Antonescou and Hitler.=20
> Maybe they learned from his excesses.
When people today hear the word "Transylvania", they associate only one n=
ame to that, "Count Dracula".
>=20
>> On Jul 6, 2015, at 12:47 AM, "Hardy Breier" <hardy3_at_bezeqint.net> wrote:
>>=20
>> How good is having this list for reference.
>> Now you begin understanding where you come from.
>> Also perhaps who you are .
>> Not so long ago we belonged to that landscape.
>> We were born where Dracula was born,
>> He was actually born in the brain of an Irish author.
>> Why did he put Dracula in Rumania ?
>> The Carpats were the least explored place in Europe.
>> The Brits would accept his story. The whole world did.
>> This is because Czernowitz was a little known place.
>> Despite the irrefutable fact that it is where we come frum. =20
>>=20
>> Hardy
>>=20
>>=20
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