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  2. Vlad the Impaler - Wikipedia

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    He is often considered one of the most important rulers in Wallachian history and a national hero of Romania. [6] He was the second son of Vlad Dracul, who became the ruler of Wallachia in 1436. Vlad and his younger brother, Radu, were held as hostages in the Ottoman Empire in 1442 to secure their father's

  3. List of first human settlements - Wikipedia

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    Yamashita-cho cave, Naha city: Bone artifacts and an ash seam dated to 32,000±1000 BP. [54] Europe: France: 32: Chauvet Cave: The cave paintings in the Chauvet Cave in southern France have been called the earliest known cave art, though the dating is uncertain. [55] Europe: Czech Republic: 31: Mladeč caves

  4. Cité de Carcassonne - Wikipedia

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    The city was Saracen, so a part of the population, being Muslim, did not consume pork. The villagers brought her a pig and a bag of wheat. The villagers brought her a pig and a bag of wheat. She then had the idea of feeding the pig with the sack of wheat and then pushing it from the highest tower of the city at the foot of the outer ramparts.

  5. Impalement in myth and art - Wikipedia

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    The idea that the vampire "can only be slain with a stake driven through its heart" has been pervasive in European fiction. Examples such as Bram Stoker's Dracula (with Dracula often being compared to Vlad the Impaler who killed his enemies and impaled them on wooden spikes) [1] [2] and the more recent Buffy the Vampire Slayer both incorporate that idea.

  6. Bran Castle - Wikipedia

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    The Wallachian ruler Vlad Țepeș (Vlad the Impaler; 1448–1476) does not seem to have had a significant role in the history of the fortress, although he passed several times through the Bran Gorge. At some point, Bran Castle belonged to the Hungarian kings , but due to the failure of King Vladislas II (r. 1471–1516) to repay loans, the city ...

  7. History of Provence - Wikipedia

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    The cave dwellings of the early inhabitants of Provence were inundated by the rising sea or left far from the sea and swept away by erosion. [9] In 1985, a diver named Henri Cosquer discovered the mouth of a submarine cave 37 meters below the surface of the Calanque de Morgiou near Marseille.

  8. Curtea Veche - Wikipedia

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    Curtea Veche (September 24, 2011) with the bust of Vlad Țepeș. Curtea Veche (the Old Princely Court) was built as a palace or residence during the rule of Vlad III Dracula in 1459. [1] Archaeological excavations started in 1953, and now the site is operated by the Muzeul Municipiului București in the historic centre of Bucharest, Romania.

  9. Lupercal - Wikipedia

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    The Lupercal (from Latin lupa "female wolf") was a cave at the southwest foot of the Palatine Hill in Rome, located somewhere between the temple of Magna Mater and the Sant'Anastasia al Palatino. [1] In the legend of the founding of Rome, Romulus and Remus were found there by the she-wolf who suckled them until they were rescued by the shepherd ...