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Episode 30: Vlad Dracula, the Impaler

Half-Arsed History

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The Importance of Impaling

Within five years of being put in the top job, however, he is getting a bit of an itchy trigger finger. He wants to start chucking St. Pontius eastward towards the Ottomans because he's still never really forgiven them for his imprisonment. Now, interestingly enough, they're frothing for a scrap as well, because of course, Vlad isn't paying them tribute anymore and they're not too happy about this. This is also another point in his career where he gets a lot of impaling done. In 1642, Sultan Mehmet II, he's had enough of this nonsense, obviously all the pillaging and reaving and impaling that Vlad's doing

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