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09-18-2008, 06:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Writ-with-Hand
You might be pissed off too, like the Son of the Dragon, if you were taken as a slave for years, as a boy, and your young brother was turned into the personal sex toy of the ruling Sultan.
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He was just mad because HE didn't get to be the sex toy!
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09-18-2008, 07:02 PM
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Vlad was awesome. I read somewhere that the word "dracula" actually derived from the term "dracul" which was a family name of sorts, and it meant dragon. Europe is lucky that Vlad came along when he did. His gruesome tactics were about the only things that kept Ottoman empire from spreading.
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09-18-2008, 07:11 PM
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Originally Posted by PSFoster
He was just mad because HE didn't get to be the sex toy!
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Or! it could be that. Either way that Eastern European nigga was pissed off.
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Originally Posted by A-L
Vlad was awesome. I read somewhere that the word "dracula" actually derived from the term "dracul" which was a family name of sorts, and it meant dragon. Europe is lucky that Vlad came along when he did. His gruesome tactics were about the only things that kept Ottoman empire from spreading.
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His father I believe was a member of the "Order of the Dragon." I believe the order was Christian order dedicated to fighting the Islamic Turks.
The family's actual name was not "Dracu" or dragon but it was a title of sorts because of the order Vlad's father belonged to. He consequently was referred to as "son of the dragon" if memory serves me correct. |
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09-18-2008, 07:14 PM
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Originally Posted by SoNickSays...
I am becoming fascinated in the history of this man.
For those of you who do not know, Vlad Tepes was a Wallachian Prince in the mid-15th century. You may know this man as Dracula.
However, the name Dracula is in no way (in this case) related to the vampire of Bram Stroker's novel. No, this man was just as gruesome, but he wasn't scared of the light, did not have long teeth and I'm sure he enjoyed some garlic when he ate the flesh of his victims.
God knows why this fascination has jumped on me like this, but it has. I have always been interested in the wars between the Turks and Romania during the reign of Sultan Mehmed III, but now I like Vlad too.
Does anyone else know of him or found they are slightly obsessed with him?
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09-18-2008, 07:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Writ-with-Hand
You might be pissed off too, like the Son of the Dragon, if you were taken as a slave for years, as a boy, and your young brother was turned into the personal sex toy of the ruling Sultan.
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That was his brother Radu.
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09-18-2008, 07:15 PM
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Originally Posted by A-L
Vlad was awesome. I read somewhere that the word "dracula" actually derived from the term "dracul" which was a family name of sorts, and it meant dragon. Europe is lucky that Vlad came along when he did. His gruesome tactics were about the only things that kept Ottoman empire from spreading.
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Drakulya actually. |
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09-18-2008, 07:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Blood
That was his brother Radu.
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Well... for Radu's sake, I hope the Sultan wasn't to well hung, otherwise on knees or bent over, I imagine Radu's nightly expression was ->  |
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09-18-2008, 08:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Writ-with-Hand
"Order of the Dragon."
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Ooh! That was the name of the book I read. Thanks for that! (And now that I think of it The Eyes of the Dragon is a Stephen King book.)
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09-18-2008, 08:14 PM
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I'd like one damsel in distress and a small coke, please.
I know, I know.
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09-18-2008, 08:51 PM
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That was too lame to even merit the snare drums, I'm afraid.
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09-18-2008, 09:13 PM
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*snare drums sound*
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09-18-2008, 10:12 PM
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Originally Posted by JoannaMac
I married Vlad the Impaler.
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09-18-2008, 10:18 PM
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You really don't get that?
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09-18-2008, 10:22 PM
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Oh, I got it. I am scratching my head at the fact she saw fit to mention it in the first place.
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09-18-2008, 10:24 PM
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I've written a novel based on Vlad Tepes' son, I named it Draculesti (I've posted the first few pages of it here in the critique forum, but only got one reply on it). If any of ya'll want to check it out here's the link:
http://www.writingforums.com/critiqu...raculesti.html
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