How did a notoriously cruel medieval warlord with a gift for impaling his victims on wooden stakes inspire the creation of ...

Vlad the Impaler is believed by many to be the inspiration ... It’s estimated that he was responsible for something like 80,000 deaths, of which many were impaling. History didn’t give him ...

In light of the fatalism that seems to follow comparisons to Rome, I’d like to propose a different ... he soon became known as Vlad the Impaler. Though Vlad obviously upset the sultan, who ...

Like other chivalric orders ... enemies at this time gave him the less noble sobriquet Tepes—“the Impaler.” Vlad III mounted several bloody attacks against Catholic communities, too ...

We have some idea of what Vlad looked like, thanks to contemporary descriptions ... ancient proteins should be related to Prince Vlad the Impaler, who wrote and signed these letters," the authors ...

Cloaked in a black cape like the infamous count himself ... teeth into the gripping life of Vlad Tepes, the notorious "Vlad the Impaler", whose descendants once held the schloss.

Vlad the Impaler may have cemented the throne for a little while but the Ottoman Empire was very keen on ousting him and replacing him with Radu the Handsome. And it seemed like all of his ...

Vlad the Impaler, a notoriously ruthless 13th century ... This condition, known as hemolacria, is usually caused by either an infection like bacterial conjunctivitis or some kind of injury or ...

It sounds like the work of fantasists ... just a few weeks after the Moscow trip, members of the Vlad the Impaler group were photographed at a Russian Embassy reception in Bucharest.

It feels like home,” she said ... traditional Romanian textiles as well as memorabilia from the life of Vlad the Impaler. Transilvania hosts a variety of Romanian cultural events.