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[Hi my name is Ryan]

modz lock pls

[Snook]

Lot of good people listed here, but I gotta give a shout out to me. For without him, I probably wouldn't be here.

Modifié par SergeantSnookie, 16 décembre 2013 - 08:49 .

[The Don's Hound]

My parents and their parents and their parents' parents etc.

Without which, I would've never come to exist.

[Vulpe]

1) Trajan  - roman emperor. He basically did in the East what Cesar did in the West.

2) Decebalus - in the first dacian-roman war from 89, he lead the dacian forces and beat the romans so hard that they agreed to a peace treaty that made them pay compensations to the dacians and to send engineers to help the dacians rebuild and fortify their fortifications. In the last dacian-roman war he runned in the mountains when he was chased by the roman forces. They planned to capture him and take him to Rome to humiliate him. When he was surrounded, he poisoned himself and the centurion that lead the romans severed his head as a proof that he was gone.

2)Nikola Tesla - No explication needed.

3)Ecaterina Teodoroiu - a nurse turned infantery platoon commander during The First World War. She died shoot in the chest. Her last words were " Forward boys ! You're with me ! "

4)Baba Novac - a serbian haiduc that helped Michael the Brave in fighting the Ottoman Forces. He got the nickname "baba" which means crone because he had no teeth. He was caught by the hungarian authorities, accused of teft and burned on the stake.

5) Traian Vuia - the first inventor of a flying mechanism. It was invented befor Wright brothers flew in the air with their mechanism.

6) Henri Coanda - the intentor of the first jet plane.

7) Mahatma Gandhi - no explications needed

8) Immanuel Khant - I admire his ethics principles and I try to instil in myself as much of them as possible

9) Friedrich Nietzsche - I just love that nutjob 

10) Vlad The Impaler -  The blood drinking part is just an addition of Bram Stoker that mixed the strigoi mythos with Vlad Țepeș [ known as Vlad The Impaler - the Vlad Dracul title is actually his fathers. He was a member of a minor holy knight order known as the Order Of The Dragon - Ordinul Dragonului in romanian. Since the peseants couldn't pronounce for who know for what reaseon that name, they called him Vlad Dracul ( which is the same with diavol or devil in english ) instead of Vlad Dragonul or Vlad Al Dragonulului - Vlad The Dragon or Vlad Of The Dragon. ] and possibly with some elements of the polish similar legends of the strzyga ( I think we've taken legends from one another, considering where pretty close to each other and our historical interactions)."

Yes, he was ruttles, but you guys would be surprised how common the impaling practice was in Europe. It's not just one mad man thingy. Besides, the turks really hated him, so they spread propaganda about him.

Vlad and his brother was taken as a "guest" ( the one that gets killed if the father rebels against the Ottoman Empire) in the Sultans court.His brother converted to islam ( He was called Radu The Beautigul - it was really a mocking name. He used to like the company of men ) 


By that time, Wallachia was a reagent region to the ottomans. They let them keep their religion, but they had to pay huge taxes to the sultan, taxes that crippled the lands. Also, the one that wanted to be King of Wallachia ( more of a representant of the Sultan ) had to pay a fee. And if, during his rule, he was not able to pay the taxes that the ottoman court demanded, he would end up beheaded. Then the process would repeat itself.

He somehow tricked the sultan in believing that he is loyal to him. After that he rebeled and fought and yada yada. I think you can find info regarding this on Wikipedia.


As for the impaling.It's kind of an exageration. He didn't show any kind of mercy to enemy forces and to the nobles ( boieri ) that conspired against him. Many nobles would lose their income do to the constant battles with the turks and because of this some conspired against him and tried to reestablish the way things were before him ( servants to the turks ). You guys might imagine how they and the enemy troops ended.

We know that he indeed executed thieves, murderers, betrayers etc. Now if he used mostly the spike to do it...not sure of it. One thing is sure. When he used it he used it as a psychological weapon against the invaders. 

He was a very good strategist. He used the info that he learned from his childhood years against them. He used, as I said, the bodies of spiked individuals, the scourge of land tactic ( they would poison the wells, burn the crops and houses etc. so that the invading army would starve while they would retreat in the mountains) and my favorite - he dressed himself and some of his men in turkish uniforms and attacked the ottoman camp during the night. Because of the chaos, the turks started to kill themselvs, not able to discern friend from fow. He tried to assasinate the sultan during that night, but he escaped - after that he impaled about 20000 turkish and bulgarian forces.


We have some legends regarding him. There is a story that one foreign merchant went at his court and asked for his permission to rest there. He stored all his goods and coins in the cellar. Vlad ordered to one of his servants to put an extra coin in there. The next day the merchant, after making the list with all his goods observed that he had an extra coin and informed Vlad of this. Vlad congradulated him and told him of what he did and that if he had tried to go with the extra coin, he would end up inpaled.

We also have legends regarding the soldiers. It is said that he wet through his soldier camps and inspected their wounds. If he saw soldiers that were injured in the back, he would order their execution ( not necessarily by impaling them ) because they must have cowered and run from the battle. If he say soldiers that had their arms severed, their yes injured or any other wound in the front, he would reward them by giving them land and money, making them in almost minor nobles as a reward for their bravery and love for the country.

So yes, he did use impaling as a way to execut people, but that was common in Europe, he never used it against innocents, only enemy troops, betrayers, thieves, murderers etc. and mostly as a psychological weapon against the enemy and the nobles that might think in betraing and selling him and the country back to the turks.

In conclusin, he was a "for the greater good" kind of evil.

[themonty72]

1.Jesus
2.Malcolm X
3.Martin Luther King Jr.
4.JFK
5.Bruce Lee
6.The Rock
7.Jimi Hendrix
8.2 pac
9.Amy Winehouse
10.Adele

Modifié par themonty72, 16 décembre 2013 - 10:52 .

[BioWareMod03]

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