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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.
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.
“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).
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".
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 ......
