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  2. Count Dracula - Wikipedia

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    Shakespearean actor and friend of Stoker's Sir Henry Irving is widely considered to be a real-life inspiration for the character of Dracula. Stoker came across the name Dracula in his reading on Romanian history, and chose this to replace the name (Count Wampyr) that he had originally intended to

  3. Vlad the Impaler - Wikipedia

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    The name Dracula, which is now primarily known as the name of a vampire, was for centuries known as the sobriquet of Vlad III. [7] [8] Diplomatic reports and popular stories referred to him as Dracula, Dracuglia, or Drakula already in the 15th century. [7] He himself signed his two letters as "Dragulya" or "Drakulya" in the late 1470s. [9]

  4. Dracula - Wikipedia

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    Dracula is a 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker.An epistolary novel, the narrative is related through letters, diary entries, and newspaper articles.It has no single protagonist and opens with solicitor Jonathan Harker taking a business trip to stay at the castle of a Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula.

  5. Count Dracula in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    Shown on United States Networks on October 31, it tells the origins of Vlad III, also known as Vlad Dracula, "the Impaler", who gave Bram Stoker's Dracula his name. In several episodes of the TV show Scrubs (2001–2010), the main character J.D. makes references to a movie he is writing called Dr. Acula, the story of a "vampire doctor".

  6. Bram Stoker - Wikipedia

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    Abraham "Bram" Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912) was an Irish author who is best known for writing the 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula.During his lifetime, he was better known as the personal assistant of actor Sir Henry Irving and business manager of the West End's Lyceum Theatre, which Irving owned.

  7. Forensic science reveals how Jesus really looked - AOL

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    Detectives took the Turin Shroud, believed to show Jesus' image, and created a photo-fit image from the material. They used a computer program to reverse the aging process.

  8. Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula - Wikipedia

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    Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula tells the story of Vlad Dracula, the historical figure who gave Bram Stoker's Dracula his name. Vlad is a dispossessed noble and a patriot who fights the occupation forces of the Turks hoping to avenge the murder of his father by Romanian nobles and the capture of his brother by the Ottoman sultan.

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