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| | MSN Encarta - Dracula |
 | | This spine-tingling tale about the mysterious Count Dracula, king of the vampires, was published in 1897. | | | Dracul means “the devil” in Romanian, and dracula is “son of the devil.” They were fierce rulers. | | | Like all vampires, Count Dracula is able to come to life each night by sucking the blood of living people. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_701702355/Dracula.html
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| | Dracula (Transylvania, Lord of the Vampires) |
| | Dracula defied Satan, and was taken to Hell by him for punishment. | | | Dracula was later unleashed upon Wallachia with Turkish backing as their candidate for the Wallachian throne (1448) but his brief reign was quickly ended by John Hunyadi and he was forced to flee to Moldavia. | | | Dracula was opposed by Dr. Druid, whom he defeated, and went on to face Mockingbird as her teammate Iron Man attempted to defuse the Life-Bomb. |
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http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/draculav.htm
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| | Count Dracula's Legend |
| | Count Dracula, a fictional character in the Dracula novel, was inspired by one of the best-known figures of the Romanian history — Vlad Dracula, nicknamed Vlad Tepes (Vlad the Impaler) — who was a ruler of Wallachia (1456-1462). | | | Vlad, who was definitely not the kind of man to kill himself, managed to escape the siege of his fortress by using a secret passage into the mountain. | | | According to the legend, this is when Dracula's wife, in order to escape capture, committed suicide by hurling herself from the upper battlements, her body falling down the precipice into the river below — a scene exploited by Francis Ford Coppola's production. |
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http://www.romaniatourism.com/dracula.html
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| | Báthory Erzsébet - Elizabeth Bathory: Bram Stoker, Elizabeth Bathory, and Dracula (Elizabeth Miller) |
| | Báthory Erzsébet - Elizabeth Bathory: Bram Stoker, Elizabeth Bathory, and Dracula (Elizabeth Miller) | | | Like Countess Elizabeth Bathory, Dracula is an aristocrat who disdains the common folk around him, the way Countess Elizabeth Bathory looked down upon her peasants. | | | Above all else, Count Dracula, like Elizabeth, demands absolute obedience from his underlings, such as his pitiful minion Renfield.... |
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http://www.bathory.org/miller02.html
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| | Count Dracula and Vlad the Impaler |
| | But what seems to have attracted Stoker was a footnote in which Wilkinson states that "Dracula in Wallachian language means Devil." Stoker supplemented this with scraps of Romanian history from other sources (which he carefully listed in his notes) and fleshed out a history for his Count Dracula. | | | This has led some to conclude that Stoker's physical description of Count Dracula is actually based on this portrait of Vlad. | | | For a much more detailed (and fully documented) version of this argument, see Chapter 1 of my book Reflections on Dracula, my essay in Dracula: The Shade and the Shadow, or a full section of my book Dracula: Sense & Nonsense. |
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http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~emiller/kalo.htm
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| | Transylvania Legend by Andrei Tamas |
| | She screamed and started crying as she saw the sign that Vlad Tepes (Dracula) was dead, the sign being that the gold cup was stolen. | | | Louis Jordan stars in the title role in "Count Dracula," a three-hour version of Bram Stoker's book on BBC television. | | | Vlad senior received the name because he was part of the Order of the Dragon, an order created by the Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund. |
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http://members.aol.com/atamas/transylvania.htm
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| | This may be the work of Dracula himself. | | | A description of the wooden case in which we believe, so the professor told me, the Count may be concealing himself has been circulated, too. | | | Dracula walks on A carriage approaches bearing Harker and Morris HARKER: That man! It looked like the Count but younger...much younger. |
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http://www.horrorlair.com/scripts/draclee.txt
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| | Dracula by Bram Stoker - Reference |
| | The count seems to have a taste for English ladies' blood, and when he goes after Harker's fiancee Mina, she narrowly escapes, though her friend Lucy was not so lucky. | | | Based on the bloodthirsty Transylvanian ruler Vlad Tepes, otherwise known as the Impaler because of his practice of impaling enemy prisoners-of-war on stakes, "Dracula" is the tale of an evil count who is a vampire. | | | I have bought copies for numerous reading-partners who have equally enjoyed this book when we have disagreed on so many others. |
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http://www.aftersleep.com/books/fiction.horror.reference/dracula
