Thanks Charles Ryder and anon - "waterloo" and "Walter Hartke" are both in the original Bathroom Reader article. I'll leave the article as is, with your caveats in the comment section.
Hm.... There was a red fluorescent protein before, as well as cyan, blue, and yellow fluorescent proteins (all variants of the easy-to-work with and ever-dependable Green Fluorescent Protein).
>> Those impaled Turks were a vanguard of an even larger Turkish force. A force that out-numbered Vlad’s army. When the Turkish army came upon the impaled one, that army turned around out of fear. Wallachia was safe again.
>> The Turks conquered much of Eastern Europe but they never got Vlad’s piece of it.
Actually, the first Turkish invaders were so disgusted by Vlad's mass impalements of his subjects that many of them simply turned away. The ones that attacked were repelled by Vlad (and the survivors captured and impaled), but subsequent, larger Turkish forces (led by Vlad's brother Radu) actually succeeded in capturing Wallachia.
Vlad the Impaler ran away, and was imprisoned by Hungary.
If you think he did the impalement thingy simply to scare the Turks away (or to impose order), consider this: he didn't just like impaling people en masse - he liked to *arrange* the impaled bodies in geometric patterns.
Vlad actually enjoyed impaling things so much that when he couldn't impale people while in Hungarian captivity, he impaled rats and insects that he captured in his cell.
>> The Turks conquered much of Eastern Europe but they never got Vlad’s piece of it.
Actually, the first Turkish invaders were so disgusted by Vlad's mass impalements of his subjects that many of them simply turned away. The ones that attacked were repelled by Vlad (and the survivors captured and impaled), but subsequent, larger Turkish forces (led by Vlad's brother Radu) actually succeeded in capturing Wallachia.
Vlad the Impaler ran away, and was imprisoned by Hungary.
If you think he did the impalement thingy simply to scare the Turks away (or to impose order), consider this: he didn't just like impaling people en masse - he liked to *arrange* the impaled bodies in geometric patterns.
Vlad actually enjoyed impaling things so much that when he couldn't impale people while in Hungarian captivity, he impaled rats and insects that he captured in his cell.
He's one sick guy, all right!