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Dracula

Vlad the Impaler (1431-1476)

If Dracula was ever to truly walk the earth as a creature of flesh and blood rather than a figure concocted in books and on the big screen than that person who deserve that terrible title would have to be Vlad Dracula, other wise known as Vlad the Impaler, or simply put, Dracula. Feared by thousands of people cause of his ways of cruel and unusual punishment and unquenchable thirst for blood, Vlad the Impaler ruled Walachia, now part of Romania, through the years of 1456 and 1476. But what exactly is it that separates him from other tyrants, killers, and rulers? The legend of Dracula actually isn't that far from the truth.
Born in 1431 in Transylvania to a military governor named Vlad Dracul, Vlad Dracula would be raised to be a ruler. The elder Dracul, who was ruler of Walachia, was a member of the secret fraternity, Order of the Dragon, which was created in 1387 by the emperor to uphold Christianity and defend the empire against the Islamic......


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