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| | Pilot Guides.com: Prince of Darkness: The Real Count Dracula |
| | The popular image of Dracula is of a blood-sucking vampire, who snoozes in a coffin and turns into a bat when the sun goes down owes much to Bram Stoker who created this blood-thirsty Nosferatu based on the equally gory heroics of a real Romanian Prince in his novel published in 1897. | | | At least that's what the guide books say. | | | Pilot Guides.com: Prince of Darkness: The Real Count Dracula |
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http://www.pilotguides.com/destination_guide/europe/hungary_and_romania/dracula.php
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| | Diabella's Count Dracula - Enter quietly and at your own risk |
| | Count Dracula (as I named him) does not want to be cuddled.....hence the growling and biting. | | | ount Dracula is truly The Cat From Hell. | | | Happily, he has become my constant friend and companion. |
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http://diabellalovescats.com/dracula.htm
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| | Dracula: Books for research |
| | [A collection of ten essays by Miller ranging from the scholarly ("Dracula and Shakespeare") to the familiar ("Life as a Dracula Aficionado). | | | A most useful book, even though the author is intent on pushing one interpretation: that Count Dracula is based on Henry Irving.] | | | The Man Who Wrote Dracula: A Biography of Bram Stoker. |
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http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~emiller/DRbooks.htm
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| | Bram Stoker's Count Dracula (1969) Christopher Lee, Herbert Lom, Klaus Kinski |
| | One would expect that infamous director/misogynist Jess Franco would have one hell of a time with the Dracula legend, taking full advantage of the erotic and overtly sexual content of the tale. | | | It is not explained why the Count, first, would possess such a mirror, and second, why he would so obviously stand before it." Damn good point!) | | | Once there, the Count greets him by saying, "Welcome to my home. |
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http://www.dantenet.com/er/ERchives/reviews/c_reviews/countdracula.html
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| | COUNT DRACULA Homepage |
| | Jourdan, an interesting choice to portray the Count, does not look like the description in the book and does not appear "younger" each time he drinks blood as in the novel. | | | Probably the most faithful adaption so far of Bram Stoker's novel DRACULA, even more so than Francis Ford Coppolla's BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA starring Gary Oldman. | | | This to me is the best version of DRACULA I have seen yet. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/film/tonyrivers/homepage.html
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| | Bram Stoker's Dracula movie, Stokers Dracula soundtrack, Count Dracula |
| | He drinks of the blood of christ and emerges a creature of eternity that can not die that waits for the return of the spirit of his dead lover. | | | The Count notices a picture of this agent's wife who appears remarkably like his own dead love from so long ago. | | | The Count imprisons the agent in his castle and attempts to frighten and toy with this mortal man while he travels to London to find the woman that resembles his century dead lover. |
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http://www.movieprop.com/tvandmovie/reviews/bramstokersdracula.htm
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| | Christopher Lee: Dark Charisma + Vampires Then and Now |
| | The actor gave us an evil vampire, but one who could be pitied, and his characterization was developed out of "the loneliness of evil". | | | 1974 -- His last portrayal of Dracula was in "Satanic Rites of Dracula". | | | After the war, he tried acting but his height (6'4) impeded his career. |
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http://gothlupin.tripod.com/vlee.html
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| | The Vampire Empire |
| | Youngson thought it interesting that Stoker would name his anti-hero after a nobleman who lived in a castle in the mountains and she determined to become further involved with the Dracula genre in some way. | | | The Research Library, founded by Youngson in 1969, now includes her personal collection of vampire, werewolf and Dracula books, and has been used by many famous authors and scholars unable to find relevant material elsewhere. | | | The Romanian guide delighted in telling members of the group about the one and only Vlad the Impaler, aka Vlad Dracula, who is still revered by many Romanians for his courage and nobility. |
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http://www.benecke.com/vampire.html
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| | Amazon.com: Video: El Conde Dracula (1973) |
| | "Count Dracula" is less faithful to the novel once the story moves to London, but it is still quite effective. | | | Mark McKinney (Maryland) - See all my reviews | | | Count Dracula is proud, aristocratic, and looks like Bram Stoker's Dracula, although the cobwebs in his castle seem out of place. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6300208052?v=glance
