175 Years of Scientific American: The Good, the Bad, and Debunking
https://www.scientificamerican.com/podca...debunking/
INTRO: We look back at some highlights, midlights and lowlights of the 175 years of Scientific American, featuring former editor-in-chief John Rennie. Astrophysicist Alan Guth also appears in a sponsored segment... (MORE)
Castle of Vlad III Dracula
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2020/08/ca...ula/134890
INTRO: Poenari Castle is the ruins of a mountain top citadel on the plateau of Mount Cetatea in present-day Romania. Various castles such as Bran Castle have been associated or inspired the story of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, but Poenari Castle (which has no basis in Stoker’s book with “Castle Dracula”) was the seat of Vlad the Impaler, also known as Vlad Tepes or Vlad III Dracula and the Voivode of Wallachia.
Scholars connected Stoker’s Dracula with Vlad through a matching biographical namesake, along with shared similarities in their personal clashes with the neighbouring Ottoman Empire (although this was contested by Stoker’s son, Irving Stoke). Vlad III was the second son of Vlad Dracul, (a member of the Order of the Dragons called the Drăculești), Vlad III and his brother were known as “Dracula”, translated as “son of Dracul”... (MORE)
Poenari Citadel: The Real Dracula's Castle
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/qvKMxWOWFxQ
https://www.scientificamerican.com/podca...debunking/
INTRO: We look back at some highlights, midlights and lowlights of the 175 years of Scientific American, featuring former editor-in-chief John Rennie. Astrophysicist Alan Guth also appears in a sponsored segment... (MORE)
Castle of Vlad III Dracula
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2020/08/ca...ula/134890
INTRO: Poenari Castle is the ruins of a mountain top citadel on the plateau of Mount Cetatea in present-day Romania. Various castles such as Bran Castle have been associated or inspired the story of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, but Poenari Castle (which has no basis in Stoker’s book with “Castle Dracula”) was the seat of Vlad the Impaler, also known as Vlad Tepes or Vlad III Dracula and the Voivode of Wallachia.
Scholars connected Stoker’s Dracula with Vlad through a matching biographical namesake, along with shared similarities in their personal clashes with the neighbouring Ottoman Empire (although this was contested by Stoker’s son, Irving Stoke). Vlad III was the second son of Vlad Dracul, (a member of the Order of the Dragons called the Drăculești), Vlad III and his brother were known as “Dracula”, translated as “son of Dracul”... (MORE)
Poenari Citadel: The Real Dracula's Castle