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Posted on 08/17/2023 10:49:27 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
...During his reign, Vlad III is said to have killed 40,000 to 100,000 people (political rivals, criminals, and anyone that he considered "useless to humanity"), mainly by the gruesome act of impaling.
Following a series of skirmishes between Vlad III and the Turks, Mehmed II marched on the city of Târgoviște and discovered the remains of 23,844 impaled Turkish prisoners arranged in concentric circles around the city.
In a description of Vlad III by the papal legate, Nicholas of Modrussy: "he was not very tall, but very stocky and strong, with a cruel and terrible appearance, a long straight nose, distended nostrils, a thin and reddish face in which the large wide-open green eyes were framed by bushy black eyebrows, which made them appear threatening." Other historical text describe him as having large green eyes and crying tears of blood...
In a study published in the journal Analytical Chemistry, researchers from the University of Catania have used High-resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS) and coupling EVA (ethylene-vinyl acetate) technology on a series of letters written by Vlad III from the mid-15th century AD.
This approach enabled the team to characterise 100 ancient peptides and protein data of human origin which suggest that Vlad III suffered from inflammatory processes of the respiratory tract and/or of the skin, and a condition known as hemolacria. [emphasis added]
Hemolacria causes tears that are partially composed of blood as a result of local factors such as bacterial conjunctivitis, environmental damage or injuries, but can also be indicative of a tumour in the lacrimal apparatus.
(Excerpt) Read more at heritagedaily.com ...
No aviator sunglasses back then.
They dug up Ivan the Terrible and did tests on his remains. They found massive traces of mercury. Mercury was used for many things back then. We all know what mercury can do to a person.
Archaeologica (some have been posted, this source changed its page, and it is now much more up to date).
National hero of Romania— of old. He knew how to deal with the muslim hordes that threatened the country, and actually Europe to the West.
The castles are still there and a guided driving tour of battle sites and the big one.
The story iirc is one of the muslim emissaries making a pitch to Vlad to surrender... submit (islam means to submit)— and he had their turbans nailed to their heads and sent the corpses back to the turkiks.
“The story iirc is one of the muslim emissaries making a pitch to Vlad to surrender... submit (islam means to submit)— and he had their turbans nailed to their heads and sent the corpses back to the turkiks.”
The story goes the emissaries would not remove their hats inside the castle so Vlad had their hats nailed to their heads.
“Hemolacria” is a barbarism. The “hemo-” part comes from the Greek word for blood, but “lacrima” is Latin for tear. They could have used the Greek equivalent (dakry/dakryma).
It was just carpet tacks..heh heh.
The house where they were born still stands I guess.
“Mercury was used for many things back then.”
Well, he wasn’t a hat maker, so my money’s on the syph.
Video promo of Bob Dylan singing Blood In My Eyes
https://www.facebook.com/bobdylan/videos/blood-in-my-eyes/437045428285306/
Old blues pioneers the Mississippi
Sheiks song
I’ve Got Blood In My Eyes For You. (shellac 78 rpm, 1932).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQDDBipao4U
...discovered the remains of 23,844 impaled Turkish prisoners...
I'm not understanding the PC omission of Turks in the first list. I'm pretty sure Vlad's jam was fighting the Turks. Unless the author feels they fall under "useless to humanity".
Good at damming up the Volga that boy.
Story told Vlad invited all the lame, the blind, the beggers to a feast He asked them if they wanted relief from their pain and troubles When they said yes had the doors to the barn locked and wood and straw oiled around and set on fire ......
Jesus cried tears also.
The word homosexual is a Greek and Latin hybrid, with the first element derived from Greek ὁμός homos, "same" (not related to the Latin homo, "man", as in Homo sapiens), thus connoting sexual acts and affections between members of the same sex, including lesbianism. - wikipedia
According to The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots, homo and guma both derive from a root *dhghem- with the basic meaning of "earth." Latin humus means earth; homo is literally an earthling. "Humble" comes from the same root (someone who is humble is low to the ground).
Another hybrid is "television" (tele being a Greek word meaning "far off.") The Modern Greek word for television uses a Greek root for "vision"--it's tileorasis.
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