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| | Vampyres: Lord Byron to Count Dracula - Hotel Resource Book Store |
| | Store Home / Book / Vampyres: Lord Byron to Count Dracula | | | Vampyres: Lord Byron to Count Dracula - Hotel Resource Book Store | | | Dracula: Between Tradition and Modernism (Twayne's Masterwork Studies) |
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http://www.hotelresource.com/bookstore/asinsearch_0571167926.html
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| | Count Dracula |
| | But Stoker did not make up the name "Dracula". | | | There was a Dracula in the 15th century: Vlad the Impaler. | | | stated that "Dracula in the Wallachian language means devil". |
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http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~emiller/count.htm
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| | Son of Dracula (1943) |
| | We're here to meet a friend of the Caldwells, a Count Alucard. | | | Count Alucard, aka Count Dracula (as Lon Chaney) | | | When he changes back into human form at the end of the hall, his reflection is clearly seen in the hallway mirror. |
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http://us.imdb.com/Title?0036376
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| | COUNT DRACULA Page 2 |
| | It is then that Harker notices he has cut himself while shaving. | | | Dracula wants Harker to write to Mina telling her that he will be staying with the Count for a month. | | | Dracula moves menacingly toward Harker, but the crucifix the woman on the coach gave him keeps the Count away. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/film/tonyrivers/dracula02.html
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| | Count Dracula (TV) |
| | Harker becomes Dracula's prisoner and discovers Dracula's true nature. | | | After Dracula makes his way to England, Harker becomes involved in an effort to track down and destroy the Count, eventually chasing the vampire back to his castle. | | | Jonathan Harker (Bosco Hogan) visits Count Dracula (Louis Jourdan) in Transylvania to help him with preparations to move to England. |
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http://www.vampyres-online.com/count_dracula_tv.html
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| | Celebrity Poker Players - CelebPoker.com - online poker with real celebrities. |
| | He counts every England match as his finest rugby moments and covets wearing the England shirt. | | | Lawrence was close to tears during the national anthem before the World Cup semi final against France. | | | (That is six rather than seven if you are counting - I'll find out specifically what the seventh is and post it here. |
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http://www.celebpoker.com/celebrities.asp
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| | VampGirl's Book of the Month |
| | In this volume Summers analyzes Stoker's 'Dracula', Anne Rice's 'Interview with the Vampire' and other such influential works of fiction and investigates "true tales" of vampirism from places in Europe such as Hungary, Romania, England and Ireland. | | | The Secret Life of Laszlo, Count Dracula : Roderick Anscombe | | | The Penguin Book of Vampire Stories : Ed. |
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http://www.vampgirl.com/books.html
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| | American Atheist Magazine : Count Dracula favored faith based social programs: Late- breaking news from Transylvania. @ ... |
| | Count Dracula favored faith based social programs: Late- breaking news from Transylvania. | | | The purpose of this essay is to compare Dracula's motivations for his faith-based social programs with the same or similar motivations found in present day "Charitable choice" legislation and Christian faith-based social programs in America. | | | Current Article: Count Dracula favored faith based social programs: Late- breaking news from Transylvania. |
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http://static.highbeam.com/a/americanatheistmagazine/march222003/countdraculafavoredfaithbasedsocialprogramslatebre/index.html
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| | Count Dracula, Louis Jourdan, BBC 1977 |
| | However, the usual modern device of tying Dracula to his historical namesake, is only briefly hinted at here by woodcuts of the Impaler's work in the opening credits. | | | After being unavailable for many years, Count Dracula has recently been issued in a bare-bones DVD edition by BBC Learning, totally lacking in extras (or even menus for chapter divisions), and with marginally acceptable picture quality. | | | (The BBC lost a great opportunity by never casting Finlay as Dr. Who.) The comely Susan Penhaligon vamps her way outrageously through her role as the flirtatious Lucy, and her interludes with the Count are some of the more torridly suggestive that have been filmed in a serious movie. |
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http://baharna.com/store/CountDraculaJourdan/CountDraculaJourdan.htm
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| | Bloodless praise of Transylvania - The Boston Globe |
