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1 posted on 07/12/2013 4:52:10 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway; SunkenCiv

years from now archeaologists will be digging up skeletons from the current era with their head(s) under their legs


2 posted on 07/12/2013 5:02:53 PM PDT by bigheadfred (barry your mouth is writing checks your ass cant cash)
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If gibbets aren’t banned in Washington, D.C., they may be on to something.


3 posted on 07/12/2013 5:27:00 PM PDT by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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An individual accused of being a vampire in Europe’s distant past faced a grim fate.

Doesn't hold a candle to what Vlad the Impaler did to the Ottoman Muslim invaders.

...in 1459, Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II sent envoys to Vlad to urge him to pay a delayed tribute of 10,000 ducats and 500 recruits into the Ottoman forces. Vlad refused, because if he had paid the 'tribute', as the tax was called at the time, it would have meant a public acceptance of Wallachia as part of the Ottoman Empire. Vlad, just like most of his predecessors and successors, had as a primary goal to keep Wallachia as independent as possible. Vlad had the Turkish envoys killed on the pretext that they had refused to raise their "hats" to him, by nailing their turbans to their heads.
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Impalement was Vlad's preferred method of torture and execution. Several woodcuts from German pamphlets of the late 15th and early 16th centuries show Vlad feasting in a forest of stakes and their grisly burdens outside Brașov, while a nearby executioner cuts apart other victims. It was reported that an invading Ottoman army turned back in fright when it encountered thousands of rotting corpses on the banks of the Danube. It has also been said that in 1462 Mehmed II, the conqueror of Constantinople, a man noted for his own psychological warfare tactics, returned to Constantinople after being sickened by the sight of 20,000 impaled corpses outside Vlad's capital of Târgoviște.

5 posted on 07/12/2013 5:40:13 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
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That’s the one thing with living in Santa Monica. All those DAMN vampires.

Oh wait, this is Poland, and we’re talking about blood sucking ghouls and not liberals? My mistake.


6 posted on 07/12/2013 5:47:22 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans
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Cool, those people sure did lead interesting lives with all the hoo-doo going on..............


7 posted on 07/12/2013 6:08:07 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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