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If you put it into perspective, Dracula was the 1400's and
this is what the area was still like by the 1600's.
In the 1630 book "The True Travels, Adventures, and Observations
of Captaine John Smith in Europe, Asia, Africa and America" it talks
(Got this from my college history book, "Readings for U.S. History
2nd Edition" Senior Editor Dr. Michael A. White by Kendall/Hunt of
Dubuque, Iowa (c) 1992- the story was called
"John Smith Before Jamestown")
about 1601
"John Smith was now about to plunge into the nightmare world
of eastern Europe: where Catholics fought Protestants, or Turks,
and Protestants fought Turks, or Catholics, or renegade mercenaries,
or all three: where Germans fought Hungarians or Turks or Both:
where Hungarians were sometimes both Austrian allies and Turkish
vassals."
"This was a world where the Austrian emperor of the Holy
Roman Empire, Rudolph II, relieved his chronic insanity with
periodic fits of uncontrollable rage; where Sigismund Bathory,
Prince of Transylvania, of a family long-tainted with madness,
abdicated and reclaimed his throne no fewer than three times'
where his cousin Elizabeth, with the tran-sylvanian penchant
so reminiscent of Count Dracula, indulged in beauty baths that
ultimately took the blood, and lives, of 650 young women."
"It was a place where incessant warfare and banditry
brought desolation, famine, familial cannibalism, and other
unspeakable horrors; where lucky prisoners wee enslaved,
the less lucky butchered, and the luckless skinned alive."
Plus it was cold in Europe! If I were a self respecting black
father or mother in which the trail of my children's manhood
may have meant being killed by my own son, which is a part
of some tribes - I am not sure of Africa countries back then.
Would I have sent them to that barbarous place? African
gold is well known and before America the main wearing
apparel in Europe seemed to be animal skins - Yet by using
the tale of Robin Hood you could imagine that even before
Hoods time that animals were prized. So who made it
economically feasible for America to be settled and made
a market for cotton? Was that stuff warm in a drafty castle?
Yet, it could be dyed and this list has shown that knowledge
of dye (color) in that time, and now, was money.
It seems as if those people of dye have gone into
pharmaceuticals. So, keeping this war alive - the different
religions, has been advantageous. Also, if you study sugar
"Complete Guide to Macrobiotic Cooking" by Aveline Kushi
(c) 1985 Warner NY
She refers to the fact
"During the Middle Ages, when refined sugar first became
processed and entered Europe, it was locked away in
apothecary shops for centuries as a dangerous drug. The
widespread availability and consumption of sugar in the
modern world is a primary cause of degenerative disease
and mental and emotional disorders. In addition to the
natural sweeteners mentioned above, there are a variety
of other sweeteners available in the natural foods store
that some people use as an alternative to white sugar.
However, in my experience even these are too refined
for even occasional use."
Ynr Chyldz Wyld wrote:
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> From: "Prudence L. Kuhn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > You're right about that, but I just can't see where the term "good guy" is
> > justified. There is a rather large volume on the life of Vlad, and he was
> > scary to say the least. It is regrettable, but military leaders and rulers
> > (and everyone else in a position of power) have never allowed the predicament
> > of the masses to affect their own good times. Prudy
>
> Based on what I've read of his life, Vlad seems to have been considered a good
>Christian, at least by his own
> standards and the accepted standards of the era. Indeed, he was cast in a sort of
>'Defender of the Faith'
> against the Turks, a role other rulers threatened by the Turks were very glad he
>took on, because then they
> didn't have to take any risks in trying to repel the Turkish invasion.
>
> He basically was left to face the Turks on his own, without any help from others who
>were supposedly his
> allies, and definitely with no help from the Roman church...and considering how
>cruel the Turks in their own
> turn could be, it is hardly surprising that Vlad used the tactics that he
>did...crude though it may have been,
> it WAS effective psychological warfare. The proof is in the fact that we today
>remember Vlad, but can't name
> his fellow Christian rulers who either fought the Turks with half-hearted measures,
>or didn't even bother to
> try.
>
> June
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