| | Surrounded by all that, it was easy to overlook the house where Tepes was born in 1431, now home of the not-so-charming (to me) eatery called Casa Dracula, and the modest statue nearby of the count himself. | | | My reluctance had to do with Vlad Tepes, the bloodthirsty 15th-century Wallachian prince whom novelist Bram Stoker embellished into the bloodsucking Count Dracula to scare generations of children, myself included. | | | Terrified as a child, why would I want to traipse through Dracula's hunting grounds? |
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http://www.boston.com/travel/articles/2005/03/06/bloodless_praise_of_transylvania
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| | Buy COUNT DRACULA from Aarons books uk |
| | In later chapters, it also handles the theme of the male fear of female sexuality, when Mina becomes "unclean", having been punctured by the Count. | | | This version of the Dracula story deals with the issue of Victorian sexual repression, as when the two girls, Lucy and Mina sleep together at Whitby. |
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http://www.aarons-books.co.uk/cat/FGH/count-dracula-1872988962.htm
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| | Washington's Classical 103.5 |
| | John T. Kirby, a professor of classics and comparative literature, says the real Vlad the Impaler, who ruled Transylvania in what is now present-day Romania in the Middle Ages, was a merciless killer of both invaders and his own people. | | | WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Oct 17, 2005 (UPI via COMTEX) -- Vampire novels, films and television have made vampires romantic figures but a Purdue University professor says the real Count Dracula was no pretty boy. |
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http://www.wgms.com/index.php?nid=65&sid=307495
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| | KSL News: Genealogists Link Bush, Kerry to Count Dracula |
| | The search firm says both presidential candidates are loosely related through as many as 34 generations to the man who became known as Count Dracula. | | | If researchers could trace back relations to the dawn of human history, they could show that everybody's related to everybody. | | | MyFamily-dot-com says it showed the bloodthirsty warlord's connection to modern times have a little fun before Halloween. |
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http://tv.ksl.com/index.php?nid=5&sid=129597
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| | Bram Stoker's Count Dracula - Christopher Lee, Klaus Kinski 1971 |
| | The Count, who is an old man, is very hospitable, but obviously quite alone in the castle. | | | The young Englishman, Jonathon Winters, a lawyer, arrives at the house of the mysterious Count Dracula in the mountains of Translyvania on business for his employers. | | | Bram Stoker's Count Dracula - Christopher Lee, Klaus Kinski 1971 |
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| | Where in the World ... |
| | There is a saying that Djibouti, in Africa, is “too hot for the devil.” It's a hot, dry, desert country where less than 1 square mile is farmland. | | | The castle where the historical Dracula was born still stands in the town of Sighisoara. |
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http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0770127.html
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Video: Bram Stoker's Count Dracula [1971] |
| | An English lawyer arrives at the house of Count Dracula in Transylvania and experiences the horror of vampires... | | | Customers who shopped for this item also shopped for: | | | Top of Page : Bram Stoker's Count Dracula [1971] |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004R72Z
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| | Richard Roxburgh Lands Count Dracula Role |
| | "Van Helsing" centers on vampire hunter Dr. Abraham Van Helsing, made famous in Bram Stoker's "Dracula," who here travels to Eastern Europe to confront Dracula, Frankenstein's monster and the Wolf Man as well. | | | Roxburgh will appear opposite fellow Aussie Hugh Jackman, who has the title role. | | | Stephen Sommers (the "Mummy" franchise) will direct Universal Pictures project from his own script. |
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http://www.killermovies.com/v/vanhelsing/articles/2555.html
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| | VH1.com : Movies : Movie : Count Dracula : Details |
| | Vampires, Woman In Jeopardy, Dangerous Attraction, Supernatural Romance | | | aristocracy, bloodsucker, castle, charm [personality], coffin, immortality, professor, undead, vampire, real-estate-agent, Romanian, vampire-bat, Dracula, good-vs-evil | | | VH1.com : Movies : Movie : Count Dracula : Details |
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| | DaVinci: Arts> Performing Arts> Theatre> Musicals> C> Count Dracula |
| | Performing Arts> Theatre> Musicals> C> Count Dracula" href="http://www.bluegrassdavinci.com/ODP/Arts/Performing_Arts/Theatre/Musicals/C/Count_Dracularss.xml"> | | | DaVinci: Arts> Performing Arts> Theatre> Musicals> C> Count Dracula | | | Arts, Performing Arts, Theatre, Musicals, C, Count Dracula |
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