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Csíkszereda musingshttp://szekely.blogspot.com/2008/10/very-poor-showing-from-headline-writers.html [Csíkszereda musings] Vlad "the impaler" Å¢epeÅŸ did not do his impaling in Transylvania, as he spent almost no time here, being in charge in Wallachia, not Transylvania.

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Champions League Talk[Champions League Talk] Pressure Squarely on Chelsea Against Cluj: How cliche that Transylvania is the setting for today’s Champions League encounter between Cluj and Chelsea, given of course that it’s Oct. 1 and we’re about to be bludgeoned for the next 31 days with the images and sounds of Halloween.

In 2 Worldshttp://in2worlds.net/mind-control-themes-and-programming-triggers-in-movies [In 2 Worlds] Mind Control Themes and Programming Triggers in Movies - Updated 9 ...: But V not only lives, a genetic anomaly with unusual blood properties, he also develops unusual mental and physical abilities and lightning fast reflexes, becoming a new person who “could no longer remember who he was or where he was from,” as Doctor Delia Surridge from the Center notes in her journal. All of this brings to mind the government sponsored MK Ultra/mind control black ops projects and satanic ritual abuse where children of certain bloodlines are brutalized and traumatized until they form alternate split off personas and new identities, sent back out into the world with their new programming, used as pawns in somebody else’s agenda.

On the other sidehttp://baron-scarpia.livejournal.com/110048.html [On the other side] The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova: Actually a small group of academic historians are in on the game, spreading from the USA to cold-war-era Bulgaria. The book opens in 1972, when the unnamed female narrator, aged sixteen, discovers that her father is one of these historians, having taken part in a chase all over Europe in the 1950's to discover just where Dracula was buried.

Sanctuary of the Oakhttp://faery-fall.livejournal.com/137200.html [Sanctuary of the Oak] God. Maybe the stupidest things annoy me; but everyone has that ...: Like I notice I got "a lot of things" from Dad - paler skin (mom's like olive-tone or whatever that's called), lighter eyes (Mom's and Jared's are full-on brown; Dad's are blue and myne have been blue, brown, hazel, but perpetually lighter than Mom's or Jared's), and the clasping-your-hands-and-seeing-which-thumb-goes-above-the-other-thumb experiment.

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